Frederik Pohl

Deeply saddened by the passing of 
Frederik Pohl, who proved you can be
a cynic and starry-eyed optimist at once.  

Most people don't even know how much their lives were affected by Richard Matheson. He not only wrote some of the best science fiction, horror and fantasy in film and television (The Incredible Shrinking Man, Hell House, What Dreams May Come and the book on which Somewhere In Time was based), but he invented the modern zombie genre with I Am Legend. Matheson was a national treasure.