12th April 2007, 12:38 PM
Sad, he was definitely a good author... I noticed this in the article though...
See? Ice-nine IS evil! :D
Quote:Critics ignored him at first, then denigrated his deliberately bizarre stories and disjointed plots as haphazardly written science fiction. But his novels became cult classics, especially "Cat's Cradle" in 1963, in which scientists create "ice-nine," a crystal that turns water solid and destroys the Earth.
See? Ice-nine IS evil! :D