Are vaccine-related deaths decimating the SF field?

This is an extremely polarizing and contentious issue right now, so I’m going to try to make this post as fact-based and non-sensational as possible.

Full disclosure: I never got the covid shot. My wife and I both had covid before the “vaccines” became available, and decided that our natural immunity provided enough protection for us. We were also trying to become pregnant, and even in January 2021, we had heard rumors that the shots were affecting both men’s and women’s fertility, as well as women’s menstrual cycles, and didn’t feel that the risk was worth it, in spite of the tremendous social pressure to get “vaccinated.”

At the end of the day, we simply did not trust that the “vaccines” were safe (and I put “vaccine” in quotes, because we now know that these shots do not provide lasting immunity, nor do they prevent transmission. The health establishment literally had to change the definition of “vaccine” for that word to apply to these treatments). We were wary of the fact that the emergency use provisions absolved the manufacturers of any liability, and that the long-term effects of these shots was unknown. In our family’s calculation, the potential risks outweighed the potential benefits, especially since we already had natural immunity and were unlikely to contract covid again.

In the past year, some very disturbing things about the “vaccines” have come to light. A recent poll by Rasmussen shows that more than 1 in 4 Americans believe they know someone who has died of the covid “vaccines”—not from covid itself, but from the vaccines. Interestingly, more Democrats (about 1 in 3) than Republicans (about 1 in 4) claim that they know someone, which is interesting, because the political left was much more taken with the “vaccine” mania than the political right. Remember that super cringey vaccine song on Colbert’s show?

The last two years have been crazy, for sure. But how has it affected the science fiction and fantasy world? The January issue of Locus Magazine made me curious about this, since Greg Bear recently passed away “after complications from heart surgery,” and the obituary section mentioned two other people under the age of 60, one of whom “died unexpectedly.”

So I went through all of the back issues of Locus from January 2021 to the present, and made a comprehensive list of every person mentioned in the obituaries, with their age and cause of death. If they died of a stroke or an accute heart-related issue, I bolded their name, since the mechanism for death appears to be related to blood clots caused by the spike protein that the mRNA “vaccine” is designed to generate. Also, I bolded the name of anyone 70 or younger who died without the cause of death listed. The global average life expectancy is just north of 70, which is lower than the US, but I decided to take the lower of those numbers. I also bolded any names where the cause was listed as covid, since many people who died in the first couple of weeks after getting the shot were automatically listed as covid, especially in the initial rollout.

Here is the list:

JAN 2021

• Ben Bova (88): “contracting COVID-19, developing Pneumonia, and suffering a stroke.”
• Phyllis Eisensetein (74): “suffered a stroke in January 2020 and entered hospice care not long after.”
• Richard Corben (80): “died December 2, 2020 after heart surgery.”
• Dean Ing (89): cause not listed (died July 21, 2020).

FEB 2021

• James Gunn (97): cause not listed.
• Storm Constantine (64): “following a long illness.”
• Anton Strout (50): “died unexpectedly.”
• Jael (83): cause not listed.
• Alison Lurie (94): “in hospice.”
• Richard West (76): “of COVID-19.”
• Joseph Altairac (63): cause not listed.

MAR 2021

• Kathleen Ann Goonan (68): cause not listed.
• Rowena Morrill (76): “following years of poor health.”
• Jean-Claude Carrière (89): “of natural causes.”

APR 2021

• Norton Juster (91): “complications following a stroke.”
• Dean Morrissey (69): cause not listed.
• Michael G. Adkisson (65): cause not listed.

MAY 2021

• John C. Pelan (63): “of an apparent heart attack.”
• Wanda June Alexander (69): “diagnosed with lung cancer last year, and though she underwent successful treatment, her lungs were severely damaged, and she entered hospice care in January 2021.”

JUN 2021

• Marvin Kaye (83): “in hospice care.”
• Don Sakers (62): “of a heart attack.”
• Jan Stirling (71): cause not listed.
• Jim Rittenhouse (64): “in hospice care.”
• Anish Deb (69): “of COVID-19.”

JUL 2021

• Bob Brown (78): “after a valiant battle with esophageal cancer.”

AUG 2021

• William F. Nolan (93): “of complications from an infection.”
• Stephen Hickman (72): “of natural causes.”
• Joe McKinney (52): “in his sleep.”
• Paul Alexander (83): cause not listed.
• John Longendorfer (90): cause not listed.

SEP 2021

• Elizabeth Anne Hull (84): cause not listed.
• Patricia Kennealy-Morrison (75): cause not listed.
• C. Dean Andersson (75): “in his sleep… after a long illness.”
• J.W. Rinzler (58): “of pancreatic cancer.”
• Ron Weighell (70): “a few weeks after suffering a stroke.”
• Lorna Toolis (68): cause not listed.
• Judi B. Castro (58): “following a brief illness.”

OCT 2021

• Erle Korshak (97): cause not listed.
• L. Neil Smith (75): “after a lengthy battle with heart and kidney disease.”
• Carol Carr (82): “of lung cancer.”
• Genevieve DiModica (73): “of natural causes.”

NOV 2021

• Mary Kay Kare (69): “of a blood infection.”
• Gary Paulsen (82): “of cardiac arrest.”
• Lou Antonelli (64): cause not listed.
• Douglas Barbour (81): “of lung cancer.”
• Otacilio Costa D’Assuncao Barros (67): “was found dead in his apartment… after two days without contact by neighbors. The cause of death has not been disclosed.”

DEC 2021

• Petra Mayer (46): “died suddenly of a pulmonary embolism.”
• Robert Thurston (84): cause not listed.
• Jim Fiscus (76): “died suddenly.”
• Catherine M. Morrison (52): “after a brief illness.”

JAN 2022

• Anne Rice (80): “of complications from a stroke.”
• Diana G. Gallagher (75): “of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease.”
• William G. Contento (74): “after a long struggle with prostate cancer.”
• Jeremy G. Byrn (57): “after a long illness.”
• Chris Achilleos (74): cause not listed.
• Jose Luis Benicio da Fonseca (84): cause not listed.

FEB 2022

• Willie Siros (69): cause not listed.
• Dave Wolverton (64): “after suffering a severe head injury falling down the stairs the previous day.”
• Ron Goulart (89): cause not listed.
• John Jos. Miller (67): cause not listed.
• J. Brian Clark (93): cause not listed.
• Sally Gwylan (67): “in a traffic accident.”
• Jane E. Hawkins (70): “was a cancer survivor, but she received a terminal diagnosis and went into hospice.”
• Elizabeth Miller (82): cause not listed.
• Bill Wright (84): “fallen at home and ‘thought he had broken his back.’”
• Chuck Verrill (unknown): “after a long illness.”
• Athos Eichler Cardoso (87): cause not listed.

MAR 2022

• Angelica Gorodischer (93): cause not listed.
• Tom Dupree (72): “of cardio-respiratory arrest.”
• Harold R. Johnson (68): “of lung cancer.”

APR 2022

• Andy Remic (50): “of cancer.”
• Faren Miller (71): “after being hospitalized with serious respiratory problems.”
• Shirley Hughes (94): cause not listed.
• Melissa Mead (62): cause not listed.
• Priscilla Tolkien (92): “after a brief illness.”
• Aiki Flinthart (unknown): “after receiving a terminal cancer diagnosis.”

MAY 2022

• Robert C. Cornett (69): cause not listed.
• Bill Johnson (65): cause not listed.
• Valerio Evangelisti (69): cause not listed.
• Joel Houssin (68): “after a long battle with MS.”
• Carlos Emilio C. Lima (65): “from an infection following surgery.”
• Lygia Fagundes Telles (98-103): cause not listed.

JUN 2022

• Patricia A. McKillip (74): cause not listed.
• Sergey Dyachenko (77): cause not listed.

JUL 2022

• Ken Kelly (76): cause not listed.

AUG 2022

• Eric Flint (75): cause not listed.
• Geoffrey H. Goodwin (50): “of heart failure.”
• Dorothy J. Heydt (80): cause not listed.
• Barbara Haldeman (Barbara Delaplace) (69): cause not listed.
• Jonathan Lyons (52): “succumbed to injuries after being mugged.”

SEP 2022

• Nichelle Nichols (89): “of heart failure.”
• Alexei Panshin (82): cause not listed.
• Robert “Bob” Self (55): “as the result of an accident.”
• Wayn McCalla (53): “following a long illness.”
• Roland J. Green (76): cause not listed.

OCT 2022

• Peter Straub (79): “after a long illness.”
• Bruce Taylor (75): “after a brief hospital stay. He had a heart condition and was in poor health recently.”
• Maureen Kincaid Speller (63): “she had cancer.”
• J.G. “Huck” Huckenpohler (81): cause not listed.

NOV 2022

• Robert A. Madle (102): “died peacefully in his sleep.”
• Albert E. Cowdrey (88): cause not listed.
• Hilary Mantel (70): cause not listed.
• Matthew Mather (52): “died suddenly.”
• Lani Forbes (35): “of neuroendocrine cancer.”

DEC 2022

• Tom Maddox (77): “of a stroke.”
• Martin Morse Wooster (64): “the victim of a hit-and-run.”
• Jill Pinkwater (81): cause not listed.
• Sue Strong Hassler (84): “of complications from back surgery and COVID.”
• Anne Fakhouri (48): “following a long illness.”
• Justin E.A. Busch (63): cause not listed.
• Ned Dameron (79): “of ALS.”

JAN 2023

• Greg Bear (71): “after complications from heart surgery.”
• Anne Harris (58): “after suffering a stroke.”
• Marcus Sedgwick (54): “died unexpectedly.”

To be clear, there may be benign explanations for many or even most of the people whose names are bolded. Strokes and heart attacks have been killing people long before the covid “vaccines” existed, and continue to kill people without any help from the “vaccines.” Also, many people who died under 70 may simply have been in poor health—after all, it’s not like the SF field is known for robust physical fitness. However, there may also be people on this list who did die of vaccine-related issues, whose names I did not bold because they were over 70 and the cause wasn’t listed. So it cuts both ways.

My purpose is not to compile a comprehensive list of vaccine-related deaths in the SF field, but to point out some deaths that appear to be suspect. And of the 114 people listed, more of them “died unexpectedly” or “died suddenly” than died of covid, which is worth noting.

If you haven’t seen the documentary Died Suddenly, it’s worth watching, even though it does have some flaws. Most notably, toward the end it recycles some disturbing footage of people who either did not die, or who died before the pandemic, implying that they all died of the vaccines. You can find a much more in-depth and non-sensational treatment of vaccine-related deaths and injuries on Chris Martenson’s channel, especially in this video where he interviews several morticians about the clotting issue:

Vaccine safety is a very serious issue, and every day, it seems that we are learning new things about the covid “vaccines” that call into question all of our assumptions and beliefs. The science fiction field has always leaned to the political left, especially on the traditional publishing side. For the past two years, many of our conventions and other events have pushed mask mandates, or required proof of vaccination, including our own LTUE here in Utah.

Has this lockstep, unquestioning, and at times almost militant advocacy of the establishment narrative led to the tragic loss of several writers and artists before their time? Has it decimated—indeed, is it continuing to decimate—the talented creators in our field? How many wonderful stories will never be written because of this? How many voices will no longer be heard?

I hope that we can come to a place where we can honestly start asking these questions. Because if we can’t, then the science fiction and fantasy field has lost much more than those who have died, and the gifts they would have shared with us.