Author Jay Lake Dies | SFScope (original) (raw)

Author Jay Lake died 1 June 2014 after a long and hard-fought battle with cancer. Born 6 June 1964, he was a quarterly winner in the Writers of the Future contest in 2003. He followed that up by winning the 2004 John W. Campbell Award for Best New SF Writer. In the brief decade-long career, he made a name for himself as a larger-than-life personality, as well as a prolific writer. At the time of his death, at least a dozen of his novels had been published, from both small press publishers (such as Night Shade and Subterranean) to major houses (such as his Green and Mainspring series from Tor). His work also garnered two Hugo Award and one Nebula Award nomination, as well as nominations for the John W. Campbell Memorial Award and the Theodore Sturgeon Memorial Award.

Lake did not hide his illness, but instead added its discussion to his writing life, frequently blogging about the experiences. He provides an index to his cancer blogging since 2008 on this page.

Tributes to Lake on his Facebook page are numerous and heart-felt, and accompanied by a panoply of photos.

His survivors have requested that contributions in his name be made to Clayton Memorial Medical Fund c/o OSFCI P.O. Box 5703 Portland, Oregon 97228. Additionally, a public wake has been planned for 27 July in Portland, Oregon. For more details, see this page.

A few related articles previously published on SFScope:
Jay Lake announces bad news (8 May 2013)
Jay Lake has his hair removed; wonderful photos accompany (4 March 2010)
Jay Lake sells two novels to Tor (11 January 2008)