People mourning the death of Vonda McIntyre followed social media links from all over to read File 770’s reminiscence and Tom Whitmore’s official obituary (with its exceptional, full account of her career.)
The Hugo nominee announcement understandably took a backseat to that!
Here are last month’s ten most-read posts according to Google Analytics:
- Vonda N. McIntyre (1948-2019)
- Science Fiction Author Vonda N. McIntyre, Official Obituary
- Dublin 2019 Announces Hugo and Retro Hugo Finalists
- Pixel Scroll 4/6/19 A Scroll Without A Pixel Is Like A Walrus Without An Antenna
- Pixel Scroll 4/5/19 We Can Scroll It For You Wholesale
- Pixel Scroll 4/2/19 Get Me Pixels! Pixels Of Scroller-Man!
- Where To Find The 2019 Hugo Award Finalists For Free Online
- Pixel Scroll 4/10/19 Got A Ride With A Filer And The Pixel Scroll Man To A Town Down By The Sea
- Pixel Scroll 4/24/19 The Scroll Of The File King From Pixel Gynt
- Pixel Scroll 4/15/19 You Put Your Right File In, And You Scroll It All About
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- Vonda N. McIntyre (1948-2019)
- Science Fiction Author Vonda N. McIntyre, Official Obituary
- Dublin 2019 Announces Hugo and Retro Hugo Finalists
- Where To Find The 2019 Hugo Award Finalists For Free Online
- 2019 Rondo Awards Nominees
- Extending the Worlds of Ursula K. Le Guin
- Asimov Still Holds The Record
- Gene Wolfe (1931-2019)
- Hugos There?
- 2024 UK Worldcon Bid Picks Glasgow as Venue
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Interesting that the Asimov thread from 5 years ago popped up again.
@Andrew: The Asimov post from 2014 focused on Gene Wolfe and was linked in Wolfe’s obituary post (“Gene Wolfe (1931-2019)”). So I understand why it got a lot of traffic in April.
What’s odd is that it ranked ahead of the Gene Wolfe obituary post.
If I’d thought about it for a second I would have figured it out – ah well.
The Asimov post got linked in TechCrunch’s Wolfe coverage (and maybe others’), giving it an extra boost.