Herbert W. Franke has died

[ag8]

https://twitter.com/HerbertWFranke/status/1548321370781626372

[dredmorbius]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Herbert_W._Franke

[bombcar → dredmorbius]

Here's some of his art: https://digitalartarchive.siggraph.org/person/herbert-w-fran...

[remram]

Not to be confused with Frank Herbert, author of dune.

[omnibrain → remram]

What makes it more confusing is that he also wrote Science Fiction.

[neals → remram]

... who died in 1986

[ffitch]

I knew him as an author of “Ypsilon Minus” (sci-fi anti utopia.) Easy reading, liked it a lot when I was kid. Sad to see him go.

[telotortium]

His very first tweet is only in March 2022: https://twitter.com/HerbertWFranke/status/150125718065742233...

[ChrisMarshallNY]

Sounds like quite the polymath.

I had never heard of him, until now.

It seems the world is a slightly darker place, now.

Thanks for letting us know about him.

[em-bee]

obituary in german:

https://www.derstandard.at/story/2000137517643/medienkunstpi...

and a longer interview in german about his work from two years ago:

https://wissenschaft-kunst.de/herbert-w-franke-grenz