1.2) Other Important People (David Weber)
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This article is from the David Weber FAQ, by Cynthia Gonsalves/Daniel Bernstein with numerous contributions by others.
1.2) Other Important People (David Weber)
Family and friends of David Weber who play in our
cybersandbox include:
o Mike Weber-yes, they're related. Mike's four years
older than David and doesn't let his younger brother
the author forget it.
o Sue Phillips-David's sister-in-law.
New recruits may wonder who Navbuoy was:
David Weber delurked briefly just after the release
of Echoes of Honor to tell us all that his good friend
Richard Maxwell, who used the screen name Navbuoy and
was a prolific contributor to abd-w, had been killed in
a skydiving accident on September 17th, 1998.
Richard had recently won an official red shirt when
his namesake character was killed off in Echoes of
Honor; David told us that Richard was laughing his butt
off in the spring when he saw the manuscript. He also
cheerfully bore the brunt of all the lawyer jokes
thrown at him for being our resident legal eagle and
gave us the background on how he earned the nickname of
the Man Who Dropped the Spanner in real life.
Richard also had done some postings on Baen's Bar,
but abd-w was his major hangout. Navbuoy's posts were
universally considered worth reading for their wit and
skill. His contributions to our portion of fandom are
sorely missed by all of us in the newsgroup as well as
by the denizens of Aegys' discussion board.
To absent friends, Richard! And his Ranger comrades
remind us that Rangers always lead the way....
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