Author Charles L(ouis) Fontenay died 27 January 2007. Born 17 March 1917 in Sao Paulo, Brazil, he worked as a journalist for more than 50 years (most of that time with The Tennessean in Nashville). He published three novels in the 1950s and 1960s: including The Mechanical Monarch (an Ace double backed with E.C. Tubb’s Twice Upon a Time), Rebels of the Red Planet (another Ace double, this time with J.T. McIntosh’s 200 Years to Christmas), and The Day the Oceans Overflowed. Following his retirement from journalism in 1987, he returned to writing fiction, and published 20 more books, including two collections (Here, There and Elsewhen and Modal), and the 18-volume Kipton Chronicles, a series of children’s mystery-science fiction books. He also wrote the nonfiction Epistle to the Babylonians; an essay on the natural inequality of man.
Fontenay received a special Golden Duck Award in 1997.
After his retirement from the newspaper, Fontenay wrote his own obituary, which is fairly long, comprehensive, and which was published upon his death.