John J. Reilly, author of several online AH works, passed away on May 30, 2012

Strategos' Risk

I feel really bad for not looking into this earlier, but his blog hadn't been updating for a while, and I finally searched for it.

Here is his obituary: http://obits.nj.com/obituaries/jerseyjournal/obituary.aspx?n=john-j-reilly&pid=157878396

Two online tributes to him from fellow bloggers:
http://joetexx.livejournal.com/4307.html
http://www.manofthewest2000.blogspot.com/2012/05/friends-of-john-reilly-you-are-welcome.html

His website is here, and remains here, until the end of the Net:
http://johnreilly.info/

Please check out the Alternative History section.

I had the honor and pleasure of some email correspondence with Mr. Reilly over the years and found him to be both sardonic and witty. I hope the AH community will not forget him, nor his works.

Requiem aeternam dona eis, Domine.
 

zoomar

Really sad to hear it. I discovered his website long before I found AH.com. I always considered his writings exceptionally informed, thoughful, and entertaining. I really appreciated his mature and conservative perspective on evolving historical and cultural values...the Long View I believe he called it.. His work was so much deeper than most of what you read online these days, including this board as well. His reviews of AH books were also exellent - and rather than use them as an excuse to attack the author for petty errors, he often used them as a springboard to discuss broad cultural and religious themes. I also appreciated that he was less concerned with jack-boot anti-ASB "plausibility" than the ideas and execution in the works. Plus, his little opening scoll with Zeppelins flying the Imperial German and Confederate flags is the best non-verbal depiction of alternate history you could imagine.
 

B_Munro

zoomar said:
His work was so much deeper than most of what you read online these days, including this board as well. His reviews of AH books were also exellent - and rather than use them as an excuse to attack the author for petty errors, he often used them as a springboard to discuss broad cultural and religious themes. I also appreciated that he was less concerned with jack-boot anti-ASB "plausibility" than the ideas and execution in the works. .
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Probably didn't use other people's deaths as an opportunity for snarking at fellow AH enthusiasts, either. :p


Bruce
 

B_Munro

Well, you are a self-admitted curmudgeon, so I suppose it's forgiveable... :)

Personally, my faves were his short humor pieces, particularly Cthulhuism and the Cold War and CS Lewis: An Alternative Obituary.

Bruce
 
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