When I was but a young fan, one of my friends introduced me to Michael Bishop at one of my first science fiction conventions. Over the years I ran into Michael and his family at various conventions. Most of my copies of his books are signed. I met his son and daughter a number of times over the years. I haven’t seen Michael or Jeri or the kids in a long time however. Last time I saw Jamie, he was at that awkward stage between being a boy and being a man. I do remember commenting on how tall he had gotten to Michael. I think the last time I saw Michael, I told him that I was dating Peter. I can’t remember if I was engaged at that point for not.<\/p>\n
Yesterday I found out that the German professor who was killed at Virginia Tech was Jamie. His given name was Christopher James Bishop. So when I saw Christopher Bishop in the paper, it really didn’t register until a friend informed me that this was Jamie, the kid who loved comic books and graphic novels. His photography site is still up at Memory39<\/a> and he did just beautiful work. He had a passion for the things he did and was described by many as a gentle giant. He leaves behind a wife Dr. Stefanie Hofer, his parents Michael and Jeri and his sister Stephanie along with the rest of his family and friends.<\/p>\n My sympathies and prayers are with the Bishop family.<\/p>\n I am grateful that I did meet Jamie.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" When I was but a young fan, one of my friends introduced me to Michael Bishop at one of my first science fiction conventions. Over the years I ran into Michael and his family at various conventions. Most of my copies of his books are signed. I met his son and daughter a number of […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1106","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kathwp.malibulist.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1106","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kathwp.malibulist.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kathwp.malibulist.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kathwp.malibulist.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kathwp.malibulist.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1106"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kathwp.malibulist.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1106\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kathwp.malibulist.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1106"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kathwp.malibulist.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1106"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kathwp.malibulist.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1106"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}