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Terrible news to have to post, considering how many people on Dakka are likely to have read and grown up with his books:

http://www.guardian-series.co.uk/news/14937849.Legendary_fantasy_author_Joe_Dever_dies/

He died this morning, sounds like surgical complications, confirmed by family members on facebook.

His books were fantastic, I have over fifty of them on a bookcase behind me, and still enjoy reading them. For me and many others they were the entry point into the hobby of wargaming and interest in fantasy literature and games.

He recently released a fantastic video game/ gamebook hybrid which I highly recommend (Joe Dever's Lone Wolf is the title), and was starting to write and publish new Lone Wolf books. with book 29 released earlier this year. Sadly, he died before his plans to publish books 30-32 could be completed. He was ambitious and hard working right up until his death and really cared about his fans.

The world has lost a fantastic author and really wonderful person, I'm glad I had the chance to talk to him briefly on facebook earlier this summer and express how much the books meant to me growing up.

Very sad news. How are the game books? They seem interesting?

 jreilly89 wrote:
Very sad news. How are the game books? They seem interesting?

They're really great, you keep your character from book to book and level up, gain new skills, it's like a solo narrative game.

Thankfully Joe agreed some time ago to have his work published online for free, and people have formatted them into online versions found here:

https://www.projectaon.org/en/Main/Home

Although I find the easiest way to read them is probably via the mobile app developed to automate the combats, inventory etc. while reading:

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.GDVGames.LoneWolfBiblio&hl=en

His last major works were book 29 of the Lone Wolf series, and this rather excellent video game, available on lots of different consoles, PC and mobile:

http://lonewolfthegame.com

Fanastic person, huge influence on my life and will be greatly missed. This is one 2016 death that really hurts us fantasy/ gaming nerds.

Worth noting that he was very active in the early days of Games Workshop as well, often writing for White Dwarf.

Dreadful news.



There's also a thread in news/rumours -- he gets that, at the very least.


However, for neatness's sake :



http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/list/300/680141.page