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Monday, April 06, 2009

Aaron Allston recovering from heart surgery 

Aaron Allston, contributor to the PARANOIA rulebook and Gamemaster Screen, and author of many supplements for Champions, D&D/AD&D, Car Wars, and other games as well as nearly two dozen novels, suffered a serious heart attack this past Sunday, March 29th, while on a flight home to Round Rock, Texas from a book promotion in Phoenix. He had quadruple-bypass heart surgery at a hospital in Dallas, Texas, on Thursday, April 2nd, and is now recovering in intensive care. Aaron is 48. His friends have set up a LiveJournal blog to provide updates on his recovery.

Via an announcement on Suvudu.com: Aaron’s family has set up a blood donation sponsorship. Anyone in the Dallas, Texas area who would like to donate blood can go to the National Blood Exchange or Carter BloodCare. Say you are donating blood for Aaron Allston, patient of Carter Blood Care in Bedford, Texas, and give his sponsor number: SPON 047786. You can donate anywhere in the Carter system throughout Texas, and they will give you a coupon to put towards Aaron's account. Mail it to his publisher, and they'll get it to his family:

Aaron Allston
c/o Del Rey Books
1745 Broadway
New York, NY 10019

Please spread the word as widely as possible. Feel free to quote from or paraphrase this post, and especially include the link to the LiveJournal with current info:

http://community.livejournal.com/allston_info/

Aaron's friends and fans on RPG.net may wish to post wishes for his recovery on this RPG.net forum thread. You can also send Aaron private messages at allston (at) AaronAllston (dot) com, on the obvious understanding he may not see them for several weeks.

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Dear god! I hope he is well. Alas, I have no money to contribute. (I know, small consolation....)
 
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