The strange, sad story of John M. Ford

A wild talent, unrecognized by most except for those very few that knew him. I consider myself schooled on the genre and I frankly could not remember having heard of him. I just ordered Dragon Waiting from Abe books (legacy copies on Amazon are in the $110s, Ebay starting at $30 plus shipping, but Abe had one that I was able to get for around $12.