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   From: john_nospam@jhall.co.uk   
      
   In message , David Langford   
    writes   
   >     _Christopher Priest_ (1943-2024), UK author of great distinction   
   >whose works appeared from 1966 to 2023 and include the hauntingly   
   >memorable 'Dream Archipelago' sequence, died on 2 February aged 80.   
   >Among his honours are BSFA Awards for _Inverted World_ (1974) and   
   >others, Ditmars for _The Space Machine_ (1976) and _The Affirmation_   
   >(1981), the World Fantasy Award and the non-genre James Tait Black   
   >Memorial Prize for _The Prestige_ (1995, memorably filmed 2006), the   
   >Arthur C. Clarke Award for _The Separation_ (2002) and a shared John W.   
   >Campbell Memorial Award for _The Islanders_ (2011). _The Book on the   
   >Edge of Forever_ (1994), his unsparing analysis of what went wrong with   
   >_The Last Dangerous Visions_, was a 1995 Hugo finalist. On a personal   
   >note, Chris was my friend for over 50 years, my partner in software and   
   >publishing ventures, my literary agent, and an ever-entertaining   
   >correspondent. I miss him very much. All sympathy to his widow Nina   
   >Allan, and to his twin children from an earlier marriage to Leigh Kennedy.   
      
   Sad news. I read and greatly enjoyed both "Inverted World" and "The   
   Space Machine".   
      
   >     _Romero_ (Enrique Badia Romero, 1930-2024), Spanish comics artist   
   >who drew _Modesty Blaise_ 1970-1978 and contributed to _2000 AD_ and   
   >_Judge Dredd Megazine_, died on 15 February aged 93. [SJ]   
      
   And that's sad too. During the 1970s I used to read the Modesty Blaise   
   cartoon strip every day in my evening newspaper on the way home from   
   work. His art was a major part of the strip's appeal, and IIRC his   
   successor wasn't anything like as good.   
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