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   INDEPENDENT PRESS Flame Tree. NONFICTION _Writing the Future_, ed. Dan   
   Coxon & Richard V. Hirst. MAGAZINE _Shoreline of Infinity_. ARTIST Asya   
   Yordonova. AUDIO _The Tiny Bookcase_ by Nico Rogers & Ben Holroyd-Dell.   
   BOUNDS (newcomer) Teika Marija Smits. KARL EDWARD WAGNER Ramsey Campbell.   
   LEGEND OF FANTASYCON (non-BFS) Debbie Bennett.   
        _Rhysling_ (poetry): LONG 'Little Brown Changeling' by Lauren Scharhag   
   (_Aphelion_). SHORT 'No One Now Remembers' by Geoffrey Landis (_F&SF_ ).   
        _Royal Society Trivedi Science Book Prize:_ _A City on Mars_ by Kelly   
   and Zach Weinersmith.   
        _Ursula K. Le Guin Prize:_ _It Lasts Forever and Then It's Over_ by   
   Anne de Marcken.   
        _World Fantasy:_ NOVEL _The Reformatory_ by Tananarive Due. NOVELLA   
   'Half the House Is Haunted' by Josh Malerman (_Spin a Black Yarn_). SHORT   
   'Silk and Cotton and Linen and Blood' by Nghi Vo (_New Suns 2_). ANTHOLOGY   
   _The Book of Witches_ ed. Jonathan Strahan. COLLECTION _No One Will Come   
   Back for Us_ by Premee Mohamed. ARTIST Audrey Benjaminsen. SPECIAL/PRO Liza   
   Groen Trombi, for _Locus_. SPECIAL/NON-PRO Lynne M. Thomas and Michael   
   Damian Thomas, for _Uncanny_.   
      
   AS OTHERS SEE US. '_Playground_ [by Richard Powers] belongs in the   
   commercial sci-fi tradition, where outsiders can see themselves reflected   
   in the characters and enjoy the warm glow of wish fulfilment. [...] These   
   are the syrupy consolations of genre fiction, a category usually overlooked   
   by prestigious literary prizes but cleverly laundered here by judicious   
   engagement with weighty themes.' (_Sunday Times_, 22 September) [VS]   
      
   R.I.P. _John Amos_ (1939-2024), US actor in _Dance of the Dwarfs_ (1983),   
   _Hologram Man_ (1995), _Dr. Dolittle 3_ (2006) and _Voodoo Moon_ (2006),   
   died on 21 August aged 84. [LP]   
        _Roger Browne_ (1930-2024), US actor in _Vulcan Son of Jupiter_   
   (1962), _Venus Meets the Son of Hercules_ (1962), _Argoman the Fantastic   
   Superman_ (1967) and others, died on 11 October aged 94. [SJ]   
        _Pierre Christin_ (1938-2024), French comics writer best known in   
   English for the _Valerian_ space opera saga created with Jean-Claude   
   Mezieres in 1966 and adapted as a 2017 Luc Besson film, died on 3 October   
   aged 86. [JA]   
        _Scott Connors_, editor of critical anthologies on Lovecraft and Clark   
   Ashton Smith -- also, with others, Smith's collected fantasies, letters and   
   definitive bibliography -- reportedly died in October. [LP]   
        _Robert Coover_ (1932-2024), noted US author of much literary fantasy,   
   metafiction and fabulation including _The Universal Baseball Association   
   Inc., J. Henry Waugh, Prop._ (1968) and stories in his first collection   
   _Pricksongs & Descants_ (1969), died on 5 October aged 92. [PDF]   
        _William Crain_ (1949-2024), US director of _Blacula_ (1972) and _Dr.   
   Black, Mr. Hyde_ (1976), died on 22 June aged 75. [SJ]   
        _Ron Ely_ (1938-2024), US actor who starred in _Tarzan_ (1966-1968 tv)   
   and _Doc Savage: The Man of Bronze_ (1975), died on 29 September aged 86.   
   [SF2C]   
        _Bob Foster_ (1943-2024), US comics writer and animation artist who   
   wrote the _Toy Story_ and _Hercules_ graphic novels, died on 30 September   
   aged 80. Animation work for tv included _Godzilla_ (1978-1979),   
   _Spider-Man_ (1981-1983) and _Incredible Hulk_ (1982-1983). [SG]   
        _Teri Garr_ (1944-2024), US actress in _Young Frankenstein_ (1974),   
   _Close Encounters of the Third Kind_ (1977), _Oh, God!_ (1977), _Mom and   
   Dad Save the World_ (1992), _Batman Beyond_ (1999-2000) and others, died on   
   29 October aged 79. [CB]   
        _Art Henderson_ (1942-2024), US fan and book dealer at many East Coast   
   conventions, died on 12 October aged 82. [PDF]   
        _Greg Hildebrandt_ (1939-2024), noted US fantasy artist whose many   
   paintings with his brother Tim (1939-2006) include work based on Tolkien,   
   _Shannara_, _Star Wars_ and _Magic: The Gathering_, died on 31 October aged   
   85. [SHS]   
        _Ken Howard_, songwriter (with Alan Blaikley as Howard Blaikley) of   
   many chart-topping hits, documentary director, film composer and novelist   
   whose _Follow Me: A Quest in Two Worlds_ (2017) is SF, died on 24 September   
   2024 aged 84. [SH]   
        _John Lasell_ (1928-2024), US actor in _Dark Shadows_ (1967) and   
   _Deathmaster_ (1972), died on 4 October aged 95. [LP]   
        _Ed McLachlan_ (1940-2024), noted UK cartoonist active from the early   
   1960s in _Punch_, _Private Eye_ and many other magazines and newspapers --   
   often with surreal or fantastic images like the famous giant hedgehog   
   running across a motorway crushing cars -- died on 29 September aged 84. I   
   loved his work.   
        _Elisa Montes_ (1934-2024), Spanish actress in _Faustina_ (1967),   
   _Island of the Doomed_ (1967), _The Girl from Rio_ (aka _Future Women_,   
   1969) and others, died on 9 October aged 89. [SJ]   
        _Mario Morra_ (1935-2024), Italian film editor for _Queens of Evil_   
   (1970), _Black Belly of the Tarantula_ (1971), _The Humanoid_ (1979) and   
   many more, died on 11 October. [SJ]   
        _Paul Morrissey_ (1938-2024), US director of _Flesh for Frankenstein_   
   (1973, which he also co-wrote) and _Blood for Dracula_ (1974), died on 28   
   October aged 86. [SHS]   
        _Karl Mostert_, South African comics artist who worked on various   
   Batman titles (DC) and drew the strips _The Man Who F#&%ed Up Time_   
   (Aftershock Comics) and _Concrete Jungle_ (Scout Comics), died on October   
   aged 43. [SH]   
        _Lynda Obst_ (1950-2024), US producer with credits for _Helix_   
   (2014-2015) and _Interstellar_ (2014), died on 22 October aged 74.   
        _Nobuyo Oyama_ (1933-2024), Japanese actress best known for voicing   
   the robot title character of the anime _Doraemon_ (1979-2005), died on 16   
   October aged 90. [AIP]   
        _Ken Page_ (1954-2024), US actor in the Broadway _Cats_ (1982), _All   
   Dogs Go to Heaven_ (1989), _The Nightmare Before Christmas_ (1993 plus   
   spinoffs) and others, died on 30 September aged 70. [SJ]   
        _Christopher Penfold_ (1941-2024), UK scriptwriter/story consultant   
   whose credits include _Space: 1999_ (1975-1976), _Alien Attack_ (1976) and   
   _The Tripods_ (1985), died on 29 July aged 83. [SH]   
        _Dick Pope_ (1947-2024), UK cinematographer whose credits include   
   _Inseminoid_ (1981), _Whoops Apocalypse_ (1982) and _1984_ (1984), died on   
   22 October aged 77. [SJ]   
        _Nicholas Pryor_ (1935-2024), US supporting actor in _Omen II: Damien_   
   (1978), _Hunger Games: Mockingjay 1_ (2014), _Doctor Sleep_ (2019) and   
   others, died on 7 October aged 89. [SJ]   
        _Alvin Rakoff_ (1927-2024), Canadian film/tv director -- genre films   
   include _King Solomon's Treasure_ (1979) and _A Haunting Harmony_ (1993) --   
   and author of the sf novel _The Seven Einsteins_ (2013), died on 12   
   October. [JC/SHS]   
        _Robert J. Randisi_ (1951-2024), US author best known for thrillers   
   and Westerns who collaborated with Warren Murphy on some genre novels in   
   the Destroyer series, died on 4 October aged 73. [JC]   
        _Fred Smith_ (1927-2024), long-time Scots fan who was a 1952 founder   
   member of Glasgow's New Lands SF Club (the first such club in Scotland),   
   published the fanzine _Haemoglobin_ 1953-1959, and after a long gap   
   returned to fannish activity in the 1990s, died on 2 October aged 97. [MP]   
        _Nancy St. John_, visual effects producer for _Babe_ (1995 plus   
   sequel), _I, Robot_ (2004), _Total Recall_ (2012), _Ender's Game_ (2013)   
   and many more, died on 23 October aged 70. [SJ]   
        _Sam Strangis_ (1929-2024), US producer/production manager whose   
      
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