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   November aged 80. [LP]   
        _Rod Barzilay_, founder member of The Eagle Society who revived Dan   
   Dare in his _Spaceship Away_ (2003-2010), scripting new stories drawn by   
   original Hampson studio artists, died in August aged 77. [SH]   
        _Bruce Boston_ (1943-2024), US author and poet active since the early   
   1970s, winner of many Rhysling Awards for poetry and honoured in 2000 as   
   the first Rhysling Grand Master, died on 11 November aged 81. [PDF]   
        _Marshall Brain_ (1961-2024), US author of the _How Stuff Works_ books   
   and founder of the related website, whose sf novel was _Manna_ (2003), died   
   on 20 November aged 63.   
        _Colin Chilvers_ (1945-2024), Oscar-winning UK special effects   
   director whose films include _The Rocky Horror Picture Show_ (1975),   
   _Superman_ (1978 plus sequels), _Saturn 3_ (1980), _Condorman_ (1981) and   
   _X-Men_ (2000), died on 19 November aged 79. [SJ]   
        _Giovanni Cianfriglia_ (1935-2024), Italian actor/stuntman who starred   
   (as Ken Wood) in _Superargo vs. Diabolus_ (1966 plus sequel) and whose many   
   often uncredited stunt appearances include _Ladyhawke_ (1985),   
   _Frankenstein Unbound_ (1990) and _Angels & Demons_ (2009), died on 30   
   October aged 89. [SJ]   
        _Paul Engelen_ (1949-2024), UK makeup designer whose many credits   
   include _Moonraker_ (1979), _Little Shop of Horrors_ (1986), _Highlander   
   II_ (1991), _Frankenstein_ (1994) and _The Phantom Menace_ (1999), died on   
   3 November aged 75. [SJ]   
        _Al Ferrara_ (1939-2024), US actor in _Batman_ (1967-1968), _Mansion   
   of the Doomed_ (1976) and _Zoltan... Hound of Dracula_ (1977), died on 15   
   November aged 84. [SJ]   
        _Jonathan Haze_ (1929-2024), US actor in _It Conquered the World_   
   (1956), _Not of This Earth_ (1957), _Little Shop of Horrors_ (1960) and   
   others, died on 2 November aged 95. [LP]   
        _Dan Hennessey_ (1941-2024), Canadian voice actor in _X-Men_   
   (1992-1997), _Inspector Gadget_ (1983), _Jayce and the Wheeled Warriors_   
   (1985-1986), _Beetlejuice_ (1989), _Tintin_ (1991-1992), _Redwall_ (1999   
   plus film) and more, died on 13 November aged 83. [AIP]   
        _Kate Hepburn_ (1947-2024), UK artist and graphic designer who worked   
   with Terry Gilliam on _Monty Python_ animations and designed the cover of   
   _The Brand New Monty Python Bok_ (1973), died on 26 July aged 77. [AIP]   
        _Earl Holliman_ (1928-2024), US actor in _Forbidden Planet_ (1956),   
   _The Six Million Dollar Man: Wine, Women and War_ (1973), _NightMan_ (1997)   
   and genre tv series -- he was the star of the very first episode of _The   
   Twilight Zone_ (1959) -- died on 25 November aged 96. [LP]   
        _Song Jae-rim_ (1985-2024), South Korean actor in _Ingyeogongjoo_   
   (_The Idle Mermaid_, 2014), died on 12 November aged 39.   
        _Richard D. James_, Emmy-winning US production designer for _Star   
   Trek: The Next Generation_ (1988-1994) and _Star Trek: Voyager_   
   (1995-2001), died on 11 November aged 88. [SJ]   
        _Quincy Jones_ (1933-2024), noted US composer and producer whose   
   credits include _The Wiz_ (1978), _Michael Jackson: Thriller_ (1983),   
   _Austin Powers in Goldmember_ (2002) and _X-Men: Days of Future Past_   
   (2014), died on 3 November aged 91. [SJ]   
        _Zoe Kaplan_ (1996-2024), US short-story author since 2021, and   
   publisher with Tor and then Simon & Schuster/Saga Press, died on 9 October   
   aged 28. [L/P-SP]   
        _Peter Maddocks_ (1928-2024), UK cartoonist who drew the 'Four D.   
   Jones' sf strip for the _Daily Express_ 1955-1965, died on 20 November aged   
   96.   
        _Davide Mana_ (1967-2024), Italian sf/fantasy author active since 2011   
   whose first collection was _The Hand of Isfet_ (2014), died in November.   
   [JLG]   
        _Tony Mirrcandani_, Indian actor in _The Curse of King Tut's Tomb_   
   (2006) and _Ender's Game_ (2013), died on 3 November.   
        _Istvan Nemere_ (1944-2024), Hungarian author of some 750 books under   
   46 pseudonyms in multiple genres, including 60 sf novels, died on 15   
   November aged 80. [AM]   
        _Alan Rachins_ (1942-2024), US actor in _Time Walker_ (1982),   
   _Terminal Voyage_ (1995), _Monster Night_ (2006), _Angels on Tap_ (2018)   
   and genre tv series, died on 2 November aged 82. [SJ]   
        _Phil Rickman_ (1950-2024), UK author active since 1991, best known   
   for the 'Merrily Watkins' supernatural-tinged mystery series beginning with   
   _The Wine of Angels_ (1998), died on 29 October aged 74. [L]   
        _Scott L. Schwartz_ (1959-2024), US actor in _Lost in Oz_ (2000),   
   _Journey to Promethea_ (2010), _Joe Dirt 2_ (2015) and genre tv series,   
   died on 26 November aged 65.   
        _Ken Shorter_ (1945-2024), Australian actor in _Dragonslayer_ (1981)   
   and _Dragonheart: A New Beginning_ (1999), died in November aged 79.   
        _Tim Sullivan_ (1948-2024), US author, actor, editor and director   
   whose first stories appeared in the late 1970s and whose first-written   
   novel was _Destiny's End_ (1988), died on 10 November aged 76. He scripted   
   and acted in several genre films including _Twilight of the Dogs_ (1995).   
   [GVG]   
        _Tony Todd_ (1954-2024), US actor whose many genre credits include   
   _Candyman_ (1992, title role and sequels), _The Crow_ (1994), _The Man from   
   Earth_ (2007) and tv series such as _Star Trek_ (1990-2001) and _The Flash_   
   (2015-2023), died on 6 November aged 69. [OC/CM]   
        _Kazuo Umezu_ (1936-2024), Japanese manga writer/artist best known for   
   his horror and sf series 'Hyoryu Kyoshitsu' [The Drifting Classroom],   
   'Watashi wa Shingo' [My Name is Shingo] and 'Fotin' [Fourteen], died on 28   
   October aged 88. [SH]   
        _Vic 'Waddy' Wadmore_, UK Discworld fan who ran the unofficial   
   Discworld-themed Wadfest camping event from 2002 to 2017 (skipping 2012),   
   died on 26 November.   
        _Timothy West_ (1934-2024), UK actor whose genre credits include   
   _Beowulf_ (1998), _102 Dalmatians_ (2000), _The Fall of Gondolin_ (2019)   
   and various tv/podcast series, died on 12 November aged 90. [SJ]   
        _Eiji Yanagisawa_ (1967-2024), Japanese voice actor whose many anime   
   credits include _Mobile Suit Gundam 1_ (1981), _Digimon Frontier_ (2002)   
   and _Evangelion: 1.0 You Are (Not) Alone_ (2007), died on 12 November aged   
   57.   
      
   THE WEAKEST LINK. _Q:_ 'The Three Broomsticks is a fictional pub in a   
   series of books by which writer?' _A:_ 'I think I know the name C.S. Lewis   
   -- from _Fifty Shades of Grey_ ...' (ITV, _Tipping Point_) [PE]   
      
   DIRTY WORK ONLINE. Victoria Strauss of Writer Beware, which famously   
   exposes publishing frauds, is being impersonated by a scammer asking   
   four-figure sums to recover money lost to an allegedly different scammer,   
   about whose doings the impersonator is suspiciously well-informed. (Writer   
   Beware, 15 November) George R.R. Martin warns that the apparent GRRM   
   presence on Bluesky is not him (from his Not A Blog, 18 November); there's   
   also a false Peter F. Hamilton on that platform. Two fake Ken MacLeods are   
   issuing friend requests on Facebook, which has ignored reports of this in   
   favour of more urgent work like banning links to the _SF Encyclopedia_   
   'What's New' page -- because, they claim, it secretly contains nudity.   
   Finally, a moving plea from a very familiar face on Instagram: 'Hey it's me   
   Queen Elizabeth, I am not dead, Charles sent me to a st helena island so he   
   could be queen. I don't have access to my royal money so please cashapp me   
   GBP300 so I can get back to the UK.'   
      
   WE ARE EVERYWHERE. 'Ennui is The Thing: welcome to the death-football of   
   late-stage capitalism [...] Light and heat without content. Football as   
      
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   --- SoupGate-DOS v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)