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   Bennett, _The Fox Wife_ by Yangsze Choo, _The Bog Wife_ by Kay Chronister,   
   _The Bright Sword_ by Lev Grossman, _The Wings Upon Her Back_ by Samantha   
   Mills. Full list at   
   locusmag.com/2025/07/2025-world-fantasy-awards-finalists/.   
        _World Fantasy_ lifetime achievement: Juliet Marillier and Michael   
   Whelan.   
      
   WE ARE NEARLY EVERYWHERE. The Girl Guides' achievement badge for 'Fandoms'   
   -- one of 72 newly introduced -- does not apparently cover smoffing,   
   Worldcon-running or addiction to Rob Hansen's fan histories, but may be   
   awarded to Rangers (ages 14-18) 'for sharing their enthusiasm for things   
   like Taylor Swift or Harry Potter.' (BBC, 21 July) [AC]   
      
   DAYSPRING MISHANDLED. The academics have been rethinking _The Song of   
   Wade_, a lost mediaeval tale known from allusions in Chaucer and a tiny   
   fragment quoted in an old sermon discovered by M.R. James in 1896.   
   Apparently that sermon's transcriber had trouble forming certain letters:   
   words misread as 'elves' and 'sprites' that led past scholars to classify   
   _Wade_ as a heroic fantasy epic are (metaphorical) wolves and sea-snakes,   
   moving it into the genre of chivalric/courtly romance and making more sense   
   of the Chaucerian context. (Phys.org, 16 July) [SF2C] Gosh!   
      
   AS OTHERS SEE US. 'Ray Bradbury's _The Martian Chronicles_ [...] is not   
   what genre obsessives call "hard sci-fi", with yawn-inducing disquisitions   
   on the technicalities of space flight and the scientific challenges of   
   terraforming an inhospitable landscape.' (_The Week_, August 2024) [PL]   
      
   R.I.P. _Alon Aboutboul_ (1965-2025), Israeli actor in _The Dark Knight   
   Rises_ (2012), died on 29 July aged 60. [AIP]   
        _Allan Ahlberg_ (1938-2025), popular UK children's author whose work   
   includes such supernatural tales as _My Brother's Ghost_ (2001) and _The   
   Improbable Cat_ (2003), died on 29 July aged 87. [AIP]   
        _Charles Augins_ (1943-2025), US choreographer and actor whose credits   
   include _Blake's 7_ (1981), _Labyrinth_ (1986) and _Red Dwarf_ (1988,   
   1999), died on 19 July aged 81. [NF]   
        _Kenneth Colley_ (1937-2025), UK actor in _Monty Python's Life of   
   Brian_ (1979), _The Empire Strikes Back_ (1980), _Return of the Jedi_   
   (1983) and others, died on 30 June aged 87.   
        _John Conklin_ (1937-2025), noted US theatre designer who created sets   
   and costumes for many opera productions including _The Ghosts of   
   Versailles_ (1991), _The Turn of the Screw_ (1992) and _Don Giovanni_   
   (1995), died on 24 June aged 88. [AIP]   
        _Helgi Davis_ (1949-2025), Icelandic/US dealer, long-time owner of the   
   Myth Adventures comics and games shop in Texas, died on 29 June aged 76.   
   [AIP]   
        _Scott Haring_, US games designer and editor long associated with   
   Steve Jackson Games -- where he worked on _Car Wars_, _Ghostbusters_,   
   _GURPS_ and others -- died on 1 July aged 67. [MR]   
        _Gerald Harper_ (1929-2025), UK actor who starred in _Adam Adamant   
   Lives!_ (29 episodes 1966-1967) and was in other genre tv series, died on 2   
   July aged 96. [SJ]   
        _Hulk Hogan_ (1953-2025), US wrestler and actor in _Gremlins 2: The   
   New Batch_ (1990), _Suburban Commando_ (1991) and _Muppets from Space_   
   (1999), died on 24 July aged 71. [LP]   
        _Jimmy Hunt_ (1939-2025), US actor who co-starred in _Invaders from   
   Mars_ (1953, with a cameo in the 1986 remake) and _Close Encounters of the   
   4th Kind: Infestation from Mars_ (2004), died on 18 July aged 85. [SJ]   
        _Martin Izquierdo_ (1942-2025), Mexican costume designer who created   
   spectacular angel wings for _Angels in America_ (1991 play; 2003 tv) and   
   harpy wings for _The Tempest_ (2010), died on 25 June aged 83. [AIP]   
        _Paulette Jiles_ (1943-2025), noted US historical novelist whose   
   occasional sf included _The Late Great Human Road Show_ (1986) and   
   _Lighthouse Island_ (2013), died on 8 July aged 82. [AIP]   
        _Yuri Kara_ (1954-2025), Russian film-maker who directed an adaptation   
   (1994, released 2011) of Mikhail Bulgakov's _The Master and Margarita_,   
   died on 16 July aged 70. [AM]   
        _Tom Lehrer_ (1928-2025), famed US satirical singer-songwriter, much   
   loved in fandom (not only for his ditties with sf-adjacent themes) since   
   the 1950s, died on 26 July aged 97.   
        _Judy Loe_ (1947-2025), US actress in _Ace of Wands_ (26 episodes   
   1970-1971), _Space Island One_ (25 episodes 1998), _Doomwatch: Winter   
   Angel_ (1999) and others, died on 15 July aged 78. [AIP]   
        _Julian McMahon_ (1968-2025), Australian actor in _Charmed_ (47   
   episodes 2000-2005), _Fantastic Four_ (2005 plus 2007 sequel, as Doctor   
   Doom), _Runaways_ (19 episodes 2017-2018) and others, died on 2 July aged   
   56. [SG]   
        _Michael Madsen_ (1957-2025), US actor in _WarGames_ (1983), _Species_   
   (1995 plus sequel), _Vampires Anonymous_ (2003), _CobraGator_ (2015) and   
   others, died on 3 July aged 67. [LP]   
        _Aleksandr Mitta_ (1933-2025), Russian author/director who wrote the   
   children's sf novel _Prileteli marsiane_ (_The Martians Have Arrived_,   
   1960) and scripted and directed the fantasy _Skazka stranstviy_ (_The Story   
   of the Voyages_, 1983), died on 14 July aged 92. [AM]   
        _Yuri Moroz_ (1956-2025), Russian film-maker who directed the   
   science-fantasy _Podzemelie vedm_ (_The Witches' Cave_, 1990), died on 14   
   July aged 68. [AM]   
        _Bruce Newrock_ (1941-2025), long-time US fan who was on the '7 in 77'   
   bidding team for the 1977 Worldcon in Miami, and with his wife Flo worked   
   on registrations, died on 1 July aged 83. [FN]   
        _John Michael 'Ozzy' Osbourne_ (1948-2025), noted and notorious UK   
   heavy metal singer/songwriter with Black Sabbath and solo, whose genre   
   credits include _Little Nicky_ (2000), _Austin Powers in Goldmember_   
   (2002), _Gnomeo & Juliet_ (2011) and _Trolls World Tour_ (2020), died on 22   
   July aged 76. [LP/MR]   
        _Velu Prabhakaran_ (1957-2025), Indian Tamil-language filmmaker who   
   directed _Nalaya Manithan_ (_The Man of Tomorrow_, 1989, which he also   
   wrote), _Adisaya Manithan_ (_Mysterious Human_, 1990) and others, died on   
   18 July aged 68. [AM]   
        _Peter Henry Schroeder_, US actor in _Journey to the Center of the   
   Earth_ (1988), _Argo_ (2012) and genre tv series, died on 7 June.   
        _Martin Cruz Smith_ (1942-2025), US author best known for political   
   thrillers, whose sf novels include _The Indians Won_ (1970) and _Nightwing_   
   (1977), died on 11 July aged 82.   
        _Mark Snow_ (1946-2025), US composer of theme music for _The X-Files_   
   (1993-2018), _Smallville_ (2001-2007), _Ghost Whisperer_ (2005-2010) and   
   many more, died on 4 July aged 78. [F770]   
        _Andrey Sokolov_ (1974-2025), Russian animation director, screenwriter   
   and production designer whose animated series include _Space   
   Archaeologists_ (2010) and _Planet Ay_ (2014), died on 14 July aged 51.   
   [AM]   
        _Tom Troupe_ (1928-2025), US actor in _Psi Factor_ and genre tv series   
   including _Star Trek_ (1967), died on 20 July aged 97. [LP]   
        _Lyn Venable_ (1927-2025), US author whose 1953 story 'Time Enough at   
   Last' became a famous _Twilight Zone_ episode, died on 31 March aged 97.   
   [JAS]   
        _Malcolm-Jamal Warner_ (1970-2025), US actor in _The Real Story of   
   Itsy Bitsy Spider_ (1991) and genre tv series including _The Magic School   
   Bus_ (41 episodes 1994-1997) and _Jeremiah_ (35 episodes 2002-2004), died   
   on 20 July aged 54. [LP]   
        _Kenneth Washington_ (1936-2025), US actor in _Westworld_ (1973) and   
   genre tv series including _Star Trek_ (1969), died on 18 July aged 88. [KF]   
        _Tess Williams_ (1954-2025), UK-born Australian author and academic   
      
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