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   through the cosmos, from the quiet stillness of the moon to the chaos of a   
   black hole.' (Six By Nico restaurant chain advertisement) [PE]   
      
   AWARDS. _Dwarf Star_ (SFPA short verse): 'Perish and Live Forever' by Pedro   
   Iniguez (_Mexicans on the Moon_).   
        _SFRA Lifetime Contributions to SF Scholarship_ (formerly the Pilgrim   
   Award): Takayuki Tatsumi. [L]   
      
   GALACTOLOGY. Archie Goodwin's regular consumption of milk in the Nero Wolfe   
   thrillers never seemed sinister to me, but in my innocence I'd failed to   
   think of Stanley Kubrick: 'Grown men drinking milk has always been laden in   
   symbolism, the blend of nurture and eroticism evocative of a sexual   
   infantalization _[sic]_. It is why so many films from A Clockwork Orange to   
   Babygirl centre milk as a poison beyond a place of regular intoxication.'   
   (Sam Wolfson, _The Guardian_, 4 September)   
      
   AS SOMEONE SEES SOME OF US. 'People think Dr Who fandom and conventions are   
   a bunch of nerds talking about Daleks. I've never known such a bunch of   
   alcoholic bed-hoppers. Debauchery.' ('Anon Opin' scuttlebutt,   
   Mastodon.social, 23 September) [DS]   
      
   R.I.P. _Giorgio Armani_ (1934-2025), Italian fashion designer whose film   
   credits include _The Dark Knight_ (2008) and _Elysium_ (2013), died on 4   
   September aged 91. [SG]   
        _S.L. Bhyrappa_ (1931-2025), Indian Kannada language author,   
   philosopher and screenwriter whose sf novel was _Yaana_ (2014), died on 24   
   September aged 94. [AM]   
        _Jean-Pierre Bouyxou_ (1946-2025) , French actor (films include   
   _Female Vampire_ 1973), novelist (_Frankenstein de filles en aiguille_) and   
   critic (_Frankenstein_, 1969; _La Science-fiction au cinema_, 1971), died   
   on 2 September aged 79. [SJ]   
        _'Brandy'_ (Ildebrando Jose Rodriguez Rossetti), Spanish   
   actor/stuntman in _Dracula, Prisoner of Frankenstein_ (1972), _The Werewolf   
   and the Yeti_ (1975) and others, died on 22 August aged 85. [SJ]   
        _Gregorio C. Brillantes_ (1932-2025), noted Filipino author most of   
   whose short sf is collected in _The Distance to Andromeda_ (1960) and _The   
   Apollo Centennial_ (1980), died on 26 September aged 92. [AW]   
        _Joe Bugner_ (1950-2025), Hungarian boxer and actor in _The Sheriff   
   and the Satellite Kid_ (1979) and genre tv series, died on 1 September aged   
   75. [SJ]   
        _Renato Casaro_ (1935-2025), Italian artist whose many genre film   
   posters include _King Kong_ (1966), _Night of the Living Dead_, _Flash   
   Gordon_ (1980), _Conan the Barbarian_, _Dune_ (1984), _The Princess Bride_   
   and _The Neverending Story_, died on 29 September aged 89. [SJ]   
        _Stuart Craig_ (1942-2025), Oscar-winning UK art director and   
   production designer whose credits include _Superman_ (1978), _Greystoke_   
   (1984), _The Secret Garden_ (1993), and all the 'Harry Potter' and   
   'Fantastic Beasts' films, died on 7 September aged 83. [SJ]   
        _Michael Dryhurst_ (1938-2025), UK producer whose credits include _The   
   Terminal Man_ (1974), _Excalibur_ (1981) and _Never Say Never Again_   
   (1983), died on 9 September aged 87. [SJ]   
        _Tony Edwards_, UK fan associated with the MaD (Manchester and   
   District) Group, co-editor of _Alien_ 1963-1964, Knight of St. Fantony   
   (inducted 1970) and co-founder of the Festival of Fantastic Films, died on   
   1 September aged 83. [SF2C]   
        _Ru Emerson_ (1944-2025), US fantasy author whose first novel was _The   
   Princess of Flames_ (1986), died on 15 August aged 80. She also used the   
   pseudonym Roberta Cray for _The Sword and the Lion_ (1993). [L]   
        _Ron Friedman_ (1932-2025), US screenwriter for _Transformers: The   
   Movie_ (1986), _Bionic Six_ (which he created; 65 episodes 1987),   
   _Fantastic Four_ (13 episodes 1994) and _Iron Man_ (ditto), died on 15   
   September aged 93. [SJ]   
        _Philippe Goddin_ (1944-2025), Belgian critic and Tintin scholar   
   ('Hergeologist') whose works include the monumental _Herge -- Chronologie   
   d'une oeuvre_ (7 volumes 2005-2011), died on 8 September aged 81.   
        _Vasili Golovachyov_ (1948-2025), Russian sf author who published 150   
   novels and won 17 genre awards, died on 7 September aged 77. [AM]   
        _Graham Greene_ (1952-2025), Canadian actor in _The Green Mile_   
   (1999), _Atlantic Rim_ (2013), _Winter's Tale_ (2014), _Loch Ness Monster   
   of Seattle_ (2022) and others, died on 1 September aged 73. [TM]   
        _Takaya Hashi_ (1952-2025), Japanese voice actor in _Fist of the North   
   Star_ (51 episodes 1985-1987), _Metropolis_ (2001) and many more films,   
   series and videogames, died on 27 August aged 72. [SJ]   
        _Polly Holliday_ (1937-2025), US actres in _Gremlins_ (1984), died on   
   9 September aged 88. [AIP]   
        _Simon J. James_ (1971-2025), UK academic and Wells scholar who edited   
   _The Wellsian_ 2009-2015, wrote _Maps of Utopia: H. G. Wells, Modernity and   
   the End of Culture_ (2012) and edited four Wells novels for Penguin   
   Classics, died in June. [JC]   
        _John Christopher Jones_ (1948-2025), US actor in the Broadway _Beauty   
   and the Beast_ musical and _The Village_ (2004), died on 15 September aged   
   77. [AIP]   
        _Marilyn Knowlden_ (1926-2025), US child actress of the 1930s who was   
   in the vampire film _Condemned to Live_ (1935), died on 15 September aged   
   99. [SJ]   
        _Harri Kumpulainen_ (1948-2025), Finnish author, editor, publisher,   
   music producer and one of the first Finnish professional sf writers (as   
   Harri Erkki), died on 29 August. [JH]   
        _Amy Blanc Lacy_, script supervisor for _The Walking Dead_ (137   
   episodes 2011-2020), _Loki_ (2021) and other genre series, was killed by a   
   hit-and-run driver on 5 September aged 62. [AIP]   
        _Jon Lasser_ (1975-2025), US author of short sf (since 2014) and   
   Clarion West board member, died on 23 September aged 49. [L]   
        _Antony Maitland_ (1935-2025), UK children's author and illustrator   
   who created covers for genre titles including _A Wrinkle in Time_ (1963 UK)   
   and _The Giant Under the Snow_ (1971), died on 15 September aged 90.   
        _Ted Mann_ (1952-2025), Canadian writer/producer for _Space Truckers_   
   (1996), _Millennium_ (1996-1997) and _Total Recall 2070_ (1999), died on 4   
   September aged 72. [AIP]   
        _Dan Markovich_ (1940-2025), Russian author of the dystopian satire   
   _LChK_ (1991) -- acronym for _Likvidatsiya Chernykh Koshek_ (_Liquidation   
   of Black Cats_) -- died on 26 September aged 84. [AM]   
        _John Masius_ (1950-2025), Emmy-winning US screenwriter for _Touched   
   by an Angel_ (as creator: 211 episodes 1994-2003) and _Dead Like Me_   
   (2003-2004), died on 13 September aged 75. [AIP]   
        _Eusebio Poncela_ (1945-2025), Spanish actor in _Pastel de sangre_   
   (_Cake of Blood_, 1971), the Lovecraftian _The Valdemar Legacy II_ (2010)   
   and others, died on 27 August aged 79. [SJ]   
        _Daniel Postgate_ (1964-2025), son of Oliver Postgate who with Peter   
   Firmin revived _The Clangers_, writing 27 episodes (2015-2019), and   
   contributing voice performances, died on 27 June aged 61. [NJ]   
        _Derry Power_ (1935-2025), Irish actor in _Warlords of Atlantis_   
   (1978) and genre tv series including _Super Gran_ (1985), died on 5   
   September aged 90.   
        _Robert Redford_ (1936-2025), Oscar-winning US actor whose rare genre   
   films include _Charlotte's Web_ (2006), _Captain America: The Winter   
   Soldier_ (2014) and _Pete's Dragon_ (2016), died on 16 September aged 89.   
   [MR]   
        _Salli Sachse_ (1943-2025), US actress in _Dr. Goldfoot and the Bikini   
   Machine_ (1965 plus sequel), _Sergeant Dead Head_ (1965) and others, died   
   on 8 September aged 82. [LP]   
        _Sergio Salvati_ (1938-2025), Italian cinematographer whose films   
      
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