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   NOVELLA _The Last to Drown_ by Lorraine Wilson. SHORT 'Loneliness Universe'   
   by Eugenia Triantafyllou (_Uncanny_). KARL EDWARD WAGNER (special):   
   Rosemary 'Ro' Pardoe.   
        _Goldsmiths Prize_ (GBP10,000 for a mould-breaking UK/Irish book): _We   
   Live Here Now_ by C.D. Rose.   
        _World Fantasy._ NOVEL _The Tainted Cup_ by Robert Jackson Bennett.   
   NOVELLA _Yoke of Stars_ by R.B. Lemberg. SHORT 'Raptor' by Maura McHugh (in   
   _Heartwood_ below). ANTHOLOGY _Heartwood: A Mythago Wood Anthology_ ed. Dan   
   Coxon. COLLECTION _A Sunny Place for Shady People_ by Mariana Enriquez,   
   trans Megan McDowell. ARTIST Liv Rainey-Smith. SPECIAL -- PROFESSIONAL   
   _Mapping New Stars: A Sourcebook on Philippine Speculative Fiction_ by   
   Gabriela Lee, Anna Felicia Sanchez and Sydney Paige Guerrero. SPECIAL --   
   NON-PROFESSIONAL Steve J. Shaw for Black Shuck Books.   
      
   WE ARE EVERYWHERE. The Ansible Cafe, a science-fiction-themed coffee shop   
   in Chengdu, China, opened on 28 October. [F770]   
      
   R.I.P. _Celeste Rita Baker_ (1958-2025), New York-born Virgin Islands   
   author active since 2010 whose genre collection is _Back, Belly, & Side:   
   True Lies and False Tales_ (2015) and who won a 2021 World Fantasy Award   
   for best short story, died on 30 October aged 67. [L]   
        _Carl Ciarfalio_ (1953-2025), US actor/stuntman in Roger Corman's   
   unreleased _The Fantastic Four_ (1994, as The Thing) and other genre   
   tv/film productions, died on 19 November aged 72.   
        _Pauline Collins_ (1940-2025), UK actress in _Doctor Who_ (1967,   
   2006), _From Time to Time_ (2009) and _The Last Dragonslayer_ (2016), died   
   on 6 November aged 85. [RH]   
        _Sergey Desnitsky_ (1941-2025), Russian actor in the Lem-based   
   _Doznaniye pilota Pirksa_ (_Pilot Pirx's Inquest_, 1979), died on 19   
   November aged 84. [AM]   
        _Jonathan Farwell_ (1932-2025), US actor in _Frankenstein General   
   Hospital_ (1988), _C.H.U.D. II_ (1989), the Poe-based _The Haunting of   
   Morella_ (1990) and _Watchers II_ (1999), died on 22 November aged 93. [SJ]   
        _Leslie Fish_, US fan active since the 1960s in filk and early _Star   
   Trek_ fandom, who was honoured for her musical work with multiple Pegasus   
   awards and entry to the Filk Hall of Fame in 1995, died on 29 November. [O]   
   Many of her songs are collected as _The Incomplete Leslie Fish_ (2001).   
        _Jill Freud_ (1927-2025), UK actress who in WW2 was evacuated to   
   Oxford and there stayed with C.S. Lewis, inspiring (he later told her) Lucy   
   in the Narnia books, died on 24 November aged 98. [AIP] Her genre credits   
   include narration and voice parts in _Torchy, the Battery Boy_ (52 episodes   
   1959-1961).   
        _Sue Granquist_ (1966-2025), US reviewer and blogger whose weekly   
   horror-themed 'Goth Chick' column had appeared in _Black Gate_ since 2009,   
   died on 18 November aged 59. [PS-P]   
        _Adam Greenberg_ (1937-2025), Polish-born US cinematographer for _The   
   Terminator_ (1984 plus sequel), _Ghost_ (1990), _Alien Nation_ (1998),   
   _Sphere_ (1998) and others, died on 30 October aged 88. [SJ]   
        _Tcheky Karyo_ (1953-2025), Turkish-born French actor in _The Core_   
   (2003), _Utopia_ (2003)and _Mermaid in Paris_ (2020), died on 31 October   
   aged 72. [AIP]   
        _Udo Kier_ (1944-2025), German actor in _Flesh for Frankenstein_   
   (1973, as Baron von Frankenstein) plus several vampire films, and voice   
   actor in genre games and animations, died on 23 November aged 81.   
        _Sally Kirkland_ (1941-2025), US actress whose many genre films   
   include _The Incredible Shrinking Woman_ (1981), _Brave New World_ (1988),   
   _The Visitor from Planet Omicron_ (2013), _The Haunting of Hell Hole Mine_   
   (2023) and _Woods Witch_ (2023), died on 11 November aged 84. [SJ]   
        _Pete Knifton_ (1959-2025), UK sf/fantasy/comics artist who   
   illustrated Games Workshop's _Blood Bowl_, Fighting Fantasy books, fantasy   
   wargames, heavy metal record covers and _Transformers_ comics, and appeared   
   in _Omni_ and _New Worlds_, died on 29 October aged 66. [MG]   
        _Jorga Kotrbova_ (1947-2025), Czech actress who played the title role   
   in the fairytale film _Zlatovlaska_ (_Princess Goldilocks_, 1973), died on   
   24 November aged 78.   
        _Diane Ladd_ (1935-2025), US actress in _Something Wicked This Way   
   Comes_ (1983), _Carnosaur_ (1992), _Kingdom Hospital_ (2004), _Grave   
   Secrets_ (2013) and others, died on 3 November aged 89. [LP]   
        _Gerry Lively_, UK cinematographer for _Waxwork_ (1988 plus sequel),   
   _Lobster Man from Mars_ (1989), _Hellraiser III_ (1992 plus sequel),   
   _Children of the Corn III_ (1995) and several more, died on 7 November.   
   Director credits include two _D&D_ films (2005, 2012) and _All Saints Eve_   
   (2015). [SJ]   
        _Dan McGrath_ (1964-2025), Emmy-winning US screenwriter who scripted   
   50 episodes of _The Simpsons_ (1992-1994) and was consulting producer for   
   20 more (1996-1998), died on 14 November aged 61. [AIP]   
        _Tatsuya Nakadai_ (1932-2025), noted Japanese actor in _Kwaidan_   
   (1964), _Illusion of Blood_ (1965), _The Face of Another_ (1966), _The Tale   
   of the Princess Kaguya_ (2013) and others, died on 8 November aged 92. [SJ]   
        _Alexander 'Sasha' Okun_ (1949-2025), Israeli author writing in   
   Russian whose YA novel _Placebo_ (2007; reissued as _Uchenik aptekarya_   
   [_Apothecary's Apprentice_]) is fantasy, died on 6 November. [AM]   
        _Danny Seagren_ (1943-2025), US actor in _Sesame Street_ (1969-1986),   
   _The Great Santa Claus Switch_ (1970) and -- as the first live-action   
   Spider-Man -- _The Electric Company_ and _Spidey Super Stories_ (both   
   1974-1977), died on 10 November aged 81. [SHS]   
        _Ralph Senesky_ (1923-2025), US director whose credits include _Star   
   Trek_ (7 episodes 1967-1968) and the fixup film _Treachery and Greed on the   
   Planet of the Apes_ (1980), died on 1 November aged 102. [SJ]   
        _Jack Shepherd_ (1940-2025), UK actor in _The Bed Sitting Room_   
   (1969), _Count Dracula_ (1977) and _The Golden Compass_ (2007), died on 25   
   November aged 85. [SJ]   
        _Ken Smookler_ (1929-2025), long-time Canadian fan who was a founder   
   of the Ontario SF Club in 1966 (and its first president) and worked on the   
   successful Toronto in 1973 Worldcon bid, died on 11 November aged 96. [MM]   
        _Tom Stoppard_ (1937-2025), distinguished Czech-born UK playwright and   
   Oscar winner, several of whose stage plays -- notably _Jumpers_ (1972) --   
   had sf/fantasy elements, died on 29 November aged 88. Genre cinema script   
   work included _Brazil_ (1985), _Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade_ (1989,   
   uncredited but openly acknowledged by Spielberg) and _Revenge of the Sith_   
   (2005, uncredited). [AW]   
        _Lee Tamahori_ (1950-2025), New Zealand director of _The Ray Bradbury   
   Theatre_ (3 episodes 1990-1992), _Die Another Day_ (2002) and _Next_   
   (2007), died on 7 November aged 75. [SJ]   
        _John Russell Taylor_ (1935-2025), UK author, critic and biographer of   
   Alec Guinness, Alfred Hitchcock -- with the authorized _Hitch: The Life and   
   Times of Alfred Hitchcock_ (1978) -- Orson Welles and others, died on 18   
   August aged 90. [AIP]   
        _Ron Tiner_ (Ronald Charles Tickner, 1940-2025), UK artist whose work   
   -- besides much illustration and comics art -- includes _The Encyclopedia   
   of Fantasy & Science Fiction Art Techniques_ (1996 with John Grant) and the   
   text for _Mass: The Art of John Harris_ (2000), died on 18 October aged 85.   
   He was a contributing editor of _The Encyclopedia of Fantasy_ (1997). [SH]   
        _Jean-Louis Trudel_ (1967-2025), Canadian author who wrote in French   
   and published some 30 sf novels and collections (both adult and YA)   
      
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