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convention panels, and a personal friend; DAVID EDDINGS , 77, prominent fantasy author best known for the novels of the Belgariad series, as well as for books in the Malloreon series, the Dreamers series, and others; ROBERT HOLDSTOCK , 61, acclaimed British fantasy writer, author of Mythago Wood , thought to be one of the classic post-Tolkein fantasy novels by many critics, as well as six sequels and a number of stand-alone novels; PHILIP KLASS , 89, who wrote SF as WILLIAM TENN , and whose classic stories, most published in the fifties, included “Bernie the Faust,” “Venus and the Seven Sexes,” “The Liberation of Earth,” and many others, as well as the novel Of Men and Monsters; KAGE BAKER , 57, prolific author of the extensive linked series of novels and stories about the time-travelling agents of the Company, one of the most popular series in recent SF, just as Baker may have been one of the most significant talents to enter the field during the last ten years, a friend; PHYLLIS GOTLIEB , 83, pioneering Canadian SF author, sometimes known as “the mother of Canadian science fiction,” Aurora Award-winning author of many stories collected in Son of the Morning and Other Stories and Blue Apes as well as novels such as Sunburst; HARRY C. CROSBY, Jr. , 84, who wrote more than a hundred SF stories, mostly for Astounding/Analog , and several novels, under the name CHRISTOPHER ANVIL ; LOUISE COOPER , 57, SF/fantasy writer, author of the Time Master trilogy, The Shadow Star trilogy, The King’s Demon , and others; THOMAS DEITZ , 57, author of sixteen fantasy novels, including Windmaster’s Bane and Bloodwinter; KEN RAND , 62, author of Phoenix, The Golems of Laramie County, A Cold Day in Hell , and other novels; RICHARD GORDON , 62, Scottish author who wrote SF novels as STUART GORDON author of books such as One-Eye, Two-Eyes, Three-Eyes , and Time Story; JOHN KENNEDY , 63, SF writer, ex-husband of SF writer Leigh Kennedy; JENNIFER SWIFT , 54, SF writer whose work appeared in Asimov’s, Amazing, F&SF, Interzone , and elsewhere; JANET FOX , 68, writer and editor, who also edited the monthly market report, Scavenger’s Newsletter; TAKUMI SHIBANO , 83, translator and novelist, longtime Japanese fan, sometimes spoken of as “the father of Japanese fandom”; KAORU KURIMOTO , 56, Japanese fantasy and anime author; EDWARD UPWARD , 105, distinguished British author whose works included the fantasy stories collected in The Mortmere Stories; JOHN ATKINS , 92, British author who occasionally wrote fantasy and SF; JOHN A. KEEL , 79, paranormal author and UFOologist best known for The Mothman Prophecies; MILORAD PAVIC , 80, Serbian novelist, many of whose novels had surreal fantastic elements; ED VALIGURSKY , 82, famous SF cover artist, whose covers graced many of the classics of the field; DEAN ELLIS , 89, another famous and pioneering SF cover artist; DON IVAN PUNCHATZ , 73, prominent artist and illustrator; ILENE MEYER , 69, SF/ fantasy artist who did covers for books by Jack Vance, Harlan Ellison, Philip K. Dick, and others; DAVE SIMONS , 54, comics artist; KNOX BURGER , 87, editor and agent, who published early works by Kurt Vonnegut, Jr., Ray Bradbury, and John Wyndham as fiction editor of Collier’s magazine, edited SF for Dell and Fawcett, and later became a prominent literary agent; ALFRED A. KNOPF , 90, publisher and co-founder of Atheneum; ROBERT A. COLLINS , 80, scholar, founder of the International Conference on the Fantastic in the Arts, editor of Fantasy Review , and co-editor of Science Fiction & Fantasy Book Review Annual; MARK OWINGS , 64, bibliographer and longtime fan, a founder of the Baltimore Science Fiction Society, who worked with the late Jack Chalker to produce The Index to the Science-Fantasy Publishers; I.F. CLARKE , 91, British bibliographer and literary scholar, compiler of the classic study of future-war fiction, Voices Prophesying War; DONALD M. GRANT , 82, winner of three World Fantasy