"Chinese government will decide on his reincarnation"!!!

Charles Stross remembers.

Roz Kaceney's sonnet in tribute to Terry Pratchett.

His last tweet.

Farewell, Maurna; we miss you.

Dignity.

A viral story that wasn't news.

Very sorry to hear that we lost @wordofwyrd,

Tremendously moving. I didn't know her, but we had friends in common.

Lockerbie, 26 years on

A great guy, gone too soon.

Deaths in space.

#somethinginmyeye

@LiamClarkeCJ on his diagnosis, and how the law should change.

"Oh, Christ!"

An obituary.

Speaking for the dead.

@RozKaveney nails it.

#somethinginmyeye

"He was one of our very best, a star whose light will travel a long way, and fall on places not yet built."

"We mourn him not as we'd have mourned him old complete and done. We mourn the might-have-been"

"For once, the subject of one of my elegies got to read it before he passed and sent notes of thanks... Always a gentleman was Banks."

As conducted by Jane Killick.

His Guest of Honour appearance at MeCon.

"There is no such thing as a perfect novel. You can have a perfect poem, so it is worth putting in the effort to try and get a poem to the right degree of perfection, but you will never achieve that with a novel, and too much editing en route means you will never finish."

"Fuck every cause that ends in murder and children crying."

"It was striking how many of those who responded to the news spoke of having encountered him in person, often after a reading or public interview. A significant number recalled sharing not just a conversation but also a drink with him: he was an author whose readers felt in close touch with him."

Extract from last interview, to be broadcast Wednesday

"If you've never read any of his books, read one of his books. Then read another. Even the bad ones were good, and the good ones were astonishing."

"How I am and how you can help."