By Julie Philips, Alice Shelton’s biographer.

Her first TV appearance was as Ping Cho in Doctor Who (Marco Polo, 1964); she returned 45 years later as the registrar in the Wedding of Sarah Jane Smith (2009).

Lovely on Brian Aldiss.

Among many other things, he owned the foundry which has made the Hugo Awards since 1984.

Sad news.

For once, do read the comments.

Andy Sawyer's obituary.

Charles Stross remembers.

Roz Kaceney's sonnet in tribute to Terry Pratchett.

His last tweet.

@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."

I hate the @telegraph's line on the EU, but its obituaries are often very good.

Farah Mendlesohn's tribute to DWJ.