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Together with Diana Wynne Jones, Patricia McKillip was one of the formative authors for me, from my pre-teen years onwards. Both her worldview, for want of a better word, and a writing style had a great influence on how I both read and write fiction. I have almost all of her books, except a couple of the earliest, non-fantasy ones. I remember looking out for a new one regularly for most of my life. She was the most extraordinary novelist, one of the great fantasy writers of the last forty years. Even though the thematic and stylistic consistency was always there, I never got the sense that she was just writing the same book over and over again. Every world was different, with new, strange, surprising things in every one. I appreciate them all, and I am so sad that there will never be any more.

May she rest in peace, with our thanks and gratitude for what she created in the world.