The author of Howl's Moving Castle passed away yesterday. Remembrances are cropping up online—here's one from John Scalzi:

My favorite book of hers was one called Dogsbody, in which the personage of the star Sirius, accused of murder, is sent to Earth, where he has to live in the body of a dog, and in that form discover the truth about his situation.

It’s a genuinely wonderful book, with strong characters, a good plot, and a fine melding of both science fictional and fantasy elements. It was one of the first science fiction books I read as a child, along with the Heinlein juveniles and L’Engle’s Wrinkle in Time series, and I have to say I am indebted to Jones (and to L’Engle) for being in the right place in the right time for me as a young science fiction reader, since the excellence of their books, and their importance to me in my understanding of science fiction, meant I was able to skirt around the chauvinistic shibboleth that science fiction was by and for boys only. It was nice to have been inoculated against that at an early, and influential, age. I still own the book; it’s in my daughter’s library now.

Bryan Lee O'Malley tweeted some old fan art, too. I've never read her, but she's on the to-read list I compiled while reading Jo Walton's love letter to fantasy novels, Among Others, itself an amazing novel that doubles as a comprehensive sci fi/fantasy recommended reading list.