R.I.P., Terence M. Green
by Rob - December 20th, 2025.Filed under: Uncategorized. Tagged as: Canadian SF, RIP.
I’m in tears right now. Terence M. Green passed away yesterday at 77 after a long battle with cancer. Terry was my mentor and, for 43 years, since 1982, one of my very best friends.
Terry was nominated for the World Fantasy Award for his novels Shadow of Ashland (1997) and A Witness to Life (2000). His short fiction appeared in Asimov’s, The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, and elsewhere, and was collected in The Woman Who Is The Midnight Wind (1987). I had the great privilege of publishing his novel Sailing Time’s Ocean under my Robert J. Sawyer Books imprint for Red Deer Press.
A celebration of Terry’s life will be held Saturday, January 3, 2026, from 2:00 to 6:00 p.m. at Local, a pub in Leaside (180 Laird Drive, East York, Toronto). Per his wishes, there will be no service.
Terry is survived by his wife Merle Casci and sons Connor, Owen, and Daniel. My 1997 novel Frameshift is dedicated to Terry and Merle.
Here’s an interview I did with Terry in 1992 for the newsletter of the Toronto International Festival of Authors: https://sfwriter.com/green.htm
And here’s an interview i did with him in 1988 for Books in Canada magazine: https://sfwriter.com/greenbic.htm
And here’s Terry’s own 10,000-word autobiography first published in Contemporary Authors and reprinted in The New York Review of Science Fiction: http://tmgreen.com/autobiog.html
Pictured: me and Terry at Carolyn and my place in 2016.