The Mammoth Book of Best New Science Fiction 22nd Annual Collection by Gardner Dozois

Scraping at the Bones”, “Be Merry”, “Nobody Bothers Gus”, “The Master of the Hounds”, and “The Silent Eyes of Time”; THOMAS M. DISCH, 68, writer and poet, one of the most acclaimed and respected of the New Wave authors who shook up SF in the mid-60s, also considered to be a major American poet, author of the brilliant 334 , Camp Concentration , On Wings of Song , a large body of biting and sardonic short fiction, and the acerbic critical study of SF The Dreams Our Stuff Is Made Of , which, ironically, finally won him a Hugo; JANET KAGAN, 63, author of the wildly popular “Mama Jason” stories, which were collected in Mirabile , as well as the novel Hellspark , and one of the most popular Star Trek novels ever, Uhura’s Song , winner of the Hugo Award for “The Nutcracker Coup”; a close personal friend; BARRINGTON J. BAYLEY, 71, British SF author whose highly inventive novels such as The Fall of Chronopolis , The Pillars of Eternity , and The Zap Gun were a strong infuence on the British New Space Opera of the 1980s and 90s; MICHAEL CRICHTON, 66, bestselling author of such technothrillers as The Andromeda Strain , Jurassic Park , Timeline , Rising Sun , Eaters of the Dead , and others, most of which were made into successful movies ( Eaters of the Dead was filmed, pretty faithfully, as The Thirteenth Warrior ); JOHN UPDIKE, 76, major American novelist, poet, and critic, author of literary novels such as Rabbit, Run and Rabbit Redux , perhaps best known to genre audiences as the author of fantasy novels The Witches of Eastwick (which was filmed under the same name) and The Widows of Eastwick ; ROBERT ASPRIN, 62, creator and editor of the popular Thieves’ World series of braided anthologies and novels by many hands, as well as an author of comic novels such as Another Fine Myth , Phule’s Company , and their sequels; DONALD WESTLAKE, 75, who wrote some SF, including the novel Anarchaos under the name “Curt Clark,” but who was much better known as a multiple Edgar Award-winning mystery writer, author of two of the most important mystery series of our day, the Parker novels, under the name “Richard Stark,” and the John Dortmunder novels under his own name, plus many stand-alone novels; GEORGE W. PROCTOR, 61, author of sixteen SF and fantasy novels and two co-edited anthologies; JAMES KILLUS, 58, SF writer, atmospheric scientist, and technical writer, author of SF novels Book of Shadows and SunSmoke ; RICHARD K. LYON, 75, SF novelist and research chemist; HUGH COOK, 52, SF/fantasy writer, author of the ten-volume Chronicles of an Age of Darkness series; LEO FRANKOWSKI, 65, SF writer, author of The Cross Time Engineer and its many sequels; STEPHEN MARLOWE, 79, prominent mystery novelist who also occasionally wrote SF as Milton Lesser; JODY SCOTT, 85, author of Passing for Human and I, Vampire ; MICHAEL de LARRABEITI, 73, author of the surprisingly dark and violent YA Borribles trilogy; BRIAN THOMSEN, 49, SF editor, writer, and anthologist; EDWARD D. HOCK, 77, well-known mystery writer who also dabbled in fantasy and SF; GARY GYGAX, 69, sometimes called the father of fantasy gaming, co-creator of the fantasy role-playing game Dungeons and Dragons , author also of fantasy novels The Annubis Murders and The Samarkand Solution ; DAVID FOSTER WALLACE, 46, novelist and essayist, author of Infinite Jest ; JOHNNY BYRNE, 73, veteran British SF/ writer; LINO ALDANI, 83, Italian SF writer; WERNER KURT GIESA, 53, German SF, fantasy, and horror writer; JOSE B. ADOLPH, 74, Peruvian author, playwright, and scholar; LYUBEN DILOV, 80, Bulgarian SF writer; HUGO CORREA, 81, Chilean SF author; GEORGE C. CHESBRO, 68, SF writer; SYDNEY C. LONG, 63, SF writer and Clarion Workshop graduate; EDD CARTIER, 94, veteran pulp illustrator, especially known for his many black-and-white illustrations for the pioneering fantasy magazine Unknown Worlds ; JOHN BERKEY, 76, prominent SF cover artist; DAVE STEVENS, 52, cartoonist and