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

comics writer, creator of the character The Rocketeer ; ROBERT LEGAULT, 58, SF reader, professional copy editor, and former managing editor of Tor Books; a friend; FORREST J. ACKERMAN, 92, longtime fan and enthusiastic booster of horror films, also an agent and occasional writer/anthologist, founder of the long-running Famous Monsters of Filmland magazine, coiner of the term “sci-fi,” which is loathed in some genre circles, although mostly ubiquitous these days outside them; famed fantasy artist and illustrator JAMES CAWTHORN, 79; MURIEL R. BECKER, 83, SF scholar; JOSEPH PEVNEY, 97, film and TV director who directed many of the episodes of the original Star Trek series; BEBE BARRON, 82, who, with husband Lewis Barron, created the striking electronic score for Forbidden Planet ; ALEXANDER COURAGE, 85, composer of the theme music for the original Star Trek series; ROBERT H. JUSTMAN, 82, supervising producer of Star Trek: The Next Generation ; CHARLTON HESTON, 84, film actor best known to genre audiences for his roles in Planet of the Apes , The Omega Man , and Soylent Green ; PAUL NEWMAN, 83, one of the most famous film actors of the twentieth century, whose genre connections were actually somewhat weak, limited to voiceover work in the animated film Cars , the unsuccessful SF movie Quintet , and The Hudsucker Proxy , which had some fantastic elements; ROY SCHEIDER, 76, film actor best known to genre audiences for his roles in 2010 and Jaws ; JAMES WHITMORE, 87, probably best known to genre audiences for his roles in Them! and Planet of the Apes ; JOHN PHILLIP LAW, 71, film actor best known to genre audiences for his role as the blind “angel” in Barbarella ; HEATH LEDGER, 28, film actor no doubt to be recalled for a long time by genre audiences for his role as the Joker in The Dark Knight ; film actor VAN JOHNSON, 92, best known to genre audiences for roles in Brigadoon and The Purple Rose of Cairo ; comic film actor HARVEY KORMAN, 81, who had some minor genre connections for voiceover work on TV’s The Flintstones , but who is known by practically everybody for his role as Hedly Lamarr in Blazing Saddles ; MAJEL BARRETT RODDENBERRY, 76, wife of Star Trek creator Gene Roddenberry, and also an actress in her own right, appearing in several Star Trek episodes and providing the voice of the Enterprise’s computer; PATRICK McGOOHAN, 80, acclaimed stage, television, and film actor, best known to genre audiences for his role as Number Six in TV’s The Prisoner ; RICARDO MONTALBAN, 88, film and television actor, best known to genre audiences for his roles in TV’s Fantasy Island and as the villainous Khan in the movie Star Trek II : The Wrath of Khan ; BOB MAY, 69, who played the Robot on TV’s Lost in Space ; JACK SPEER, 88, long-time SF fan who wrote the first history of fandom, Up to Now , plus the Fancyclopedia ; HARRY TURNER, 88, acclaimed British fan artist; KEN SLATER, 90, long-time SF fan who operated the UK mail-order list Operation Fantast; NORMA VANCE, 81, wife of SF writer Jack Vance; RAYMOND J. SMITH, 77, husband of writer Joyce Carol Oates; Dr CHRISTINE HAYCOCK, 84, widow of SF critic Sam Moskowitz; ANGELINA CANALE KONINGISOR, 84, mother of SF writer Nancy Kress; EVA S. WILLIAMS, 92, mother of SF writer Walter Jon Williams; BARNET EDELMAN, 77, father of SF editor and writer Scott Edelman; HAZEL PEARSON, 77, mother of SF writer William Barton; CLAUDIA LIGHTFOOT, 58, mother of SF writer China Miéville; MARION HOLMAN, 88, mother of SF editor and publisher Rachel Holman; and DANTON BURROUGHS, 64, grandson of SF writer Edgar Rice Burroughs. And I can think of no genre justification for mentioning them, but I can’t let the obituary section close without mentioning the deaths of TONY HILLERMAN, 83, one of the great mystery writers of the last half of the twentieth century, author of the adventures of Navaho policemen Joe Leaphorn and Jim Chee, such as Dance Hall of the Dead , Thief of Time , and Skinwalkers ;