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   Light of Stars' by Premee Mohamed (6/24 _Strange Horizons_). SHORT 'Why   
   Don't We Just Kill the Kid in the Omelas Hole' by Isabel J. Kim (2/24   
   _Clarkesworld_) ANTHOLOGY _The Black Girl Survives in This One_ ed. Desiree   
   S. Evans & Saraciea J. Fennell. COLLECTION _Lake of Souls_ by Ann Leckie.   
   MAGAZINE _Clarkesworld_. PUBLISHER Subterranean Press. EDITOR Neil Clarke.   
   ARTIST Charles Vess. NONFICTION _Afro-Centered Futurisms in Our Speculative   
   Fiction_ ed. Eugen Bacon. ILLUSTRATED/ART BOOK _The Last Unicorn_ by Peter   
   S. Beagle illus. Tom Kidd. SPECIAL Ignyte Awards.   
        _Nebulas._ NOVEL _Someone You Can Build a Nest In_ by John Wiswell.   
   NOVELLA _The Dragonfly Gambit_ by A.D. Sui. NOVELETTE 'Negative Scholarship   
   on the Fifth State of Being' by A.W. Prihandita (11/24 _Clarkesworld_).   
   SHORT STORY 'Why Don't We Just Kill the Kid in the Omelas Hole' by Isabel   
   J. Kim (2/24 _Clarkesworld_). CHILDREN'S/YA _The Young Necromancer's Guide   
   to Ghosts_ by Vanessa Ricci-Thode. GAME WRITING _A Death in Hyperspace_.   
   DRAMATIC _Dune: Part Two_.   
        _Stokers_ (horror, novel categories only). MAIN _The Haunting of   
   Velkwood_ by Gwendolyn Kiste. DEBUT _The Eyes Are the Best Part by Monika   
   Kim_. CHILDREN'S (tie) _There's Something Sinister in Center Field_ by   
   Robert P. Ottone; _The Creepening of Dogwood House_ by Eden Royce. YA   
   _Clown in a Cornfield 3: The Church of Frendo_ by Adam Cesare. Full list at   
   locusmag.com/2025/06/2024-stoker-awards-winners.   
      
   PUBLISHERS & SINNERS. Transworld and Fairyloot revealed the name of their   
   new collaborative fantasy imprint, suitably evocative of perilous seas in   
   faery lands forlorn: Wayward TxF. (_Bookseller_, 23 June) [SF2C]   
      
   R.I.P. _Aki Aleong_ (1934-2025), Trinidadian/US actor in _V_ (1984-1985),   
   _Dragonfight_ (1990), _Superhero Movie_ (2008) and others, died on 22 June   
   aged 90.   
        _Michael Allaby_ (1933-2025), UK author -- and actor in _Doctor Who_   
   (1964) -- who co-wrote _The Greening of Mars_ (1984) with James Lovelock,   
   died on 4 May aged 91. [SHS]   
        _Jack Betts_ (1929-2025), US actor in _Batman Forever_ (1995),   
   _Spider-Man_ (2002) and others, died on 19 June aged 96. [SJ]   
        _Marilyn 'Mattie' Brahen_, US author whose work includes the novel   
   _Baby Boy Blue_ (2010) and the collection _Seastruck and Other Fantasies_   
   (2019), died on 9 June. She was also known as a convention book-dealer with   
   her husband Darrell Schweitzer, to whom all sympathy. [DS]   
        _Roland Curram_ (1932-2025), UK actor in _Rime of the Ancient Mariner_   
   (1975, as Coleridge), _Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde_ (1980), _Artemis 81_ (1981)   
   and others, died on 1 June aged 92.   
        _Rebekah Del Rio_ (1967-2025), US singer/songwriter and actress whose   
   credits include _Mulholland Drive_ (2001), _Southland Tales_ (2006) and   
   _The Winter Soldier_ (2017), died on 23 June aged 57. [SJ]   
        _Frances Doel_ (1942-2025), UK producer/screenwriter who worked for   
   many years and made significant contributions (often uncredited) at Roger   
   Corman's New World Pictures, died on 26 May aged 83. Film credits include   
   _Deathsport_ (1978), _Starship Troopers_ (1997) and _Dinocroc_ (2004).   
   [AIP]   
        _Taina Elg_ (1930-2025), Finnish-US actress in _Hercules in New York_   
   (1970), died on 15 May aged 95. [JH]   
        _Barbara Ferris_ (1939-2025), UK actress in the Wyndham- based   
   _Children of the Damned_ (1964), died on 23 May aged 85. [AIP]   
        _Frederick Forsyth_ (1938-2025), best-selling UK thriller author who   
   published one supernatural fantasy and a few near-future novels with sf   
   elements, died on 9 June aged 86.   
        _Leanne Frahm_ (1946-2025), Ditmar-winning Australian author of short   
   fiction since 1980 -- some stories collected as _Borderline_ (1996) -- died   
   on 10 June aged 79. [JHW] One of the people I was very glad to meet on my   
   only visit to Australia.   
        _Allan Freeman_ (1937-2025), US film marketing executive whose   
   promotional campaigns included _The Stepford Wives_, _The Omen_, _Star   
   Wars_, _Superman_, _Monty Python's Life of Brian_ and _The Shining_, died   
   on 6 June aged 88. [AIP]   
        _Jose Luis Galicia_ (1930-2025), Spanish set decorator/production   
   designer whose nearly 200 films include _Satanik_ (1968), _The Night of the   
   Devils_ (1972) and _Count Dracula's Great Love_ (1973), died on 5 June aged   
   95. [SJ]   
        _Lynn Hamilton_ (1930-2025), US actress in _Brother John_ (1971),   
   _Baby's Breath_ (2003) and genre tv series, died on 19 June aged 95. [SJ]   
        _Prentis Hancock_ (1942-2025), UK actor in various _Doctor Who_ series   
   (1970-1978), _Space: 1999_ (1975-1976), _The Monster Club_ (1981), _Jekyll   
   & Hyde_ (1990) and others, died on 30 May aged 83. [SJ]   
        _Rick Hurst_ (1946-2025), US actor in _The Cat from Outer Space_   
   (1978), _Earth Girls Are Easy_ (1988), _Venomous_ (2001) and _Return of the   
   Killer Shrews_ (2012) died on 26 June aged 79. [SJ]   
        _Clifton Jones_ (1937-2025), Jamaican actor in _Space: 1999_ (23   
   episodes 1975-1976), _1990_ (6 episodes 1997) and _Watership Down_ (1978),   
   died on 4 June aged 87. [SJ]   
        _Jonathan Joss_ (1965-2025), US actor in _The Forever Purge_ (2021)   
   and _Abduction of the Fourth Kind_ (2022) -- plus voice work in sf   
   videogames -- was shot and killed by a Texas neighbour on 1 June; he was   
   59. [LP]   
        _Pik Sen Lim_ (1944-2025), Malaysian-born UK actress in _Maleficent:   
   Mistress of Evil_ (2019) and genre tv series including _Doctor Who_ (1971)   
   and _Vampire Academy_ (2022), died on 9 June aged 80. [SJ]   
        _Barry B. Longyear_ (1942-2025), popular US author who began to   
   publish sf in 1978, won the 1980 John W. Campbell award as best new writer,   
   and received Hugo, Locus and Nebula awards for his 1979 novella 'Enemy   
   Mine', died on 6 May aged 82. [RJS] That best-known story was filmed as   
   _Enemy Mine_ (1985), which he deprecated.   
        _Valerie Mahaffey_ (1953-2025), US actress in _The Lost Souls_ (1993,   
   based on Kipling's 'They'), _Witch Hunt_ (1994) and _The Witch Files_   
   (2018), died on 30 May aged 71. [SJ]   
        _Beans Morocco_ (Dan Barrows,1934-2025), US actor in _Where Have All   
   the People Gone?_ (1974), _Once Bitten_ (1985), _Wes Craven's New   
   Nightmare_ (1994) and others, died on 29 May aged 90. [SG]   
        _Susan Beth Pfeffer_ (1948-2025), US author of many children's/YA   
   books including the bestselling post-disaster sf sequence opening with   
   _Life as We Knew It_ (2006), died on 23 June aged 77. [AIP]   
        _Chris Robinson_ (1938-2025), US actor in _Beast from Haunted Cave_   
   (1959, as the Beast), _Sweet, Sweet Rachel_ (1971) and others, died on 9   
   June aged 86. [SJ]   
        _Gailard Sartain_ (1943-2025), US tv horror host and actor in   
   _Wishman_ (1992), _Sandman_ (1993), _Existo_ (1999) and the Laurel & Hardy   
   tribute _For Love or Mummy_ (1999, as Hardy), died on 19 June aged 81. [SJ]   
        _Lalo Schifrin_ (1932-2025), Argentinian composer whose many music   
   credits include _Mission: Impossible_ (1966-1973), _The President's   
   Analyst_ (1967), _The Cat From Outer Space_ (1978), _Return from Witch   
   Mountain_ (1978), _The Amityville Horror_ (1979 plus sequel) and _Back to   
   the Planet of the Apes_ (1980), died on 26 June aged 93. [LP]   
        _David Schleinkofer_ (1951-2025), US artist who produced many sf book   
   covers from 1976 to the 1990s, died on 20 April aged 74. [L]   
        _Jim Shooter_ (1951-2025), US comics writer, penciller, editor and   
   publisher who first worked for DC in the mid-1960s, was the successful   
   though often controversial editor-in-chief at Marvel 1978-1987, and went on   
      
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