Gardner Dozois

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Gardner Dozois : biography

July 23, 1947 –

Gardner Raymond Dozois (born July 23, 1947) is an American science fiction author and editor. He is the founding editor of The Year’s Best Science Fiction anthologies (1984 – present) and was editor of Asimov’s Science Fiction magazine (1984 – 2004), garnering multiple Hugo and Locus Awards for those works almost every year. He has also won the Nebula Award for Best Short Story twice. He was inducted by the Science Fiction Hall of Fame on June 25, 2011.

Editorial work

Dozois is known primarily as an editor, winning the Hugo Award for Best Professional Editor 15 times in 17 years from 1988 to his retirement from Asimov’s in 2004. In addition to his work with Asimov’s (which he also co-founded in 1976), he also worked in the 1970s with magazines such as Galaxy Science Fiction, If, Worlds of Fantasy, and Worlds of Tomorrow.

Dozois is a well-known short fiction anthologist. After resigning from his Asimov’s position, he remained the editor of the anthology series The Year’s Best Science Fiction, published annually since 1984. In three decades Locus readers have voted it the year’s best anthology almost 20 times and the runner-up almost 10 times. And, with Jack Dann, he has edited a long series of themed anthologies, each with a self-explanatory title such as Cats, Dinosaurs, Seaserpents, or Hackers.

Dozois has consistently expressed a particular interest in adventure SF and space opera, which he collectively refers to as "center-core SF". by Dave Truesdale, Fantasy and Science Fiction, accessed Nov. 3, 2008.

Works as writer

Fiction

  • "A Special Kind of Morning" (1971)
  • "Chains of the Sea" (1971)
  • "Machines of Loving Grace" (1972)
  • A Day in the Life (1973, ISBN 978-0-06-080307-0)First Edition 1978 Library of Congress number 78-160655
  • Nightmare Blue (with George Alec Effinger) (1977, ISBN 978-0-00-614617-9)
  • The Visible Man (collection) (1977, ASIN B000GZU4C8)
  • Strangers (1978)
  • "A Traveler in an Antique Land" (1983)
  • "The Peacemaker" (1983) (Nebula Award winner)
  • "Morning Child" (1984) (Nebula Award winner)
  • Slow Dancing Through Time (collection) (1990, 978-0942681031)
  • Geodesic Dreams (collection) (1992, ISBN 978-0-441-00021-0)
  • "A Knight of Ghosts and Shadows" (1999)
  • Strange Days: Fabulous Journeys with Gardner Dozois (collection) (2001)
  • "The Hanging Curve" (F&SF, April 2002)
  • Morning Child and Other Stories (collection) (2004, ISBN 978-0-7434-9318-5)
  • "When the Great Days Came" (The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, Dec 2005)
  • Shadow Twin (2005) (with George R. R. Martin and Daniel Abraham)
  • "Counterfactual" (F&SF, June 2006)
  • Hunter’s Run (2008, ISBN 978-0-06-137329-9) (with George R. R. Martin and Daniel Abraham)
  • When the Great Days Come (collection) (2011)

Nonfiction

  • The Fiction of James Tiptree, Jr. (1977, ISBN 978-0-916186-04-3)
  • Writing Science Fiction & Fantasy (1993, ISBN 978-0-312-08926-9) (co-edited with Stanley Schmidt and Sheila Williams)

Selected anthologies edited by Gardner Dozois

  • Future Power (1976, ASIN B000H75MWC) (co-edited with Jack Dann)
  • Another World: Adventures in Otherness (1977, ISBN 978-0-695-40695-0)
  • Ripper (1988, ISBN 978-0-8125-1700-2) (co-edited with Susan Casper)
  • Modern Classics of Science Fiction (1992, ISBN 978-0-312-07238-4)
  • Future Earths: Under African Skies (1993, ISBN 978-0-88677-544-5) (co-edited with Mike Resnick)
  • Future Earths: Under South American Skies (1993, ISBN 978-0-88677-581-0) (co-edited with Mike Resnick)
  • Modern Classics: Short Novels of Science Fiction (1994, ISBN 978-0-312-10504-4)
  • Mammoth Book of Contemporary SF Masters (1994, ISBN 978-1-85487-297-5)
  • Killing Me Softly (1995, ASIN B000OEN80G)
  • Dying for It (1997, ASIN B000H40WZC)
  • Modern Classics of Fantasy (1997, ISBN 978-0-312-16931-2)
  • Roads Not Taken: Tales of Alternate History (1998, ISBN 978-0-345-42194-4) (co-edited with Stanley Schmidt)
  • The Good Old Stuff: Adventure SF in the Grand Tradition (1998, ISBN 978-0-312-19275-4)
  • The Good New Stuff: Adventure in SF in the Grand Tradition (1999, ISBN 978-0-312-19890-9)
  • Explorers: SF Adventures to Far Horizons (2000, ISBN 978-0-312-25462-9)
  • The Furthest Horizon: SF Adventures to the Far Future (2000, ISBN 978-0-312-26326-3)
  • Worldmakers: SF Adventures in Terraforming (2001, ISBN 978-0-312-27570-9)
  • Supermen: Tales of the Posthuman Future (2002, ISBN 978-0-312-27569-3)
  • Galileo’s Children: Tales of Science vs. Superstition (2005, ISBN 978-1-59102-315-9)
  • One Million A.D. (2005, ISBN 0-7394-6273-3)
  • Nebula Awards Showcase 2006 (2006, ISBN 978-0-451-46064-6)
  • Escape From Earth: New Adventures in Space (2006, ISBN 1-58288-225-8) (co-edited with Jack Dann)
  • Wizards: Magical Tales from the Masters of Modern Fantasy (2007, ISBN 978-0-425-21518-0) (co-edited with Jack Dann)
  • The New Space Opera (2007, ISBN 978-0-06-084675-6) (co-edited with Jonathan Strahan)
  • Galactic Empires (2007)
  • The New Space Opera 2 (2009, ISBN 978-0-06-156235-8) (co-edited with Jonathan Strahan)