Gardner Dozois

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Gardner Dozois (born July 23, 1947) is an American science fiction author and editor. He was editor of Asimov's Science Fiction magazine from 1984 to 2004.

Gardner Dozois, 1998.

1 Biography
2 Fiction of Gardner Dozois (partial list)
3 Anthologies edited by Gardner Dozois (partial list)
4 External links

[edit] Biography

Front cover of Michael Swanwick's book-length interview with Dozois, Being Gardner Dozois.

A subtle writer with a distinctive prose style who has mainly worked in shorter forms, he has won the Nebula Award for best short story twice -- for "The Peacemaker" in 1983, and for "Morning Child" in 1984. His short fiction has been collected in The Visible Man (1977), Geodesic Dreams (a best-of collection), Slow Dancing through Time (1990, collaborations), and Strange Days (2001, another best-of collection).

A solo novel, Strangers (1978), and a collaboration with George Alec Effinger, Nightmare Blue (1977), represent his novel-length output. After becoming editor of Asimov's, Dozois's fiction output dwindled, but he is now making a comeback.

Dozois has won a record 15 Hugo Awards for Best Professional Editor, having won nearly every year between 1988 and his retirement from Asimov's in 2004.

Dozois is a well-known short fiction anthologist. After resigning from his Asimov's gig, he still remains the editor of the anthology series The Year's Best Science Fiction, published annually since 1984. 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.

Michael Swanwick, with whom Dozois has collaborated on fiction, published a book-length interview with him in 2001. Titled Being Gardner Dozois, it covered each published piece of fiction Dozois ever wrote.

Dozois grew up in Salem, Massachusetts and has said that he turned to reading fiction partially as an escape from the city's provincialism. He became active in the science fiction community after serving a stint in the Army. He currently lives in Philadelphia. He was badly injured in a taxi accident after returning from a Philadelphia Phillies game in 2004 (causing him to miss Worldcon for the first time in many years) but made a full recovery.

[edit] Fiction of Gardner Dozois (partial list)

"A Special Kind of Morning" (1971)
"Chains of the Sea" (1971)
"Machines of Loving Grace" (1972)
Nightmare Blue (with George Alec Effinger) (1977)
The Visible Man (collection) (1977)
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)
Geodesic Dreams (collection) (1992)
"A Knight of Ghosts and Shadows" (1999)
Morning Child and Other Stories (collection) (2004)
"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)

[edit] Anthologies edited by Gardner Dozois (partial list)

Hackers (1996) (edited with Jack Dann)
Armageddons (1999) (edited with Jack Dann)
Future War (1999, ISBN 0-441-00639-6) (edited with Jack Dann)
Space Soldiers (2001, ISBN 0-441-00824-0) (edited with Jack Dann)
Supermen: Tales of the Posthuman Future (2002)
Galileo's Children: Tales of Science vs. Superstition (2005)
One Million AD (2005)
Nebula Awards Showcase 2006 (2006)

Year's Best Science Fiction Series

The Year's Best Science Fiction: First Annual Collection (1984)
The Year's Best Science Fiction: Second Annual Collection (1985)
The Year's Best Science Fiction: Third Annual Collection (1986)
The Year's Best Science Fiction: Fourth Annual Collection (1987)
The Year's Best Science Fiction: Fifth Annual Collection (1988)
The Year's Best Science Fiction: Sixth Annual Collection (1989)
The Year's Best Science Fiction: Seventh Annual Collection (1990)
The Year's Best Science Fiction: Eighth Annual Collection (1991)
The Year's Best Science Fiction: Ninth Annual Collection (1992)
The Year's Best Science Fiction: Tenth Annual Collection (1993)
The Year's Best Science Fiction: Eleventh Annual Collection (1994)
The Year's Best Science Fiction: Twelfth Annual Collection (1995)
The Year's Best Science Fiction: Thirteenth Annual Collection (1996)
The Year's Best Science Fiction: Fourteenth Annual Collection (1997)
The Year's Best Science Fiction: Fifteenth Annual Collection (1998)
The Year's Best Science Fiction: Sixteenth Annual Collection (1999)
The Year's Best Science Fiction: Seventeenth Annual Collection (2000)
The Year's Best Science Fiction: Eighteenth Annual Collection (2001)
The Year's Best Science Fiction: Nineteenth Annual Collection (2002)
The Year's Best Science Fiction: Twentieth Annual Collection (2003)
The Year's Best Science Fiction: Twenty-First Annual Collection (2004)
Best of the Best: 20 Years of the Year's Best Science Fiction (2005) (Anthology from previous Year's Best Science Fiction editions)
The Year's Best Science Fiction: Twenty-Second Annual Collection (2005)
The Year's Best Science Fiction: Twenty-Third Annual Collection (2006)