Gordon Van Gelder
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Gordon Van Gelder (born 1966) is an American science fiction editor. As of 2005, Van Gelder is both editor and publisher of The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction. He was also a managing editor of The New York Review of Science Fiction from 1988 to 1993, for which he was nominated for the Hugo Award a number of times.
After graduating from Princeton University (where he edited a science fiction magazine called Infinity), Van Gelder started working as an editorial assistant at St. Martin's Press in 1988, later as an editor. In January 1997, he became the editor of The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction upon the resignation of Kristine Kathryn Rusch. He continued working at St. Martin's until October of 2000, when he bought the magazine from Edward L. Ferman to become its publisher.
During his tenure, F&SF became the second most prolific science fiction magazine, surpassing Amazing Stories in total number of issues published. It is exceeded only by Analog. Van Gelder also began focusing on the publication of themed anthologies drawing from the magazine's back list rather than the best-of annuals published when Ferman was the magazine's publisher.
Van Gelder has worked some behind-the-scenes changes and F&SF. While the Fermans published the magazine through Mercury Press, Van Gelder founded his own press, Spilogale Inc, named for a genus of spotted skunk. He has also moved the editorial offices from New York City to Jersey City, New Jersey.
[edit] Family
Lawrence Van Gelder, an uncle of Van Gelder, is a senior editor at The New York Times.
Van Gelder is also distantly related to noted Jazz recording engineer Rudy Van Gelder [1].
[edit] External links
- Interview at Green Man Review (late 1997 or early 1998?)
- Interview at Science Fiction Weekly (2001)
- Interview at Strange Horizons (May 2003)
