Gardner Raymond Dozois ( ; July 23, 1947 – May 27, 2018) was an

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and

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. He was the founding editor of ''The Year's Best Science Fiction'' anthologies (1984–2018) and was editor of ''

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'' magazine (1986–2004), garnering multiple

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and

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s for those works almost every year. He also won the

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twice. He was inducted to the Science Fiction Hall of Fame on June 25, 2011.

Biography

Dozois was born July 23, 1947, in

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. He graduated from Salem High School with the Class of 1965. From 1966 to 1969 he served in the

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as a journalist, after which he moved to New York City to work as an editor in the science fiction field. One of his stories had been published by

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in the September 1966 issue of '' If'' but his next four appeared in 1970, three in

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's anthology series ''

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''. Dozois said that he turned to reading fiction partially as an escape from the provincialism of his home town. He was badly injured in a taxi accident after returning from a

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game in 2004 (causing him to miss

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for the first time in many years) but made a full recovery. On July 6, 2007, Dozois had surgery for a planned quintuple bypass operation. A week later, he experienced complications which prompted additional surgery to implant a

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. Dozois died on May 27, 2018, of a systemic infection at a hospital in Philadelphia at the age of 70.

Fiction

As a writer, Dozois mainly worked in shorter forms. He won the

twice: once for " The Peacemaker" in 1983, and again 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), ''Strange Days'' (2001, another best-of collection), ''Morning Child and Other Stories'' (2004) and ''When the Great Days Come'' (2011). As a novelist, Dozois's oeuvre is significantly smaller. He was the author of one solo novel, ''Strangers'' (1978), as well as a collaboration with

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, ''Nightmare Blue'' (1977), and a collaboration with

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and Daniel Abraham for '' Hunter's Run'' (2008). After becoming editor of ''Asimov's'', Dozois's fiction output dwindled. His 2006 novelette "Counterfactual" won the

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for best alternate-history short story. Dozois also wrote short fiction reviews for ''

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''.

Michael Swanwick Michael Swanwick (born 18 November 1950) is an American fantasy and science fiction author who began publishing in the early 1980s. Writing career Swanwick's fiction writing began with short stories, starting in 1980 when he published "Ginungagap ...

, one of his co-authors, completed a long interview with Dozois covering every published piece of his fiction. ''Being Gardner Dozois: An Interview by Michael Swanwick'' was published by

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in 2001. It won the

for Non-Fiction and was a finalist for the

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Editorial work

Dozois was known primarily as an editor, winning the

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15 times in 17 years from 1988 to his retirement from ''Asimov's'' in 2004.

described him as the most important and influential editor in science fiction since

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. In addition to his work with ''Asimov's'' (of which he was the first associate editor in 1976), he also worked in the 1970s with magazines such as ''

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'', '' If'', ''

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'', and ''

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''. Dozois was also a prolific short fiction anthologist. After resigning from his ''Asimov's'' position, he remained the editor of the anthology series ''

The Year's Best Science Fiction ''The Year's Best Science Fiction'' was a series of science fiction anthology, anthologies edited by American Gardner Dozois until his death in 2018. The series, which is unrelated to the similarly titled and themed ''Year's Best SF'', was publish ...

'', 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

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, he edited a long series of themed anthologies, each with a self-explanatory title such as ''Cats'', ''Dinosaurs'', ''Seaserpents'', or ''

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''. Stories selected by Gardner Dozois for the annual best-of-year volumes have won, as of December 2015, 44 Hugos, 41 Nebulas, 32

, 10 World Fantasy and 18 Sturgeon Awards. That also includes the Dutton series (Dozois volumes only). Dozois consistently expressed a particular interest in adventure SF and

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, which he collectively referred to as "center-core SF".

Bibliography

Fiction

Novels

*''Nightmare Blue'' (with

) (1975, ) * ''Strangers'' (1978, ) *'' Hunter's Run'' (2008, ) (with George R. R. Martin and Daniel Abraham) *''City Under the Stars'' (2020, ) (with Michael Swanwick)

Collections

*''The Visible Man'' (1977, ) *''Slow Dancing Through Time'' (1990, ) *''Geodesic Dreams'' (1992, ) *''Strange Days: Fabulous Journeys with Gardner Dozois'' (2001, ) *''Morning Child and Other Stories'' (2004, ) *''When the Great Days Come'' (2011, )

Short stories

*"A Special Kind of Morning" (1971) *" Chains of the Sea" (1971) *"Machines of Loving Grace" (1972) *"A Traveler in an Antique Land" (1983) *" The Peacemaker" (1983) (

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winner) *" Morning Child" (1984) (

winner) *"A Knight of Ghosts and Shadows" (1999) *"The Hanging Curve" (''

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'', April 2002) *"When the Great Days Came" (''

'', Dec 2005) *"Shadow Twin" (2005) (with

and Daniel Abraham) *"Counterfactual" (''

'', June 2006) *"Neanderthals" (''

'', Jan/Feb 2018)

Anthologies

;Edited by Gardner Dozois *''A Day in the Life'' (1972, ) *''Future Power'' (1976, ASIN B000H75MWC) (co-edited with

) *''Another World: Adventures in Otherness'' (1977, ) *''Ripper'' (1988, ) (co-edited with

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) *'' Modern Classics of Science Fiction'' (1992, ) *''Future Earths: Under African Skies'' (1993, ) (co-edited with

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) *''Future Earths: Under South American Skies'' (1993, ) (co-edited with

) *'' Modern Classic Short Novels of Science Fiction'' (1994, ) *'' Mammoth Book of Contemporary SF Masters'' (1994, ) *''Killing Me Softly'' (1995, ASIN B000OEN80G) *''Dying for It'' (1997, ASIN B000H40WZC) *''

Modern Classics of Fantasy ''Modern Classics of Fantasy'' is an anthology of fantasy short works edited by American writer Gardner Dozois. It was first published in hardcover by St. Martin's Griffin in January 1997, which also issued a trade paperback edition in November o ...

'' (1997, ) *'' Roads Not Taken: Tales of Alternate History'' (1998, ) (co-edited with

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) *'' The Good Old Stuff: Adventure SF in the Grand Tradition'' (1998, ) *'' The Good New Stuff: Adventure SF in the Grand Tradition'' (1999, ) *''Explorers: SF Adventures to Far Horizons'' (2000, ) *''The Furthest Horizon: SF Adventures to the Far Future'' (2000, ) *''Worldmakers: SF Adventures in Terraforming'' (2001, ) *''Supermen: Tales of the Posthuman Future'' (2002, ) *''Galileo's Children: Tales of Science vs. Superstition'' (2005, ) *'' One Million A.D.'' (2005, ) *'' Nebula Awards Showcase 2006'' (2006, ) *''Escape From Earth: New Adventures in Space'' (2006, ) (co-edited with Jack Dann) *'' Wizards: Magical Tales from the Masters of Modern Fantasy'' (2007, ) (co-edited with Jack Dann) *'' The New Space Opera'' (2007, ) (co-edited with

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) *''

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'' (2007) *''

The New Space Opera 2 ''The New Space Opera 2'' is a science fiction anthology edited by Gardner Dozois and Jonathan Strahan. It was published in 2009, and includes all original stories selected to represent the genre of space opera. Five of the stories in the book we ...

'' (2009, ) (co-edited with

) *'' The Book of Swords'' (2017) *''The Book of Magic'' (2018) ;Cross-genre anthologies co-edited by Dozois and Martin *''

Songs of the Dying Earth ''Songs of the Dying Earth: Stories in Honor of Jack Vance'' is a collection of short fiction and shorter essays composed in appreciation of the science fiction and fantasy author Jack Vance, especially his ''Dying Earth'' series. Edited by Georg ...

'', a tribute anthology to

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's seminal ''

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'' series, published by

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(co-edited with

) (2009) *''

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'', a cross-genre anthology featuring stories about war and warriors (co-edited with George R. R. Martin) (2010);

*''

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'', a cross-genre anthology featuring stories of romance in fantasy and science fiction settings (co-edited with George R. R. Martin) (2010) *''

Down These Strange Streets ''Down These Strange Streets'' is an urban fantasy anthology edited by George R. R. Martin and Gardner Dozois and released on October 4, 2011. Contents * “The Bastard Stepchild” (Introduction) by George R. R. Martin * “Death by Dahlia” ...

'', a cross-genre anthology featuring stories of private-eye detectives in fantasy and science fiction settings (co-edited with George R. R. Martin)"Another Monkey Off My Back"
. September 30, 2010. George R. R. Martin (blog). Retrieved 2013-04-22. (November 2011) *''

Old Mars ''Old Mars'' is a "retro Mars science fiction"-themed anthology edited by George R. R. Martin and Gardner Dozois, published on October 8, 2013. According to the publisher Tor Books, the collection celebrates the "Golden Age of Science Fiction", a ...

'', an anthology featuring new stories about Mars in retro-SF vein (co-edited with George R. R. Martin) (2013); Locus Award *'' Dangerous Women'', a cross-genre anthology featuring stories about women warriors (co-edited with George R. R. Martin) (2013) *''

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'', a cross-genre anthology featuring stories about assorted rogues (co-edited with George R. R. Martin) (2014) *''

Old Venus ''Old Venus'' is a "retro Venus science fiction"-themed anthology edited by George R. R. Martin and Gardner Dozois, that was published on March 3, 2015. All of the stories are set on the planet Venus as styled in the pre-space probe pulp magazin ...

'', an anthology featuring new stories about Venus in retro-SF vein (co-edited with George R. R. Martin) (2015) ;Themed anthology series co-edited by Dozois and Dann ''Formerly known as "Magic Tales Anthology Series" until 1995; most released under the Ace imprint.'' *''

Aliens! ''Aliens!'' is a themed anthology of science fiction short works edited by American writers Gardner Dozois and Jack Dann, the first in a series of themed anthologies. It was first published in paperback by Pocket Books in April 1980. Subsequent vo ...

'' (April 1980, Pocket Books, ) *''

Unicorns! ''Unicorns!'' is a themed anthology of fantasy short works edited by American writers Jack Dann and Gardner Dozois, first published in 1982. Their follow-up anthology, ''Unicorns II'', debuted ten years later in 1992. ''Unicorns!'' It was first ...

'' (May 1982, ) *''

Magicats! ''Magicats!'' is a themed anthology of fantasy short works edited by Jack Dann and Gardner Dozois. It was first published in paperback by Ace Books in June 1984. It was reissued as an ebook by Baen Books in March 2013. It has also been translated i ...

'' (June 1984, ) *'' Bestiary!'' (October 1985, ) *'' Mermaids!'' (January 1986, ) *''

Sorcerers! ''Sorcerers!'' is a themed anthology of science fiction short works edited by Jack Dann and Gardner Dozois. It was first published in paperback by Ace Books in October 1986. It was reissued as an ebook by Baen Books in July 2013. The book collect ...

'' (October 1986, ) *'' Demons!'' (July 1987, ) *'' Dogtales!'' (September 1988, ) *'' Seaserpents!'' (December 1989, ) *'' Dinosaurs!'' (June 1990, ) *'' Little People!'' (March 1991, ) *'' Magicats II'' (December 1991, ) *'' Unicorns II'' (November 1992, ) *'' Dragons!'' (August 1993, ) *''

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'' (December 1993, ) *''

Horses! ''Horses!'' is a themed anthology of science fiction and fantasy short works edited by Jack Dann and Gardner Dozois. It was first published in paperback by Ace Books in May 1994. It was reissued as an ebook by Baen Books in July 2013. The book c ...

'' (May 1994, ) *''

Angels! ''Angels!'' is a themed anthology of fantasy short works edited by Jack Dann and Gardner Dozois. It was first published in paperback by Ace Books in June 1995. It was reissued as an ebook by Baen Books in June 2013. The book collects fourteen n ...

'' (June 1995, ) *'' Dinosaurs II'' (December 1995, ) *''

'' (October 1996, ) *'' Timegates'' (March 1997, ) *''

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'' (April 1998, ) *''

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'' (July 1998, ) *''

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'' (December 1998, ) *''

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'' (August 1999, ) *'' Armageddons'' (November 1999, ) *'' Aliens Among Us'' (June 2000, ) *'' Genometry'' (January 2001, ) *'' Space Soldiers'' (April 2001, ) *'' Future Sports'' (June 2002, ) *'' Beyond Flesh'' (December 2002, ) *'' Future Crimes'' (December 2003, ) *'' A.I.s'' (December 2004, ) *''

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'' (August 2005, ) *'' Beyond Singularity'' (December 2005, ) *'' Escape from Earth'' (August 2006, Science Fiction Book Club, ) *''

Futures Past ''Futures Past'' (2006, ) is a science fiction anthology edited by American writers Jack Dann and Gardner Dozois. It was published in 2006, and includes stories on the theme of "futures past" that were originally published from 1956 to 2004. It i ...

'' (November 2006, ) *'' Dangerous Games'' (April 2007, ) *'' Wizards'' (May 2007, ) *''The Dragon Book'' (November 2009, ) ;Anthologies co-edited by Dozois and

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* '' Multiverse: Exploring Poul Anderson's Worlds'' (2014) ;"Isaac Asimov's" anthology series *''Transcendental Tales from Isaac Asimov's Science Fiction Magazine'' (1989, ) *''Time Travelers from Isaac Asimov's Science Fiction Magazine'' (1989, ) *''Isaac Asimov's Robots'' (1991, ) (co-edited with

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edited the first five volumes. That series ended in 1981.

Nonfiction

*''The Fiction of James Tiptree, Jr.'' (1977, ) *''Writing Science Fiction & Fantasy'' (1993, ) (co-edited with Stanley Schmidt and Sheila Williams)

Critical studies and reviews of Dozois' work

;''Old Venus *

References

External links

;Interviews
The SF Site: A Conversation with Gardner Dozois
(excerpt) ;Other * *

, Philcon 97 Program Book, copy at Michael Swanwick Online
Gardner Dozois at Asimovs.com
*, SFWA Recommended Reading Lists, no date – "devised to direct younger readers to older stuff"

at ''Free Speculative Fiction Online''
Gardner Dozois
at

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Authorities – with 96 catalog records {{DEFAULTSORT:Dozois, Gardner 1947 births 2018 deaths Writers from Salem, Massachusetts Military personnel from Massachusetts 20th-century American novelists 21st-century American novelists American male novelists American science fiction writers Science fiction editors Hugo Award-winning editors Nebula Award winners Science Fiction Hall of Fame inductees Sidewise Award winners American male short story writers 20th-century American short story writers 21st-century American short story writers American speculative fiction editors 20th-century American male writers 21st-century American male writers Male speculative fiction editors Salem High School (Massachusetts) alumni

Biography

Fiction

Editorial work

Bibliography

Fiction

Novels

Collections

Short stories

Anthologies

Nonfiction

Critical studies and reviews of Dozois' work

See also

References

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