Gardner Dozois
Dozois atClarion West Writers Workshop,Seattle, 1998
Born	Gardner Raymond Dozois[1] July 23, 1947 Salem, Massachusetts, U.S.
Died	May 27, 2018(2018-05-27) (aged 70) Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, U.S.
Occupation	Editor, writer
Period	1970–2018[1]
Genre	Science fiction magazines,anthologies, short fiction
Notable works	Asimov's Science Fiction
Spouse	Susan Casper (m. c. 1970 – 2017, her death)

Gardner Raymond Dozois (/doʊˈzwɑː/doh-ZWAH; July 23, 1947 – May 27, 2018) was an Americanscience fictionauthor andeditor. He was the founding editor ofThe Year's Best Science Fiction anthologies (1984–2018) and was editor ofAsimov's Science Fiction (1986–2004), garnering multipleHugo andLocus Awards for those works almost every year. He also won theNebula Award for Best Short Story twice.^[2] He was inducted to theScience Fiction Hall of Fame on June 25, 2011.^[3]

Dozois was born July 23, 1947, inSalem, Massachusetts.^[4] He graduated fromSalem High School with the Class of 1965. From 1966 to 1969 he served in theArmy 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 byFrederik Pohl in the September 1966 issue ofIf but his next four appeared in 1970, three inDamon Knight's anthology seriesOrbit.^[1]

Dozois said that he turned to reading fiction partially as an escape from the provincialism of his home town.^{[citation needed]}

He was badly injured in a taxi accident after returning from aPhiladelphia Phillies game in 2004 (causing him to missWorldcon for the first time in many years) but made a full recovery. On July 6, 2007, Dozois had surgery for a plannedquintuple bypass operation. A week later, he experienced complications which prompted additional surgery to implant adefibrillator.^{[citation needed]}

Dozois died on May 27, 2018, of a systemic infection at a hospital in Philadelphia at the age of 70.^[5]

As a writer, Dozois mainly worked in shorter forms. He won theNebula Award for Best Short Story twice: once for "The Peacemaker [fr]" in 1983, and again for "Morning Child" in 1984. His short fiction has been collected inThe 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) andWhen 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 withGeorge Alec Effinger,Nightmare Blue (1977), and a collaboration withGeorge R. R. Martin andDaniel Abraham forHunter's Run (2008). After he became editor ofAsimov's, Dozois's fiction output dwindled. His 2006 novelette "Counterfactual" won theSidewise Award for Alternate History. Dozois also wrote short fiction reviews forLocus.

Michael Swanwick, 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 byOld Earth Books in 2001.^[6] It won theLocus Award for Non-Fiction and was a finalist for theHugo Award for Best Related Work.^[7]

Dozois was known primarily as an editor, winning theHugo Award for Best Professional Editor 15 times in 17 years from 1988 to his retirement fromAsimov's in 2004.^[2]George R. R. Martin described him as the most important and influential editor in science fiction sinceJohn W. Campbell.^[8] In addition to his work withAsimov's (of which he was the first associate editor in 1976), he also worked in the 1970s with magazines such asGalaxy Science Fiction,If,Worlds of Fantasy, andWorlds of Tomorrow.^[4]

Dozois was also a prolific short fiction anthologist. After resigning from hisAsimov's position, he remained the editor of the anthology seriesThe Year's Best Science Fiction, published annually since 1984. In three decadesLocus readers have voted it the year's best anthology almost 20 times and the runner-up almost 10 times.^[2] And, withJack Dann, he edited a long series of themed anthologies, each with a self-explanatory title such asCats,Dinosaurs,Seaserpents, orHackers.

Stories selected by Gardner Dozois for the annual best-of-year volumes have won, as of December 2015, 44Hugos, 41Nebulas, 32Locus, 10World Fantasy and 18Sturgeon Awards. That also includes the Dutton series (Dozois volumes only).

Dozois consistently expressed a particular interest in adventure SF andspace opera, which he collectively referred to as "center-core SF".^[9]

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• Nightmare Blue (withGeorge Alec Effinger) (1975,ISBN 978-0-425-02819-3)
• Strangers (1978,ISBN 978-0-399-12095-4)
• Hunter's Run (2008,ISBN 978-0-06-137329-9) (with George R. R. Martin and Daniel Abraham)
• City Under the Stars (2020,ISBN 978-1250756589) (with Michael Swanwick)

• The Visible Man (1977,ISBN 978-0-425-03595-5)
• Slow Dancing Through Time (1990,ISBN 978-0942681031)
• Geodesic Dreams (1992,ISBN 978-0-312-08197-3)
• Strange Days: Fabulous Journeys with Gardner Dozois (2001,ISBN 978-1-886778-26-9)
• Morning Child and Other Stories (2004,ISBN 978-0-7434-9318-5)
• When the Great Days Come (2011,ISBN 978-1-60701-278-8)

• The Empty Man (1966)
• The Sound of Muzak (1970)
• Wires (1971)
• Conditioned Reflex (1972)
• King Harvest (1972)
• Flying (1973)
• In A Crooked Year (1973)
• The Sacrifice (1982)
• Virgin Territory (1984)
• The City of God (1995) (withMichael Swanwick)
• Sunk Beneath the Waves (2013)
• The Place of Bones (2016)
• A Dog's Story (2017)
• Unstoppable (2018)
• Homecoming (2019)

Edited by Gardner Dozois

co-edited by Dozois andSusan Casper

• Ripper (1988,ISBN 978-0-8125-1700-2) (co-edited withSusan Casper)

co-edited by Dozois and Mike Resnick

• Future Earths: Under African Skies (1993,ISBN 978-0-88677-544-5) (co-edited withMike Resnick)
• Future Earths: Under South American Skies (1993,ISBN 978-0-88677-581-0) (co-edited withMike Resnick)

co-edited by Dozois andStanley Schmidt

• Roads Not Taken: Tales of Alternate History (1998,ISBN 978-0-345-42194-4) (co-edited withStanley Schmidt)

co-edited by Dozois andJonathan Strahan

• The New Space Opera (2007,ISBN 978-0-06-084675-6) (co-edited withJonathan Strahan)
• The New Space Opera 2 (2009,ISBN 978-0-06-156235-8) (co-edited withJonathan Strahan)

co-edited by Dozois andGreg Bear

• Multiverse: Exploring Poul Anderson's Worlds (2014) (co-edited withGreg Bear)

Cross-genre anthologies co-edited by Dozois andGeorge R. R. Martin

• Songs of the Dying Earth, a tribute anthology toJack Vance's seminalDying Earth series, published bySubterranean Press (2009)
• Warriors, a cross-genre anthology featuring stories about war and warriors (2010)
• Songs of Love and Death, a cross-genre anthology featuring stories of romance in fantasy and science fiction settings (2010)
• Down These Strange Streets, a cross-genre anthology featuring stories of private-eye detectives in fantasy and science fiction settings (November 2011)
• Old Mars, an anthology featuring new stories about Mars in retro-SF vein (2013)
• Dangerous Women, a cross-genre anthology featuring stories about women warriors (2013)
• Rogues, a cross-genre anthology featuring stories about assorted rogues (2014)
• Old Venus, an anthology featuring new stories about Venus in retro-SF vein (2015)

Themed anthology series co-edited by Dozois and Jack Dann

"Isaac Asimov's" anthology series

The Year's Best Science Fiction series

Dozois also edited volumes six through ten of theBest Science Fiction Stories of the Year series afterLester del Rey edited the first five volumes. That series began in 1972 and ended in 1981.

• 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)
• Sense of Wonder: Short Fiction Reviews (2009-2017) (2018)

Old Venus

• Sakers, Don (May 2015). "The Reference Library".Analog Science Fiction and Fact.135 (5):104–107.

Interviews

• The SF Site: A Conversation with Gardner Dozois
• Locus Online: Gardner Dozois Interview (excerpt)

Other

• Gardner Dozois at theInternet Speculative Fiction Database
• "Gardner Dozois biography".Science Fiction and Fantasy Hall of Fame.
• Profile of Gardner DozoisArchived October 13, 2016, at theWayback Machine, Philcon 97 Program Book, copy at Michael Swanwick Online
• Gardner Dozois at Asimovs.com
• Gardner Dozois's Recommended Reading List at theWayback Machine (archived January 25, 2008), SFWA Recommended Reading Lists, no date – "devised to direct younger readers to older stuff"
• Gardner Dozois's online fiction atFree Speculative Fiction Online
• Gardner Dozois atLibrary of Congress Authorities – with 96 catalog records

• 1947 births
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• Writers from Salem, Massachusetts
• Military personnel from Massachusetts
• 20th-century American novelists
• 21st-century American novelists
• American male novelists
• American science fiction writers
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• Hugo Award–winning editors
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• Sidewise Award winners
• American male short story writers
• 20th-century American short story writers
• 21st-century American short story writers
• 20th-century American male writers
• 21st-century American male writers
• American speculative fiction editors
• Salem High School (Massachusetts) alumni

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