Gardner Dozois

**Gardner Raymond Dozois** (July 23, 1947 – May 27, 2018) was an American science fiction writer and editor. He was editor of _Asimov's Science Fiction_ magazine from 1984 to 2004. He won several Hugo and Nebula awards. He won as an editor and as a writer of short fiction.

## Biography

Dozois was born on July 23, 1947 in Salem, Massachusetts. He was in the Army from 1966 to 1969 as a journalist. He then moved to New York City to work as a science fiction editor. Dozois said that one reason he started reading fiction was to escape from his isolated home town.

In 2004, Dozois was badly injured in a traffic accident while going home in a taxi from a Philadelphia Phillies game. He missed Worldcon for the first time in many years because of the accident. He did make a full recovery. On July 6, 2007, Dozois had a planned heart surgery. A week later, he experienced problems and had another operation to put in a defibrillator.

On May 27, 2018, Dozios died of multiple organ failure complicated by an infection at a hospital in Philadelphia at the age of 70.

## Fiction

Dozois mostly wrote short stories. He won the Nebula Award for best short story 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, with other authors), and _Strange Days_ (2001, another best-of collection). He wrote fewer novels. He wrote one novel by himself, _Strangers_ (1978). He wrote, _Nightmare Blue_ (1977) with George Alec Effinger. Dozois also wrote _Hunter's Run_ (2008) with George R. R. Martin and Daniel Abraham. After he became editor of _Asimov's_, Dozois wrote less fiction. Later, he began writing more. His 2006 novelette "Counterfactual" won the Sidewise Award for best alternate-history short story. Dozois also agreed to write short fiction reviews for _Locus_.

## Editorial work

Dozois mainly worked as an editor. He won 15 Hugo Awards for Best Professional Editor, nearly every year between 1988 and his retirement from _Asimov's_ in 2004. That is more than anyone else. He also worked in the 1970s with magazines such as _Galaxy Science Fiction_, _If_, _Worlds of Fantasy_, and _Worlds of Tomorrow_.

Dozois was well known for publishing books that collected many short stories. After leaving _Asimov's_, he continued as the editor of the series _The Year's Best Science Fiction_. This has been published each year since 1984. He also edited a long series of themed anthologies with Jack Dann. Each book has a title that explains the theme, such as _Cats_, _Dinosaurs_, _Seaserpents_, or _Hackers_.

Dozois always said he was especially interested in adventure science fiction and space opera. He calls these two sub-genre "center-core SF".

Michael Swanwick published a book-length interview with Dozois in 2001. The book was called _Being Gardner Dozois_. It was about each published piece of fiction Dozois ever wrote.  Swanwick had written some stories together with Dozois. In 2002, the interview was named as a possible Hugo Award for Best Related Book winner. It won the 2002 Locus Award for Non-Fiction.

### Fiction (This list is not complete)

- "A Special Kind of Morning" (1971)
- "Chains of the Sea" (1971)
- "Machines of Loving Grace" (1972)
- _A Day in the Life_ (1973, )First Edition 1978 Library of Congress number 78-160655
- _Nightmare Blue_ (with George Alec Effinger) (1977, )
- _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, )
- "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, )
- "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, ) (with George R. R. Martin and Daniel Abraham)

### Nonfiction

- _The Fiction of James Tiptree, Jr._ (1977, )
- _Writing Science Fiction & Fantasy_ (1993, ) (co-edited with Stanley Schmidt and Sheila Williams)

### Anthologies edited by Gardner Dozois (This list is not complete)

- _Future Power_ (1976, ) (co-edited with Jack Dann)
- _Another World: Adventures in Otherness_ (1977, )
- _Ripper_ (1988, ) (co-edited with Susan Casper)
- _Modern Classics of Science Fiction_ (1992, )
- _Future Earths: Under African Skies_ (1993, ) (co-edited with Mike Resnick)
- _Future Earths: Under South American Skies_ (1993, ) (co-edited with Mike Resnick)
- _Modern Classics: 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_ (1997, )
- _Roads Not Taken: Tales of Alternate History_ (1998, ) (co-edited with Stanley Schmidt)
- _The Good Old Stuff: Adventure SF in the Grand Tradition_ (1998, )
- _The Good New Stuff: Adventure in 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 Jonathan Strahan)
- _Galactic Empires_ (2007)
- _The New Space Opera 2_ (2009, ) (co-edited with Jonathan Strahan)

#### Anthologies co-edited by Dozois and Martin that mix genres

- _Songs of the Dying Earth_, a tribute anthology to Jack Vance´s seminal Dying Earth series, published by Subterranean Press (co-edited with George R. R. Martin) (2009)
- _Warriors_, a massive, cross-genre anthology featuring stories about war and warriors (co-edited with George R. R. Martin) (2010)
- _Songs of Love and Death_, 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_, a cross-genre anthology featuring stories of private-eye detectives in fantasy and science fiction settings (co-edited with George R. R. Martin) (forthcoming)

#### Themed anthology series co-edited by Dozois and Dann

- _Unicorns!_ (1982, ASIN B000LW2UHI) (co-edited with Jack Dann)
- _Bestiary!_ (1986, ) (co-edited with Jack Dann)
- _Mermaids!_ (1986, ) (co-edited with Jack Dann)
- _Sorcerers!_ (1986, ) (co-edited with Jack Dann)
- _Demons!_ (1987, ) (co-edited with Jack Dann)
- _Magicats!_ (1987, ) (co-edited with Jack Dann)
- _Dogtales!_ (1988, ) (co-edited with Jack Dann)
- _Seaserpents!_ (1989, ) (co-edited with Jack Dann)
- _Dinosaurs!_ (1990, ) (co-edited with Jack Dann)
- _Little People!_ (1990, ) (co-edited with Jack Dann)
- _Magicats II_ (1991, ) (co-edited with Jack Dann)
- _Unicorns II_ (1992, ) (co-edited with Jack Dann)
- _Dragons!_ (1993, ) (co-edited with Jack Dann)
- _Invaders!_ (1993, ) (co-edited with Jack Dann)
- _Horses!_ (1994, ) (co-edited with Jack Dann)
- _Angels!_ (1995, ) (co-edited with Jack Dann)
- _Dinosaurs II_ (1995, ) (co-edited with Jack Dann)
- _Hackers_ (1996, ) (co-edited with Jack Dann)
- _Timegates_ (1997, ) (co-edited with Jack Dann)
- _Clones_ (1998, ) (co-edited with Jack Dann)
- _Immortals_ (1998, ) (co-edited with Jack Dann)
- _Nanotech_ (1998, ) (co-edited with Jack Dann)
- _Armageddons_ (1999, ) (co-edited with Jack Dann)
- _Future War_ (1999, ) (co-edited with Jack Dann)
- _Aliens Among Us_ (2000, ) (co-edited with Jack Dann)
- _Genometry_ (2001, ) (co-edited with Jack Dann)
- _Space Soldiers_ (2001, ) (co-edited with Jack Dann)
- _Future Sports_ (2002, ) (co-edited with Jack Dann)
- _Beyond Flesh_ (2002, ) (co-edited with Jack Dann)
- _Future Crimes_ (2003, ) (co-edited with Jack Dann)
- _A.I.s_ (2004, ) (co-edited with Jack Dann)
- _Robots_ (2005, ) (co-edited with Jack Dann)
- _Beyond Singularity_ (2005, ) (co-edited with Jack Dann)
- _Futures Past_ (2006, ) (co-edited with Jack Dann)
- _Dangerous Games_ (2007, ) (co-edited with Jack Dann)
- _Wizards_ (2007) (co-edited with Jack Dann)

#### "Isaac Asimov's" 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 Sheila Williams)
- _Isaac Asimov's Aliens_ (1991, )
- _Isaac Asimov's Mars_ (1991, )
- _Isaac Asimov's Earth_ (1992, ) (co-edited with Sheila Williams)
- _Isaac Asimov's War_ (1993, )
- _Isaac Asimov's SF Lite_ (1993, )
- _Isaac Asimov's Cyberdreams_ (1994, ASIN B000HWNC5Q)
- _Isaac Asimov's Skin Deep_ (1995, ) (co-edited with Sheila Williams)
- _Isaac Asimov's Ghosts_ (1995, ) (co-edited with Sheila Williams)
- _Isaac Asimov's Vampires_ (1996, ) (co-edited with Sheila Williams)
- _Isaac Asimov's Moons_ (1997, ) (co-edited with Sheila Williams)
- _Isaac Asimov's Christmas_ (1997, ) (co-edited with Sheila Williams)
- _Isaac Asimov's Detectives_ (1998, ) (co-edited with Sheila Williams)
- _Isaac Asimov's Camelot_ (1998, ) (co-edited with Sheila Williams)
- _Isaac Asimov's Solar System_ (1999, ) (co-edited with Sheila Williams)
- _Isaac Asimov's Werewolves_ (1999, ) (co-edited with Sheila Williams)
- _Isaac Asimov's Valentines_ (1999, ) (co-edited with Sheila Williams)
- _Isaac Asimov's Halloween_ (1999, ) (co-edited with Sheila Williams)
- _Isaac Asimov's Utopias_ (2000, ) (co-edited with Sheila Williams)
- _Isaac Asimov's Mother's Day_ (2000, ) (co-edited with Sheila Williams)
- _Isaac Asimov's Father's Day_ (2001, ) (co-edited with Sheila Williams)

#### 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)
- _Best of the Best Volume 2: 20 Years of the Year's Best Short Science Fiction Novels_ (2007) (Anthology from previous _Year's Best Science Fiction_ editions)
- _The Year's Best Science Fiction: Twenty-Fourth Annual Collection_ (2007)
- _The Year's Best Science Fiction: Twenty-Fifth Annual Collection_ (2008)
- _The Year's Best Science Fiction: Twenty-Sixth Annual Collection_ (2009)
- _The Year's Best Science Fiction: Twenty-Seventh Annual Collection_ (2010)

## Other websites

- Gardner Dozois's online fiction  at _Free Speculative Fiction Online_
- Gardner Dozois at Asimovs.com
- The SF Site: A Conversation with Gardner Dozois
- Locus Online: Gardner Dozois Interview (excerpt)
- Gardner Dozois's Recommended Reading List (archived)
- Michael Swanwick Online: Profile of Gardner Dozois

## Infobox (writer)

- **name**: Gardner Dozois
- **image**: GardnerDozoisCW98 wb.jpg
- **imagesize**: 200px
- **caption**: Gardner Dozois
- **birth place**: Salem, Massachusetts, U.S.
- **death place**: Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, U.S.
- **occupation**: Editor, writer
- **nationality**: American
- **period**: 1966—2018