page_title: David G. Hartwell
section_title: Awards and other achievements
hierarchical_section_title: David G. Hartwell / Awards and other achievements
caption_attribution_description: David Hartwell, 2008
context_page_description: David Geddes Hartwell was an American critic, publisher, and editor of thousands of science fiction and fantasy novels. He was best known for work with Signet, Pocket, and Tor Books publishers. He was also noted as an award-winning editor of anthologies. The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction describes him as "perhaps the single most influential book editor of the past forty years in the American [science fiction] publishing world".
context_section_description: Hartwell edited two annual anthologies: Year's Best SF, started in 1996 and co-edited with Kathryn Cramer since 2002, and Year's Best Fantasy, co-edited with Cramer from 2001 through 2010.  Both anthologies have consistently placed in the top 10 of the Locus annual reader poll in the category of Best Anthology.  In 1988, he won the World Fantasy Award in the category Best Anthology for The Dark Descent.
  Hartwell was nominated for the Hugo Award forty-one times, nineteen in the category of Best Professional Editor and Best Editor Long Form, winning in 2006, 2008 and 2009, and twenty-two times as editor/publisher of The New York Review of Science Fiction.  He has also placed in the top ten in the Locus poll for best editor for twenty-seven consecutive years, every year from the award category's inception to the present day. He edited the best-novel Nebula Award-winners Timescape by Gregory Benford  (published 1980), The Claw of the Conciliator by Gene Wolfe (published 1981), and No Enemy But Time by Michael Bishop (published 1982), the best-novel Hugo Award-winner Hominids by Robert J. Sawyer (published 2002), and the World Fantasy Award-winning novels The Shadow of the Torturer by Gene Wolfe (1981) and The Dragon Waiting by John M. Ford (1984).
  Hartwell was a Guest of Honor at the 67th World Science Fiction Convention in Montreal in 2009.
  He was posthumously awarded the World Fantasy Life Achievement Award in October 2016.
caption: Hartwell in 2008
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