Gardner Dozois

**Gardner Raymond Dozois** (July 23, 1947 &ndash; 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.

## Works
### 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)

## Notes
## 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