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Gardner Dozois
Dozois at Clarion West Writers Workshop, Seattle, 1998
BornGardner Raymond Dozois[1]
July 23, 1947
Salem, Massachusetts, U.S.
DiedMay 27, 2018(2018-05-27) (aged 70)
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, U.S.
OccupationEditor, writer
Period1970–2018[1]
GenreScience fiction magazines, anthologies, short fiction
Notable worksAsimov's Science Fiction
SpouseSusan Casper (m. c. 1970 – 2017, her death)

Gardner Raymond Dozois ( /dˈzwɑː/ doh-ZWAH; July 23, 1947 – May 27, 2018) was an American science fiction author and editor. He was the founding editor of The Year's Best Science Fiction anthologies (1984–2018) and was editor of Asimov's Science Fiction (1986–2004), garnering multiple Hugo and Locus Awards for those works almost every year. He also won the Nebula Award for Best Short Story twice.[2] He was inducted to the Science Fiction Hall of Fame on June 25, 2011.[3]

Biography

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Dozois was born July 23, 1947, in Salem, Massachusetts.[4] He graduated from Salem High School with the Class of 1965. From 1966 to 1969 he served in the Army 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 Frederik Pohl in the September 1966 issue of If but his next four appeared in 1970, three in Damon Knight's anthology series Orbit.[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 a Philadelphia Phillies game in 2004 (causing him to miss Worldcon 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 defibrillator.[citation needed]

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

Fiction

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As a writer, Dozois mainly worked in shorter forms. He won the Nebula 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 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 George Alec Effinger, Nightmare Blue (1977), and a collaboration with George R. R. Martin 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 Sidewise Award for Alternate History. Dozois also wrote short fiction reviews for Locus.

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 by Old Earth Books in 2001.[6] It won the Locus Award for Non-Fiction and was a finalist for the Hugo Award for Best Related Work.[7]

Editorial work

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Dozois was known primarily as an editor, winning the Hugo Award for Best Professional Editor 15 times in 17 years from 1988 to his retirement from Asimov's in 2004.[2] George R. R. Martin described him as the most important and influential editor in science fiction since John W. Campbell.[8] 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 Galaxy Science Fiction, If, Worlds of Fantasy, and Worlds of Tomorrow.[4]

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, 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.[2] And, with Jack Dann, he edited a long series of themed anthologies, each with a self-explanatory title such as Cats, Dinosaurs, Seaserpents, or Hackers.

Stories selected by Gardner Dozois for the annual best-of-year volumes have won, as of December 2015, 44 Hugos, 41 Nebulas, 32 Locus, 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 space opera, which he collectively referred to as "center-core SF".[9]

Bibliography

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Fiction

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Novels

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  • Nightmare Blue (with George 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)

Collections

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Short stories

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  • 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) (with Michael Swanwick)
  • Sunk Beneath the Waves (2013)
  • The Place of Bones (2016)
  • A Dog's Story (2017)
  • Unstoppable (2018)
  • Homecoming (2019)

Anthologies

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Edited by Gardner Dozois


co-edited by Dozois and Susan Casper


co-edited by Dozois and Mike Resnick


co-edited by Dozois and Stanley Schmidt


co-edited by Dozois and Jonathan Strahan


co-edited by Dozois and Greg Bear


Cross-genre anthologies co-edited by Dozois and George R. R. Martin
  • Songs of the Dying Earth, a tribute anthology to Jack Vance's seminal Dying Earth series, published by Subterranean 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

Formerly known as "Magic Tales Anthology Series" until 1995; most released under the Ace imprint.

"Isaac Asimov's" anthology series
The Year's Best Science Fiction series

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

Non-Fiction

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  • 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)

Awards

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Awards for Gardner Dozois
Work Year & Award Category Result Ref.
A Dream at Noonday 1971 Nebula Award Short Story Nominated
A Special Kind of Morning 1972 Locus Award Short Fiction Nominated [10]
1972 Hugo Award Novella Nominated
1972 Nebula Award Novelette Nominated
Horse of Air 1972 Nebula Award Short Story Nominated
A Kingdom by the Sea 1973 Locus Award Short Fiction Nominated
1973 Hugo Award Novelette Finalist
1973 Nebula Award Novelette Nominated
Chains of the Sea 1974 Hugo Award Novella Finalist
1974 Locus Award Novella Nominated
1974 Nebula Award Novella Nominated
Strangers (Novella) 1975 Locus Award Novella Nominated
1975 Hugo Award Novella Finalist
Strangers (Novel) 1979 Locus Award SF Novel Nominated
1979 Nebula Award Novel Nominated
Future Power

(with Jack Dann)

1977 Locus Award Anthology Nominated
Immortals

(with Jack Dann)

1979 Locus Award Anthology Nominated
Best Science Fiction Stories of the Year (8th Annual Collection) 1980 Locus Award Anthology Nominated
Best Science Fiction Stories of the Year (9th Annual Collection) 1981 Locus Award Anthology Nominated
Best Science Fiction Stories of the Year (10th Annual Collection) 1982 Locus Award Anthology Nominated
Disciples 1982 Locus Award Short Story Nominated
1982 Nebula Award Short Story Nominated
Executive Clemency 1982 Locus Award Short Story Nominated
The Peacemaker 1984 Hugo Award Short Story Nominated
1984 Locus Award Short Story Nominated
1984 SF Chronicle Award Short Story Won [11]
1984 Nebula Award Short Story Won
Dinner Party 1985 Locus Award Short Story Nominated
The Year's Best Science Fiction (1st Annual Collection) 1985 Locus Award Anthology Nominated
Morning Child 1985 Locus Award Short Story Nominated
1985 SF Chronicle Award Short Story Nominated [12]
1985 Nebula Award Short Story Won
Morning Child and Other Stories 2005 Locus Award Collection Nominated
Bestiary!

(with Jack Dann)

1986 Locus Award Anthology Nominated
The Year's Best Science Fiction (2nd Annual Collection) 1986 Locus Award Anthology Nominated
The Gods of Mars

(with Jack Dann & Michael Swanwick)

1986 Locus Award Short Story Nominated
1986 Nebula Award Short Story Nominated
The Year's Best Science Fiction (3rd Annual Collection) 1987 Locus Award Anthology Won
Asimov's Science Fiction & The Year's Best Science Fiction (3rd Annual Collection) 1987 Hugo Award Professional Editor Nominated
The Year's Best Science Fiction (4th Annual Collection) 1988 Locus Award Anthology Won
Asimov's Science Fiction 1987 SF Chronicle Award Pro Editor - Magazines Won [13]
1988 World Fantasy Special Award—Professional Nominated
1988 SF Chronicle Award Pro Editor - Magazines Won
1990 SF Chronicle Award Pro Editor - Magazines Won
1992 SF Chronicle Award Pro Editor - Magazines Won
1993 SF Chronicle Award Pro Editor - Magazines Won
1994 SF Chronicle Award Pro Editor - Magazines Won
1995 SF Chronicle Award Pro Editor - Magazines Won
1997 SF Chronicle Award Pro Editor - Magazines Won
Asimov's Science Fiction & The Year's Best Science Fiction (4th Annual Collection) 1988 Hugo Award Professional Editor Won
The Year's Best Science Fiction (5th Annual Collection) 1989 Locus Award Anthology Nominated
Asimov's Science Fiction & The Year's Best Science Fiction (5th Annual Collection) 1989 Hugo Award Professional Editor Won
Solace 1990 Locus Award Short Story Nominated
Asimov's Science Fiction & The Year's Best Science Fiction (6th Annual Collection) 1990 Hugo Award Professional Editor Won
The Year's Best Science Fiction (6th Annual Collection) 1990 Locus Award Anthology Nominated
Après Moi 1991 Locus Award Short Story Nominated
Asimov's Science Fiction & The Year's Best Science Fiction (7th Annual Collection) 1991 Hugo Award Professional Editor Won
The Year's Best Science Fiction (8th Annual Collection) 1992 Locus Award Anthology Won
Slow Dancing Through Time 1991 Locus Award Collection Nominated
1991 Readercon Awards Value in Bookcraft Won
The Year's Best Science Fiction (8th Annual Collection) 1992 Locus Award Anthology Nominated
Geodesic Dreams 1993 Locus Award Collection Nominated
The Year's Best Science Fiction (9th Annual Collection) 1993 Locus Award Anthology Won
The Year's Best Science Fiction (10th Annual Collection) 1994 Locus Award Anthology Won
Modern Classic Short Novels of Science Fiction 1995 Locus Award Anthology Nominated
The Year's Best Science Fiction (11th Annual Collection) 1995 Locus Award Anthology Won
Killing Me Softly: Erotic Tales of Unearthly Love 1996 Locus Award Anthology Nominated
The Year's Best Science Fiction (12th Annual Collection) 1996 Locus Award Anthology Won
The City of God

(with Michael Swanwick)

1996 Locus Award Novella Nominated
1997 Asimov's Readers' Poll Novella 6th Place [14]
Community 1997 Locus Award Short Story Nominated
1997 Asimov's Readers' Poll Short Story 9th Place
The Year's Best Science Fiction (13th Annual Collection) 1997 Locus Award Anthology Won
Dying For It: More Erotic Tales of Unearthly Love 1998 Locus Award Anthology Nominated
The Year's Best Science Fiction (14th Annual Collection) 1998 Locus Award Anthology Won
Modern Classics of Fantasy 1998 Locus Award Anthology Nominated
1998 World Fantasy Award Anthology Nominated
1998 World Fantasy Special Award—Professional for anthologies & editing Nominated
Ancestral Voices

(with Michael Swanwick)

1999 Asimov's Readers' Poll Novella 4th Place [15]
1999 Locus Award Novella Nominated
Nanotech

(with Jack Dann)

1999 Locus Award Anthology Nominated
The Good Old Stuff: Adventure SF in the Grand Tradition 1999 Locus Award Anthology Nominated
The Year's Best Science Fiction (15th Annual Collection) 1999 Locus Award Anthology Nominated
A Knight of Ghosts and Shadows 2000 Asimov's Readers' Poll Novelette 2nd Place [16]
2000 Locus Award Novelette Nominated
2001 Nebula Award Novelette Nominated
The Year's Best Science Fiction (16th Annual Collection) 2000 Locus Award Anthology Nominated
The Good New Stuff: Adventure SF in the Grand Tradition 2000 Locus Award Anthology Nominated
The Year's Best Science Fiction (17th Annual Collection) 2001 Locus Award Anthology Won
Explorers: SF Adventures to Far Horizons 2001 Locus Award Anthology Nominated
The Furthest Horizon: SF Adventures to the Far Future 2001 Locus Award Anthology Nominated
Strange Days: Fabulous Journeys with Gardner Dozois 2002 Locus Award Collection Nominated
Supermen: Tales of the Posthuman Future 2002 Locus Award Anthology Nominated
Worldmakers: SF Adventures in Terraforming 2002 Locus Award Anthology Nominated
The Year's Best Science Fiction (18th Annual Collection) 2002 Locus Award Anthology Won
The Year's Best Science Fiction (19th Annual Collection) 2003 Locus Award Anthology Won
The Hanging Curve 2003 Locus Award Short Story Nominated
The Year's Best Science Fiction (20th Annual Collection) 2004 Locus Award Anthology Won
Fairy Tale 2004 Locus Award Short Story Nominated
Asimov's Science Fiction & The Year's Best Science Fiction (20th Annual Collection) 2004 Hugo Award Professional Editor Won
Asimov's Science Fiction & The Year's Best Science Fiction (21st Annual Collection) 2005 Hugo Award Professional Editor Nominated
The Year's Best Science Fiction (21st Annual Collection) 2005 Locus Award Anthology Won
Shadow Twin

(with Daniel Abraham & George R. R. Martin)

2005 Locus Award Novella Nominated
2006 Asimov's Readers' Poll Novella 4th Place [17]
Galileo's Children: Tales of Science vs. Superstition 2006 Locus Award Anthology Nominated
The Best of the Best: 20 Years of the Year's Best Science Fiction 2006 Locus Award Anthology Nominated
The Year's Best Science Fiction (22nd Annual Collection) 2006 Locus Award Anthology Nominated
Counterfactual 2006 Sidewise Award for Alternate History Short Form Won
2007 Locus Award Novelette Nominated
Escape from Earth: New Adventures in Space

(with Jack Dann)

2007 Locus Award Anthology Nominated
Futures Past

(with Jack Dann)

2007 Locus Award Anthology Nominated
Nebula Awards Showcase 2006 2007 Locus Award Anthology Nominated
The Year's Best Science Fiction (23rd Annual Collection) 2007 Locus Award Anthology Won
2007 Hugo Award Professional Editor (Short Form) Nominated
One Million A.D. 2007 Locus Award Anthology Nominated
Wizards: Magical Tales from the Masters of Modern Fantasy 2008 Shirley Jackson Award Anthology Nominated [18]
2008 World Fantasy Award Anthology Nominated
The Best of the Best Volume 2: 20 Years of the Best Short Science Fiction Novels 2008 Locus Award Anthology Nominated
The Year's Best Science Fiction (24th Annual Collection) 2008 Locus Award Anthology Nominated
The New Space Opera

(with Jonathan Strahan)

2008 Ditmar Award Collected Work Won
Galactic Empires 2009 Locus Award Anthology Nominated
The New Space Opera 2

(with Jonathan Strahan)

2009 Aurealis Award Anthology Finalist
2010 Locus Award Anthology Won
2010 Ditmar Award Collected Work Finalist
The Year's Best Science Fiction (25th Annual Collection) 2010 FantLab's Book of the Year Award Anthology Won
2009 Locus Award Anthology Won
Songs of the Dying Earth: Stories in Honor of Jack Vance 2010 Locus Award Anthology Nominated
2010 World Fantasy Award Anthology Nominated
2010 British Fantasy Award Anthology Nominated
2014 FantLab's Book of the Year Award Anthology Nominated
The Dragon Book 2010 Locus Award Anthology Nominated
Warriors 2011 Locus Award Anthology Won
The Year's Best Science Fiction (27th Annual Collection) 2011 Locus Award Anthology Nominated
Hunter's Run

(with Daniel Abraham & George R. R. Martin)

2011 Seiun Award Translated Long Work Nominated
When the Great Days Come 2012 Locus Award Collection Nominated
The Year's Best Science Fiction (28th Annual Collection) 2012 Locus Award Anthology Won
Rip-Off! 2013 Locus Award Anthology Nominated
The Year's Best Science Fiction (29th Annual Collection) 2013 Locus Award Anthology Nominated
Old Mars

(with George R. R. Martin)

2014 Locus Award Anthology Won
Dangerous Women

(with George R. R. Martin)

2014 World Fantasy Award Anthology Won
The Year's Best Science Fiction (26th Annual Collection) 2010 Locus Award Anthology Nominated
2014 FantLab's Book of the Year Award Anthology Won
The Year's Best Science Fiction (30th Annual Collection) 2014 Locus Award Anthology Nominated
Rogues

(with George R. R. Martin)

2015 Locus Award Anthology Won
2015 World Fantasy Award Anthology Nominated
2015 FantLab's Book of the Year Award Anthology Won
The Year's Best Science Fiction (31st Annual Collection) 2015 Locus Award Anthology Nominated
The Book of Silverberg: Stories In Honor of Robert Silverberg

(with William Schafer)

2015 Locus Award Anthology Nominated
Old Venus

(with George R. R. Martin)

2016 Locus Award Anthology Won
The Year's Best Science Fiction (32nd Annual Collection) 2016 Locus Award Anthology Nominated
The Year's Best Science Fiction (33rd Annual Collection) 2017 Locus Award Anthology Nominated
The Book of Swords 2018 Locus Award Anthology Won
2018 World Fantasy Award Anthology Nominated
The Year's Best Science Fiction (34th Annual Collection) 2018 Locus Award Anthology Nominated
Sense of Wonder: Short Fiction Reviews (2009-2017) 2019 Locus Award Non-Fiction Nominated
The Book of Magic 2019 Locus Award Anthology Won
2019 World Fantasy Award Anthology Nominated
The Year's Best Science Fiction (35th Annual Collection) 2019 Locus Award Anthology Nominated
2019 Hugo Award Professional Editor (Short Form) Won
The Very Best of the Best: 35 Years of The Year's Best Science Fiction 2020 Locus Award Anthology Nominated
City Under the Stars

(with Michael Swanwick)

2021 Locus Award SF Novel Nominated
1998 SF Chronicle Award Pro Editor - Magazines Won [19]
2011 Science Fiction and Fantasy Hall of Fame Inducted
2016 Edward E. Smith Memorial Award Won
2017 Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers Association Kate Wilhelm Solstice Award Won [20]

Critical studies and reviews of Dozois's work

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

See also

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References

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  1. ^ a b c Gardner Dozois at the Internet Speculative Fiction Database (ISFDB). Retrieved April 8, 2013.
  2. ^ a b c "Dozois, Gardner" Archived July 5, 2012, at the Wayback Machine. The Locus Index to SF Awards: Index of Literary Nominees. Locus Publications. Retrieved April 8, 2013.
  3. ^ "Science Fiction Hall of Fame". Archived from the original on July 21, 2011. Retrieved July 21, 2011.. [Quote: "EMP is proud to announce the 2011 Hall of Fame inductees: ..."]. May/June/July 2011. EMP Museum (empmuseum.org). Archived July 21, 2011. Retrieved March 19, 2013.
  4. ^ a b "Gardner Dozois: The Good Stuff". Interview of Dozois. Locus: The Magazine of the Science Fiction and Fantasy Field 574 (November 2008), pp. 68–70.
  5. ^ Graham, Kristen A. (May 29, 2018). "Gardner Dozois, 70, acclaimed science fiction editor". The Philadelphia Inquirer. Retrieved May 29, 2018.
  6. ^ Being Gardner Dozois title listing at the Internet Speculative Fiction Database. (ISFDB). Retrieved April 8, 2013.
  7. ^ "Swanwick, Michael" Archived June 29, 2012, at the Wayback Machine. The Locus Index to SF Awards: Index of Literary Nominees. Locus Publications. Retrieved April 8, 2013.
  8. ^ "Hugo Recommendations – Editing (Redux) | Not a Blog".
  9. ^ Gardner Dozois, the Revitalization of Genre SF, and The New Space Opera Archived September 26, 2008, at the Wayback Machine by Dave Truesdale, Fantasy and Science Fiction, accessed November 3, 2008.
  10. ^ https://www.sfadb.com/Locus_Awards
  11. ^ https://www.sfadb.com/Science_Fiction_Chronicle_Readers_Poll_1984
  12. ^ https://www.sfadb.com/Science_Fiction_Chronicle_Readers_Poll_1985
  13. ^ https://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/award_category.cgi?478+0
  14. ^ https://www.sfadb.com/Asimovs_Reader_Poll_1997
  15. ^ https://www.sfadb.com/Asimovs_Reader_Poll_1999
  16. ^ https://www.sfadb.com/Asimovs_Reader_Poll_2000
  17. ^ https://www.sfadb.com/Asimovs_Reader_Poll_2006
  18. ^ https://www.sfadb.com/Shirley_Jackson_Awards_2008
  19. ^ https://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/ay.cgi?36+1998
  20. ^ https://nebulas.sfwa.org/award/solstice-award/
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