Gardner Dozois
Gardner Raymond Dozois was an American science fiction author and editor. He was the founding editor of The Year's Best Science Fiction anthologies and was editor of Asimov's Science Fiction, garnering multiple Hugo and Locus Awards for those works almost every year. He also won the Nebula Award for Best Short Story twice. He was inducted to the Science Fiction Hall of Fame on June 25, 2011.
Biography
Dozois was born July 23, 1947, in Salem, Massachusetts. 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.Dozois said that he turned to reading fiction partially as an escape from the provincialism of his home town.
He was badly injured in a taxi accident after returning from a Philadelphia Phillies game in 2004 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.
Dozois died on May 27, 2018, of a systemic infection at a hospital in Philadelphia at the age of 70.
Fiction
As a writer, Dozois mainly worked in shorter forms. He won the Nebula Award for Best Short Story twice: once for "" in 1983, and again for "Morning Child" in 1984. His short fiction has been collected in The Visible Man, Geodesic Dreams, Slow Dancing through Time, Strange Days, Morning Child and Other Stories and When the Great Days Come. As a novelist, Dozois's oeuvre is significantly smaller. He was the author of one solo novel, Strangers, as well as a collaboration with George Alec Effinger, Nightmare Blue, and a collaboration with George R. R. Martin and Daniel Abraham for Hunter's Run. After he became 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. It won the Locus Award for Non-Fiction and was a finalist for the Hugo Award for Best Related Work.
Editorial work
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. George R. R. Martin described him as the most important and influential editor in science fiction since John W. Campbell. In addition to his work with Asimov's, he also worked in the 1970s with magazines such as Galaxy Science Fiction, If, Worlds of Fantasy, and Worlds of Tomorrow.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. 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 consistently expressed a particular interest in adventure SF and space opera, which he collectively referred to as "center-core SF".
Fiction
Novels
- Nightmare Blue
- Strangers
- Hunter's Run
- ''City Under the Stars''
Collections
- The Visible Man
- Slow Dancing Through Time
- Geodesic Dreams
- Strange Days: Fabulous Journeys with Gardner Dozois
- Morning Child and Other Stories
- ''When the Great Days Come''
Short stories
The Empty Man The Sound of Muzak Wires Conditioned Reflex King Harvest Flying In A Crooked Year The Sacrifice Virgin Territory The City of God Sunk Beneath the Waves The Place of Bones A Dog's Story Unstoppable- ''Homecoming''
Anthologies
;Edited by Gardner Dozois- A Day in the Life
- Another World: Adventures in Otherness
- Modern Classics of Science Fiction
- Modern Classic Short Novels of Science Fiction
- Mammoth Book of Contemporary SF Masters
- Killing Me Softly
- Dying for It
- Modern Classics of Fantasy
- The Good Old Stuff: Adventure SF in the Grand Tradition
- The Good New Stuff: Adventure SF in the Grand Tradition
- Explorers: SF Adventures to Far Horizons
- The Furthest Horizon: SF Adventures to the Far Future
- Worldmakers: SF Adventures in Terraforming
- Supermen: Tales of the Posthuman Future
- Galileo's Children: Tales of Science vs. Superstition
- One Million A.D.
- Nebula Awards Showcase 2006
- Galactic Empires
- The Mammoth Book of the Best Short SF Novels The Book of Silverberg: Stories in Honor of Robert Silverberg
- The Book of Swords
- The Book of Magic
- Ripper
- Future Earths: Under African Skies
- Future Earths: Under South American Skies
co-edited by Dozois and Jonathan Strahan
co-edited by Dozois and Greg BearMultiverse: Exploring Poul Anderson's Worlds
;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
- Warriors, a cross-genre anthology featuring stories about war and warriors
- Songs of Love and Death, a cross-genre anthology featuring stories of romance in fantasy and science fiction settings
- Down These Strange Streets, a cross-genre anthology featuring stories of private-eye detectives in fantasy and science fiction settings
- Old Mars, an anthology featuring new stories about Mars in retro-SF vein
- Dangerous Women, a cross-genre anthology featuring stories about women warriors
- Rogues, a cross-genre anthology featuring stories about assorted rogues
- Old Venus, an anthology featuring new stories about Venus in retro-SF vein
Formerly known as "Magic Tales Anthology Series" until 1995; most released under the Ace imprint.
- Future Power
- Aliens!
- Unicorns!
- Magicats!
- Bestiary!
- Mermaids!
- Sorcerers!
- Demons!
- Dogtales!
- Seaserpents!
- Dinosaurs!
- Little People!
- Magicats II
- Unicorns II
- Dragons!
- Invaders!
- Horses!
- Angels!
- Dinosaurs II
- Hackers
- Timegates
- Clones
- Immortals
- Nanotech
- Future War
- Armageddons
- Aliens Among Us
- Genometry
- Space Soldiers
- Future Sports
- Beyond Flesh
- Future Crimes
- A.I.s
- Robots
- Beyond Singularity
- Escape from Earth
- Futures Past
- Dangerous Games
- Wizards
- The Dragon Book
- Transcendental Tales from Isaac Asimov's Science Fiction Magazine
- Time Travelers from Isaac Asimov's Science Fiction Magazine
- Isaac Asimov's Robots
- Isaac Asimov's Aliens
- Isaac Asimov's Mars
- Isaac Asimov's Earth
- Isaac Asimov's War
- Isaac Asimov's SF Lite
- Isaac Asimov's Cyberdreams
- Isaac Asimov's Skin Deep
- Isaac Asimov's Ghosts
- Isaac Asimov's Vampires
- Isaac Asimov's Moons
- Isaac Asimov's Christmas
- Isaac Asimov's Detectives
- Isaac Asimov's Camelot
- Isaac Asimov's Solar System
- Isaac Asimov's Werewolves
- Isaac Asimov's Valentines
- Isaac Asimov's Halloween
- Isaac Asimov's Utopias
- Isaac Asimov's Mother's Day
- Isaac Asimov's Father's Day
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
- The Fiction of James Tiptree, Jr.
- Writing Science Fiction & Fantasy
- ''Sense of Wonder: Short Fiction Reviews ''
Awards
| Work | Year & Award | Category | Result | Ref. | - |
| A Dream at Noonday | 1971 Nebula Award | Short Story | - | ||
| A Special Kind of Morning | 1972 Locus Award | Short Fiction | - | ||
| A Special Kind of Morning | 1972 Hugo Award | Novella | - | ||
| A Special Kind of Morning | 1972 Nebula Award | Novelette | - | ||
| Horse of Air | 1972 Nebula Award | Short Story | - | ||
| A Kingdom by the Sea | 1973 Locus Award | Short Fiction | - | ||
| A Kingdom by the Sea | 1973 Hugo Award | Novelette | - | ||
| A Kingdom by the Sea | 1973 Nebula Award | Novelette | - | ||
| Chains of the Sea | 1974 Hugo Award | Novella | - | ||
| Chains of the Sea | 1974 Locus Award | Novella | - | ||
| Chains of the Sea | 1974 Nebula Award | Novella | - | ||
| Strangers | 1975 Locus Award | Novella | - | ||
| Strangers | 1975 Hugo Award | Novella | - | ||
| Strangers | 1979 Locus Award | SF Novel | - | ||
| Strangers | 1979 Nebula Award | Novel | - | ||
| Future Power ' | 1977 Locus Award | Anthology | - | ||
| Immortals ' | 1979 Locus Award | Anthology | - | ||
| Best Science Fiction Stories of the Year | 1980 Locus Award | Anthology | - | ||
| Best Science Fiction Stories of the Year | 1981 Locus Award | Anthology | - | ||
| Best Science Fiction Stories of the Year | 1982 Locus Award | Anthology | - | ||
| Disciples | 1982 Locus Award | Short Story | - | ||
| Disciples | 1982 Nebula Award | Short Story | - | ||
| Executive Clemency | 1982 Locus Award | Short Story | - | ||
| The Peacemaker | 1984 Hugo Award | Short Story | - | ||
| The Peacemaker | 1984 Locus Award | Short Story | - | ||
| The Peacemaker | 1984 SF Chronicle Award | Short Story | Won | - | |
| The Peacemaker | 1984 Nebula Award | Short Story | Won | - | |
| Dinner Party | 1985 Locus Award | Short Story | - | ||
| The Year's Best Science Fiction | 1985 Locus Award | Anthology | - | ||
| Morning Child | 1985 Locus Award | Short Story | - | ||
| Morning Child | 1985 SF Chronicle Award | Short Story | - | ||
| Morning Child | 1985 Nebula Award | Short Story | Won | - | |
| Morning Child and Other Stories | 2005 Locus Award | Collection | - | ||
| Bestiary! ' | 1986 Locus Award | Anthology | - | ||
| The Year's Best Science Fiction | 1986 Locus Award | Anthology | - | ||
| The Gods of Mars ' | 1986 Locus Award | Short Story | - | ||
| The Gods of Mars ' | 1986 Nebula Award | Short Story | - | ||
| The Year's Best Science Fiction | 1987 Locus Award | Anthology | Won | - | |
| Asimov's Science Fiction & The Year's Best Science Fiction | 1987 Hugo Award | Professional Editor | - | ||
| The Year's Best Science Fiction | 1988 Locus Award | Anthology | Won | - | |
| Asimov's Science Fiction | 1987 SF Chronicle Award | Pro Editor - Magazines | Won | - | |
| Asimov's Science Fiction | 1988 World Fantasy Special Award—Professional | - | |||
| Asimov's Science Fiction | 1988 SF Chronicle Award | Pro Editor - Magazines | Won | - | |
| Asimov's Science Fiction | 1990 SF Chronicle Award | Pro Editor - Magazines | Won | - | |
| Asimov's Science Fiction | 1992 SF Chronicle Award | Pro Editor - Magazines | Won | - | |
| Asimov's Science Fiction | 1993 SF Chronicle Award | Pro Editor - Magazines | Won | - | |
| Asimov's Science Fiction | 1994 SF Chronicle Award | Pro Editor - Magazines | Won | - | |
| Asimov's Science Fiction | 1995 SF Chronicle Award | Pro Editor - Magazines | Won | - | |
| Asimov's Science Fiction | 1997 SF Chronicle Award | Pro Editor - Magazines | Won | - | |
| Asimov's Science Fiction & The Year's Best Science Fiction | 1988 Hugo Award | Professional Editor | Won | - | |
| The Year's Best Science Fiction | 1989 Locus Award | Anthology | - | ||
| Asimov's Science Fiction & The Year's Best Science Fiction | 1989 Hugo Award | Professional Editor | Won | - | |
| Solace | 1990 Locus Award | Short Story | - | ||
| Asimov's Science Fiction & The Year's Best Science Fiction | 1990 Hugo Award | Professional Editor | Won | - | |
| The Year's Best Science Fiction | 1990 Locus Award | Anthology | - | ||
| Après Moi | 1991 Locus Award | Short Story | - | ||
| Asimov's Science Fiction & The Year's Best Science Fiction | 1991 Hugo Award | Professional Editor | Won | - | |
| The Year's Best Science Fiction | 1992 Locus Award | Anthology | Won | - | |
| Slow Dancing Through Time | 1991 Locus Award | Collection | - | ||
| Slow Dancing Through Time | 1991 Readercon Awards | Value in Bookcraft | Won | - | |
| The Year's Best Science Fiction | 1992 Locus Award | Anthology | - | ||
| Geodesic Dreams | 1993 Locus Award | Collection | - | ||
| The Year's Best Science Fiction | 1993 Locus Award | Anthology | Won | - | |
| The Year's Best Science Fiction | 1994 Locus Award | Anthology | Won | - | |
| Modern Classic Short Novels of Science Fiction | 1995 Locus Award | Anthology | - | ||
| The Year's Best Science Fiction | 1995 Locus Award | Anthology | Won | - | |
| Killing Me Softly: Erotic Tales of Unearthly Love | 1996 Locus Award | Anthology | - | ||
| The Year's Best Science Fiction | 1996 Locus Award | Anthology | Won | - | |
| The City of God ' | 1996 Locus Award | Novella | - | ||
| The City of God ' | 1997 Asimov's Readers' Poll | Novella | - | ||
| Community | 1997 Locus Award | Short Story | - | ||
| Community | 1997 Asimov's Readers' Poll | Short Story | - | ||
| The Year's Best Science Fiction | 1997 Locus Award | Anthology | Won | - | |
| Dying For It: More Erotic Tales of Unearthly Love | 1998 Locus Award | Anthology | - | ||
| The Year's Best Science Fiction | 1998 Locus Award | Anthology | Won | - | |
| Modern Classics of Fantasy | 1998 Locus Award | Anthology | - | ||
| Modern Classics of Fantasy | 1998 World Fantasy Award | Anthology | - | ||
| 1998 World Fantasy Special Award—Professional | for anthologies & editing | - | |||
| Ancestral Voices ' | 1999 Asimov's Readers' Poll | Novella | - | ||
| Ancestral Voices ' | 1999 Locus Award | Novella | - | ||
| Nanotech ' | 1999 Locus Award | Anthology | - | ||
| The Good Old Stuff: Adventure SF in the Grand Tradition | 1999 Locus Award | Anthology | - | ||
| The Year's Best Science Fiction | 1999 Locus Award | Anthology | - | ||
| A Knight of Ghosts and Shadows | 2000 Asimov's Readers' Poll | Novelette | - | ||
| A Knight of Ghosts and Shadows | 2000 Locus Award | Novelette | - | ||
| A Knight of Ghosts and Shadows | 2001 Nebula Award | Novelette | - | ||
| The Year's Best Science Fiction | 2000 Locus Award | Anthology | - | ||
| The Good New Stuff: Adventure SF in the Grand Tradition | 2000 Locus Award | Anthology | - | ||
| The Year's Best Science Fiction | 2001 Locus Award | Anthology | Won | - | |
| Explorers: SF Adventures to Far Horizons | 2001 Locus Award | Anthology | - | ||
| The Furthest Horizon: SF Adventures to the Far Future | 2001 Locus Award | Anthology | - | ||
| Strange Days: Fabulous Journeys with Gardner Dozois | 2002 Locus Award | Collection | - | ||
| Supermen: Tales of the Posthuman Future | 2002 Locus Award | Anthology | - | ||
| Worldmakers: SF Adventures in Terraforming | 2002 Locus Award | Anthology | - | ||
| The Year's Best Science Fiction | 2002 Locus Award | Anthology | Won | - | |
| The Year's Best Science Fiction | 2003 Locus Award | Anthology | Won | - | |
| The Hanging Curve | 2003 Locus Award | Short Story | - | ||
| The Year's Best Science Fiction | 2004 Locus Award | Anthology | Won | - | |
| Fairy Tale | 2004 Locus Award | Short Story | - | ||
| Asimov's Science Fiction & The Year's Best Science Fiction | 2004 Hugo Award | Professional Editor | Won | - | |
| Asimov's Science Fiction & The Year's Best Science Fiction | 2005 Hugo Award | Professional Editor | - | ||
| The Year's Best Science Fiction | 2005 Locus Award | Anthology | Won | - | |
| Shadow Twin ' | 2005 Locus Award | Novella | - | ||
| Shadow Twin ' | 2006 Asimov's Readers' Poll | Novella | - | ||
| Galileo's Children: Tales of Science vs. Superstition | 2006 Locus Award | Anthology | - | ||
| The Best of the Best: 20 Years of the Year's Best Science Fiction | 2006 Locus Award | Anthology | - | ||
| The Year's Best Science Fiction | 2006 Locus Award | Anthology | - | ||
| Counterfactual | 2006 Sidewise Award for Alternate History | Short Form | Won | - | |
| Counterfactual | 2007 Locus Award | Novelette | - | ||
| Escape from Earth: New Adventures in Space ' | 2007 Locus Award | Anthology | - | ||
| Futures Past ' | 2007 Locus Award | Anthology | - | ||
| Nebula Awards Showcase 2006 | 2007 Locus Award | Anthology | - | ||
| The Year's Best Science Fiction | 2007 Locus Award | Anthology | Won | - | |
| The Year's Best Science Fiction | 2007 Hugo Award | Professional Editor | - | ||
| One Million A.D. | 2007 Locus Award | Anthology | - | ||
| Wizards: Magical Tales from the Masters of Modern Fantasy | 2008 Shirley Jackson Award | Anthology | - | ||
| Wizards: Magical Tales from the Masters of Modern Fantasy | 2008 World Fantasy Award | Anthology | - | ||
| The Best of the Best Volume 2: 20 Years of the Best Short Science Fiction Novels | 2008 Locus Award | Anthology | - | ||
| The Year's Best Science Fiction | 2008 Locus Award | Anthology | - | ||
| The New Space Opera ' | 2008 Ditmar Award | Collected Work | Won | - | |
| Galactic Empires | 2009 Locus Award | Anthology | - | ||
| The New Space Opera 2 ' | 2009 Aurealis Award | Anthology | - | ||
| The New Space Opera 2 ' | 2010 Locus Award | Anthology | Won | - | |
| The New Space Opera 2 ' | 2010 Ditmar Award | Collected Work | - | ||
| The Year's Best Science Fiction (25th Annual Collection) | 2010 FantLab's [Book of the Year Award] | Anthology | Won | - | |
| The Year's Best Science Fiction (25th Annual Collection) | 2009 Locus Award | Anthology | Won | - | |
| Songs of the Dying Earth: Stories in Honor of Jack Vance | 2010 Locus Award | Anthology | - | ||
| Songs of the Dying Earth: Stories in Honor of Jack Vance | 2010 World Fantasy Award | Anthology | - | ||
| Songs of the Dying Earth: Stories in Honor of Jack Vance | 2010 British Fantasy Award | Anthology | - | ||
| Songs of the Dying Earth: Stories in Honor of Jack Vance | 2014 FantLab's Book of the Year Award | Anthology | - | ||
| The Dragon Book | 2010 Locus Award | Anthology | - | ||
| Warriors | 2011 Locus Award | Anthology | Won | - | |
| The Year's Best Science Fiction | 2011 Locus Award | Anthology | - | ||
| Hunter's Run ' | 2011 Seiun Award | Translated Long Work | - | ||
| When the Great Days Come | 2012 Locus Award | Collection | - | ||
| The Year's Best Science Fiction | 2012 Locus Award | Anthology | Won | - | |
| Rip-Off! | 2013 Locus Award | Anthology | - | ||
| The Year's Best Science Fiction | 2013 Locus Award | Anthology | - | ||
| Old Mars ' | 2014 Locus Award | Anthology | Won | - | |
| Dangerous Women ' | 2014 World Fantasy Award | Anthology | Won | - | |
| The Year's Best Science Fiction (26th Annual Collection) | 2010 Locus Award | Anthology | - | ||
| The Year's Best Science Fiction (26th Annual Collection) | 2014 FantLab's Book of the Year Award | Anthology | Won | - | |
| The Year's Best Science Fiction | 2014 Locus Award | Anthology | - | ||
| Rogues ' | 2015 Locus Award | Anthology | Won | - | |
| Rogues ' | 2015 World Fantasy Award | Anthology | - | ||
| Rogues ' | 2015 FantLab's Book of the Year Award | Anthology | Won | - | |
| The Year's Best Science Fiction | 2015 Locus Award | Anthology | - | ||
| The Book of Silverberg: Stories In Honor of Robert Silverberg ' | 2015 Locus Award | Anthology | - | ||
| Old Venus ' | 2016 Locus Award | Anthology | Won | - | |
| The Year's Best Science Fiction | 2016 Locus Award | Anthology | - | ||
| The Year's Best Science Fiction | 2017 Locus Award | Anthology | - | ||
| The Book of Swords | 2018 Locus Award | Anthology | Won | - | |
| The Book of Swords | 2018 World Fantasy Award | Anthology | - | ||
| The Year's Best Science Fiction | 2018 Locus Award | Anthology | - | ||
| Sense of Wonder: Short Fiction Reviews | 2019 Locus Award | Non-Fiction | - | ||
| The Book of Magic | 2019 Locus Award | Anthology | Won | - | |
| The Book of Magic | 2019 World Fantasy Award | Anthology | |||
| The Year's Best Science Fiction | 2019 Locus Award | Anthology | - | ||
| The Year's Best Science Fiction | 2019 Hugo Award | Professional Editor | Won | - | |
| The Very Best of the Best: 35 Years of The Year's Best Science Fiction | 2020 Locus Award | Anthology | - | ||
| City Under the Stars | 2021 Locus Award | SF Novel | - | ||
| 1998 SF Chronicle Award | Pro Editor - Magazines | Won | - | ||
| 2011 Science Fiction and Fantasy Hall of Fame | - | ||||
| 2016 Edward E. Smith Memorial Award | Won | - | |||
| 2017 Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers Association | Kate Wilhelm Solstice Award | Won | - |
Critical studies and reviews of Dozois's work
;Old Venus*