Gardner Dozois

Gardner Dozois (born July 23, 1947) is an American science fiction author and editor. He was editor of Asimov's Science Fiction magazine from 1984 to 2004.

A subtle writer with a distinctive prose style who has mainly worked in shorter forms, he has won the Nebula Award for best short story twice -- for "The Peacemaker" in 1983, and 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), and Strange Days (2001, another best-of collection).

A solo novel, Strangers (1978), and a collaboration with George Alec Effinger, Nightmare Blue (1977), represent his novel-length output. After becoming editor of Asimov's, Dozois's fiction output dwindled, but he is now making a comeback.

Gardner Dozois has won a record 15 Hugo Awards for Best Professional Editor, having won nearly every year between 1988 and his retirement from Asimov's in 2004.

Dozois is a well-known short fiction anthologist. After resigning from his Asimov's gig, he still remains the editor of the anthology series The Year's Best Science Fiction, published annually since 1984. And, with Jack Dann, he has edited a long series of themed anthologies, each with a self-explanatory title such as Cats, Dinosaurs, Seaserpents, or Hackers.

Michael Swanwick, with whom Dozois has collaborated on fiction, published a book-length interview with him in 2001. Titled Being Gardner Dozois, it covered each published piece of fiction Dozois ever wrote.

Gardner Dozois grew up in Salem, Massachusetts and has said that he turned to reading fiction partially as an escape from the city's provincialism. He became active in the science fiction community after serving a stint in the Army. He currently lives in Philadelphia. 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.

Selected Bibliography

Novels

• Nightmare Blue (1975) with George Alec Effinger
• Strangers (1978)
• Shadow Twin (2005) with Daniel Abraham and George R. R. Martin

Collections

• The Visible Man (1977)
• Slow Dancing Through Time (1990)
• Geodesic Dreams: The Best Short Fiction of Gardner Dozois (1992)
• Strange Days: Fabulous Journeys with Gardner Dozois (2001)
• Morning Child and Other Stories (2004)

Anthology Series

• The Exclamatory Series
  • Aliens! (1980) with Jack Dann
  • Unicorns! (1982) with Jack Dann
  • Magicats! (1984) with Jack Dann
  • Mermaids! (1985) with Jack Dann
  • Bestiary! (1985) with Jack Dann

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