Gardner Dozois

Gardner Dozois (1998)

Gardner Raymond Dozois (born July 23, 1947 in Salem , Massachusetts - † May 27, 2018 in Philadelphia ) was an American science fiction author and publisher. He was the editor of Asimov's Science Fiction magazine from 1984 to 2004 .

Life

Gardner Dozois grew up in his hometown and, according to him, began reading science fiction to escape the small town vibe of his hometown. After his military service in the US Army , some of which he served in Germany, he began to write science fiction himself. Dozois later lived in Philadelphia , Pennsylvania .

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Dozois received two Nebula Awards for Best Short Story - for The Peacemaker in 1983 and for Morning Child in 1984. His short stories have been featured in The Visible Man (1977), Geodesic Dreams , Slow Dancing through Time (1990) and Strange Day ( 2001) published. Between 1988 and 2019 he received the Hugo Award fifteen times.

Examples of Dozois novels are Nightmare Blue (1977, with George Alec Effinger ) and Strangers (1978). After Dozois became editor at Asimov's, he hardly wrote any more himself, but made a comeback after leaving.

Dozois holds the record of 16 Locus Awards , having received the award almost every year from 1988 to 2004, as editor of the winner of the Best Anthology category .

Dozois is known for his science fiction anthologies . He has been the editor-in-chief of The Year's Best Science Fiction , a series of science fiction literature since 1984 , which he also founded. He himself edited various anthologies with Jack Dann , which appeared under self-explanatory titles such as Cats ("cats"), Dinosaurs ("dinosaurs") or Seaserpents ("sea snakes").

Dozois always showed a particular interest in adventure science fiction or space opera , which he regards as the heart of science fiction. In 2011 he was inducted into the Science Fiction Hall of Fame .

In 2001 Michael Swanwick published an interview with Dozois that fills an entire book entitled Being Gardner Dozois . This book covers every literary work Dozois had written up to then.

bibliography

Novels

• 1975 Nightmare Blue with George Alec Effinger , ISBN 978-0-00-614617-9
• 1978 Strangers (German: Fremde , Moewig, 1981) ISBN 3-8118-3512-2
• 2008 Hunter's Run with George RR Martin and Daniel Abraham ISBN 978-0-06-137329-9

Short story collections

• 1977 The Visible Man
• 1990 Slow Dancing Through Time ISBN 978-0-942681-03-1
• 1992 Geodesic Dreams ISBN 978-0-441-00021-0
• 2001 Strange Days: Fabulous Journeys with Gardner Dozois
• 2004 Morning Child and Other Stories ISBN 978-0-7434-9318-5

Short stories (selection)

• 1971 A Special Kind of Morning (German: Somewhere is always a wonderful morning , 1982)
• 1972 Machines of Loving Grace (German: Machines of loving goodness , 1988)
• 1973 Chains of the Sea (German: Die Fesseln der See , 1983)
• 1983 A Traveler in an Antique Land
• 1983 The Peacemaker , Nebula Award
• 1984 Morning Child , (German: Morgenkind , 1986) Nebula Award
• 1999 A Knight of Ghosts and Shadows
• 2005 When the Great Days Came in ( The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction December 2005)
• 2005 Shadow Twin with George RR Martin and Daniel Abraham
• 2006 Counterfactual in ( The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction June 2006)

Non-fiction

• The Fiction of James Tiptree, Jr. (1977, ISBN 978-0-916186-04-3 )
• Writing Science Fiction & Fantasy (1993, ISBN 978-0-312-08926-9 ) (edited with Stanley Schmidt and Sheila Williams)

Anthologies

• A Day in the Life (1973, ISBN 978-0-06-080307-0 )
• Future Power (1976) ( edited with Jack Dann )
• Another World: Adventures in Otherness (1977, ISBN 978-0-695-40695-0 )
• Ripper (1988, ISBN 978-0-8125-1700-2 ) ( edited with Susan Casper )
• Modern Classics of Science Fiction (1992, ISBN 978-0-312-07238-4 )
• Future Earths: Under African Skies (1993, ISBN 978-0-88677-544-5 ) ( edited with Mike Resnick )
• Future Earths: Under South American Skies (1993, ISBN 978-0-88677-581-0 ) ( edited with Mike Resnick )
• Modern Classics: Short Novels of Science Fiction (1994, ISBN 978-0-312-10504-4 )
• Mammoth Book of Contemporary SF Masters (1994, ISBN 978-1-85487-297-5 )
• Killing Me Softly (1995)
• Dying for It (1997)
• Modern Classics of Fantasy (1997, ISBN 978-0-312-16931-2 )
• Roads Not Taken: Tales of Alternate History (1998, ISBN 978-0-345-42194-4 ) ( edited with Stanley Schmidt )
• The Good Old Stuff: Adventure SF in the Grand Tradition (1998, ISBN 978-0-312-19275-4 )
• The Good New Stuff: Adventure in SF in the Grand Tradition (1999, ISBN 978-0-312-19890-9 )
• Explorers: SF Adventures to Far Horizons (2000, ISBN 978-0-312-25462-9 )
• The Furthest Horizon: SF Adventures to the Far Future (2000, ISBN 978-0-312-26326-3 )
• Worldmakers: SF Adventures in Terraforming (2001, ISBN 978-0-312-27570-9 )
• Supermen: Tales of the Posthuman Future (2002, ISBN 978-0-312-27569-3 )
• Galileo's Children: Tales of Science vs. Superstition (2005, ISBN 978-1-59102-315-9 )
• One Million AD (2005, ISBN 0-7394-6273-3 )
• Nebula Awards Showcase 2006 (2006, ISBN 978-0-451-46064-6 )
• Escape From Earth: New Adventures in Space (2006, ISBN 1-58288-225-8 ) (edited with Jack Dann)
• Wizards: Magical Tales From the Masters of Modern Fantasy (2007, ISBN 978-0-425-21518-0 ) (edited with Jack Dann)
• The New Space Opera (2007, ISBN 978-0-06-084675-6 ) ( edited with Jonathan Strahan )
• Galactic Empires (2007)
• Queen in Exile , Dangerous Women , (2013) with George RR Martin

Anthologies edited with Jack Dann

Also known as "Magic Tales Anthology Series" until 1995

• Unicorns! (1982)
• Bestiary! (1986, ISBN 978-0-441-05508-1 )
• Mermaids! (1986, ISBN 978-0-441-52567-6 )
• Sorcerers! (1986, ISBN 978-0-441-77532-3 )
• Demons! (1987, ISBN 978-0-441-14264-4 )
• Magicats! (1987, ISBN 978-0-441-51532-5 )
• Dogtales! (1988, ISBN 978-0-441-15760-0 )
• Seaserpents! (1989, ISBN 978-0-441-75682-7 )
• Dinosaurs! (1990, ISBN 978-0-441-14883-7 )
• Little People! (1990, ISBN 978-0-441-50391-9 )
• Magicats II (1991, ISBN 978-0-441-51533-2 )
• Unicorns II (1992, ISBN 978-0-441-84564-4 )
• Dragons! (1993, ISBN 978-0-441-16631-2 )
• Invaders! (1993, ISBN 978-0-441-01519-1 )
• Horses! (1994, ISBN 978-0-441-00057-9 )
• Angels! (1995, ISBN 978-0-441-00220-7 )
• Dinosaurs II (1995, ISBN 978-0-441-00285-6 )
• Hackers (1996, ISBN 978-0-441-00375-4 )
• Timegates (1997, ISBN 978-0-441-00428-7 )
• Clones (1998, ISBN 978-0-441-00522-2 )
• Immortals (1998, ISBN 978-0-441-00539-0 )
• Nanotech (1998, ISBN 978-0-441-00585-7 )
• Armageddons (1999, ISBN 978-0-441-00675-5 )
• Future War (1999, ISBN 0-441-00639-6 )
• Aliens Among Us (2000, ISBN 978-0-441-00704-2 )
• Genometry (2001, ISBN 978-0-441-00797-4 )
• Space Soldiers (2001, ISBN 0-441-00824-0 )
• Future Sports (2002, ISBN 978-0-441-00961-9 )
• Beyond Flesh (2002, ISBN 978-0-441-00999-2 )
• Future Crimes (2003, ISBN 978-0-441-01118-6 )
• AIs (2004, ISBN 978-0-441-01216-9 )
• Robots (2005, ISBN 0-441-01321-X )
• Beyond Singularity (2005, ISBN 978-0-441-01363-0 )
• Futures Past (2006, ISBN 978-0-441-01454-5 )
• Dangerous Games (2007, ISBN 978-0-441-01490-3 )

"Isaac Asimov's" series

• Transcendental Tales from Isaac Asimov's Science Fiction Magazine (1989, ISBN 978-0-89865-762-3 )
• Time Travelers from Isaac Asimov's Science Fiction Magazine (1989, ISBN 978-0-441-80935-6 )
• Isaac Asimov's Robots (1991, ISBN 978-0-441-37376-5 ) ( edited with Sheila Williams )
• Isaac Asimov's Aliens (1991, ISBN 978-0-441-01672-3 )
• Isaac Asimov's Mars (1991, ISBN 978-0-441-37375-8 )
• Isaac Asimov's Earth (1992, ISBN 978-0-441-37377-2 ) (edited with Sheila Williams)
• Isaac Asimov's War (1993, ISBN 978-0-441-37393-2 )
• Isaac Asimov's SF Lite (1993, ISBN 978-0-441-37389-5 )
• Isaac Asimov's Cyberdreams (1994)
• Isaac Asimov's Skin Deep (1995, ISBN 978-0-441-00190-3 ) (edited with Sheila Williams)
• Isaac Asimov's Ghosts (1995, ISBN 978-0-441-00254-2 ) (edited with Sheila Williams)
• Isaac Asimov's Vampires (1996, ISBN 978-0-441-00387-7 ) (edited with Sheila Williams)
• Isaac Asimov's Moons (1997, ISBN 978-0-441-00453-9 ) (edited with Sheila Williams)
• Isaac Asimov's Christmas (1997, ISBN 978-0-441-00491-1 ) (edited with Sheila Williams)
• Isaac Asimov's Detectives (1998, ISBN 978-0-441-00545-1 ) (edited with Sheila Williams)
• Isaac Asimov's Camelot (1998, ISBN 978-0-441-00527-7 ) (edited with Sheila Williams)
• Isaac Asimov's Solar System (1999, ISBN 978-0-441-00698-4 ) (edited with Sheila Williams)
• Isaac Asimov's Werewolves (1999, ISBN 978-0-441-00661-8 ) (edited with Sheila Williams)
• Isaac Asimov's Valentines (1999, ISBN 978-0-441-00602-1 ) (edited with Sheila Williams)
• Isaac Asimov's Halloween (1999, ISBN 978-0-441-00854-4 ) (edited with Sheila Williams)
• Isaac Asimov's Utopia (2000, ISBN 978-0-441-00784-4 (edited together with Sheila Williams))
• Isaac Asimov's Mother's Day (2000, ISBN 978-0-441-00721-9 ) (edited with Sheila Williams)
• Isaac Asimov's Father's Day (2001, ISBN 978-0-441-00874-2 ) (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 the 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)

literature

• Hans Joachim Alpers , Werner Fuchs , Ronald M. Hahn : Reclam's science fiction guide. Reclam, Stuttgart 1982, ISBN 3-15-010312-6 , p. 135 f.
• John Clute : Dozois, Gardner. In: John Clute, Peter Nicholls : The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction . 3rd edition (online edition), version dated December 30, 2017.
• Don D'Ammassa : Encyclopedia of Science Fiction. Facts On File, New York 2005, ISBN 0-8160-5924-1 , p. 123.
• George Kelley: Dozois, Gardner . In: Noelle Watson, Paul E. Schellinger: Twentieth-Century Science-Fiction Writers. St. James Press, Chicago 1991, ISBN 1-55862-111-3 , pp. 221-223.

Web links

• Literature by and about Gardner Dozois in the catalog of the German National Library
• Gardner Dozois in the Internet Speculative Fiction Database (English)
• Gardner Dozois in the Science Fiction Awards + Database
• Works by and about Gardner Dozois at Open Library
• Gardner Dozois in Fantastic Fiction (English)
• Gardner Dozois's online fiction on Free Speculative Fiction Online
• An interview with Gardner Dozois (English)
• Interview with Gardner Dozois , Locus Online
• Gardner Dozois on "Michael Swanwick Online"

Individual evidence

1. ^ Kristen A. Graham: Gardner Dozois, 70, acclaimed science fiction editor . In: The Philadelphia Inquirer , May 29, 2018. 
2. ↑ Dave Truesdale: Off On A Tangent: F&SF Style. Gardner Dozois, the Revitalization of Genre SF, and The New Space Opera, accessed February 29, 2012.