Gardner Dozois (1947–2018)
Author of Rogues
About the Author
Gardner Dozois was born in Salem, Massachusetts on July 23, 1947. After working as an Army journalist, he became a science fiction and fantasy editor and author. He was the founding editor of The Year's Best Science Fiction anthologies and editor of Asimov's from 1984 until 2004. His work as an show more editor received more than 40 Hugo Awards, 40 Nebula Awards, and 30 Locus Awards. He received the Hugo Award for Best Professional Editor 15 times between 1988 and his retirement from Asimov's in 2004. He wrote books including Strangers and short stories including The Peacemaker and Morning Child, which won the Nebula Award for Short Story in 1983 and 1984, respectively. He also collaborated with George R. R. Martin on a series of themed anthologies including Songs of the Dying Earth, Old Mars, Dangerous Women, and Rogues. In 2011, Dozois was inducted into the Science Fiction Hall of Fame. He died on May 27, 2018 at the age of 70. (Bowker Author Biography) show less
Disambiguation Notice:
Dozois' popular series The Year's Best Science Fiction has been reprinted as Best New SF and The Mammoth Book of Best New SF in the UK with different numbers than the US series. Some of the US volumes have never been reprinted in the UK. Some volumes have been reprinted in Australia under the names The Giant Book of Fantastic SF and The Giant Book of Modern SF (and possibly others).
Dozois' Best Science Fiction Stories of the Year is an unrelated series.
Image credit: Credit: Ellen Levy Finch, 1998, Seattle, Wash.
Series
Works by Gardner Dozois
The Best of the Best, Volume 2: 20 Years of the Best Short Science Fiction Novels (2007) — Editor — 202 copies
The Year's Best Science Fiction 4 23 copies
Isaac Asimov's Science Fiction Magazine: Vol. 15, No. 4 & 5 [April 1991] (1991) — Editor — 17 copies
Isaac Asimov's Science Fiction Magazine: Vol. 12, No. 11 [November 1988] (1988) — Editor — 16 copies
Isaac Asimov's Science Fiction Magazine: Vol. 11, No. 9 [September 1987] (1981) — Editor — 16 copies
Isaac Asimov's Science Fiction Magazine: Vol. 14, No. 11 & 12 [November 1990] (1990) — Editor — 15 copies
Isaac Asimov's Science Fiction Magazine: Vol. 11, No. 13 [Mid-December 1987] (1987) — Editor — 14 copies
Asimov's Science Fiction: Vol. 23, No. 10 & 11 [October/November 1999] (1999) — Editor; Contributor — 14 copies
Isaac Asimov's Science Fiction Magazine: Vol. 10, No. 12 [December 1986] (1986) — Editor — 13 copies
Isaac Asimov's Science Fiction Magazine: Vol. 10, No. 9 [September 1986] (1986) — Editor — 12 copies
Isaac Asimov's Science Fiction Magazine: Vol. 14, No. 14 [Mid-December 1990] (1990) — Editor — 12 copies
Isaac Asimov's Science Fiction Magazine: Vol. 14, No. 13 [December 1990] (1990) — Editor — 12 copies
Isaac Asimov's Science Fiction Magazine: Vol. 15, No. 10 [September 1991] (1991) — Editor — 12 copies
Asimov's Science Fiction: Vol. 21, No. 10 & 11 [October/November 1997] — Editor — 12 copies
Isaac Asimov's Science Fiction Magazine: Vol. 13, No. 9 [September 1989] (1989) — Editor — 12 copies
Isaac Asimov's Science Fiction Magazine: Vol. 16, No. 10 [September 1992] (1992) — Editor — 11 copies
Isaac Asimov's Science Fiction Magazine: Vol. 12, No. 9 [September 1988] (1988) — Editor — 11 copies
Isaac Asimov's Science Fiction Magazine: Vol. 12, No. 13 [Mid-December 1988] (1988) — Editor — 11 copies
Isaac Asimov's Science Fiction Magazine: Vol. 10, No. 11 [November 1986] (1986) — Editor — 11 copies
Isaac Asimov's Science Fiction Magazine: Vol. 11, No. 12 [December 1987] (1987) — Editor — 11 copies
Isaac Asimov's Science Fiction Magazine: Vol. 10, No. 13 [Mid-December 1986] (1986) — Editor — 11 copies
Isaac Asimov's Science Fiction Magazine: Vol. 11, No. 11 [November 1987] (1987) — Editor — 11 copies
Isaac Asimov's Science Fiction Magazine: Vol. 15, No. 14 [December 1991] (1991) — Editor — 10 copies
Isaac Asimov's Science Fiction Magazine: Vol. 13, No. 12 [December 1989] (1989) — Editor — 10 copies
Isaac Asimov's Science Fiction Magazine: Vol. 15, No. 15 [Mid-December 1991] (1991) — Editor — 10 copies
Isaac Asimov's Science Fiction Magazine: Vol. 13, No. 11 [November 1989] (1989) — Editor — 10 copies
Isaac Asimov's Science Fiction Magazine: Vol. 16, No. 4 & 5 [April 1992] (1992) — Editor — 10 copies
Isaac Asimov's Science Fiction Magazine: Vol. 12, No. 12 [December 1988] (1988) — Editor — 10 copies
Ancestral Voices 9 copies
A Knight of Ghosts and Shadows 9 copies
Asimov's Science Fiction: Vol. 26, No. 4 [April 2002] — Editor — 8 copies
Isaac Asimov's Science Fiction Magazine: Vol. 13, No. 13 [Mid-December 1989] (1989) — Editor — 8 copies
A Cat Horror Story 7 copies
Counterfactual 7 copies
Isaac Asimov's Science Fiction Magazine: Vol. 15, No. 12 & 13 [November 1991] (1991) — Editor — 7 copies
The Hanging Curve 6 copies
Fairy Tale 6 copies
Machines of Loving Grace 6 copies
Flash Point 6 copies
When the Great Days Came 6 copies
The Gods Of Mars — Author — 6 copies
Subterranean Magazine Spring 2009 — Editor — 5 copies
The Year's Best Science Fiction 2 5 copies
Golden Apples Of The Sun 5 copies
The City of God 5 copies
The Sacrifice 4 copies
Passage 4 copies
The Last Day Of July 3 copies
Touring 3 copies
The Man Who Waved Hello 3 copies
Community 3 copies
The Storm 3 copies
Asimov's Science Fiction, March 1994 3 copies
The Year's Best Science Fiction 1 2 copies
Il meglio della SF/II 2 copies
Strangers [novella] 2 copies
The Stray 2 copies
The Mayan Variation 2 copies
The Sound of Muzak 2 copies
The Year's Best Science Fiction 5 2 copies
Recidivist 2 copies
Mondi senza fine - parte 1 2 copies
Millemondi Inverno 1996 — Editor — 2 copies
Snow Job 2 copies
Where No Sun Shines 2 copies
Mulheres Perigosas - eBook 1 copy
Slow Dancing with Jesus 1 copy
The Visible Man 1 copy
A Change in the Weather 1 copy
Księga magii 1 copy
Mondi senza fine - parte 3 1 copy
Infiniti Universi - parte 1 1 copy
Expiation 1 copy
Time Bride 1 copy
The Clowns 1 copy
Send No Money 1 copy
In a Crooked Year 1 copy
King Harvest 1 copy
Conditioned Reflex 1 copy
Wires 1 copy
The Empty Man 1 copy
Travel Diary 1 copy
Unicorns II 1 copy
Inverno Horror 1992: Vampiri 1 copy
The Smoke of Gold is Glory 1 copy
Infiniti universi; parte 1 1 copy
ISAAC ASIMOV'S SCIENCE FICTION MAGAZINE: Vol. 18 No. 14 (#224) December (Dec) 1994 (Adaptation, The Blood of Angels) (1994) 1 copy
Sorciers et magie: Anthologie : George R.R. Martin, Robin Hobb, Scott Lynch, Tim Powers... (2023) 1 copy
Rock'n'roll Altitude 1 copy
Associated Works
The Vampire Archives: The Most Complete Volume of Vampire Tales Ever Published (2009) — Contributor — 187 copies
Gateways: A Feast of Great New Science Fiction Honoring Grand Master Frederik Pohl (2010) — Contributor — 95 copies
More Wandering Stars: Outstanding Stories of Jewish Fantasy and Science Fiction (1981) — Contributor — 93 copies
Field of Fantasies: Baseball Stories of the Strange and Supernatural (2014) — Contributor — 44 copies
Light Years and Dark: Science Fiction and Fantasy of and for Our Time (1984) — Contributor — 36 copies
Science Fiction Writers: Critical Studies of the Major Authors From the Early Nineteenth Century to the Present Day (1982) — Contributor — 33 copies
Nebula Awards 20: SFWA's Choices for the Best Science Fiction and Fantasy 1984 (1985) — Contributor — 28 copies
The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction October/November 1994, Vol. 87, No. 4 & 5 (1994) — Author — 28 copies
A Cross of Centuries: Twenty-five Imaginative Tales About the Christ (2007) — Contributor — 28 copies
Analog Science Fiction/Science Fact: Vol. XCV, No. 12 (December 1975) (1975) — Contributor — 22 copies
The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction September/October 2019, Vol. 137, Nos. 3 & 4 (1991) — Contributor — 15 copies
Isaac Asimov's Science Fiction Magazine: Vol. 9, No. 10 [October 1985] (1985) — Contributor — 14 copies
The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction May/June 2018, Vol. 134, Nos. 5 & 6 (2018) — Contributor — 13 copies
The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction April 2002, Vol. 102, No. 4 (2002) — Contributor — 9 copies
Locus, July 2011 (606) — Contributor — 1 copy
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Common Knowledge
- Legal name
- Dozois, Gardner Raymond
- Other names
- Dozois, Gardner
- Birthdate
- 1947-07-23
- Date of death
- 2018-05-27
- Gender
- male
- Nationality
- USA
- Birthplace
- Salem, Massachusetts, USA
- Place of death
- Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
- Cause of death
- Multiple system failure
- Places of residence
- Salem, Massachusetts, Amerika
New York City, New York, Amerika
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, Amerika - Education
- Salem High School
- Occupations
- editor
writer
science fiction author - Organizations
- Asimov's Science Fiction
- Awards and honors
- SF Hall Of Fame (2011)
Locus Award Finalist (Editor, 2017)
Locus Award (Editor, 2019)
Hugo (Best Editor - Short Form, 2019) - Agent
- Virginia Kidd
- Disambiguation notice
- Dozois' popular series The Year's Best Science Fiction has been reprinted as Best New SF and The Mammoth Book of Best New SF in the UK with different numbers than the US series. Some of the US volumes have never been reprinted in the UK. Some volumes have been reprinted in Australia under the names The Giant Book of Fantastic SF and The Giant Book of Modern SF (and possibly others).
Dozois' Best Science Fiction Stories of the Year is an unrelated series.
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• The Playroom • poem by Wendy Rathbone
• The Narcissus Plague • short story by Lisa Goldstein (Nominated for Nebula 1996)
• The Doll House • poem by Wendy Rathbone
• The Scream • novelette by Brian Stableford
• Out of the Quiet Years • novelette by G. David Nordley
• Future Past: An Exercise in Horror • poem by Bruce Boston
• Mrs. Lincoln's China • short story by M. Shayne Bell
• The Clown Doll • poem by Wendy Rathbone
• The Man in the Dinosaur Coat • novelette by John Alfred Taylor
• On Wanderer's Day • poem by William John Watkins
• Windrider • short story by Jack McDevitt
• Drink • short story by Mark W. Tiedemann
• The Lovers • (a Hwarhath story) • novelette by Eleanor Arnason
• On Books • essay by Paul Di Filippo
Eight stories in this issue, four novelettes and four short stories. Plus poems, illustrations, and essays. Mostly weak or uninteresting stories with some good to excellent ones.
This issue was the first to carry Robert Silverberg's Reflections column in Asimov's and it continues to this day. Thirty years on top of the sixteen or so years preceding in which it had been published in various forms in Galileo and Amazing Stories. A very long run and the columns are invariably very good.
Highlights for me:
The Narcissus Plague was not a bad story but I forgot details from it within a day. You can read it online, however. http://www.infinityplus.co.uk/stories/narc.htm
At the beginning of March I read a short story by Brian Stableford, who had just died, and I thought it dreadful. His novelette here, "The Scream" was much better and I did not see the twist at the end coming. A twist on the Frankenstein story. Glad I read it. There is an in depth analysis of the story, completely spoilery but interesting, here: https://marzaat.com/2023/06/17/biotech-revolution-the-scream/
This was near the start of G. David Nordley's short story writing career. He's highly regarded but I didn't have an opinion of what to expect when I read this other than his good reputation. I've read a couple of his stories before. Nordley is a hard science fiction writer, and the story caught my interest very quickly. "Out of the Quiet Years" is an exciting rescue set around Jupiter with some surprising twists. I am looking forward to finding more stories by Nordley.
After this, the stories lost my interest and varied from mainstream fiction to scifi to fantasy and somewhat didactic and pretentious at that.
The book essay by Di Filippo was very good.… (more)