Gardner Dozois

[Dave]

Gardner Raymond Dozois

born Salem, Massachusetts: 23 July 1947
died Philadelphia, Pennsylvania: 27 May 2018

Gardner Dozois was an American author of science fiction and fantasy, as novels and (predominantly) as short fiction, and as an editor of magazines and anthologies. His short fiction is available in several collections and he has also written non-fiction about SFF and authors.

From 1985 to 2004, he was the editor of Asimov's Science Fiction magazine.

Dozois’ first published short story was The Empty Man (1966) in If.

He has written 4 novels: Nightmare Blue (1975) (co-authored with George Alec Effinger); Strangers (1978); Hunter's Run (2007) (co-authored with George R. R. Martin and Daniel Abraham) and City Under the Stars (2020) (co-authored with Michael Swanwick).

He is best known for editing and co-editing numerous anthologies of short stories including The Year's Best Science Fiction series, Isaac Asimov's anthology series, Magic Tales Anthology Series, and a number of other cross-genre and themed anthology series.

A list of his works is to be found here: Summary Bibliography: Gardner Dozois

Wikipedia page: Gardner Dozois - Wikipedia

 

[BAYLOR]

I know of him but have not read any of his fiction . I do have an anthology that he he co edited with George R RMartin
Songs of the Dying Earth : Stories In Honor of Jack Vance. Stories by other writer set in Jack Vances Dying Earth universe. and its fine collection. Im going to lip some his fiction too.

 

[Alex The G and T]

I subscribed to ANALOG magazine since the mid- 80's. Along about the mid nineties this online bit about online discussion groups began to gain traction among advanced computer nerds. ANALOG and Asimov's magazine had the same publisher, which outfit launched a lively pair of discussion groups. Well, ANALOG led to Asimov's and Gardner, long time editor of Asimov's, was an active participant in Asimov's online forum.

Gardner was a remarkably affable presence; a core anchor to a treasured community. Authors recently published, or hoping to be published dropped by regularly. Gardner was a bit of a rapscallion. He had stories about 50 years of Cons, and Authors and plenty of crazy antics and practical jokes. Way back before Trolls became a thing, there were no rules. Nobody posted anything too outrageous; but we got away with things and Gardner was as shameless as the rest of us.

I subscribed to Asimov's and bought all of the "Best of the Year..." series and many other collections and stories by Dozois. i guess I loved his voice, in fiction and in person.



Ah, well, the Mags got sold. Gardner retired. The forae collapsed, cataclysmically. A great loss.