DOZOIS, Gardner R(aymond) 1947-

PERSONAL: Born July 23, 1947, in Salem, MA; son of Raymond (a factory worker) and Dorothy (McSwiggin) Dozois.

ADDRESSES: Home and office—526 Spruce St., Philadelphia, PA 19106. Agent—Virginia Kidd, Box 278, Milford, PA 18337.

CAREER: Writer and editor, 1966—. Isaac Asimov's Science Fiction Magazine, associate editor, 1976-77, editor, 1985—. Editor of Isaac Asimov Presents novel line. Military service: U.S. Army, 1966-69; served as military journalist.

MEMBER: Science Fiction Writers of America.

AWARDS, HONORS: Nebula Award for best short story, Science Fiction Writers of America, 1983, for "The Peacemaker," and 1984, for "Morning Child"; several Hugo Awards for his work as an editor.

WRITINGS:

(With George Alec Effinger) Nightmare Blue, Berkley Publishing (New York, NY), 1975.

The Fiction of James Tiptree, Jr., Algol Press (New York, NY), 1977.

Visible Man, Berkley Publishing (New York, NY), 1977.

Strangers, Berkley Publishing (New York, NY), 1978.

(With Jack Dann) Slow Dancing through Time, Ursus Imprints (Kansas City, MO), 1990.

Geodesic Dreams: The Best Short Fiction of Gardner Dozois, St. Martin's Press (New York, NY), 1992.

Strange Days: Fabulous Journeys with Gardner Dozois, edited by Timothy Szczesuil and Ann A. Broomhead, privately published, 2001.

EDITOR; SCIENCE FICTION SHORT STORY ANTHOLOGIES

A Day in the Life, Harper (New York, NY), 1972.

(Contributor) Chains of the Sea: Three Original Novellas of Science Fiction, by Geo. Alec Effinger, Gardner R. Dozois [and] Gordon Eklund, T. Nelson (Nashville, TN), 1973.

(With Jack M. Dann) Future Power, Random House (New York, NY), 1976.

Another World, Follett, 1977.

Best Science Fiction Stories of the Year, Dutton (New York, NY), 1977-1981.

(With Jack M. Dann) Aliens!, Pocket Books (New York, NY), 1980.

(With Jack M. Dann) Unicorns!, Ace Books (New York, NY), 1982.

(With Jack M. Dann) Magicats!, Ace Books (New York, NY), 1984.

The Year's Best Science Fiction, Bluejay (New York, NY), 1984-85, St. Martin's Press (New York, NY), 1986-2003.

(With Jack M. Dann) Beastiary!, Ace Books (New York, NY), 1985.

(With Jack M. Dann) Mermaids, Ace Books (New York, NY), 1986.

(With Jack M. Dann) Sorcerers!, Ace Books (New York, NY), 1986.

(With Jack M. Dann) Demons!, Ace Books (New York, NY), 1987.

The Best From Isaac Asimov's Science Fiction Magazine, Ace Books (New York, NY), 1988.

(With Jack M. Dann) Dogtails!, Ace Books (New York, NY), 1988.

Transcendental Tales from Isaac Asimov's Science Fiction Magazine, foreword by Charles Ardai, Donning (Norfolk, VA), 1989.

(With others) Writing Science Fiction and Fantasy, St. Martin's Press (New York, NY), 1991.

(Contributor) Pulphouse Science-Fiction Short Stories, Pulphouse (Eugene, OR), 1991.

(With Jack M. Dann) Unicorns II, Ace Books (New York, NY), 1992.

Modern Classics of Science Fiction, St. Martin's Press (New York, NY), 1992.

(With Jack M. Dann) Invaders!, Ace Books (New York, NY), 1993.

(With Jack M. Dann) Dragons!, Ace Books (New York, NY), 1993.

(With Mike Resnick) Future Earths: Under African Skies, DAW Books (New York, NY), 1993.

Modern Classic Short Novels of Science Fiction, St. Martin's Press (New York, NY), 1993.

Isaac Asimov's War, Ace Books (New York, NY), 1993.

(With Sheila Williams) Isaac Asimov's Cyberdreams, Ace Books (New York, NY), 1994.

Killing Me Softly: Erotic Tales of Unearthly Love, HarperPrism (New York, NY), 1995.

(With Sheila Williams) Isaac Asimov's Skin Deep, Ace Books (New York, NY), 1995.

(With Sheila Williams) Isaac Asimov's Ghosts, Ace Books (New York, NY), 1995.

(With Jack M. Dann) Angels!, Ace Books (New York, NY), 1995.

(With Sheila Williams) Isaac Asimov's Vampires, Ace Books (New York, NY), 1996.

Modern Classics of Fantasy, St. Martin's Griffin (New York, NY), 1997.

Dying for It: More Erotic Tales of Unearthly Love, HarperPrism (New York, NY), 1997.

(With Sheila Williams) Isaac Asimov's Christmas, Ace Books (New York, NY), 1997.

(With Jack M. Dann) Timegates, Ace Books (New York, NY), 1997.

(With Sheila Williams) Isaac Asimov's Moons, Ace Books (New York, NY), 1997.

The Good Old Stuff: Adventure SF in the Grand Tradition, St. Martin's Griffin (New York, NY), 1998.

(Coeditor) Roads Not Taken: Tales of Alternate History, Del Rey/Ballantine (New York, NY), 1998.

(With Sheila Williams) Isaac Asimov's Camelot, Ace Books (New York, NY), 1998.

(With Jack M. Dann) Nanotech, Ace Books (New York, NY), 1998.

The Good New Stuff: Adventure SF in the Grand Tradition, St. Martin's Griffin (New York, NY), 1999.

(Coeditor) Isaac Asimov's Valentines, Ace Books (New York, NY), 1999.

(With Sheila Williams) Isaac Asimov's Solar System, Ace Books (New York, NY), 1999.

(With Sheila Williams) Isaac Asimov's Utopias, Ace Books (New York, NY), 2000.

The Mammoth Book of Best New Science Fiction: Thirteenth Anuual Collection, Robinson (London, England), 2000.

Explorers: SF Adventures to Far Horizons, St. Martin's Griffin (New York, NY), 2000.

The Furthest Horizon: SF Adventures to the Far Future, St. Martin's Griffin (New York, NY), 2000.

(With Jack M. Dann) Aliens among Us, Ace Books (New York, NY), 2000.

(With Jack M. Dann) Space Soldiers, Ace Books (New York, NY), 2000.

(With Sheila Williams) Isaac Asimov's Mother's Day, Ace Books (New York, NY), 2000.

(With Jack M. Dann) Armageddons, Turtleback Books, 2000.

(With Jack M. Dann) Genometry, Ace Books (New York, NY), 2001.

(With Sheila Williams) Isaac Asimov's Father's Day, Ace Books (New York, NY), 2001.

(With Sheila Williams) Isaac Asimov's Halloween, Ace Books (New York, NY), 2001.

Worldmakers: SF Adventures in Terraforming, St. Martin's Griffin (New York, NY), 2001.

Supermen: Tales of the Posthuman Future, St. Martin's Griffin (New York, NY), 2002.

(With Jack M. Dann) Beyond Flesh, Ace Books (New York, NY), 2002.

Contributor of science fiction short stories to periodicals, including Playboy, Omni, Penthouse, Oui, Analog, and Isaac Asimov's Science Fiction Magazine.

SIDELIGHTS: Gardner R. Dozois is perhaps best known for his several years of service at the helm of Isaac Asimov's Science Fiction Magazine, as well as for the many anthologies of short science fiction which he has edited, alone and with others. He is also a writer, however, and has won the prestigious Nebula Award for his own short science fiction stories, "The Peacemaker" and "Morning Child." Dozois wrote a novel, Strangers, which appeared in 1978. According to a writer for the fourth edition of the St. James Guide to Science Fiction Writers, in Strangers, "Dozois presents Joseph Faber, a human from Earth with an alien lover named Liraun." The writer goes on to explain that the couple is "shunned by the non-human Cian and the human trade community," and that "in this tremendously sad story, Dozois develops the theme of alienation, and the impossibility of ever knowing another person—hence the title Strangers." The writer concluded: "This very moving novel is one of the forgotten and ignored classics of the 1970s." Many of Dozois's own short science fiction stories appeared in the 1992 collection Geodesic Dreams. This volume prompted a Publishers Weekly reviewer to label the author and editor "one of the genre's most exciting writers."

Dozois has also won many awards for his work as an editor. Alone and with others such as Jack Dann, Mike Resnick, and Sheila Williams, he has edited collections of similarly-themed stories culled from various issues of Isaac Asimov's Science Fiction Magazine. These titles include Future Earths: Under South American Skies, which according to a Publishers Weekly critic, "transports readers to South American latitudes that are as exotic and exciting as the farthest stars"; and Modern Classics of Fantasy, which prompted Roland Green in Booklist to announce that "as an introduction to modern American fantasy, this book could hardly be surpassed." Though Dozois possesses many editorial credits of this type, he is even more strongly associated with his yearly collections, The Year's Best Science Fiction, which he began editing in 1984. Reviewers of these volumes frequently use superlatives to describe them, and they typically include tales by such science fiction greats as Nancy Kress, Ian R. MacLeod, Ursula K. LeGuin, Ben Bova, and Robert Silverberg, as well as others by rising stars in the genre. As J. Stephen Bolhafner concluded in the St. Louis Post-Dispatch, "There is no one source that will give you as good a feel for the possibilities of the science fiction genre, and how those possibilities were fulfilled last year, than this annual collection."

BIOGRAPHICAL AND CRITICAL SOURCES:

BOOKS

St. James Guide to Science Fiction Writers, 4th edition, St. James Press (Detroit, MI), 1996.

PERIODICALS

Booklist, December 1, 1996, Roland Green, review of Modern Classics of Fantasy, p. 643.

Locus, December, 1997, interview with Gardner Dozois; July, 2002, Gary K. Wolfe, "Locus Looks at Books," pp. 17, 19, 58.

Publishers Weekly, September 14, 1992, review of Geodesic Dreams, pp. 114-115; July 5, 1993, review of Future Earths: Under South American Skies, p. 68.

St. Louis Post-Dispatch, August 31, 1997, J. Stephen Bolhafner, "As Usual, Dozois' Collection Is Best in Genre," p. 5C.*