Gardner Dozois - Editorial Work

Editorial Work

Dozois is perhaps best known as an editor, winning a record 15 Hugo Awards for Best Professional Editor (having won nearly every year between 1988 and his retirement from Asimov's in 2004). In addition to his work with Asimov's (which he also co-founded in 1976), he also worked in the 1970s with magazines such as Galaxy Science Fiction, If, Worlds of Fantasy, and Worlds of Tomorrow.

Dozois is a well-known short fiction anthologist. After resigning from his Asimov's position, he remained 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.

Dozois has consistently expressed a particular interest in adventure SF and space opera, which he collectively refers to as "center-core SF".

Michael Swanwick, with whom Dozois has collaborated on fiction, published with Old Earth Books a book-length interview with him in 2001. Titled Being Gardner Dozois, it covered each published piece of fiction Dozois ever wrote. In 2002 it was nominated in the category Hugo Award for Best Related Book It won the 2002 Locus Award for Non-Fiction.