Almost Complete Short Fiction by Gardner Dozois (.ePUB)
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Almost Complete Short Fiction (Jerry eBooks, 2025) by Gardner Dozois
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Overview: Gardner Raymond Dozois was born on July 23, 1947 in Salem, Massachusetts. He graduated from Salem High School with the Class of 1965. From 1966 to 1969 he served in the Army as a journalist, after which he moved to New York City to work as an editor in the science fiction field. He often said that he turned to reading fiction partially as an escape from the provincialism of his home town.
Dozois is known primarily as an editor, winning the Hugo Award for Best Professional Editor 15 times in 17 years from 1988 to his retirement from Asimov’s in 2004. In addition to his work with Asimov’s (of which he was the first associate editor in 1976), he also worked in the 1970s with magazines such as Galaxy Science Fiction, If, Worlds of Fantasy, and Worlds of Tomorrow. He was also a prolific 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. In three decades Locus readers have voted it the year’s best anthology almost 20 times and the runner-up almost 10 times. And, with Jack Dann, he edited a long series of themed anthologies, each with a self-explanatory title such as Cats, Dinosaurs, Seaserpents, or Hackers.
Stories selected by Gardner Dozois for the annual best-of-year volumes have won, as of December 2015, 44 Hugos, 41 Nebulas, 32 Locus, 10 World Fantasy and 18 Sturgeon Awards.
Dozois consistently expressed a particular interest in adventure SF and space opera, which he collectively referred to as “center-core SF”.
In addition to editing, Dozois also published a great deal of his own fiction. His first published story was “The Empty Man” for the September 1966 issue of If. He wrote four well-received novels; beginning with Nightmare Blue in 1975.
Dozois was badly injured in a taxi accident after returning from a Philadelphia Phillies game in 2004 (causing him to miss Worldcon for the first time in many years) but made a full recovery. On July 6, 2007, Dozois had surgery for a planned quintuple bypass operation. A week later, he experienced complications which prompted additional surgery to implant a defibrillator.
Gardner Dozois died on May 27, 2018, of a systemic infection at a hospital in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania at the age of 70.
Genre: Fiction > Sci-Fi/Fantasy
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