12 Facts About Gardner Dozois

Gardner Raymond Dozois was an American science fiction author and editor.

Gardner Dozois was the founding editor of The Year's Best Science Fiction anthologies and was editor of Asimov's Science Fiction, garnering multiple Hugo and Locus Awards for those works almost every year.

Gardner Dozois won the Nebula Award for Best Short Story twice.

Gardner Dozois was inducted to the Science Fiction Hall of Fame on June 25,2011.

Gardner Dozois graduated from Salem High School with the Class of 1965.

Gardner Dozois was badly injured in a taxi accident after returning from a Philadelphia Phillies game in 2004 but made a full recovery.

On July 6,2007, Gardner Dozois had surgery for a planned quintuple bypass operation.

Gardner Dozois died on May 27,2018, of a systemic infection at a hospital in Philadelphia at the age of 70.

Michael Swanwick, one of his co-authors, completed a long interview with Gardner Dozois covering every published piece of his fiction.

Gardner Dozois was 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.

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

Gardner Dozois edited volumes six through ten of the Best Science Fiction Stories of the Year series after Lester del Rey edited the first five volumes.