gardner dozois

Another monumental loss -- Gardner Dozois reportedly passed away today due to "overwhelming systemic infection". Wish I could have met you -- RIP, sir.

Another long-standing member of my reading pile! This anthology, published in 1998, consists of alternate history stories which appeared in the magazines Asimov's Science Fiction and Analog Science Fiction and Fact, whose editors have made the selection. The book commences with a brief...

The Year’s Best Science Fiction: Twenty-second Annual Collection Gardner Dozois (editor) St. Martin’s, Jul 2005, $19.95, 662 pp. ISBN: 0312336608 Each year this series is always one of the best anthologies on the market as evidenced by the numerous awards including several over the last year...

The Year’s Best Science Fiction Edited by Gardner Dozois St. Martin’s, Jul 2006, $19.95 ISBN: 0312353340 As always the latest compilation in this annual science fiction anthology remains one of the great anthologies as the current entries are top rate. For the most part, the thirty...

The Best of the Best: 20 Years of the Best Short Science Fiction Novels, Volume 2 Edited by Gardner Dozois St. Martin’s Press, Feb 2007, $40.00 ISBN: 0312363419 Following up on the first edition of the Best of the Best (short story oriented), Gardner Dozois fills the second collection with...

Wizards Edited by Jack Dann and Gardner Dozois Berkley, May 2007, $25.00 ISBN 0425215180 Gandalf the Grey fans will want to read this nineteenth story fantasy collection that star wizards in fresh tales not printed before. The authors are a who’s who of the genre with no pretenders and none...

The New Space Opera Gardner Dozois (editor) and Jonathan Strahan (editor) Eos, Jun 2007, $15.95 ISBN: 0060846755 In the Introduction to this anthology consisting of eighteen original contributions, the definition of the space opera subplot is discussed with various sources like the Encyclopedia...

Hunter’s Run George R.R. Martin, Gardner Dozois and Daniel Abraham Eos, Jan 2008, $25.95 ISBN 9780061373299 As humanity has entered space beyond our solar system with arrogance and pride, they are quickly put back in their place when they realize there is a horde of space traveling species out...

The Year’s Best Science Fiction Twenty-Fourth Annual Collection Edited by Gardner Dozois St. Martin’s, Jul 2007, $21.95 ISBN: 9780312363352 As always this annual collection is the best science fiction anthology of the year. Besides the strong selection of twenty-eight stories, the Summation...

The Year’s Best Science Fiction: Twenty-Fifth Annual Collection Gardner Dozois (Editor) St. Martin’s, Jul 2008, $21.95 ISBN: 0312378602 This anthology consistently lives up to its billing as the best with the usual strong Introduction by editor Garner Dozois providing an overview of the year...

The Dragon Book Jack Dann and Gardner Dozois (Editors) Ace, Nov 2009, $24.95 ISBN: 9780441017645 With nineteen entries by a virtual who’s who of fantasy, fans will enjoy this themed collection that look deep into the eyes of Dragons; as the editors explain in the preface: “by far the most...

Warriors George R.R. Martin and Gardner Dozois Tor, Mar 16 2010, $27.99 ISBN: 9780765320483 Through time memorial, Warriors have fought for and defended their country and will do so in the future. In fiction, Warriors appear in every genre; they turn up in the past, present and future; are...

The Year’s best Science Fiction Twenty-Seventh Annual Collection Gardner Dozois (editor) St. Martin’s Griffin, Jul 6 2010, $21.99 ISBN: 9780312608989 This anthology always lives up to its hyped title as the “best” as Gardner Dozois does his usual yeoman’s job of selecting from print and the net...

Songs of Love and Death: All-Original Tales of Star-Crossed Love George R.R. Martin and Gardner Dozois (Editors) Gallery (Pocket), Nov 16 2010, $26.00 ISBN: 9781439150146 Songs of Love contains seventeen winning well written entries that explore the area where fantasy, science fiction, and...

Songs of the Dying Earth George R.R. Martin and Gardner Dozois (editors) Tor, Dec 7 2010, $27.99 ISBN: 9780765320865 Sixty years ago Jack Vance issued the classic Dying Earth saga in which magic practitioners, demons, other hostile paranormal and normal species fight for power when the red sun...

The Year’s Best Science Fiction 29th Annual Collection Edited by Gardner Dozois St Martins, Jul 3 2012, $21.99 ISBN 9781250003553 This annual collection consistently is one of the best and the latest anthology obtains the high standard due to the overall strength of the thirty-five entries. My...

(This is an html2vbcode conversion of the original.) Review: The Year's Best Science Fiction: Thirty-First Annual Collection, edited by Gardner Dozois Overview: "Ashes to ashes, dust to dust..." Just to make things clear, overall Gardner Dozois' 31st rendition of the The Year's Best...

14th August 2013 06:05 AM J-Sun At one point, when making my way through a particularly dense thicket of prose, it occurred to me that reading the Annual can be like eating my vegetables, but there is some dessert in here, too, and some people like vegetables. Introduction: By the Numbers...

I don't normally buy anthologies but read a very good review of this one so I added it to my "to read" pile. It took a couple of years before I pulled it out, though; the occasion being a travelling-light holiday abroad for which I needed one book which would keep me entertained for the entire...

Millions of years hence, the Sun has grown old, bloated and red and is about to go out. In these dying days humanity, now capable of great feats of magic, shares the much-changed Earth with hostile races such as the deodands and pelgranes. This is the vivid setting of Jack Vance's Dying Earth...