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Gardner Dozois [1947-0] American
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Gardner Raymond Dozois is an American science fiction author and editor. He is the founding editor of The Year's Best Science Fiction anthologies and was editor of Asimov's Science Fiction magazine, garnering multiple Hugo and Locus Awards for those works almost every year.


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Philadelphia's a good science-fiction town. There are many professional writers here, like Michael Swanwick, Tom Purdom, Gregory Frost, Victoria McManus and others. There are professional artists such as Bob Walters and Tess Kissinger and Susan McAninley.
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Even after all these years, finding a really first-rate story is still a thrill, one I want to share with others.
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When I first started editing a 'Year's Best' volume in the '70s, the job was pretty straightforward - there were three or four monthly magazines to read and a few original anthologies from trade publishers every year.
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An experienced slush-pile reader doesn't need more than a few seconds to see if a story has potential. You don't need to eat all of a rotten egg to determine that it's rotten.
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I've probably read more bad science fiction than anyone else alive. But I've also read more good science fiction than anyone else alive.
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When I was a boy in Salem, Mass., in the 1950s, if you wanted to buy a book, you had to take a train to Boston. And when you got there, to a bookstore, there was no such thing as a science-fiction section.
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What science fiction does is take what might be possible someday and examine what might happen if it were - the drawbacks and the positive things.
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