Gardner Dozois

Gardner Raymond Dozois is an American science fiction author and editor. He was editor of Asimov's Science Fiction magazine from 1984 to 2004. He has won multiple Hugo and Nebula awards, both as an editor and a writer of short fiction. Dozois was born July 23, 1947 in Salem, Massachusetts From 1966 to '69 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. Dozois has said that he turned to reading fiction partially as an escape from the provincialism of his home town. He 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, Dozois had surgery for a planned quintuple bypass operation. A week later, he experienced complications which prompted additional surgery to implant a defibrillator. He was later said to be recovering and preparing to return home from hospital. He currently lives in Philadelphia. As a writer, Dozois has mainly worked in shorter forms.
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