Geodesic Dreams: The Best Short Fiction of Gardner Dozois

by Gardner Dozois, Robert Silverberg (Introduction)

Overview

A collection of stories from the legendary editor of Isaac Asimov's Science Fiction Magazine.

With a foreword by Grand Master of Science Fiction Robert Silverberg

Gardner Dozois's multifaceted, sharp-edged, surreal fiction has long been regarded among science fiction's finest offerings.

The fourteen masterworks in this volume of short fiction are unique and beautiful constructions whose images etch themselves indelibly in the reader's mind.

"Long before he became one of SF's premier editors, Dozois was one of the genre's most exciting writers. . . . With passages of lyric wonder and vivid, fully realized characters, Dozois here shows himself to be an outstanding writer." —Publishers Weekly

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781466830448
Publisher:	St. Martin's Press
Publication date:	07/02/2024
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	272
File size:	939 KB

About the Author

Gardner Dozois (1947-2018), one of the most acclaimed editors in science-fiction, has won the Hugo Award for Best Editor 15 times. He was the editor of Asimov's Science Fiction Magazine for 20 years. He is the editor of The Year's Best Science Fiction anthologies and co-editor of the Warrior anthologies, Songs of the Dying Earth, and many others. As a writer, Dozois twice won the Nebula Award for best short story. He was inducted into the Science Fiction Hall of Fame in 2011 and has received the Skylark Award for Lifetime Achievement. He lived in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
Astounding,  Galaxy and  The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction) and as his style deepened and themes expanded in through the next reached the first rank of science fiction writers. He is regarded as the greatest living writer of science fiction, an SFWA Grandmaster, ex-President (in the 1960’s) of that organization, winner of five Nebulas, four Hugos and many other domestic and foreign awards. Among his famous novels are  Dying Inside,  The Book of Skulls,  Downward to the Earth,  A Time of Changes; his novella  Born with the Dead (1974) is perhaps the finest work of that length published within the genre. Shifting to a predominating fantasy in the late 1970’s ( Lord Valentine’s Castle and the attendant Majipoor Series), Silverberg continued to write science fiction and won a Nebula in 1986 for the novella  Sailing to Byzantium, and Hugos for the novelettes  Gilgamesh in the Outback and  Enter a Soldier: Later, Enter Another. He was editor of the long-running original anthology series New Dimensions and of important reprint anthologies such as  The Science Fiction Hall of Fame,  Alpha, and  The Arbor House Treasury of Modern Science Fiction. 

Editorial Reviews

Dozois has been so conspicuous and justifiably honored as an editor during the past decade that his excellence as a writer has tended to be forgotten. This volume containing 14 of his short stories valuably introduced by Robert Silverberg will help correct that situation. Two of the stories, "The Peacemaker" and "Morning Child," are Nebula winners, several others have been nominated for that award, and others are collected here for the first time. Their substance frequently reflects an almost primordial "New Wave" orientation, but Dozois' command of English ensures this collection will be of much more than historical interest to at least larger sf collections.

Roland Green