They had their own excitements, perhaps more than any year since 2015 in Spokane, the Year of the Puppies (and, more happily, the Alfies). Robert Silverberg presided, and it was all incredibly exciting.įast forward to this year’s Hugo Awards in Dublin.
The awards were presented at a dinner back then, and I could not afford a ticket (they were priced outrageously, at something like seven bucks), so I watched the proceedings from a balcony, standing. I have been attending the Hugo ceremony since my very first worldcon in 1971. The annual presentation of the Hugo Awards is always one of the high points of worldcon. Copies available from your local bookstore or favorite online bookseller… and, of course, from Beastly Books at We were very pleased with how it came out. As with WARRIORS, ROGUES, and DANGEROUS WOMEN, this was a crossgenre book, featuring writers from many different fields. whatever the title, it was a fun book to edit, and we put together a wonderful lineup of contributors. He wanted to title it STAR-CROSSED LOVERS, which I rather like, but the publisher wanted “Death” in there, and of course the “Songs” in the title evoked many of my own collections. This one was Gardner’s idea, as I recall. I always will.Įditors, like writers, survive in their work, however, and I am pleased to announce that one of the books we did together, SONGS OF LOVE & DEATH, has just been re-released in a new edition. Gardner and I had hoped to do many more anthologies together… but he was taken from us in 2018.
#TOR BOOKS SLUSH PILE PROFESSIONAL#
He won the Hugo for Best Professional Editor sixteen times, a record unlikely to be broken.
He edited ASIMOV’S for decades, and put together his massive landmark BEST volumes annually. He was also one of the greatest editors in the history of science fiction and fantasy. Gardner was an old friend, and a dear friend, the first person I ever met at the very first SF con I ever attended, and the guy who fished me out of the slushpile. The most enjoyable editorial work I’ve ever done, however, was on the crossgenre anthologies I co-edited with Gardner Dozois. Editing the mosaics, weaving the stories together, is the most difficult and demanding sort of editing there is, in my opinion, but I love it. Three more volumes are under contract and I am working on them now look for them in 20. The thirtieth book in the series, JOKER MOON, will be released in 2021, and the thirty-first, a collection of stories from Tor.com, will follow in short order.
(Melinda Snodgrass edited THREE KINGS, and we co-edited LOWBALL). Over the decades, twenty-nine volumes of Wild Cards have been published, and I’ve edited twenty-seven-and-a-half of them. (We did have a seven year hiatus in there, but never mind). My longest running editorial gig is, of course, WILD CARDS, which started in 1987 and is still going strong today. I would ultimately edit six of those annual (well, in theory) Campbell Award anthologies. I lost, but editing the book made up for that). The first anthology I ever edited was NEW VOICES IN SCIENCE FICTION, featuring original stories by the finalists for the very first John W.
#TOR BOOKS SLUSH PILE PRO#
I have been an editor almost as long as I have been a professional writer (I have been a writer since forever, but I was not a pro until I made my first sale to GALAXY in 1970).
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