The New York Review of Science Fiction

Issue 349 Table of Contents

• Michael Swanwick: From A to Z with Gardner Dozois
• Allen M. Steele: Gardner Dozois, Ed.
• Gordon Van Gelder: Eleven of My Favorite Gardner Dozois Memories
• Joe Haldeman: Gardner Dozois: Memories
• Nancy Kress: Gardner Dozois: Eagle Eye and Big Heart
• George R.R. Martin: Goodbye, Gargy
• Michael Bishop: A Friend in Philadelphia: Gardner Dozois
• Jack Dann: Drowning in Memory
• Patty Wells: Gardner Dozois’s Patented Pickup Line
• The Centerfold
• Howard Waldrop: GARDNER
• John Kessel: Gardner Dozois
• Mike Resnick: On Gardner
• Eileen Gunn: The Quiet Gardner Dozois
• F. Brett Cox: To Gardner
• Andy Duncan: Remembering Gardner
• Sheila Williams: Gardner
• Lynne M. Thomas and Michael Damian Thomas: Mt. Gardner
• My Darling, My Jets of Semen: Nisi Shawl Goes On about Gardner Dozois
• Michael Bishop: “Sitting in the Sun in the Waist-High Grass”: On “The Last Day of July” by Gardner Dozois
• Darrell Schweitzer: Will the Real Gardner...?
• Henry Wessells: The Archive
• Gregory Frost: Gardner Dozois, Performance Artist
• Fran Wilde: Oh, You Know Gardner Dozois, Of Course
• Samuel R. Delany: In Philadelphia
• Gordon Van Gelder: Editorial Secrets of Gardner Dozois—Revealed!
• Editorial: Gardner, Seen from Afar

NYRSF 349 Editorial: Gardner, Seen from Afar

This issue began when Michael Swanwick e-mailed me “From A to Z with Gardner Dozios” with the comment “I presume you’ll also be putting together a Gardner-themed issue sometime soon ...”, and in that moment I knew we were. Michael was an enormous help with brainstorming and contacting contributors and this issue owes him an immeasurable debt.

I did not know Gardner nearly as well as I would have liked. I met him at conventions, mostly Worldcons, mostly in passing because he was generally being pulled in a dozen different directions at once. Even under those circumstances, his unmistakable intelligence, charm, and humor came through.

Gordon Van Gelder: Editorial Secrets of Gardner Dozois—Revealed!

(1) When I was starting out, I used to ask Gardner a lot of questions about his editorial work at Asimov’s. Gardner did not alter the ending of Howard Waldrop’s “Do Ya, Do Ya, Wanna Dance?” He did cut a portion out of Judith Moffett’s “The Hob.” He said it didn’t advance the story.

(2) Gardner delighted in gossip about other editors. He particularly liked telling stories about Roger Elwood, like the Lunacon where Roger held a panel in which he asked trivia questions about movies and whenever anyone got a correct answer, he’d throw a Ring Ding or a Snowball or a Twinkie their way. Gardner said that Roger’s way of assembling an anthology was that he had a long table with stacks of stories on it—one stack was Effinger stories, another stack was Lafferty stories, et cetera. And when the time came to assemble an anthology, he’d simply walk around the table and take one manuscript off each stack.