Gardner R. Dozois was an American science fiction author and editor. He was the founding editor of The Year's Best Science Fiction anthologies, which he edited from 1984 to 2018, and was the editor of Asimov's Science Fiction magazine from 1986 to 2004. Dozois won multiple Hugo and Locus Awards for his work on these publications, and was also a two-time winner of the Nebula Award for Best Short Story. In 2011, he was inducted into the Science Fiction Hall of Fame.