Strange Days: Fabulous Journeys with Gardner Dozois

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Summary: Travels With Gardner
Review: Great collection of material - fiction and nonfiction - issued to honor Gardner being a Guest of Honor of the 2001 World Science Fiction Convention. Though justly known for his editing (Asimov's, the annual Best collection, the never-ending Noun-Exclamation Point anthologies co-edited with Jack Dann) he began his career as a writer. And he's good. Really good. What the SF field gained with an editor, we lost a really good writer. And if you want more Dozois, try the recently published book: Being Gardner Dozois, an interview by Michael Swanwick.

Rating:
Summary: Travels With Gardner
Review: Great collection of material - fiction and nonfiction - issued to honor Gardner being a Guest of Honor of the 2001 World Science Fiction Convention. Though justly known for his editing (Asimov's, the annual Best collection, the never-ending Noun-Exclamation Point anthologies co-edited with Jack Dann) he began his career as a writer. And he's good. Really good. What the SF field gained with an editor, we lost a really good writer. And if you want more Dozois, try the recently published book: Being Gardner Dozois, an interview by Michael Swanwick.

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Summary: A superb, gifted author.
Review: I'm a Gardner Dozois fan. His latest collection will hopefully give a suitable answer as to why; his writing is lyrical, poetic in a grand sense. One can feel the characters and the living, breathing vein of realism only apparent in true authors, the sort who are able to create magic with words. "Morning Child," "Chains of the Sea," "A Special Kind of Morning"; all beautiful stories, well told by an erudite master of the craft. What we may have gained with a superb editor, we lost with an even better author.