John Joseph Adams

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John Joseph Adams
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Born (1976-07-31) July 31, 1976 (age 49)
OccupationEditor, journalist, essayist
GenreScience fiction, fantasy
Website
johnjosephadams.com

John Joseph Adams (born July 31, 1976) is an American science fiction and fantasy editor, critic, and publisher.

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Career

Editor

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Adams in 2009

Adams worked as Assistant Editor at The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction from May 2001 to December 2009. In January 2010 he left F&SF to edit Lightspeed Magazine , an online science fiction magazine which launched June 1, 2010. In March 2011, he took charge of its sister magazine, Fantasy Magazine . In June 2012, Adams and Creeping Hemlock Press successfully closed a $7,500 Kickstarter campaign [1] for funding Nightmare Magazine, the first issue of which released October 2012. Originally the co-publisher and editor-in-chief, Adams now serves as publisher.

Publisher

In November 2011, Adams purchased Lightspeed and Fantasy Magazine from Sean Wallace of Prime Books. [2] With the January 2012 issue, the first published under Adams's ownership, the content of both magazines was combined under the Lightspeed masthead, and Fantasy Magazine was discontinued as an entity. [3] The Fantasy Magazine staff was also absorbed into Lightspeed.

In 2015, Adams became the editor-at-large of John Joseph Adams Books in partnership with Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. [4]

Podcaster

Since January 2010 Adams and science fiction author David Barr Kirtley have produced and hosted Geek's Guide to the Galaxy .

Accolades

His anthology The Living Dead was named one of the "Best Books of the Year" by Publishers Weekly. He has been called "The reigning king of the anthology world" by Barnes & Noble.com, and in 2011 he was named one of "100+ Geeks to Follow on Twitter" by TechRepublic.

WorkYear & AwardCategoryResultRef.
Wastelands: Stories of the Apocalypse 2009 Locus Award AnthologyNominated [5]
2010 FantLab's Book of the Year Award AnthologyNominated
The Living Dead2009 World Fantasy Award AnthologyNominated
2009 FantLab's Book of the Year AwardAnthologyWon
The Improbable Adventures of Sherlock Holmes2010 Locus AwardAnthologyNominated [6]
Federations2010 Locus AwardAnthologyNominated [7]
The Way of the Wizard2011 Locus AwardAnthologyNominated [8]
2011 World Fantasy AwardAnthologyNominated
Lightspeed 2011 Hugo Award Professional Editor (Short Form)Nominated
2012 Hugo AwardProfessional Editor (Short Form)Nominated
2013 Hugo AwardProfessional Editor (Short Form)Nominated
2014 Hugo AwardProfessional Editor (Short Form)Nominated
2014 Hugo AwardSemiprozineWon
2015 Hugo AwardSemiprozineWon
2016 Hugo AwardProfessional Editor (Short Form)Nominated
2017 Hugo AwardProfessional Editor (Short Form)Nominated
2018 Hugo AwardProfessional Editor (Short Form)Nominated
2015 British Fantasy Award Magazine/PeriodicalNominated
Epic: Legends of Fantasy2013 Locus AwardAnthologyNominated [9]
2013 World Fantasy AwardAnthologyNominated
The Best American Science Fiction and Fantasy 2016

(with Karen Joy Fowler)

2017 World Fantasy AwardAnthologyNominated
Cosmic Powers2018 Locus AwardAnthologyNominated [10]
A People's Future of the United States2020 Locus AwardAnthologyNominated [11]
2020 Ignyte AwardsAnthology/Collected WorksFinalist [12]
Out There Screaming: An Anthology of New Black Horror

(with Jordan Peele)

2024 British Fantasy AwardAnthologyNominated
2024 Locus AwardAnthologyWon [13]
2024 World Fantasy AwardAnthologyNominated
2024 Ignyte AwardsAnthology/Collected WorksFinalist [14]
2024 Kitschies Inky Tentacle (Best Cover Art)Won

Bibliography

Short fiction

Anthologies edited


Critical studies and reviews of Adams' work

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