Science fiction has been shaped as a literary genre by both
science fiction authors and
science fiction editors.
Notable science fiction editors have included:
- Ben Bova - successor to Campbell at Analog, later became the editor of Omni magazine[?]
- Anthony Boucher[?], editor of Fantasy and Science Fiction
- Marion Zimmer Bradley, editor of Sword and Sorceress anthologies and Marion Zimmer Bradley's Fantasy Magazine
- John W. Campbell, editor of Analog Science Fiction magazine
- John Carnell[?], edited New Worlds Science fiction[?] for its first 18 years.
- Terry Carr[?]
- Groff Conklin, noted anthologist
- Ellen Datlow[?], editor at Omni, Event Horizon, SCIFICTION, Year's Best Fantasy and Horror, and several other anthologies
- Avram Davidson[?], editor of Fantasy and Science Fiction
- August Derleth, H.P. Lovecraft's literary executor, and founder of Arkham House
- Gardner Dozois, current editor, Isaac Asimov's Science Fiction Magazine[?]
- Harlan Ellison, editor of Dangerous Visions anthology
- Roger Elwood[?], who produced so many paperback original anthologies in the 1970s that he saturated the anthology market for several years.
- Edward L. Ferman[?], editor of The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction[?]
- David S. Garrett[?]
- Hugo Gernsback, editor of Amazing Stories magazine
- H. L. Gold[?], editor of Galaxy magazine
- Cele Goldsmith Lalli[?], editor of Amazing Stories and Fantastic[?] magazines
- Martin Harry Greenberg[?]
- David Hartwell[?]
- Damon Knight, editor of the Orbit[?] series of original anthologies
- Warren Lapine[?], editor and publisher of Absolute Magnitude and DNA Publications
- Shawna McCarthy[?], editor of Realms of Fantasy, one-time editor of Isaac Asimov's Science Fiction Magazine[?] 1981-1985
- Judith Merril[?] - edited the increasingly eclectic "Best SF" anthologies in the 1960s
- Michael Moorcock - editor of New Worlds magazine in the 1960s, instigator of the so-called "New Wave"
- Patrick Nielsen Hayden[?], editor at Tor Books
- Raymond A. Palmer[?], Amazing editor in the 1930s and 1940s; influential in the popularization of the UFO phenomenon
- Frederik Pohl, edited Galaxy magazine, and a series of original anthologies Star Science Fiction
- David Pringle[?]
- Stanley Schmidt[?], editor of Analog, 1977 to present.
- George Scithers[?], initial editor of Isaac Asimov's Science Fiction Magazine[?] 1976-1981; editor Amazing, mid-1980s
- Robert Silverberg
- Gordon van Gelder[?], editor and publisher of Fantasy and Science Fiction
- Donald A. Wollheim, editor at Ace books[?], later the founder of DAW Books[?]
Editors of international / non-English literature:
See also: