Jack Dann

Jack Dann

Jack Dann is an American writer best known for his science fiction, an editor and a writing teacher, who has lived in Australia since 1994. He has published over seventy books, in the majority of cases as editor or co-editor of story anthologies in the science fiction, fantasy and horror genres...

and Gardner Dozois

Gardner Dozois

Gardner Raymond Dozois is an American science fiction author and editor. He was editor of Asimov's Science Fiction magazine from 1984 to 2004...

have jointly edited a series of themed science fiction and fantasy anthologies, published by Ace Books

Ace Books

Ace Books is the oldest active specialty publisher of science fiction and fantasy books. The company was founded in New York City in 1952 by Aaron A. Wyn, and began as a genre publisher of mysteries and westerns...

.

The series has been published since 1982, usually with one or two volumes per year, with 35 volumes as of 2007. The series was originally known as the "Magic Tales Anthology Series" until 1995. Before that time, each of the volumes was themed around a certain type of "magic" entities; this guideline was abandoned in 1996 when the series switched its focus to more strictly science fiction themes, beginning with Hackers.

The stories selected for the books tend to be reprints of previously published stories, some of them decades old. Each book has a preface by the editors, along with a short introduction for each of the stories, focused on other works by the story's author.

Jack Dann and Gardner Dozois also co-edited three science fiction or fantasy anthologies that are not part of this series and are not published by Ace Books: Future Power (1976), Wizards: Magical Tales From the Masters of Modern Fantasy (2007), and The New Space Opera

The New Space Opera

The New Space Opera is a science fiction anthology edited by Gardner Dozois and Jonathan Strahan. It was published in 2007, and includes all original stories selected to represent the genre of space opera. It includes a five-page introduction, plus a brief introduction to each of the stories, and...

(2007).

Volumes of the Jack Dann and Gardner Dozois Ace anthology series

• Unicorns! (1982, ASIN B000LW2UHI)
• Bestiary! (1986, ISBN 978-0441055081)
• Mermaids! (1986, ISBN 978-0441525676)
• Sorcerers! (1986, ISBN 978-0441775323)
• Demons! (1987, ISBN 978-0441142644)
• Magicats! (1987, ISBN 978-0441515325)
• Dogtales! (1988, ISBN 978-0441157600)
• Seaserpents! (1989, ISBN 978-0441756827)
• Dinosaurs! (1990, ISBN 978-0441148837)
• Little People! (1990, ISBN 978-0441503919)
• Magicats II (1991, ISBN 978-0441515332)
• Unicorns II (1992, ISBN 978-0441845644)
• Dragons! (1993, ISBN 978-0441166312)
• Invaders! (1993, ISBN 978-0441015191)
• Horses! (1994, ISBN 978-0441000579)
• Angels! (1995, ISBN 978-0441002207)
• Dinosaurs II (1995, ISBN 978-0441002856)
• Hackers (1996, ISBN 978-0441003754)
• Timegates
  Timegates
  Timegates is an 1997 anthology of short stories edited by Jack Dann and Gardner Dozois.- Contents :*Air Raid by John Varley*The Man Who Walked Home by James Tiptree, Jr.*Another Story by Ursula K...
  
  (1997, ISBN 978-0441004287)
• Clones (1998, ISBN 978-0441005222)
• Immortals
  Immortals (anthology)
  Immortals is an 1998 anthology of short stories edited by Jack Dann and Gardner Dozois.- Contents :*Learning to Be Me by Greg Egan*Grotto of the Dancing Deer by Clifford D. Simak*Child of All Ages by P. J. Plauger...
  
  (1998, ISBN 978-0441005390)
• Nanotech (1998, ISBN 978-0441005857)
• Armageddons (1999, ISBN 978-0441006755)
• Future War (1999, ISBN 978-0441006396)
• Aliens Among Us (2000, ISBN 978-044100704X)
• Genometry (2001, ISBN 978-044100797X)
• Space Soldiers (2001, ISBN 978-0441008240)
• Future Sports (2002, ISBN 978-0441009619)
• Beyond Flesh (2002, ISBN 978-0441009992)
• Future Crimes (2003, ISBN 978-0441011186)
• A.I.s (2004, ISBN 978-0441012169)
• Robots
  Robots (anthology)
  Robots is a science fiction anthology edited by Jack Dann and Gardner Dozois. It was published in 2005, and includes stories on the theme of "robots" that were originally published from 1985 to 2003, though mostly from the last few years of that range...
  
  (2005, ISBN 0441013210)
• Beyond Singularity
  Beyond Singularity
  Beyond Singularity is a science fiction anthology edited by Jack Dann and Gardner Dozois. It was published in 2005, and includes stories on the theme of "beyond singularity" that were originally published from 1960 to 2004, though mostly from the last few years of that range...
  
  (2005, ISBN 978-0441013630)
• Futures Past
  Futures Past
  Futures Past Futures Past Futures Past ((2006, ISBN 978-0441014545) is a science fiction anthology edited by Jack Dann and Gardner Dozois. It was published in 2006, and includes stories on the theme of "futures past" that were originally published from 1956 to 2004...
  
  (2006, ISBN 978-0441014545)
• Dangerous Games
  Dangerous Games (anthology)
  Dangerous Games Dangerous Games Dangerous Games ((2007, ISBN 978-0441014903) is a science fiction anthology edited by Jack Dann and Gardner Dozois. It was published in 2007, and includes stories on the theme of "dangerous games" that were originally published from 1958 to 2005...
  
  (2007, ISBN 978-0441014903)