John Joseph Adams

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John Joseph Adams
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Born (1976-07-31) July 31, 1976 (age 48)
OccupationEditor, journalist, essayist
NationalityAmerican
GenreScience fiction, Fantasy
Website
www.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.

Writer

Additionally, Adams is a writer whose genre essays, interviews, and book reviews have appeared in a variety of publications, including Amazing Stories , Kirkus Reviews , The Internet Review of Science Fiction , Intergalactic Medicine Show , Locus Magazine , Novel & Short Story Writer's Market , Publishers Weekly , SCI FI Wire , Science Fiction Weekly , Shimmer Magazine , Strange Horizons , Subterranean Magazine , and Tor.com .

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 nominated for a World Fantasy Award [5] and 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. He is a finalist for the 2011 Hugo Award for Best Professional Editor, Short Form, and his magazine, Lightspeed Magazine , is a finalist for best semiprozine. [6]

In 2017, John was nominated for a World Fantasy Award for Best Anthology for The Best American Science Fiction and Fantasy 2016.

YearAwardCategoryWorkResultRef.
2009 Locus Award AnthologyWastelands: Stories of the ApocalypseNominated [7]
2009 World Fantasy Award AnthologyThe Living DeadNominated
2009 FantLab's Book of the Year Award AnthologyThe Living DeadWon
2010Locus AwardAnthologyThe Improbable Adventures of Sherlock HolmesNominated [8]
2010Locus AwardAnthologyFederationsNominated [9]
2010FantLab's Book of the Year AwardAnthologyWastelands: Stories of the ApocalypseNominated
2011Locus AwardAnthologyThe Way of the WizardNominated [10]
2011World Fantasy AwardAnthologyThe Way of the WizardNominated
2013Locus AwardAnthologyEpic: Legends of FantasyNominated [11]
2013World Fantasy AwardAnthologyEpic: Legends of FantasyNominated
2015 British Fantasy Award Magazine/PeriodicalLightspeedNominated
2018Locus AwardAnthologyCosmic PowersNominated [12]
2020Locus AwardAnthologyA People's Future of the United StatesNominated [13]
2020Ignyte AwardsAnthology/Collected WorksA People's Future of the United StatesNominated [14]
2024British Fantasy AwardAnthologyOut There Screaming: An Anthology of New Black HorrorNominated
2024Locus AwardAnthologyOut There Screaming: An Anthology of New Black HorrorWon [15]
2024World Fantasy AwardAnthologyOut There Screaming: An Anthology of New Black HorrorNominated
2024Ignyte AwardsAnthology/Collected WorksOut There Screaming: An Anthology of New Black HorrorNominated [16]


Bibliography

Short fiction

Anthologies edited


Critical studies and reviews of Adams' work

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  3. ↑ Locus Online. Lightspeed and Fantasy Merge Dec. 2011
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