List of 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[?]

• and others...

Editors of international / non-English literature:

• Kuczka Péter, Hungarian, editor of Galaktika from 1972-1995, the "Father of the Hungarian Sci-Fi"

• and others...

See also:

• Science fiction fandom
• Futurians