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John Joseph Adams (born July 31, 1976) is an American science fiction and fantasy editor, critic, and publisher. Career Editor 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 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. 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. 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. 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 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. In 2017, John was nominated for a World Fantasy Award for Best Anthology for The Best American Science Fiction and Fantasy 2016. Bibliography Short fiction Anthologies edited Wastelands: Stories of the Apocalypse (Night Shade Books, January 2008) Seeds of Change (Prime Books, August 2008) The Living Dead (Night Shade Books, September 2008) Federations (Prime Books, May 2009) By Blood We Live (Night Shade Books, August 2009) The Improbable Adventures of Sherlock Holmes (Night Shade Books, September 2009) The Living Dead 2 (Night Shade Books, September 2010) The Way of the Wizard (Prime Books, November 2010) Lightspeed: Year One (Prime Books, November 2011) Armored (Baen Books, March 2012) Other Worlds Than These (Night Shade Books, July 2012) Epic: Legends of Fantasy (Tachyon Publications, November 2012). Brave New Worlds (Night Shade Books, 2nd edition December 2012) The Mad Scientist's Guide to World Domination (Tor Books, February 19, 2013) Dead Man's Hand: An Anthology of the Weird West (Titan Books, May 2014) The Apocalypse Triptych (2014 - 2015, with Hugh Howey) Operation Arcana (Baen Books, March 2015) Best American Science Fiction & Fantasy (2015, with Joe Hill) Loosed Upon the World: The Saga Anthology of Climate Fiction (2015) Wilson, Daniel H. & John Joseph Adams, eds. (2015). Press Start to play. New York: Vintage Books. Best American Science Fiction & Fantasy (2016, with Karen Joy Fowler) Critical studies and reviews of Adams' work Press Start to play Sakers, Don (October 2015). "The Reference Library". Analog Science Fiction and Fact. 135 (10): 105–108. References External links John Joseph Adams: Official Site John Joseph Adams at the Internet Speculative Fiction Database. Discover the John Joseph Adams popular books. Find the top 100 most popular John Joseph Adams books.

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  • The Wright Brothers synopsis, comments

    The Wright Brothers

    David McCullough

    Twotime winner of the Pulitzer Prize David McCullough tells the dramatic storybehindthestory about the courageous brothers who taught the world how to fly: Wilbur and Orville Wrigh...

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    Lightspeed Magazine, 2012 Sampler

    Lightspeed Magazine

    Lightspeed is an online science fiction and fantasy magazine. In its pages, you will find science fiction: from nearfuture, sociological soft SF, to farfuture, starspanning hard SF...

  • The Way of the Wizard synopsis, comments

    The Way of the Wizard

    John Joseph Adams, Neil Gaiman, Ursula K. Le Guin, George R.R. Martin, Genevieve Valentine, Nnedi Okorafor & Lev Grossman

    POWER. We all want it, they've got itwitches, warlocks, sorcerers, necromancers, those who peer beneath the veil of mundane reality and put their hands on the levers that move the ...

  • Out of the Ruins synopsis, comments

    Out of the Ruins

    Preston Grassmann, Emily St. John Mandel, Carmen Maria Machado, China Miéville & Clive Barker

    A fresh postapocalyptic anthology: the end of the world seen through the salvage and ruins. Featuring Emily St John Mandel, Carmen Maria Machado and more.  WHAT WOULD YOU...

  • Founding Brothers synopsis, comments

    Founding Brothers

    Joseph J. Ellis

    PULITZER PRIZE WINNER NATIONAL BESTSELLER A landmark work of history explores how a group of greatly gifted but deeply flawed individualsHamilton, Burr, Jefferson, Franklin,...

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    The Pioneers

    David McCullough

    The #1 New York Times bestseller by Pulitzer Prize–winning historian David McCullough rediscovers an important chapter in the American story that’s “as resonant today as ever” (The...

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    I Love You from Here to Heaven Above

    Michelle Medlock Adams, Cecil Stokes & Jonathan Bouw

    A heartwarming, educational picture book that allows parents to tell their kids how much they love them while also teaching great stories from the Bible. “I love you.” “I love you ...

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    Lincoln Dreamt He Died

    Andrew Burstein

    Before Sigmund Freud made dreams the cornerstone of understanding an individual's inner life, Americans shared their dreams unabashedly with one another through letters, diarie...

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    The Fever of 1721

    Stephen Coss

    The “intelligent and sweeping” (Booklist) story of the crucial year that prefigured the events of the American Revolution in 1776and how Boston’s smallpox epidemic was at the cente...

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    Founding Martyr

    Christian Di Spigna

    A rich and illuminating biography of America’s forgotten Founding Father, the patriot physician and major general who fomented rebellion and died heroically at the battle of Bunker...

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    Help Fund My Robot Army and Other Improbable Crowdfunding Projects

    John Joseph Adams, Seanan McGuire, Daniel H. Wilson, Scott Sigler, Mur Lafferty, Carmen Maria Machado & Tobias S. Buckell

    If you're a regular backer of Kickstarters, you've probably seen some unique crowdfunding projects in your time. But one thing all of those campaignsboringly!had in common was: The...

  • Strange and Obscure Stories of the Revolutionary War synopsis, comments

    Strange and Obscure Stories of the Revolutionary War

    Tim Rowland

    Astonishing Events from the American Revolution That They Don’t Teach in School!We all know about Washington’s crossing of the Delaware and Betsy Ross’s stitching together the Star...

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    Those Turbulent Sons of Freedom

    Christopher S. Wren

    The myth and the reality of Ethan Allen and the muchloved Green Mountain Boys of Vermonta “surprising and interesting new account…useful, informative reexamination of an oftenmisun...

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    Death of an Empire

    Robert Booth

    SALEM has long been notorious for the witch trials of 1692. But a hundred years later it was renowned for very different pursuits: vast wealth and worldwide trade. Now Death of an ...

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    Federations

    John Joseph Adams, George R.R. Martin, Robert J. Sawyer, Lois McMaster Bujold, Kevin J. Anderson, Robert Silverberg, Alastair Reynolds, Genevieve Valentine & Catherynne M. Valente

    From STAR TREK to STAR WARS, from DUNE to FOUNDATION, science fiction has a rich history of exploring the idea of vast intergalactic societies, and the challenges facing those livi...

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    Cosmic Powers

    John Joseph Adams

    A collection of original, epic science fiction stories by some of today’s best writersfor fans who want a little less science and a lot more actionand edited by twotime Hugo Award ...

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    Zombies 2

    AA. VV.

    ¡Los muertos vivientes se alzan de nuevo!En 2009, los lectores devoraron Zombies. Publishers Weekly la incluyó en su lista de los mejores libros del año y Barnes & Noble. com d...