NYRSF 20th Anniversary, South Street Seaport September 9, 2009 (Photo: Houari Boumedienne)

From 1997 until 2014
Gordon Van Gelder served as the editor and eventually publisher, a
role he still maintains, of THE MAGAZINE OF FANTASY & SCIENCE
FICTION. During his tenure, he won two Hugo and World Fantasy Awards.
Van Gelder’s time as the managing editor of THE NEW YORK REVIEW OF
SCIENCE FICTION from 1988 to 1993 garnered him several Hugo
nominations.

Van Gelder has
edited several anthologies of stories that first appeared in F&SF
including THE BEST FROM FANTASY & SCIENCE FICTION: THE FIFTIETH
ANNIVERSARY ANTHOLOGY (1999 WITH EDWARD L. FERMAN), THE VERY BEST
OF FANTASY & SCIENCE FICTION: 60TH ANNIVERSARY ANTHOLOGY
(2009), and THE VERY BEST OF FANTASY & SCIENCE FICTION: VOLUME
2 (2014). He’s also edited WELCOME TO THE GREENHOUSE (2011) and LONELY SOULS (2013).

All of us at Tachyon wish the eclectic Gordon a happy birthday!

For more information about THE VERY BEST OF FANTASY & SCIENCE FICTION: 60TH ANNIVERSARY ANTHOLOGY, visit the Tachyon page.

Cover art by David A. Hardy

Cover design by Bryan Cholfin

For more info on THE VERY BEST OF FANTASY & SCIENCE FICTION VOLUME TWO visit the Tachyon page.

Cover by Thomas Canty