John Joseph Adams

John Joseph Adams
Born	(1976-07-31) July 31, 1976 (age 49)
Occupation	Editor, journalist, essayist
Genre	Science fiction, fantasy
Website
johnjosephadams.com

John Joseph Adams (born July 31, 1976) is an American science fiction and fantasy editor, critic, and publisher.

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.

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]

Since January 2010 Adams and science fiction author David Barr Kirtley have produced and hosted Geek's Guide to the Galaxy.

His anthology The Living Dead was 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.

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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)
• Under the Moons of Mars: New Adventures on Barsoom (Simon & Schuster, February 2012)
• 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)
• Oz Reimagined: New Tales from the Emerald City and Beyond (47North, February 2013)
• The Mad Scientist's Guide to World Domination (Tor Books, February 19, 2013)^[15]
• Robot Uprisings (April 2014) (with Daniel H. Wilson)
• Dead Man's Hand: An Anthology of the Weird West (Titan Books, May 2014)
• Help Fund My Robot Army!!! and Other Improbable Crowdfunding Projects (June 2014)
• The Apocalypse Triptych (2014 - 2015, with Hugh Howey)
• Wastelands 2: More Stories of the Apocalypse (Titan Books, February 2015)
• 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)
• Press Start to Play (Vintage Books, August 2015) (with Daniel H. Wilson)
• Best American Science Fiction & Fantasy (2016, with Karen Joy Fowler)
• Cosmic Powers (Saga Press, April 2017)
• A People's Future of the United States (One World, February 2019) (with Victor LaValle)
• Wastelands: The New Apocalypse (Titan Books, June 2019)
• The Dystopia Triptych (Broad Reach Publishing, 2020) (with Hugh Howey & Christie Yant)
• Lost Worlds & Mythological Kingdoms (Grim Oak Press, March 2022)
• Out There Screaming: An Anthology of New Black Horror (Random House, October 2023)

Press Start to play

• Sakers, Don (October 2015). "The Reference Library". Analog Science Fiction and Fact. 135 (10): 105–108.

• John Joseph Adams: Official Site
• John Joseph Adams at the Internet Speculative Fiction Database