List of science fiction editors

Science fiction has been shaped as a literary genre by both science fiction authors and 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
Hugo Gernsback, editor of Amazing Stories magazine
Damon Knight, editor of the Orbit series of original anthologies
H. L. Gold, editor of Galaxy magazine
Cele Goldsmith Lalli, editor of Amazing Stories and Fantastic magazines
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
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
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...