Gevers, Nick
Entry updated 12 September 2022. Tagged: Author, Critic, Editor.
(1965- ) UK-born sf editor and critic, in South Africa from 1970, who has written for various journals including Interzone, Locus – where he had regular review columns 2001-2008 – The New York Review of Science Fiction and SF Site. He has been an editor for the Yorkshire-based Small Press PS Publishing since 2002 and edits its regular magazine/Anthology Postscripts [which see for magazine details] – as coeditor with Peter Crowther to #30/31 and solo thereafter. Gevers has also edited a number of other genre anthologies, beginning with Infinity Plus One (anth 2001) and Infinity Plus Two (anth 2003), both edited with Keith Brooke as a spinoff of the latter's Infinity Plus website. His first solo Original Anthology was the Steampunk showcase Extraordinary Engines: The Definitive Steampunk Anthology (anth 2008), and further titles followed, mostly co-edited, including Is Anybody Out There? (anth 2010) with Marty Halpern, which interestingly takes the Fermi Paradox as its theme, and the very strong Extrasolar (anth 2017), mostly containing tales set on planets beyond our solar system (see Life on Other Worlds). [DRL]
Nick Gevers
born Oxford, Oxfordshire: 1965
works as editor
series
Infinity Plus
- Infinity Plus One (Leeds, West Yorkshire: PS Publishing, 2001) with Keith Brooke [anth: Infinity Plus: hb/Dominic Harman]
- Infinity Plus Two (Leeds, West Yorkshire: PS Publishing, 2003) with Keith Brooke [anth: Infinity Plus: hb/Richard Powers]
- Infinity Plus: The Anthology (Nottingham, Nottinghamshire: BL Publishing/Solaris, 2007) with Keith Brooke [anth: omni of the above two: Infinity Plus: pb/Dominic Harman]
Postscripts
Anthology sequence continuing its numbering from the SF Magazine incarnation of Postscripts.
- This is the Summer of Love (Hornsea, East Yorkshire: PS Publishing, 2009) with Peter Crowther [anth: Postscripts #18: hb/Jason Van Hollander]
- Enemy of the Good (Hornsea, East Yorkshire: PS Publishing, 2009) with Peter Crowther [anth: Postscripts #19: hb/Les Edwards as Edward Miller]
- Edison's Frankenstein (Hornsea, East Yorkshire: PS Publishing, 2009) with Peter Crowther [anth: Postscripts #20/#21: hb/Vincent Chong]
- The Company He Keeps (Hornsea, East Yorkshire: PS Publishing, 2010) with Peter Crowther [anth: Postscripts #22/#23: hb/J K Potter]
- The New and Perfect Man (Hornsea, East Yorkshire: PS Publishing, 2011) with Peter Crowther [anth: Postscripts #24/#25: hb/Ed Emshwiller]
- Unfit for Eden (Hornsea, East Yorkshire: PS Publishing, 2012) with Peter Crowther [anth: Postscripts #26/27: hb/Glenn Chadbourne]
- Memoryville Blues (Hornsea, East Yorkshire: PS Publishing, 2013) with Peter Crowther [anth: Postscripts #30/31: hb/Phillip Simpson]
- Far Voyager (Hornsea, East Yorkshire: PS Publishing, 2014) [anth: Postscripts #32/33: hb/David A Hardy]
- Breakout (Hornsea, East Yorkshire: PS Publishing, 2015) [anth: Postscripts #34/35: hb/Michael Smith]
- The Dragons of the Night (Hornsea, East Yorkshire: PS Publishing, 2016) [anth: Postscripts #36/37: hb/Gent]
individual titles as editor
- Extraordinary Engines: The Definitive Steampunk Anthology (Nottingham, Nottinghamshire: BL Publishing/Solaris, 2008) [anth: Steampunk: pb/]
- Other Earths (New York: DAW Books, 2009) with Jay Lake [anth: pb/]
- The Book of Dreams (Burton, Michigan: Subterranean Press, 2010) [anth: hb/J K Potter]
- Is Anybody Out There? (New York: DAW Books, 2010) with Marty Halpern [anth: Fermi Paradox: pb/uncredited]
- Ghosts by Gaslight: Stories of Steampunk and Supernatural Suspense (New York: Harper Voyager, 2011) with Jack Dann [anth: pb/Alamy]
- Extrasolar (Hornsea, East Yorkshire: PS Publishing, 2017) [anth: hb/Tomislav Tikulin]
- New Worlds (Hornsea, East Yorkshire: PS Publishing, 2021) with Peter Crowther [anth: introduction by Mike Ashley: hb/]
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