
David Geddes Hartwell was an American critic, publisher, and editor of thousands of science fiction and fantasy novels. He was best known for work with Signet, Pocket, and Tor Books publishers. He was also noted as an award-winning editor of anthologies. The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction describes him as "perhaps the single most influential book editor of the past forty years in the American [science fiction] publishing world".
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The Dark descent
1990
ISBN 9780246136688
Year's best SF 6
2001
ISBN 9780061020551
Year's Best SF 9
2004
ISBN 9780739444504
The Hard SF Renaissance
2003
ISBN 9781429975179
Year's Best Fantasy
2001
ISBN 9780739419397
The space opera renaissance
2006
ISBN 9780765306173
Spirits of Christmas
1995
ISBN 9780812551594
Year's Best Fantasy 4
2009
ISBN 9780061757723
Year's Best SF 10
2005
ISBN 9780739454619
Year's Best Fantasy 6
2006
ISBN 9781892391377
Twenty-first century science fiction
2013
ISBN 9780765326003
The World treasury of science fiction
1989
ISBN 9780316349413
The Ascent of wonder
1994
ISBN 9780312850623
Year's Best Fantasy 2
2002
ISBN 9780380818419
Year's best fantasy. 5
2005
ISBN 9780060776053
Year's Best Fantasy 8
2008
ISBN 9781892391766
Year's Best Fantasy 9
2009
ISBN 9780765324498
The Palencar Project A Tor.Com Original
2012
ISBN 9781466812406
Year's best SF 17
2012
ISBN 9780062035875
The Ascent of Wonder The Evolution of Hard SF
1997
ISBN 9780312855093
The Screaming Skull
1994
ISBN 9780812551785
The Mammoth Book of 20th Century SF II
2011
ISBN 9781780334189
Year's Best Fantasy. 3
2003
ISBN 9780060521806