Author · born 1976
John Joseph Adams
John Joseph Adams (born 1976) is an American science fiction critic. Born in Perth Amboy.
Our catalogue lists 6 books by John Joseph Adams, mostly horror, Victorian mystery and alternate history. They span 2008 to 2016. The most-read is The Improbable Adventures of Sherlock Holmes (2009).
Books by John Joseph Adams
The Improbable Adventures of Sherlock Holmes
John Joseph Adams, Christopher Roden
Other Worlds Than These
John Joseph Adams, Lev Grossman
The Living Dead
John Joseph Adams, Dan Simmons
Epic
John Joseph Adams, Robin Hobb
By Blood We Live
John Joseph Adams, Neil Gaiman
What the #@&% Is That?: The Saga Anthology of the Monstrous and the Macabre
John Joseph Adams
Awards
- ✦World Fantasy Awards 2024 — Best Anthology, The Best American Science Fiction and Fantasy 2023 (nominee)
- ✦World Fantasy Awards 2024 — Best Anthology, Out There Screaming: An Anthology of New Black Horror (nominee)
- ✦World Fantasy Awards 2017 — Best Anthology, The Best American Science Fiction and Fantasy 2016 (nominee)
- ✦World Fantasy Awards 2013 — Best Anthology, Epic: Legends of Fantasy (nominee)
- ✦World Fantasy Awards 2011 — Best Anthology, The Way of the Wizard (nominee)
- ✦World Fantasy Awards 2009 — Best Anthology, The Living Dead (nominee)
- ✦Locus Awards 2026 — Best Anthology, The Best American Science Fiction and Fantasy 2025 (nominee)
- 🏆Locus Awards 2024 — Best Anthology, Out There Screaming: An Anthology of New Black Horror (winner)
- ✦Locus Awards 2024 — Best Anthology, The Best American Science Fiction and Fantasy 2023 (nominee)
- ✦Locus Awards 2023 — Best Anthology, The Best American Science Fiction and Fantasy 2022 (nominee)
- ✦Locus Awards 2022 — Best Anthology, The Best American Science Fiction and Fantasy 2021 (nominee)
- ✦Locus Awards 2021 — Best Anthology, The Best American Science Fiction and Fantasy 2020 (nominee)
- ✦Locus Awards 2020 — Best Anthology, The Best American Science Fiction and Fantasy 2019 (nominee)
- ✦Locus Awards 2020 — Best Anthology, A People's Future of the United States (nominee)
- ✦Locus Awards 2019 — Best Anthology, The Best American Science Fiction and Fantasy 2018 (nominee)
- ✦Locus Awards 2018 — Best Anthology, Cosmic Powers (nominee)
- ✦Locus Awards 2017 — Best Anthology, The Best American Science Fiction and Fantasy 2016 (nominee)
- ✦Locus Awards 2016 — Best Anthology, Operation Arcana (nominee)
- ✦Locus Awards 2016 — Best Anthology, The Best American Science Fiction and Fantasy 2015 (nominee)
- ✦Locus Awards 2013 — Best Anthology, Epic: Legends of Fantasy (nominee)
- ✦Locus Awards 2011 — Best Anthology, The Way of the Wizard (nominee)
- ✦Locus Awards 2010 — Best Anthology, The Improbable Adventures of Sherlock Holmes (nominee)
- ✦Locus Awards 2010 — Best Anthology, Federations (nominee)
- ✦Locus Awards 2009 — Best Anthology, Wastelands (nominee)
- 🏆Bram Stoker Awards 2023 — Best Anthology (winner)
- 🏆British Fantasy Awards 2024 — Best Anthology, Out There Screaming: An Anthology of New Black Horror (winner)
- ✦Ignyte Awards 2024 — Best Anthology/Collected Works, Out There Screaming: An Anthology of New Black Horror (nominee)
- ✦Ignyte Awards 2020 — Best Anthology/Collected Works, A People's Future of the United States (nominee)
Biography
John Joseph Adams is the series editor of Best American Science Fiction and Fantasy and the New York Times bestselling editor of more than forty anthologies, such as Wastelands, A People’s Future of the United States, and Out There Screaming (with Jordan Peele)-https://www.johnjosephadams.com/about/