Nick Gevers (born 1965) is a South African

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editor and critic, whose work has appeared in ''

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'', '' Interzone'', Scifi.com,

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, ''

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'' and ''Nova Express''. He wrote two regular review columns for ''

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'' magazine from 2001 to 2008, and is editor at the British independent press,

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, of the science fiction anthologies ''Infinity Plus One'' (2001) and ''Infinity Plus Two'' (2003) and in August 2007 released the combined ''Infinity Plus'' through

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. His first original anthology, '' Extraordinary Engines'', was published by

in October 2008, and a second, ''Other Earths'' (co-edited with Jay Lake), by DAW Books in Spring 2009. Subsequent original anthologies are ''This is the Summer of Love'', ''Enemy of the Good'', and ''Edison's Frankenstein'' (all 2009, from PS Publishing, co-edited with Peter Crowther), as well as ''The Book of Dreams'' (Subterranean Press, 2010); forthcoming are ''Is Anybody Out There?'' (DAW, June 2010, co-edited with Marty Halpern), ''The Company He Keeps'' (PS Publishing, 2010, co-edited with Peter Crowther), and ''Ghosts by Gaslight'' (Harper Colline Eos, 2011, co-edited with Jack Dann). Gevers served as a judge for the

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from 2004 through 2008.

Awards

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Edited Anthology: Ghosts by Gaslight, edited by Jack Dann and Nick Gevers (Harper Voyager)

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* Living people People from Oxford Alumni of Rondebosch Boys' High School South African speculative fiction editors South African speculative fiction critics Science fiction editors Science fiction critics South African literary critics 1965 births {{sf-writer-stub