The Anthologies Hartwell edited include: The Battle of the Monsters and Other Stories (anth 1976) with L W Currey, selected from nineteenth-century sf Triquarterly 49 (anth 1980) with Robert Onapa, a special issue on sf (in effect an Original Anthology) including stories and essays by Algis Budrys, Samuel R Delany, Thomas M Disch. His career – a tightrope walk – testifies to the difficulties Hartwell partly conquered in reconciling the conflicting demands of art and commerce, especially during his tenure with Pocket Books' Timescape programme, where he published many distinguished titles including Gregory Benford's Timescape ( 1980) and Gene Wolfe's The Book of the New Sun ( 1980-1983 4vols). His substantial influence in the sf world was mainly, however, as an editor and/or advisor for various commercial sf publishers, including Signet (1971-1973) Berkley/Putnam (1973-1978) Gregg Press (1975-1986), an academic publisher of important sf reprints which he managed part-time Pocket Books/Simon and Schuster (1978-1983), where he was responsible for their important Timescape Books sf imprint and Tor Books (1984-2016), where he was a Senior Editor from 1995 plus part-time responsibilities with Arbor House (1984-1988) and William Morrow (1988-1991). He edited the short-lived Cosmos Science Fiction and Fantasy Magazine 1977-1978.

He published and edited The Little Magazine (1965-1988), a literary magazine in 1988 he founded and until his death remained involved with The New York Review of Science Fiction, published by Dragon Press, the Small Press of which he was a partner 1973-1978 and became the sole proprietor. (1941-2016) US editor, publisher and critic, married to Kathryn Cramer from 1997 his first publication of genre interest was SF-I: A Selective Bibliography ( 1971 chap) with L W Currey, writing together as Kilgore Trout he also assisted Currey in the latter's seminal Science Fiction and Fantasy Authors: A Bibliography of First Printings of their Fiction and Selected Nonfiction ( 1979).

The Dark Descent by David G. Hartwell