Gardner R. Dozois lives in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. He recently retired from the editorship of Asimov’s, after winning 13 Hugo Awards as best editor, and establishing Asimov’s as the leading magazine of the day in SF. Before that, he was one of the leading anthologists in SF, and he continues to be very active as an anthologist. He has published nearly sixty anthologies, sometimes co-edited with others, often Jack M. Dann. His most prominent anthology since 1984 is the annual Year’s Best Science Fiction, a recasting and expansion of Best SF Stories of the Year, which he edited from 1977 to 1987 (5 volumes). He began writing SF in the 1960s, and has published fiction throughout his career, though less often since 1984. Some of his stories are collected in The Visible Man (1977), Slow Dancing Through Time (1990), Geodesic Dreams (1992), and Morning Child and Other Stories (2004).
“When the Great Days Came” was published in Fantasy & Science Fiction. It is an amusing tale that proves that even the end of the world as we know it might look quite different to a rat. It’s all a matter of point of view.