Malcolm John Edwards (born 3 December 1949) is a British editor and critic in the science fiction field.
He served as science fiction editor for Victor Gollancz Ltd, which later led to him launching the SF Masterworks series at Orion in 1999.
When he first began contributing to British science fiction fanzines, he was initially confused with "Malcolm Edwards", a pseudonym used several years earlier by Peter Weston.
[6] He was Director of the Science Fiction Foundation for much of the two decades it was at the North East London Polytechnic.
As editor, Malcolm Edwards has worked with J. G. Ballard (he edited Empire of the Sun), Tom Clancy, Philip K. Dick, Stephen King, William Gibson,[7] Robert Ludlum, James Patterson, Robert Holdstock, Terry Pratchett and many others.