John Joseph Adams (born 1976) is an American science fiction and fantasy editor and critic. As of 2008, he is an assistant editor at The Magazine of Fantasy Science Fiction. He is also the editor of the post-apocalyptic reprint anthology Wastelands: Stories of the Apocalypse (Night Shade Books, January 2008) and the original anthology Seeds of Change (Prime Books, August 2008), as well as the upcoming zombie reprint anthology The Living Dead (Night Shade Books, September 2008). 

Adams is a reporter for SCI FI Wire, and his genre essays, interviews, and book reviews have also appeared in a variety of publications, including Amazing Stories, Kirkus, The Internet Review of Science Fiction, Intergalactic Medicine Show, Locus Magazine, Novel Short Story Writer's Market, Publishers Weekly, Science Fiction Weekly, Shimmer Magazine, Strange Horizons, Subterranean Magazine, and Writer's Digest.His Lightspeed Magazine received the Hugo award for best semiprozine in 2014.