Jaine Fenn, whose debut novel Principles of Angels was released last month by Gollancz, did a signing at her local bookshop The Little Green Dragon in Alton to meet readers and sign books. Here are a couple of photos of the day!
Readers who have been waiting for more than a decade for another Greg Bear novel will not be disappointed in July when his new book City at the End of Time is released.
The SF publishing event of the year, Bear’s new novel is a visionary epic well worth the wait.
Orion will now publish Carlos Ruiz Zafon’s new adult novel, The Angel’s Game, in June 2009 PLUS his previous four young adult novels.
Carlos Ruiz Zafon was born in Barcelona and is the award-winning author of five books. After Don Quixote, The Shadow of the Wind is the most successful Spanish novel ever, and has sold ten million copies worldwide. It has been translated into over forty languages, received numerous international awards and has been on the bestseller lists of several countries for more than four years.
Orion Publishing has won a Yellow Pencil design award for the Gollancz Future Classics cover design. The prestigious Yellow Pencil awards are awarded to the best in the art and design world - the equivalent to the Oscars in status. The judges look for highly original and inspiring ideas that are highly executed. Well done to the design team at Orion!
The Orion design team accept the Yellow Pencil award
Alastair Reynolds recently held several book signings in Scandinavia for his new latest book House of Suns - a spectacular, large-scale space opera, the ultimate galaxy-spanning adventure. Check out our photos from the event below.
PHOTOS: Robert Brown, SF-Bokhandeln, Stockholm, Sweden
Ilario by Mary Gentle and Rome Burning by Sophia McDougall have been shortlisted for the Sidewise Awards for Alernate History. The winners will be announced at Denvention 3, the 66th World Science Fiction Convention, the week of August 6-10 in Denver, USA.
Black Man by Richard Morgan, published by Gollancz, has won this year’s Arthur C Clarke Award. This was Richard’s second nomination for the award and fellow Gollancz author Stephen Baxter was also on the shortlist. This is the third year in succession Gollancz has scooped both major Science Fiction awards in this country – the Arthur C Clarke Award and the BSFA Award. Congratulations to Richard!
Following the huge success of The Eagle Annual last Christmas, the Science Museum in London has opened a new exhibition called “Dan Dare and the Birth of High-Tech Britain”, which runs until October 2009.
The exhibition explores the birth of technology and how it shaped post-war Britain in all areas of society and features many of the famous ‘cutaway’ drawings that were a popular staple of the Eagle comic. These cutaways were featured in the Eagle Annual and in September 2008 will be reproduced in The Eagle Annual of the Cutaways, sure to induce a wave of nostalgia, even in a hard-hearted Mekon! Dan Dare fans are in for even more of a treat with the release of the first Dan Dare Audio CD “Voyage to Venus” in May 2008, complete with multi-voice cast and thrilling sound effects.
For more information on the “Dan Dare and the Birth of High-Tech Britain” exhibition, visit http://www.sciencemuseum.org.uk/visitmuseum/galleries/dan_dare_and_the_birth_of_high-tech_britain.aspx
M. John Harrison’s Arthur C. Clarke Award-winning SF novel Nova Swing has won the 2007 Philip K. Dick Award (for the best original science fiction paperback published for the first time during 2007 in the U.S.A.)
Gollancz swept the board at ‘Orbital’ – this year’s Easter SF Convention. Ian McDonald’s Brasyl won the British Science Fiction Award for Best SF Novel of the Year, and Brian Aldiss’s Non-Stop won the Retrospective Best SF Novel of 1958 (still in print as No. 33 of the Gollancz SF Masterworks, some 50 years after publication!).Ian Mcdonald with Gollancz Editorial Director Jo Fletcher
Orion authors Joe Abercrombie and Terry Pratchett are amongst those interviewed as part of a 3-part BBC4 series exploring the growth of Fantasy fiction. The series, called The Worlds of Fantasy, starts on Wednesday February 27th at 9pm.
Not content with having 3 of the Top Ten titles for 2007 in SFSite.com’s list (see our news piece below), Gollancz has gone one better with the site’s Reader’s Choices. The site is the world’s largest wesbite for SF and Fantasy fans, with a largely US-based audience. Number One in the list is Patrick Rothfuss’s The Name of the Wind and no less than THREE more Gollancz titles appear: Brasyl by Ian McDonald, Red Seas Under Red Skies by Scott Lynch, and Before They Are Hanged by Joe Abercrombie, a title not even published in the US!
Watch Richard Morgan and Ian McDonald in conversation
Watch Scott Lynch talk about Red Seas Under Red Skies
Read the complete list at SFSite.com
The prestigious ALA (American LIbrary Association) has published its first genre reading lists for 2008, with several Gollancz titles featuring! In the SF category they have listed Brasyl by Ian McDonald and Black Men by Richard Morgan. The Fantasy list features The Name of the Wind by Patrick Rothfuss and Red Seas Under Red Skies by Scott Lynch. The Horror category includes Joe Hill’s Heart-Shaped Box and 20th Century Ghosts. Congratulations to all the listed Gollancz authors!
Watch Ian McDonald and Richard Morgan in conversation
Watch Joe Hill talk about Heart-Shaped Box
As 2008 mark’s the 50th anniversary of the BFSA, this year’s awards include a special award for the best novel of 1958. Several titles on the Gollancz Masterworks are included. The shortlisted titles are ’The Triumph of Time’ in Cities in Flight by James Blish, Non-Stop by Brian Aldiss and A Case of Conscience by James Blish.
SFsite.com, the world’s biggest SF and Fantasy fiction website have announced the annual list of their 10 favourite books. The list for 2007 includes 3 Gollancz titles, the largest number for a single pubisher, and the only titles generated in the UK. The titles included are Brasyl by Ian McDonald, Black Man by Richard Morgan and The Prefect by Alastair Reynolds. Congratulations to them!
The nominees for the Philip K. Dick award 2008, which is presented for distinguished science fiction published in paperback original form in the United States have been announced and include two Gollancz titles. Congratulations to M. John Harrison who has been nominated for Nova Swing and Adam Roberts, whose Gradisil is also nominated.
Bookgasm.com has listed its top 5 SF titles of 2007, with Gollancz titles taking the top 3 slots! The bronze position was taken by Black Man by Richard Morgan, silver by 9Tail Fox by Jon Courtenay Grimwood and the gold by Ian McDonald for Brasyl
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Market Forces by Richard Morgan has won "best non-Spanish novel of the year" at the Premios Ignotus, the Spanish SF award awarded by their national SF convention.
Congratulations to Richard who beat off the impressive competition of David Mitchell’s Cloud Atlas and Haruki Murakami’s Kafka on the Shore.
Read Richard Morgan’s Q&A
Amazon.com have announced their top ten SF and Fantasy titles of 2007 and we’re proud to say that three out of ten are Gollancz titles! The list in full:
1. The Terror by Dan Simmons2. Brasyl by Ian McDonald3. Territory by Emma Bull4. The Traitor by Michael Cisco5. Spaceman Blues: A Lovesong by Brian Francis Slattery6. Shelter by Susan Palwick7. The Name of The Wind by Patrick Rothfuss8. Black Man by Richard Morgan 9. Tin House: Fantastic Women by Aimee Bender10. The Coyote Road edited by Ellen Datlow and Terri Windling
Nova Swing by M. John Harrison has won this year’s Arthur C. Clarke Award. Harrison’s much acclaimed novel of SF noir scooped the most prestigious prize in British science fiction literature at the award ceremony held on 2 May. The prize was a special bookend trophy and £2007. The shortlist also featured two other Gollancz titles, End of the World Blues by Jon Courtenay Grimwood, which won the BSFA Award in April, and Gradisil by Adam Roberts. This is the second year in a row that a Gollancz title has taken the award after last year’s win by Geoff Ryman for his novel Air.