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Gollancz wins the prestigious Yellow Pencil design awards

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 cover designs.

The judges look for highly original and inspiring ideas that are highly executed. Well done to the design team at Orion!

Alastair Reynolds book signings in Scandinavia

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.

CREDIT: Robert Brown, SF-Bokhandeln, Stockholm, Sweden

Ilario & Rome Burning nominated for Sidewise Awards

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 wins the 2008 Arthur C Clarke Award

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!

Eagle Annual drawings feature at the London Science Museum

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

2007 Philip K. Dick Award

M. John Harrison’s Arthur C. Clarke Award-winning SF novel Nova Swing has won the 2007 Philip K. Dick Award

Brasyl wins BSFA Best SF Novel of the Year

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

BBC4 explores The Worlds of Fantasy

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 starts on Wednesday February 27th at 9pm.

SFSite.com’s Reader’s choices for 2007

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 largey 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!

ALA lists Gollancz titles in Genre reading lists 2008!

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 MacDonald 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!

BSFA also nominates Masterworks titles for anniversary prize

As 2008 marks 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 Aldis and A Case of Conscience by James Blish.

SFsite.com announce their top ten titles of 2007 - guess who’s included?!

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!

Philip K. Dick award nominees announced - 2 Gollancz titles listed!

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.

Gollancz titles sweep Gold, Silver and Bronze on Bookgasm list

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 win at Premios Ignotus

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.

Gollancz titles in Amazon’s top 10 of 2007

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 Simmons
2. Brasyl by Ian McDonald
3. Territory by Emma Bull
4. The Traitor by Michael Cisco
5. Spaceman Blues: A Lovesong by Brian Francis Slattery
6. Shelter by Susan Palwick
7. The Name of The Wind by Patrick Rothfuss
8. Black Man by Richard Morgan
9. Tin House: Fantastic Women by Aimee Bender
10. The Coyote Road edited by Ellen Datlow and Terri Windling

Nova Swing wins 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.