SF Masterworks
SF Masterworks is a series of science fiction books started by Millennium and currently published by Victor Gollancz Ltd (both being imprints of the UK based Orion Publishing Group).
It began in 1999 and comprises selected pieces of science-fiction literature from 1950 onwards (with a few exceptions). The list was compiled by the managing director of Orion Books, Malcolm Edwards, with the help of "leading SF writers and editors" and the goal of bringing important books back into print.[1] The list was described by science fiction author Iain M. Banks as "amazing" and "genuinely the best novels from sixty years of SF".[2]
It has a companion series in the Fantasy Masterworks line. A separate Future Classics[3] line has also started featuring eight science fiction novels from the last few decades.
Gollancz officially relaunched the series in March 2010 beginning with reissues of the first ten titles. These titles have new cover designs (no longer featuring numbers) and introductions, and other existing titles are planned to be reprinted. Gollancz also added new titles to the series beginning in April 2010.[4]
Numbered paperback series (1999-2009)
* Also published in the 2001 SF Masterworks numbered hardcover series.
** Possibly due to a printing error, The Man in the High Castle (number 73) has 72 printed on its cover.
Unpublished titles
The following were announced for publication in 2006, but were not published.
Title | Author | Originally Published | ISBN |
---|---|---|---|
Camp Concentration | Thomas Disch | 1968 | 0-575-07877-4 |
334 | Thomas Disch | 1972 | 0-575-07897-9 |
Hardcover titles
The following were all printed in 2001, and featured a dust jacket numbered by Roman numerals.
Number | Title | Author | Originally Published | ISBN |
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I | Dune * | Frank Herbert | 1965 | 0-575-07334-9 |
II | The Left Hand of Darkness | Ursula K. Le Guin | 1969 | 0-575-07219-9 |
III | The Man in the High Castle * | Philip K. Dick | 1962 | 0-575-07335-7 |
IV | The Stars My Destination * ** | Alfred Bester | 1956 | 0-575-07337-3 |
V | A Canticle for Leibowitz ** | Walter M. Miller, Jr. | 1960 | 0-575-07220-2 |
VI | Childhood's End ** | Arthur C. Clarke | 1953 | 0-575-07263-6 |
VII | The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress * | Robert A. Heinlein | 1966 | 0-575-07336-5 |
VIII | Ringworld * | Larry Niven | 1970 | 0-575-07339-X |
IX | The Forever War * ** | Joe Haldeman | 1974 | 0-575-07318-7 |
X | The Day of the Triffids ** | John Wyndham | 1951 | 0-575-07338-1 |
* Also published in the 1999-2009 SF Masterworks numbered paperback series.
** Also published in the current (since 2010) SF Masterworks new design series.
New design
The new designs sport yellow/white spines, with the SF Masterworks logo written vertically down the left hand side of the cover. For titles that were previously issued in the original series, generally the cover artwork is tinted in a different colour from the original version; for example, The Dispossessed cover artwork is primarily red in the original release, but was partly tinted green when republished in the new series.
Title | Author | Originally Published | ISBN | Masterworks Published |
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The Forever War * | Joe Haldeman | 1974 | 978-0-575-09414-7 | 2010 |
I Am Legend * | Richard Matheson | 1954 | 978-0-575-09416-1 | 2010 |
Cities in Flight * | James Blish | 1950–1962 | 978-0-575-09417-8 | 2010 |
Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? * | Philip K. Dick | 1968 | 978-0-575-09418-5 | 2010 |
The Stars My Destination * | Alfred Bester | 1956 | 978-0-575-09419-2 | 2010 |
Babel-17 * | Samuel R. Delany | 1966 | 978-0-575-09420-8 | 2010 |
Lord of Light * | Roger Zelazny | 1967 | 978-0-575-09421-5 | 2010 |
The Fifth Head of Cerberus * | Gene Wolfe | 1972 | 978-0-575-09422-2 | 2010 |
Gateway * | Frederik Pohl | 1977 | 978-0-575-09423-9 | 2010 |
The Rediscovery of Man * | Cordwainer Smith | 1950–1966 | 978-0-575-09424-6 | 2010 |
Inverted World | Christopher Priest | 1974 | 978-0-575-08210-6 | 2010 |
Cat's Cradle ** | Kurt Vonnegut | 1963 | 978-0-575-08195-6 | 2010 |
Childhood's End ** | Arthur C. Clarke | 1953 | 978-0-575-08235-9 | 2010 |
The Island of Doctor Moreau ** | H. G. Wells | 1896 | 978-0-575-09516-8 (hb) / 978-1-473-21799-7 (pb) | 2010 (hb) / 2017 (pb) |
Dhalgren | Samuel R. Delany | 1974 | 978-0-575-09099-6 | 2010 |
The Time Machine * ** | H. G. Wells | 1895 | 978-0-575-09517-5 (hb) / 978-1-473-21797-3 (pb) | 2010 (hb) / 2017 (pb) |
Helliconia | Brian Aldiss | 1982–1985 | 978-0-575-08615-9 | 2010 |
The Food of the Gods ** | H. G. Wells | 1904 | 978-0-575-09518-2 (hb) / 978-1-473-21801-7 (pb) | 2010 (hb) / 2017 (pb) |
The Body Snatchers | Jack Finney | 1955 | 978-0-575-08531-2 | 2010 |
The Female Man | Joanna Russ | 1975 | 978-0-575-09499-4 | 2010 |
Arslan | M. J. Engh | 1976 | 978-0-575-09501-4 | 2010 |
The Difference Engine | William Gibson and Bruce Sterling | 1990 | 978-0-575-09940-1 | 2011 |
The Prestige | Christopher Priest | 1995 | 978-0-575-09941-8 | 2011 |
Greybeard | Brian Aldiss | 1964 | 978-0-575-07113-1 | 2011 |
Sirius | Olaf Stapledon | 1944 | 978-0-575-09942-5 | 2011 |
Hyperion | Dan Simmons | 1989 | 978-0-575-09943-2 | 2011 |
City | Clifford D. Simak | 1952 | 978-0-575-10523-2 | 2011 |
Hellstrom's Hive | Frank Herbert | 1973 | 978-0-575-10108-1 | 2011 |
Of Men and Monsters | William Tenn | 1968 | 978-0-575-09944-9 | 2011 |
R.U.R. and War with the Newts | Karel Čapek | 1921 & 1936 | 978-0-575-09945-6 | 2011 |
The Affirmation | Christopher Priest | 1981 | 978-0-575-09946-3 | 2011 |
Floating Worlds | Cecelia Holland | 1975 | 978-0-575-10823-3 | 2011 |
Rogue Moon | Algis Budrys | 1960 | 978-0-575-10800-4 | 2012 |
Dangerous Visions | Harlan Ellison | 1967 | 978-0-575-10802-8 | 2012 |
Odd John | Olaf Stapledon | 1935 | 978-0-575-07224-4 | 2012 |
The Fall of Hyperion | Dan Simmons | 1990 | 978-0-575-09948-7 | 2012 |
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy ** | Douglas Adams | 1979 | 978-0-575-11534-7 | 2012 |
The War of the Worlds * ** | H. G. Wells | 1898 | 978-0-575-11535-4 (hb) / 978-1-473-21802-4 (pb) | 2012 (hb) / 2017 (pb) |
Synners | Pat Cadigan | 1991 | 978-0-575-11954-3 | 2012 |
Sarah Canary | Karen Joy Fowler | 1991 | 978-0-575-13136-1 | 2012 |
Ammonite | Nicola Griffith | 1992 | 978-0-575-11823-2 | 2012 |
The Continuous Katherine Mortenhoe | D. G. Compton | 1973 | 978-0-575-11831-7 | 2012 |
Frankenstein | Mary Shelley | 1818 | 978-0-575-09960-9 | 2012 |
Roadside Picnic * | Arkady and Boris Strugatsky | 1972 | 978-0-575-09313-3 | 2012 |
Riddley Walker ** | Russell Hoban | 1980 | 978-0-575-11951-2 | 2012 |
Doomsday Book | Connie Willis | 1992 | 978-0-575-13109-5 | 2012 |
Unquenchable Fire | Rachel Pollack | 1988 | 978-0-575-11854-6 | 2012 |
The Caltraps of Time | David I. Masson | 1968 | 978-0-575-11828-7 | 2012 |
Engine Summer | John Crowley | 1979 | 978-0-575-08281-6 | 2013 |
Take Back Plenty | Colin Greenland | 1990 | 978-0-575-11952-9 | 2013 |
Slow River | Nicola Griffith | 1995 | 978-0-575-11825-6 | 2013 |
The Gate to Women's Country | Sheri S. Tepper | 1988 | 978-0-575-13104-0 | 2013 |
The Sea and Summer | George Turner | 1987 | 978-0-575-11869-0 | 2013 |
The Invisible Man * ** | H. G. Wells | 1897 | 978-0-575-11537-8 (hb) / 978-1-473-21798-0 (pb) | 2013 (hb) / 2017 (pb) |
A Canticle for Leibowitz ** | Walter M. Miller | 1960 | 978-0-575-07357-9 | 2013 |
Wasp | Eric Frank Russell | 1957 | 978-0-575-12904-7 | 2013 |
To Say Nothing of the Dog | Connie Willis | 1997 | 978-0-575-11312-1 | 2013 |
The Gods Themselves | Isaac Asimov | 1972 | 978-0-575-12905-4 | 2013 |
This Is the Way the World Ends | James Morrow | 1985 | 978-0-575-08118-5 | 2013 |
The First Men in the Moon * ** | H. G. Wells | 1901 | 978-0-575-11538-5 (hb) / 978-1-473-21800-0 (pb) | 2013 (hb) / 2017 (pb) |
The Deep | John Crowley | 1975 | 978-0-575-08264-9 | 2013 |
Time is the Fire: The Best of Connie Willis | Connie Willis | 2013 | 978-0-575-13114-9 | 2013 |
No Enemy But Time | Michael Bishop | 1982 | 978-0-575-09311-9 | 2013 |
Double Star | Robert A. Heinlein | 1956 | 978-0-575-12203-1 | 2013 |
Revelation Space | Alastair Reynolds | 2000 | 978-0-575-12906-1 | 2013 |
Random Acts of Senseless Violence | Jack Womack | 1995 | 978-0-575-13230-6 | 2013 |
Transfigurations | Michael Bishop | 1979 | 978-0-575-09309-6 | 2013 |
The Restaurant at the End of the Universe ** | Douglas Adams | 1980 | 978-1-473-20066-1 | 2013 |
The Door Into Summer | Robert A. Heinlein | 1957 | 978-0-575-12072-3 | 2013 |
Life, the Universe and Everything ** | Douglas Adams | 1982 | 978-1-473-20067-8 | 2013 |
Dr. Bloodmoney * | Philip K. Dick | 1965 | 978-1-473-20168-2 | 2014 |
Half Past Human | T. J. Bass | 1971 | 978-0-575-12962-7 | 2014 |
The Long Tomorrow | Leigh Brackett | 1955 | 978-0-575-13156-9 | 2014 |
The Godwhale | T. J. Bass | 1974 | 978-0-575-12993-1 | 2014 |
Jem * | Frederik Pohl | 1980 | 978-1-473-20170-5 | 2014 |
The Shrinking Man * | Richard Matheson | 1956 | 978-1-473-20169-9 | 2014 |
A Case of Conscience * | James Blish | 1958 | 978-1-473-20543-7 | 2014 |
Her Smoke Rose Up Forever | James Tiptree, Jr | 1990 | 978-1-473-20324-2 | 2014 |
Stand on Zanzibar * | John Brunner | 1968 | 978-1-473-20637-3 | 2014 |
Mission of Gravity * | Hal Clement | 1954 | 978-1-473-20638-0 | 2014 |
The Word for World Is Forest | Ursula K. Le Guin | 1976 | 978-1-473-20578-9 | 2015 |
Downward to the Earth * | Robert Silverberg | 1970 | 978-1-473-21192-6 | 2015 |
Hard to Be a God | Arkady and Boris Strugatsky | 1964 | 978-1-473-20829-2 | 2015 |
Night Lamp | Jack Vance | 1996 | 978-1-473-20892-6 | 2015 |
Life During Wartime * | Lucius Shepard | 1987 | 978-1-473-21193-3 | 2015 |
Nova * | Samuel R. Delany | 1968 | 978-1-473-21191-9 | 2015 |
Monday Begins on Saturday | Arkady and Boris Strugatsky | 1965 | 978-1-473-20221-4 | 2015 |
Dark Benediction * | Walter M. Miller | 1951 | 978-1-473-21194-0 | 2015 |
The Wind's Twelve Quarters and The Compass Rose | Ursula K. Le Guin | 1975 and 1982 | 978-1-473-20576-5 | 2015 |
Dying of the Light | George R. R. Martin | 1977 | 978-1-473-21252-7 | 2015 |
A Fire Upon the Deep | Vernor Vinge | 1992 | 978-1-473-21195-7 | 2016 |
Norstrilia | Cordwainer Smith | 1975 | 978-1-473-21253-4 | 2016 |
Limbo | Bernard Wolfe | 1952 | 978-1-473-21247-3 | 2016 |
The Day of the Triffids ** | John Wyndham | 1951 | 978-1-473-21267-1 | 2016 |
Fairyland | Paul J. McAuley | 1995 | 978-1-473-21516-0 | 2016 |
The Chrysalids ** | John Wyndham | 1955 | 978-1-473-21268-8 | 2016 |
The Man Who Fell to Earth | Walter Tevis | 1963 | 978-1-473-21311-1 | 2016 |
Always Coming Home | Ursula K. Le Guin | 1985 | 978-1-473-20580-2 | 2016 |
Feersum Endjinn ** | Iain M. Banks | 1994 | 978-1-473-20251-1 | 2016 |
A Deepness in the Sky | Vernor Vinge | 1999 | 978-1-473-21196-4 | 2016 |
Starship Troopers ** | Robert A. Heinlein | 1959 | 978-1-473-21748-5 | 2016 |
The Midwich Cuckoos ** | John Wyndham | 1957 | 978-1-473-21269-5 | 2016 |
Swastika Night | Murray Constantine | 1937 | 978-1-473-21466-8 | 2016 |
China Mountain Zhang | Maureen F. McHugh | 1992 | 978-1-473-21462-0 | 2016 |
The Book of the New Sun Volume 1: Shadow and Claw | Gene Wolfe | 1980–1981 | 978-1-473-21649-5 | 2016 |
The Book of the New Sun Volume 2: Sword and Citadel | Gene Wolfe | 1982–1983 | 978-1-473-21200-8 | 2016 |
The Left Hand of Darkness | Ursula K. Le Guin | 1969 | 978-1-473-22162-8 | 2017 |
Neuromancer ** | William Gibson | 1984 | 978-1-473-21737-9 | 2017 |
The Shape of Things to Come | H. G. Wells | 1933 | 978-1-473-22165-9 | 2017 |
The Doomed City | Arkady and Boris Strugatsky | 1975 | 978-1-473-22228-1 | 2017 |
Raising the Stones | Sheri S. Tepper | 1990 | 978-1-473-22265-6 | 2017 |
The Embedding | Ian Watson | 1973 | 978-1-473-22267-0 | 2017 |
Cryptozoic | Brian Aldiss | 1967 | 978-1-473-22273-1 | 2017 |
Land Under England | Joseph O'Neill | 1935 | 978-1-473-22407-0 | 2018 |
Raft | Stephen Baxter | 1987 | 978-1-473-22405-6 | 2018 |
* Also published in the SF Masterworks numbered paperback series.
** Published as hardcover, possibly due to licensing issue. Some have been subsequently published in paperback.
Announced titles
The following are currently listed for future publication on the Orion Books website[5].
Title | Author | Originally Published | ISBN | Masterworks Scheduled |
---|---|---|---|---|
Dreaming in Smoke | Tricia Sullivan | 1999 | 978-1-473-22474-2 | August 2018[6] |
The following have at some point been listed for future publication, but appear to have been cancelled.
Title | Author | Originally Published | ISBN | Masterworks Scheduled | Comments/references |
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The Long Loud Silence | Wilson Tucker | 1952 | February 2015[7] | SF Gateway forum posts by Malcolm Edwards[8]; cover image on artist's site[9] | |
The Forge of God | Greg Bear | 1987 | 978-1-473-22266-3 | September 2017/February 2018 | Listed in Orion Publishing July 2017-January 2018 catalogue[10] and on Amazon, including cover image.[11] |
The Iron Dream | Norman Spinrad | 1972 | 978-1-473-22264-9 | November 2017 | Listed in Orion Publishing July 2017-January 2018 catalogue. |
Against the Fall of Night | Arthur C. Clarke | 1953 | 978-1-473-22234-2 | August 2017 | Listed in amazon.co.uk[12] |
Earthlight | Arthur C. Clarke | 1955 | 978-1-473-22237-3 | August 2017 | Listed in amazon.co.uk[13] |
The Sands of Mars | Arthur C. Clarke | 1951 | 978-1-473-22236-6 | August 2017 | Listed in amazon.co.uk[14] |
2011 50th Anniversary Hardcover titles
To celebrate the 50th anniversary of the Gollancz imprint, in 2011 the "top ten" titles were chosen based on a readers' vote[15] (from a Gollancz selected longlist). They were published in the iconic yellow covers, and included new introductions from recent authors.
Number | Title | Author | Originally Published | ISBN |
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1 | The Book of the New Sun | Gene Wolfe | 1980-1983 | 0-575-11673-0 |
2 | Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? | Philip K. Dick | 1968 | 0-575-11676-5 |
3 | Flowers for Algernon | Daniel Keyes | 1966 | 0-575-11674-9 |
4 | I Am Legend | Richard Matheson | 1955 | 0-575-11670-6 |
5 | Dune | Frank Herbert | 1965 | 0-575-11678-1 |
6 | The Lies of Locke Lamora | Scott Lynch | 2006 | 0-575-11672-2 |
7 | Eric | Terry Pratchett | 1990 | 0-575-11669-2 |
8 | Hyperion | Dan Simmons | 1989 | 0-575-11677-3 |
9 | The Name of the Wind | Patrick Rothfuss | 2007 | 0-575-11671-4 |
10 | The Time Machine | H. G. Wells | 1895 | 0-575-11675-7 |
References
- ↑ Locus Online: Malcolm Edwards interview excerpts
- ↑ "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2013-06-21. Retrieved 2012-08-17. Orion Books Masterworks Website
- ↑ Gollancz editor Simon Spanton on the Future Classics promotion Archived September 14, 2008, at the Wayback Machine.
- ↑ Gollancz Science Fiction and Fantasy New Books Catalogue: Jan-July 2010.
- ↑ https://www.orionbooks.co.uk/books/no-keyword/all-pubs/0/13/Date/Increasing/all-categories/all-initials/all-formats/coming-soon/from-all/to-all
- ↑ https://www.orionbooks.co.uk/books/detail.page?isbn=9781473224742
- ↑ https://www.sffchronicles.com/threads/525641/page-16
- ↑ http://sfgateway.com/forum/books-and-authors/2011/10/new-masterworks/?p=2
- ↑ http://illustr8.blogspot.co.uk/2014/06/the-long-loud-silence-new-sf.html
- ↑ https://www.orionbooks.co.uk/assets/OrionPublishingGroup/downloads/Catalogues/Orion-Catalogue-July-2017-to-January-2018.pdf
- ↑ https://www.amazon.de/Forge-God-S-F-MASTERWORKS/dp/1473222664
- ↑ https://www.amazon.co.uk/Against-Fall-Night-S-F-MASTERWORKS/dp/1473222346
- ↑ https://www.amazon.co.uk/Earthlight-S-F-MASTERWORKS-Arthur-Clarke/dp/1473222370
- ↑ https://www.amazon.co.uk/Sands-Mars-S-F-MASTERWORKS/dp/1473222362
- ↑ http://www.gollancz.co.uk/2011/10/celebrating-50-years-of-gollancz/
External links
- Official list at Gollancz (up to 2014)
- Another list in Excel format from SF Gateway (up to end 2016)
- SF Masterworks overview and reviews — Overview and reviews of the series.
- The SF Masterworks List — A graphical presentation of the Masterworks.