Orbit Books
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see also Orbit Publications for the comics publisher
Orbit Books a British publisher which specialises in Sci-Fi and Fantasy books. It was founded in 1972 as part of the Macdonald Futura publishing company. In 1992, its parent company was bought by Little, Brown & Co., at that stage part of the Time Warner Book Group which then hived it off to its Little Brown Book Group as Time Warner got out of book publishing.
In 1997, Orbit acquired the Legend imprint from Random House.
In 2006, Orbit's parent company Little Brown was sold by Time Warner to the French publishing group Hachette Livre
In summer 2006, it was announced that Orbit would expand internationally, with the establishment of Orbit imprints in the United States and Australia.