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)
Number | Title | Author | Originally Published | ISBN | Masterworks Published |
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1 | The Forever War * | Joe Haldeman | 1974 | 1-85798-808-6 | 1999 |
2 | I Am Legend | Richard Matheson | 1954 | 1-85798-809-4 | 1999 |
3 | Cities in Flight | James Blish | 1950–1962 | 1-85798-811-6 | 1999 |
4 | Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? | Philip K. Dick | 1968 | 1-85798-813-2 | 1999 |
5 | The Stars My Destination * | Alfred Bester | 1956 | 1-85798-814-0 | 1999 |
6 | Babel-17 | Samuel R. Delany | 1966 | 1-85798-805-1 | 1999 |
7 | Lord of Light | Roger Zelazny | 1967 | 1-85798-820-5 | 1999 |
8 | The Fifth Head of Cerberus | Gene Wolfe | 1972 | 1-85798-817-5 | 1999 |
9 | Gateway | Frederik Pohl | 1977 | 1-85798-818-3 | 1999 |
10 | The Rediscovery of Man | Cordwainer Smith | 1950–1966 | 1-85798-819-1 | 1999 |
11 | Last and First Men | Olaf Stapledon | 1930 | 1-85798-806-X | 1999 |
12 | Earth Abides | George R. Stewart | 1949 | 1-85798-821-3 | 1999 |
13 | Martian Time-Slip | Philip K. Dick | 1964 | 1-85798-837-X | 1999 |
14 | The Demolished Man | Alfred Bester | 1953 | 1-85798-822-1 | 1999 |
15 | Stand on Zanzibar | John Brunner | 1968 | 1-85798-836-1 | 1999 |
16 | The Dispossessed | Ursula K. Le Guin | 1974 | 1-85798-882-5 | 1999 |
17 | The Drowned World | J. G. Ballard | 1962 | 1-85798-883-3 | 1999 |
18 | The Sirens of Titan | Kurt Vonnegut | 1959 | 1-85798-884-1 | 1999 |
19 | Emphyrio | Jack Vance | 1969 | 1-85798-885-X | 1999 |
20 | A Scanner Darkly | Philip K. Dick | 1977 | 1-85798-847-7 | 1999 |
21 | Star Maker | Olaf Stapledon | 1937 | 1-85798-807-8 | 1999 |
22 | Behold the Man | Michael Moorcock | 1969 | 1-85798-848-5 | 1999 |
23 | The Book of Skulls | Robert Silverberg | 1972 | 1-85798-914-7 | 1999 |
24 | The Time Machine and The War of the Worlds | H. G. Wells | 1895 & 1898 | 1-85798-887-6 | 1999 |
25 | Flowers for Algernon | Daniel Keyes | 1966 | 1-85798-938-4 | 1999 |
26 | Ubik | Philip K. Dick | 1969 | 1-85798-853-1 | 2000 |
27 | Timescape | Gregory Benford | 1980 | 1-85798-935-X | 2000 |
28 | More Than Human | Theodore Sturgeon | 1953 | 1-85798-852-3 | 2000 |
29 | Man Plus | Frederik Pohl | 1976 | 1-85798-946-5 | 2000 |
30 | A Case of Conscience | James Blish | 1958 | 1-85798-924-4 | 2000 |
31 | The Centauri Device | M. John Harrison | 1975 | 1-85798-997-X | 2000 |
32 | Dr. Bloodmoney | Philip K. Dick | 1965 | 1-85798-952-X | 2000 |
33 | Non-Stop | Brian Aldiss | 1958 | 1-85798-998-8 | 2000 |
34 | The Fountains of Paradise | Arthur C. Clarke | 1979 | 1-85798-721-7 | 2000 |
35 | Pavane | Keith Roberts | 1968 | 1-85798-937-6 | 2000 |
36 | Now Wait for Last Year | Philip K. Dick | 1966 | 1-85798-701-2 | 2000 |
37 | Nova | Samuel R. Delany | 1968 | 1-85798-742-X | 2001 |
38 | The First Men in the Moon | H. G. Wells | 1901 | 1-85798-746-2 | 2001 |
39 | The City and the Stars | Arthur C. Clarke | 1956 | 1-85798-763-2 | 2001 |
40 | Blood Music | Greg Bear | 1985 | 1-85798-762-4 | 2001 |
41 | Jem | Frederik Pohl | 1980 | 1-85798-789-6 | 2001 |
42 | Bring the Jubilee | Ward Moore | 1953 | 1-85798-764-0 | 2001 |
43 | VALIS | Philip K. Dick | 1981 | 1-85798-339-4 | 2001 |
44 | The Lathe of Heaven | Ursula K. Le Guin | 1971 | 1-85798-951-1 | 2001 |
45 | The Complete Roderick | John Sladek | 1980 & 1983 | 1-85798-340-8 | 2001 |
46 | Flow My Tears, the Policeman Said | Philip K. Dick | 1974 | 1-85798-341-6 | 2001 |
47 | The Invisible Man | H. G. Wells | 1897 | 1-85798-949-X | 2001 |
48 | Grass | Sheri S. Tepper | 1989 | 1-85798-798-5 | 2002 |
49 | A Fall of Moondust | Arthur C. Clarke | 1961 | 0-575-07317-9 | 2002 |
50 | Eon | Greg Bear | 1985 | 0-575-07316-0 | 2002 |
51 | The Shrinking Man | Richard Matheson | 1956 | 0-575-07463-9 | 2003 |
52 | The Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldritch | Philip K. Dick | 1965 | 0-575-07480-9 | 2003 |
53 | The Dancers at the End of Time | Michael Moorcock | 1974–1976 | 0-575-07476-0 | 2003 |
54 | The Space Merchants | Frederik Pohl and Cyril M. Kornbluth | 1953 | 0-575-07528-7 | 2003 |
55 | Time Out of Joint | Philip K. Dick | 1959 | 0-575-07458-2 | 2003 |
56 | Downward to the Earth | Robert Silverberg | 1970 | 0-575-07523-6 | 2004 |
57 | The Simulacra | Philip K. Dick | 1964 | 0-575-07460-4 | 2004 |
58 | The Penultimate Truth | Philip K. Dick | 1964 | 0-575-07481-7 | 2005 |
59 | Dying Inside | Robert Silverberg | 1972 | 0-575-07525-2 | 2005 |
60 | Ringworld * | Larry Niven | 1970 | 0-575-07702-6 | 2005 |
61 | The Child Garden | Geoff Ryman | 1989 | 0-575-07690-9 | 2005 |
62 | Mission of Gravity | Hal Clement | 1954 | 0-575-07708-5 | 2005 |
63 | A Maze of Death | Philip K. Dick | 1970 | 0-575-07461-2 | 2005 |
64 | Tau Zero | Poul Anderson | 1970 | 0-575-07732-8 | 2006 |
65 | Rendezvous with Rama | Arthur C. Clarke | 1972 | 0-575-07733-6 | 2006 |
66 | Life During Wartime | Lucius Shepard | 1987 | 0-575-07734-4 | 2006 |
67 | Where Late the Sweet Birds Sang | Kate Wilhelm | 1976 | 0-575-07914-2 | 2006 |
68 | Roadside Picnic | Arkady and Boris Strugatsky | 1972 | 0-575-07978-9 | 2007 |
69 | Dark Benediction | Walter M. Miller, Jr. | 1951 | 0-575-07977-0 | 2007 |
70 | Mockingbird | Walter Tevis | 1980 | 0-575-07915-0 | 2007 |
71 | Dune * | Frank Herbert | 1965 | 0-575-08150-3 | 2007 |
72 | The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress * | Robert A. Heinlein | 1966 | 0-575-08241-0 | 2008 |
73 ** | The Man in the High Castle * | Philip K. Dick | 1962 | 0-575-08205-4 | 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 |
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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 |
New design
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 | 2010 |
Dhalgren | Samuel R. Delany | 1974 | 978-0-575-09099-6 | 2010 |
The Time Machine * ** | H. G. Wells | 1895 | 978-0-575-09517-5 | 2010 |
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 | 2010 |
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 | 2012 |
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 | 2013 |
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 | 2013 |
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 |
* Also published in the SF Masterworks numbered paperback series.
** Published as hardcover, possibly due to licensing issue.
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[5] (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
- ↑ http://www.orionbooks.co.uk/promotions/gollancz-sf-masterworks Orion Books Masterworks Website
- ↑ Gollancz editor Simon Spanton on the Future Classics promotion
- ↑ Gollancz Science Fiction and Fantasy New Books Catalogue: Jan-July 2010.
- ↑ http://www.gollancz.co.uk/2011/10/celebrating-50-years-of-gollancz/
External links
- SF Masterworks overview and reviews — Overview and reviews of the series.
- The SF Masterworks List — A graphical presentation of the Masterworks.