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The SF Gateway doesn’t exist in isolation from the rest of Gollancz’s publishing.  One of the key factors in its creation was our recognition that various authors had one or two books in our SF and Fantasy Masterworks series, but the rest of their backlist was unavailable.

We will revive the Fantasy Masterworks series – which has been on hold since # 50 was published – in 2012, and are also adding to the SF Masterworks series with renewed energy.  New SF Masterworks titles scheduled up to the end of 2012 are as follows:

Floating Worlds, by Cecelia Holland

Rogue Moon, by Algis Budrys

Dangerous Visions, edited by Harlan Ellison

Odd John, by Olaf Stapledon

The Fall of Hyperion, by Dan Simmons

The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy, by Douglas Adams*

The War of the Worlds, by H.G. Wells*

Synners, by Pat Cadigan

Ammonite, by Nicola Griffith

The Continuous Katherine Mortenhoe, by D.G. Compton

Frankenstein, by Mary Shelley

Riddley Walker, by Russell Hoban*

Take Back Plenty, by Colin Greenland

Wasp, by Eric Frank Russell

Titles marked with an asterisk (*) will be published in hardcover, and will not have eBooks available from Gollancz.  The others will be published in paperback, and eBook.

The Fantasy Masterworks list will relaunch in 2012 with these titles:

Mythago Wood, by Robert Holdstock

Lavondyss, by Robert Holdstock

Last Call, by Tim Powers

Other titles will be scheduled shortly.

There are a lot of titles in the Gateway which have been considered as potential Masterworks at one time or another, but not pursued, chiefly because there is a limit to how many titles we can reissue print editions of (a restriction which doesn’t apply in the digital universe).  Are there titles you feel should be in one or other of the series?  We’d like to hear from you.

The Lotus Caves by John Christopher. I was told to check this one out!

Excellent news that the MFW series is going to be revived.

*Please* retain the sequential numbering and cover design!

Dear Malcolm,

A handful of Masterworks is long out-of-print (and is getting VERY expensive on the second-hand market) Can we hope for reprints with original numbered covers of:

Drowned World by Ballard, First Men in the Moon by Wells, A Case of Conscience by Blish, Downward to Earth by Silverberg, Mission of Gravity by Clement ?

Please! We want to be able to have complete sets of Masterworks!!!

Hello, is there any chance that Julian May's 'Saga of the Exiles' books will see a release?

GODMOTHER NIGHT by Rachel Pollack won the World Fantasy Award but has largely been unavailable.  I'd love to see it reissued in the Fantasy Masterworks series, followed by Rachel Pollack's lighter novel, TEMPORARY AGENCY.  (Just to be clear, I edited both novels.)

There are another half-dozen books from when I worked at St. Martin's Press that I would recomment if you're interested, but GODMOTHER NIGHT is #1 on my list and it strikes me as a good fit in your program.

---Gordon Van Gelder

It's a great series so far! Here's another one or two you might want to consider:

- Brian Aldiss: Hothouse; The Malacia Tapestry; Man in His Time & A Romance of the Equator
- Poul Anderson: A Midsummer Tempest
- Piers Anthony: Macroscope (the unabridged version); Chthon
- Isaac Asimov: The Foundation Trilogy; The Complete Robot
- J. G. Ballard: The Atrocity Exhibition; The Complete Short Stories; The Crystal World
- Iain M. Banks: Consider Phlebas
- Barrington J. Bayley: The Soul of a Robot
- Peter S. Beagle: The Last Unicorn
- Greg Bear: Forge of God & Anvil of Stars
- Alfred Bester: Starlight
- Lloyd Biggle, Jr.: The Still, Small, Voice of Trumpets
- Michael Bishop: Eyes of Fire; Philip K. Dick is Dead, Alas
- James Blish: Black Easter/After Such Judgement; The Seedling Stars
- Ray Bradbury: Dandelion Wine; Fahrenheit 451; The Martian Chronicles
- Marion Zimmer Bradley: The Heritage of Hastur; The Mists of Avalon
- David Brin: Startide Rising
- Fredric Brown: From These Ashes; Martians and Madness
- John Brunner: The Productions of Time; The Sheep Look Up; The Shockwave Rider; The Squares of the City; The Traveller in Black
- Algis Budrys: Michaelmas; Who
- Edgar Rice Burroughs: A Tarzan Omnibus & A Mars Omnibus
- Octavia E. Butler: Xenogenesis
- Orson Scott Card: Ender's Game & Speaker for the Dead
- John Christopher: The Death of Grass & The World in Winter
- D. G. Compton: Chronocules
- Michael G. Coney: Hello Summer, Goodbye
- Edmund Cooper: A Far Sunset
- Susan Cooper: The Dark Is Rising Sequence
- John Crowley: The Deep
- Samuel R. Delany: Driftglass/Starshards; Tales of Neveryon
- Philip K. Dick: The Collected Stories of Philip K. Dick
- Gordon R. Dickson: The Dragon and the George; Three to Dorsai; Time Storm
- Thomas M. Disch: The Genocides; 334
- Harlan Ellison: Deathbird Stories
- Philip Jose Farmer: A Fabulous Riverboat; The World of Tiers
- Daniel F. Galouye: Dark Universe
- Alan Garner: The Weirdstone of Brisingamen & The Moon of Gomrath; Red Shift
- David Gemmell: Drenai Tales
- William Gibson: Neuromancer
- Charles L. Harness: The Paradox Men; The Ring of Ritornel; The Rose
- Harry Harrison: Bill, the Galactic Hero; The Deathworld Trilogy; Make Room! Make Room!; The Stainless Steel Rat; The Technicolor Time Machine
- Robert A. Heinlein: Double Star; The Past Through Tomorrow; Stranger in a Strange Land
- Frank Herbert: Dragon in the Sea; Whipping Star
- Stephen King: The Stand
- Dean R. Koontz: Midnight
- C.M. Kornbluth: The Syndic
- Katherine Kurtz: The Chronicles of the Deryni
- Henry Kuttner: Detour to Otherness; Fury
- R. A. Lafferty: The Devil Is Dead; Nine Hundred Grandmothers
- Tanith Lee: The Birthgrave
- Ursula K. Le Guin: The Earthsea Quartet
- Stanislaw Lem: The Cyberiad; Solaris
- R.A. MacAvoy: Tea with the Black Dragon
- Barry N. Malzberg: Beyond Apollo & The Falling Astronauts; In the Stone House
- George R. R. Martin: Dying of the Light
- Anne McCaffrey: The Dragonriders of Pern
- James Morrow: This is the Way the World Ends
- Larry Niven: The Magic Goes Away
- Andre Norton: A Witch World Omnibus
- Edgar Pangborn: A Mirror for Observers
- Mervyn Peake: The Gormenghast Trilogy
- H. Beam Piper: The Fuzzy Papers
- Terry Pratchett: The City Watch Trilogy; The Witches Trilogy
- Joanna Russ: The Adventures of Alyx
- Eric Frank Russell: Men, Martians and Machines
- Fred Saberhagen: Berserker
- Bob Shaw: Orbitsville; Other Days, Other Eyes; The Ragged Astronauts; Who Goes Here?
- Robert Sheckley: Is That What People Do?; Mindswap
- Robert Silverberg: Born With the Dead; Lord Valentine's Castle; The Masks of Time; Thorns; A Time of Changes; Up the Line
- Clifford D. Simak: City (complete edition); Time and Again; Way Station; Why Call Them Back From Heaven?
- John Sladek: The Reproductive System; The Steam-Driven Boy and Other Strangers
- Cordwainer Smith: The Instrumentality of Mankind; Norstrilia
- E.E. Smith: A Lensman Omnibus
- Norman Spinrad: Bug Jack Barron
- Christopher Stasheff: To the Magic Born
- Theodore Sturgeon: The Dreaming Jewels; A Touch of Sturgeon
- Thomas Burnett Swann: Day of the Minotaur
- James Tiptree, Jr,: Ten Thousand Light Years From Home
- Wilson Tucker: The Long, Loud Silence; The Year of the Quiet Sun
- A.E. van Vogt: The Book of Ptath; Slan; The Voyage of the Space Beagle; The Worlds of Null-A & The Pawns of Null-A
- Ian Watson: Deathhunter; The Embedding; The Martian Inca
- Manly Wade Wellman: John the Balladeer
- James White: A Hospital Station Omnibus; The Watch Below
- Jack Williamson: The Humanoids & The Humanoid Touch
- John Wyndham: The Chrysalids; The Kraken Wakes; The Seeds of Time
- Roger Zelazny: This Immortal

Wow, that's quite a list! Though many of those titles are currently available from Penguin.

I'd quite like to read Brian Aldiss' Hothouse.