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This week we have welcomed the following titles to the SF Gateway!   ASGARD’S HEART, the third and final book in Brian Stableford’s trilogy about a planet that contains thousands of worlds inside it – and the one man who will do anything to penetrate its secrets . . .   Eternal hero, eternal warrior, […]

We have some fantastic new Gateway eBooks out this week!   THE COLLECTED GHOST STORIES of M. R. James! Be chilled and thrilled by these tales of the supernatural…   ASGARD’S CONQUERORS by Brian Stableford is the second in this thrilling space opera series of a world with a mystery at its core…   The […]

We have some fantastic new Gateway eBooks out this week!   The Winds of Limbo by Michael Moorcock – With the appearance of a mysterious cosmic presence who has undeniable charisma the course of Earth’s future is about to change!   The Wrecks of Time by Michael Moorcock – Unless Professor Faustaff can figure which […]

Michael Scott Rohan, author of a number of highly regarded fantasy and sf novels, died on Sunday 12th August, after years of illness.  He was 67.  His most highly regarded novel, The Anvil of Ice, was published in Gollancz’s Fantasy Masterworks series in 2015, and all his fiction is published electronically by SF Gateway.  His […]

We were saddened to hear of the passing of the legendary Harlan Ellison yesterday. Often controversial, always unequivocal and forever one of our finest writers, Harlan Ellison will be missed. During the course of an illustrious career he wrote over 1700 short stories, novellas, screenplays, essays, anthologies and novels. He won seven Hugos, three Nebulas […]

Last Friday we posted an appreciation of Brian Aldiss on the day of his 92nd birthday. Yesterday we learned that he had died the very next day.  All at Gollancz and SF Gateway are saddened by his passing, and our thoughts are with his family and friends at this sad time.

Two Hugo Awards, one Nebula Award, five BSFA Awards, a John W. Campbell Memorial Award. The Science Fiction Hall of Fame living inductee. SFWA Grand Master. The IAFA Award for distinguished scholarship. World Fantasy Special Award. The Prix Utopia Award for lifetime achievement. Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature. Officer of the Order of […]

We hope you all know about the Barbican’s new Science Fiction exhibition, Into the Unknown?  It’s an excellent journey charting the history SF through its art, design, film and literature – and, needless to say, many Gollancz titles feature in the latter! A little while ago, the good people of the Barbican asked the team at […]

Some time ago, news reached us, here at Gateway Towers*, of an imminent roleplaying game based on Michael Scott Rohan’s epic The Winter of the World series. Well, we are delighted to say that Michael Scott Rohan’s Winter of the World RPG is now here! Available from Drivethrurpg as a PDF, we’re reliably informed that […]

An important voice in feminist SF, Pamela Sargent came to prominence as an editor with the ‘Women of Wonder’ SF anthologies, beginning in the mid-seventies, and she has continued to edit works of genre interest. An award-winning short fiction and novel writer, her works include the ‘Earthminds’, ‘Seed’ and ‘Venus’ trilogies, all available as SF […]

On this day, twenty-one years ago, Margaret St Clair died. Her science fiction career began with ‘Rocket to Limbo’for Fantastic Adventures in November 1946, and she became a prolific writer of short fiction during the next decade and a half – both under her own name and under the pseudonym Idris Seabright. As The Encyclopedia […]

In our moments of peak efficiency, we have content for the Gateway website and blog scheduled weeks in advance – occasionally, months. Mostly, that’s a good thing, enabling us to see what we’re doing over a sustained period and help us do our best to balance out our offerings as best we can. But sometimes, […]