Ken MacLeod
On This Day: Iain M. Banks
On this day in 1954, Iain Menzies Banks was born in Dunfermline, Scotland. Do we need to explain who Iain M. Banks is? No, we do not. For many years he was Britain’s bestselling SF […]
Read MoreOn This Day: Walter M. Miller, Jr. Died
On this day, in 1996, the body of Walter M. Miller, Jr was discovered, at his home in Florida (according to The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction; other sources place the date earlier). He took his […]
Read MoreSF Masterworks Spotlight: Feersum Endjinn
As teased not long ago, we’re delighted to welcome Britain’s bestselling SF author of the last two decades to the SF Masterworks list! On 14th April we published a hardback edition of the BSFA Award-winning […]
Read MoreWelcome to the Gateway, Ken MacLeod!
Continuing our series of spotlights on authors who have joined us following our recent integration of classic SFF titles from across the Hachette Group of publishers, Gateway is delighted to welcome the BSFA and Prometheus […]
Read MoreSF Masterworks Spotlight: Hard to be a God
Another SF Masterwork from the giants of Soviet science fiction, Arkady and Boris Strugatsky, authors of the cult classic Roadside Picnic, filmed by Andrei Tarkovsky as Stalker. Anton is an undercover operative from future Earth, […]
Read MoreOn This Day: Iain M. Banks
On this day in 1954, Iain Menzies Banks was born in Dunfermline, Scotland. Do we need to explain who Iain M. Banks is? No, we do not. For many years he was Britain’s bestselling SF […]
Read MoreA (New Yorker) Canticle for Leibowitz
The excellent Charlie Panayiotou, film, manga and anime maven and Gollancz editor wrangler extraordinaire draws our attention to an excellent appreciation of Walter M. Miller Jr’s Hugo Award-winning classic A Canticle for Leibowitz in The […]
Read MoreSFX Book Club: A Case of Conscience
WARNING: TENUOUS LINK APPROACHING! In the wake of the recent historic referendum on Scottish independence, we thought it only appropriate to consult a Scottish SF writer about a pivotal science fictional decision. So, without further […]
Read MoreOn This Day: John Brunner
HIPCRIME: You committed one when you opened this book. Keep it up. It’s our only hope. ~ The Hipcrime Vocab by Chad Mulligan COINCIDENCE: You weren’t paying attention to the other half of what was […]
Read MoreSF Masterwork of the Week: Blood Music
This week’s SF Masterwork of the Week, Greg Bear’s Blood Music is, among many other things, one of the earliest – and still one of the finest – exemplars of biopunk. To introduce you to this […]
Read MoreSF Masterwork of the Week: A Case of Conscience
Our current Masterwork of the Week is James Blish’s seminal treatment of religion in SF, A Case of Conscience, which we are delighted to be publishing with a new introduction by Ken MacLeod, which is […]
Read MoreSF Masterwork of the Week: Half Past Human
A novel of dystopian future in the tradition of Soylent Green and H.G. Wells’ The Time Machine. Tinker was a good citizen of the Hive – a model worker. But when he was allowed […]
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