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SF Masterworks

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S.F. Masterworks
CountryUnited Kingdom
LanguageEnglish
GenreScience fiction
Publisher
Published1999–present
Media typePrint (Hardcover / Paperback)

S.F. Masterworks is a series of science fiction novel reprints published by the Orion Publishing Group. The series is intended for the United Kingdom and Australian markets, but many editions are distributed to the United States and Canada by Hachette.

Developed to feature important science fiction novels, the selections were described by science fiction author Iain M. Banks as "amazing" and "genuinely the best novels from sixty years of SF".[1] Many of the selected novels had been out of print in the United Kingdom for decades.

Its companion series include Fantasy Masterworks and Gateway Essentials.

Numbered series[edit]

Softcover editions (1999–2007)[edit]

  • ‡ Also published as part of SF Masterworks hardcover series.
  • * Some printings do not include a number stamp.

Hardcover editions (2001)[edit]

Not all printings include a number stamp.

Unpublished editions[edit]

The following were announced for publication in 2006, but were withdrawn in 2007.

Relaunch series[edit]

A selection of titles from the series on display at a London bookshop.

Softcover editions (2010–present)[edit]

The new designs sport yellow/white spines, with the SF Masterworks logo written vertically on the cover. For titles that were previously issued in the original series, generally the cover artwork is tinted in a different colour from the original version; for example, The Dispossessed cover artwork is primarily red in the original release, but was partly tinted green when republished in the new series.

Title Author(s) Date ISBN
The Forever War (reprint) Joe Haldeman 29 March 2010 978-0-575-09414-7
I Am Legend (reprint) Richard Matheson 978-0-575-09416-1
Cities in Flight (reprint) James Blish 978-0-575-09417-8
Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? (reprint) Philip K. Dick 978-0-575-09418-5
The Stars My Destination (reprint) Alfred Bester 978-0-575-09419-2
Babel-17 (reprint) Samuel R. Delany 978-0-575-09420-8
Lord of Light (reprint) Roger Zelazny 978-0-575-09421-5
The Fifth Head of Cerberus (reprint) Gene Wolfe 978-0-575-09422-2
Gateway (reprint) Frederik Pohl 978-0-575-09423-9
The Rediscovery of Man (reprint) Cordwainer Smith 978-0-575-09424-6
Dhalgren Samuel R. Delany 22 Jul 2010 978-0-575-09099-6
Helliconia Brian Aldiss 12 August 2010 978-0-575-08615-9
The Body Snatchers Jack Finney 14 October 2010 978-0-575-08531-2
Inverted World Christopher Priest 26 October 2010 978-0-575-08210-6
The Female Man Joanna Russ 11 November 2010 978-0-575-09499-4
Arslan M. J. Engh 9 December 2010 978-0-575-09501-4
The Difference Engine William Gibson and Bruce Sterling 13 January 2011 978-0-575-09940-1
The Prestige Christopher Priest 10 February 2011 978-0-575-09941-8
Greybeard Brian Aldiss 18 March 2011 978-0-575-07113-1
Sirius Olaf Stapledon 14 April 2011 978-0-575-09942-5
Hyperion Dan Simmons 12 May 2011 978-0-575-09943-2
City Clifford D. Simak 9 June 2011 978-0-575-10523-2
Hellstrom's Hive Frank Herbert 14 July 2011 978-0-575-10108-1
Of Men and Monsters William Tenn 11 August 2011 978-0-575-09944-9
The Affirmation Christopher Priest 13 October 2011 978-0-575-09946-3
R.U.R. and War with the Newts Karel Čapek 27 October 2011 978-0-575-09945-6
Floating Worlds Cecelia Holland 30 December 2011 978-0-575-10823-3
Rogue Moon Algis Budrys 12 January 2012 978-0-575-10800-4
Dangerous Visions Harlan Ellison 9 February 2012 978-0-575-10802-8
Odd John Olaf Stapledon 8 March 2012 978-0-575-07224-4
The Fall of Hyperion Dan Simmons 12 April 2012 978-0-575-09948-7
Synners Pat Cadigan 9 August 2012 978-0-575-11954-3
Sarah Canary Karen Joy Fowler 13 September 2012 978-0-575-13136-1
Ammonite Nicola Griffith 978-0-575-11823-2
The Continuous Katherine Mortenhoe D. G. Compton 11 October 2012 978-0-575-11831-7
Frankenstein Mary Shelley 978-0-575-09960-9
Roadside Picnic (reprint) Arkady and Boris Strugatsky 978-0-575-09313-3
Doomsday Book Connie Willis 8 November 2012 978-0-575-13109-5
Unquenchable Fire Rachel Pollack 13 December 2012 978-0-575-11854-6
The Caltraps of Time David I. Masson 978-0-575-11828-7
Engine Summer John Crowley 10 January 2013 978-0-575-08281-6
Take Back Plenty Colin Greenland 978-0-575-11952-9
Slow River Nicola Griffith 14 February 2013 978-0-575-11825-6
The Gate to Women's Country Sheri S. Tepper 14 March 2013 978-0-575-13104-0
The Sea and Summer George Turner 978-0-575-11869-0
Wasp Eric Frank Russell 9 May 2013 978-0-575-12904-7
To Say Nothing of the Dog Connie Willis 978-0-575-11312-1
The Gods Themselves Isaac Asimov 13 June 2013 978-0-575-12905-4
This Is the Way the World Ends James Morrow 978-0-575-08118-5
The Deep John Crowley 11 July 2013 978-0-575-08264-9
Time is the Fire: The Best of Connie Willis Connie Willis 8 August 2013 978-0-575-13114-9
No Enemy But Time Michael Bishop 978-0-575-09311-9
Double Star Robert A. Heinlein 12 September 2013 978-0-575-12203-1
Revelation Space Alastair Reynolds 978-0-575-12906-1
Random Acts of Senseless Violence Jack Womack 10 October 2013 978-0-575-13230-6
Transfigurations Michael Bishop 14 November 2013 978-0-575-09309-6
The Door Into Summer Robert A. Heinlein 31 December 2013 978-0-575-12072-3
Dr. Bloodmoney (reprint) Philip K. Dick 9 January 2014 978-1-4732-0168-2
Half Past Human T. J. Bass 30 January 2014 978-0-575-12962-7
The Long Tomorrow Leigh Brackett 13 February 2014 978-0-575-13156-9
The Godwhale T. J. Bass 13 March 2014 978-0-575-12993-1
Jem (reprint) Frederik Pohl 10 April 2014 978-1-4732-0170-5
The Shrinking Man (reprint) Richard Matheson 978-1-4732-0169-9
A Case of Conscience (reprint) James Blish 15 May 2014 978-1-4732-0543-7
Her Smoke Rose Up Forever James Tiptree Jr 10 July 2014 978-1-4732-0324-2
Stand on Zanzibar (reprint) John Brunner 11 September 2014 978-1-4732-0637-3
Mission of Gravity (reprint) Hal Clement 11 December 2014 978-1-4732-0638-0
The Word for World Is Forest Ursula K. Le Guin 26 March 2015 978-1-4732-0578-9
Downward to the Earth (reprint) Robert Silverberg 9 April 2014 978-1-4732-1192-6
Hard to Be a God Arkady and Boris Strugatsky 978-1-4732-0829-2
Night Lamp Jack Vance 14 May 2015 978-1-4732-0892-6
Life During Wartime (reprint) Lucius Shepard 11 June 2015 978-1-4732-1193-3
Dark Benediction (reprint) Walter M. Miller 13 August 2015 978-1-4732-1194-0
The Wind's Twelve Quarters
  and The Compass Rose
Ursula K. Le Guin 978-1-4732-0576-5
Dying of the Light George R. R. Martin 10 September 2015 978-1-4732-1252-7
Nova (reprint) Samuel R. Delany 12 November 2015 978-1-4732-1191-9
A Fire Upon the Deep Vernor Vinge 7 January 2016 978-1-4732-1195-7
Norstrilia Cordwainer Smith 11 February 2016 978-1-4732-1253-4
Monday Begins on Saturday Arkady and Boris Strugatsky 28 April 2016 978-1-4732-0221-4
Fairyland Paul J. McAuley 12 May 2016 978-1-4732-1516-0
The Man Who Fell to Earth Walter Tevis 26 May 2016 978-1-4732-1311-1
Always Coming Home Ursula K. Le Guin 14 July 2016 978-1-4732-0580-2
A Deepness in the Sky Vernor Vinge 978-1-4732-1196-4
Swastika Night Murray Constantine 11 August 2016 978-1-4732-1466-8
China Mountain Zhang Maureen F. McHugh 3 November 2016 978-1-4732-1462-0
Shadow and Claw
  (The Book of the New Sun, Vol. 1)
Gene Wolfe 10 November 2016 978-1-4732-1649-5
Sword and Citadel
  (The Book of the New Sun, Vol. 2)
978-1-4732-1200-8
Limbo Bernard Wolfe 8 December 2016 978-1-4732-1247-3
The Left Hand of Darkness Ursula K. Le Guin 13 April 2017 978-1-4732-2162-8
The Island of Doctor Moreau H. G. Wells 2 May 2017 978-1-4732-1799-7
The Invisible Man ‡ (reprint) 978-1-4732-1798-0
The Shape of Things to Come 8 June 2017 978-1-4732-2165-9
The Food of the Gods 4 July 2017 978-1-4732-1801-7
The First Men in the Moon ‡ (reprint) 978-1-4732-1800-0
The War of the Worlds ‡ (reprint) 18 July 2017 978-1-4732-1802-4
The Time Machine ‡ (reprint) 978-1-4732-1797-3
The Doomed City Arkady and Boris Strugatsky 27 July 2017 978-1-4732-2228-1
Raising the Stones Sheri S. Tepper 10 August 2017 978-1-4732-2265-6
The Embedding Ian Watson 19 October 2017 978-1-4732-2267-0
Cryptozoic Brian Aldiss 2 November 2017 978-1-4732-2273-1
Land Under England Joseph O'Neill 28 June 2018 978-1-4732-2406-3
Raft Stephen Baxter 11 July 2018 978-1-4732-2405-6
Dreaming in Smoke Tricia Sullivan 23 August 2018 978-1-4732-2474-2
Fools Pat Cadigan 7 March 2019 978-1-4732-2602-9
The Best of R. A. Lafferty R. A. Lafferty 4 April 2019 978-1-4732-1344-9
Light M. John Harrison 9 July 2019 978-1-4732-2767-5
Native Tongue Suzette Haden Elgin 22 August 2019 978-1-4732-2756-9
Snail on the Slope Arkady and Boris Strugatsky 17 October 2019 978-1-4732-2828-3
The Shockwave Rider John Brunner 9 January 2020 978-1-4732-2830-6
Lord Valentine's Castle Robert Silverberg 6 February 2020 978-1-4732-2922-8
River of Gods Ian McDonald 19 March 2020 978-1-4732-2950-1
A Time of Changes Robert Silverberg 20 August 2020 978-1-4732-2923-5
The Andromeda Anthology Fred Hoyle and John Elliot 1 October 2020 978-1-4732-3011-8
Worlds of Exile and Illusion Ursula K. Le Guin 15 October 2020 978-1-4732-3098-9
Bold as Love Gwyneth Jones 12 November 2020 978-1-4732-3019-4
Desolation Road Ian McDonald 10 December 2020 978-1-4732-3099-6
Castles Made of Sand Gwyneth Jones 7 January 2021 978-1-4732-3020-0
The Best of Greg Egan Greg Egan 18 March 2021 978-1-4732-3229-7
The Separation Christopher Priest 13 May 2021 978-1-4732-3305-8

‡ Also reprinted as hardcover edition

Hardcover editions (2010–2017)[edit]

Unpublished editions[edit]

The following were announced, but appear to have been withdrawn:

Other series[edit]

50th Anniversary (2011)[edit]

To celebrate the 50th anniversary of the Gollancz, Orion published ten fan-chosen editions. Each were published with Gollancz's traditional red-on-yellow cover design. The series was marketed as part the S.F. Masterworks series.

Golden Age Masterworks (2019–2020)[edit]

Published to celebrate the 20th anniversary. The novels are marketed as S.F. Golden Age Masterworks.

See also[edit]

References[edit]

  1. ^ "Locus Online: Malcolm Edwards interview excerpts". www.locusmag.com. Retrieved 2019-11-25.

External links[edit]

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