Enter the SF Gateway
In the last years of the twentieth century (as Wells might
have put it), Gollancz, Britain’s oldest and most distinguished
science fiction imprint, created the SF and Fantasy Masterworks
series. Dedicated to re-publishing the English language’s finest
works of SF and Fantasy, most of which were languishing out of
print at the time, they were – and remain – landmark lists,
consummately fulfilling the original mission statement:
‘SF MASTERWORKS is a library of the greatest SF ever written, chosen with the help of today’s leading SF writers and editors. These books show that genuinely innovative SF is as exciting today as when it was first written.’
Now, as we move inexorably into the twenty-first century, we
are delighted to be widening our remit even more. The realities of
commercial publishing are such that vast troves of classic SF &
Fantasy are almost certainly destined never again to see print.
Until very recently, this meant that anyone interested in reading
any of these books would have been confined to scouring second-hand
bookshops. The advent of digital publishing has changed that
paradigm for ever.
The technology now exists to enable us to make available, for
the first time, the entire backlists of an incredibly wide range of
classic and modern SF and fantasy authors. Our plan is, at its
simplest, to use this technology to build on the success of the SF
and Fantasy Masterworks series and to go even further.
Welcome to the new home of Science Fiction & Fantasy.
Welcome to the most comprehensive electronic library of classic SFF
titles ever assembled.
Welcome to the SF Gateway.