Gollancz Team Archive
Darren
I’m Gollancz’s Digital Publisher. People ask me what that means and, upon comparing answers, find that I’ve told everyone something different. That’s because it’s the future and it’s changing all the time; at least, that’s my story and I’m sticking to it. When I’m not digitising thousands of classics for our fabulous SF Gateway project, I like to bore people rigid about SF & Fantasy, comics, cricket, football and Belgian beer. This can only be prevented by bringing me drinks.
Happy Birthday, Stephen Donaldson
Gollancz Team: Darren - May 13th, 2013
Fantasy, News
Thanks to the all-seeing eye of The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction, and its indispensable On This Day function, we see that today is Stephen R. Donaldson‘s birthday.
As I’m sure we all know, Stephen Donaldson burst onto the scene in 1977 with his extraordinary debut trilogy, The Chronicles of Thomas Covenant the Unbeliever. It was an astonishingly assured and – let’s not deny it – bleak trilogy, that seemed intent … More
Tags: Fantasy, Happy Birthday, SF Gateway, Stephen Donaldson, The Last Chronicles of Thomas Covenant
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Titanic 101: The Ghost from the Grand Banks
Gollancz Team: Darren - April 15th, 2013
News, Other, Science Fiction, Seasonal Posts, SF Gateway
It was 101 years ago today that the one of the greatest – certainly the most famous – of all maritime disasters occurred: the sinking of the RMS Titanic. With a hull containing sixteen separate airtight compartments, causing some to refer to it as ‘unsinkable’, the Titanic struck an iceberg south of Newfoundland and sank, five days into its maiden voyage, resulting in the loss of over 1,500 lives.
The Titanic has fascinated explorers, historians and writers … More
Tags: Arthur C. Clarke, Science Fiction, SF Gateway, The Ghosts from the Grand Banks, Titanic
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SF Masterwork of the Week: The Sea and Summer
Gollancz Team: Darren - March 20th, 2013
Masterworks
One of the arguments used to denigrate science fiction regularly employed by the sort of people who were going to denigrate science fiction anyway, is that it dates far more quickly than other genres. We could argue about (a) whether this is true and (b) whether it matters until the Booker Prize shortlists a genre author or the heat death of the universe, whichever comes first*. But if we were to argue the former, then this week’s … More
Tags: Arthur C. Clarke Award, George Turner, New Releases, SF Masterworks
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Reflections on Arthur C. Clarke: 16th December 1917 – 19th March 2008
Gollancz Team: Darren - March 19th, 2013
Editorial Posts, SF Gateway
Five years ago today, we lost one of our greats. The last of The Big Three. The man who conceived the telecommunications satellite. The creator of one of the only two novels whose dates have become cultural touchstones. The writer whose ‘Third Law‘ is amongst the most quoted (and most misattributed!) in all of modern culture.
Upon hearing the news of Sir Arthur … More
Tags: Arthur C. Clarke, Editorial Posts
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