Gollancz Team Archive
Simon
I find myself Deputy Publishing Director of Gollancz with no clear idea of how I got here but fairly sure I enjoyed the journey. There was some college, a lot of bookselling and a bit of marketing along the way but that was a long time ago. I’ve been editing since 1991. I’ve always read SF, Fantasy and Horror but I’ve always enjoyed reading other stuff as well. I’ve published other stuff too but never had as much fun doing it as I have publishing genre books. I’m very happy doing what I’m doing; to the extent that I’ve been comprehensively ruined for doing anything else. Anything else may have got off lightly. I’m definitely more Arthur Dent than I am Takeshi Kovacs. But then if anyone in publishing tells you they’re like Takeshi Kovacs they are LYING.
Sam Sykes 60 Second Interview
Gollancz Team: Simon - February 6th, 2012
Fantasy, Interview, Sam Sykes
In celebration of the David Gemmell Award long-lists being published, Gollancz is thrilled to be running a series of interviews-in-sixty-seconds with as many long-listed authors as we can get our hands on. Today we’re wrestling with Sam Sykes, the renowned and feared author of The Tome of the Undergates which was hotly followed by Black Halo ( which is shortlisted for the David Gemmell Legend Award for Best Novel) … More
Tags: Black Halo, David Gemmell Longlist, Fantasy, Interview, Sam Sykes, The Skybound Sea, Tome of the Undergates
Posted in Fantasy, Interview, Sam Sykes | 1 Comment »
Jack Glass Cover Reveal
Gollancz Team: Simon - February 2nd, 2012
Adam Roberts, Cover Art, Science Fiction
A supremely clever melding of golden-age crime themes with golden-age SF themes. A tricksy crime novel told in three stories. A who-dunnit where you know from the beginning who dunnit (that would be Jack Glass), but are still surprised when you discover how he did it. What on earth (or indeed off earth) would you put on the cover? Tried loads of ideas, nothing worked. Went back to the beginning. To the title. Jack Glass. The … More
Tags: Adam Roberts, Cover Art Reveal, Jack Glass, Science Fiction
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Robert V.S. Redick 60 Second Interview
Gollancz Team: Simon - February 1st, 2012
Fantasy, Interview, Robert V.S. Redick
In celebration of the David Gemmell Award long-lists being published, Gollancz is thrilled to be running a series of interviews-in-sixty-seconds with as many long-listed authors as we can get our hands on. Today we’re conversing with Robert V. S. Redick, author of the gripping The Chathrand Voyage Quartet which set sail with The Red Wolf Conspiracy, paused for an adventure with The Rats and the Ruling … More
Tags: David Gemmell Long List, Fantasy, Rats and the Ruling Sea, Robert V.S. Redick, The Chathrand Voyage Quartet, The Night of the Swarm, The Red Wolf Conspiracy, The River of Shadows
Posted in Fantasy, Interview, Robert V.S. Redick | 1 Comment »
Gollancz Signs Debut SF Novel From Mitch Benn
Gollancz Team: Simon - February 1st, 2012
Acquisitions, Science Fiction
Gollancz, the SF and Fantasy imprint of Orion Books, has signed up the debut science fiction novel from ‘The Now Show’ star Mitch Benn after an impromptu exchange on Twitter.
The deal came about when the award-winning comedian and songwriter tweeted that he had time to kill in London and Gollancz Deputy Publishing Director Simon Spanton, who follows Benn on the micro-blogging site, suggested he should use that time to come by the Gollancz offices to discuss the SF novel ‘that … More
Tags: Acquisitions, Mitch Benn, Science Fiction, Terra, The Now Show
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How I wrote In The Mouth Of The Whale- Paul McAuley
Gollancz Team: Simon - January 26th, 2012
Author Post, Paul McAuley, Science Fiction
In The Mouth of the Whale, like most of my novels, began with an image. In this case a gigantic cylindrical construct hung in the atmosphere of a gas giant planet, with spidery drones working on some machine attached to its skin, and trains rushing up and down a long spine or tail that dropped away into an ocean of clouds.
This mind’s eye picture had grown out of thinking about how to … More
Tags: Gardens in the Sun, How I wrote piece, In the Mouth of the Whale, Paul McAuley, Science Fiction, SF, The Quiet War
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