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Cover Reveal for Mitch Benn’s Terra

Gollancz Team: - March 4th, 2013
Cover Art, Cover Reveal, Science Fiction

We’re delighted to be able to give you a sneak preview of the cover for Mitch Benn’s wonderful debut novel TERRA.

Designed by the ever brilliant Laura Brett in our art department (with added ‘blue’ at the suggestion of Clara Benn) this arrived quite late in the day as the perfect solution to a cover-brief that had ‘gone round the houses a bit’ (technical term).

We all kind of knew what we wanted but it was quite difficult to nail … More

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Friday Reads: Terra by Mitch Benn

Gollancz Team: - March 1st, 2013
Friday Reads, Science Fiction, Social Networking

I follow Mitch Benn on Twitter. As you do, in these days of, what I believe the young people call, ‘social media’. One day, a couple of years ago he tweeted that he was in London and had a few hours to kill – did anyone have any suggestions as to what he could do?

‘Come to our offices and tell me about the SF novel you’re going to write for us’, I tweeted, half seriously, half jokingly. Of … More

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Gollancz Signs Debut SF Novel From Mitch Benn

Gollancz Team: - February 1st, 2012
Acquisitions, Science Fiction

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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

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