Iain M Banks Joins Gollancz’s SF Masterworks

Publisher Puts Feersum Endjinn In Its Classic List

♦Gollancz, an imprint of the Orion Publishing Group, is delighted to announce that it will be publishing an SF Masterworks edition of Iain M. Banks’ BSFA Award-winning Feersum Endjinn.

The SF Masterworks list is over 100 books strong and contains many of the finest voices in British and world science fiction. The list was founded by the Chairman of Gollancz, Malcolm Edwards, with the help of leading SF writers and editors and the goal of bringing important books back into print. The list was described by Iain M. Banks himself as ‘amazing’ and ‘genuinely the best novels from sixty years of SF’.

The Masterworks edition of Feersum Endjinn will be published in hardback on April 14 2016, and will include a new introduction by Ken MacLeod. The hardback licence was agreed with Gollancz’s sister imprint, Orbit, the SF imprint of the Little, Brown Book Group, who will continue to publish Feersum Endjinn in paperback.

Malcolm Edwards said, ‘Iain was immensely supportive when we launched the SF Masterworks, giving us an enthusiastic endorsement which appeared prominently on all the books, so it’s a particular pleasure to see him join the list.’

Iain M. Banks is the UK’s best-selling science fiction author of the last two decades. He came to widespread public notice with the publication of his first novel, THE WASP FACTORY, in 1984. His first science fiction novel, CONSIDER PHLEBAS, was published in 1987. He continued to write both mainstream fiction (as Iain Banks) and science fiction (as Iain M. Banks), and was acclaimed as one of the most powerful, innovative and exciting writers of his generation. He died in 2013. For more information about Iain Banks and his work see www.iain-banks.net.

About Gollancz
Gollancz is the oldest specialist SF & Fantasy publisher in the UK. Founded in 1927 and with a continuous SF publishing programme dating back to 1961, the imprint of the Orion Publishing Group is home to a galaxy of award-winning and bestselling authors. Through our long-running SF and Fantasy Masterworks programme, and major digital initiative the SF Gateway, Gollancz has one of the largest ranges of SF and Fantasy of any publisher in the world.

About the SF Masterworks Series
In the last years of the twentieth century (as H G Wells might have put it), Gollancz created the SF Masterworks series. Dedicated to re-publishing the English language’s finest works of science fiction, most of which were languishing out of print at the time, it was – and remains – a landmark list. The SF Masterworks contains many of the touchstone books of modern science fiction. Hugo-winners, Nebula-winners, John W. Campbell and Arthur C. Clarke Award-winners: these are the books that made science fiction the most vibrant and important literature of the twentieth century.

About Orbit
Launched in 1974, Orbit has a rich publishing history that includes many of the bestselling and most acclaimed writers in the field. Now one of the biggest genre imprints in the UK, with a dedicated editorial, marketing and publicity team sharing a passion for speculative fiction, Orbit is committed to broadening the audience for SF and Fantasy and finding the widest possible readerships for our authors.

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