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Victor Gollancz Ltd

Index Victor Gollancz Ltd

Victor Gollancz Ltd was a major British book publishing house of the twentieth century. [1]

89 relations: A. J. Ayer, A. J. Cronin, Adam Roberts (British writer), Alastair Reynolds, Alison Sinclair, Anthony Price, Arthur C. Clarke, Bob Shaw, Bruce Sterling, Case Closed, Cassell (publisher), Christopher Evans (author), Christopher Priest (novelist), Colin Wilson, Common Sense (series), Dan Simmons, Daphne du Maurier, Down and Out in Paris and London, Dragon Ball, E-book, E. P. Thompson, Fantasy, Flame of Recca, Fushigi Yûgi, Gene Wolfe, Geoff Ryman, Geoffrey Cox (journalist), George Orwell, George R. R. Martin, Graham Joyce, Greg Bear, Gwyneth Jones (novelist), Hachette (publisher), Hilde Meisel, Homage to Catalonia, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, Ian McDonald (British author), Ian Watson (author), J. G. Ballard, Jaine Fenn, James Lovegrove, Joe Abercrombie, Joe Hill (writer), John Sladek, Jon Courtenay Grimwood, Jonathan Carroll, Keith Roberts, Kingsley Amis, Language, Truth, and Logic, Left Book Club, ..., Lucky Jim, M. John Harrison, Maggie Furey, Maison Ikkoku, Manga, Mark Chadbourn, Mary Gentle, Michael G. Coney, Modern Records Centre, University of Warwick, One Piece, Orion Publishing Group, Patrick Rothfuss, Paul J. McAuley, Rebecca (novel), Richard K. Morgan, Robert Cormier, Robert Holdstock, Robert J. Sawyer, Robert V.S. Redick, Roger Levy, Rurouni Kenshin, Scott Lynch, SF Masterworks, Stephen Baxter (author), Stephen Hunt (author), Stephen R. Donaldson, Terry Pratchett, The Bookseller, The Citadel (novel), The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction, The Making of the English Working Class, The Outsider (Colin Wilson), The Road to Wigan Pier, Thomas M. Disch, Victor Gollancz, Viz Media, William Gibson, Winter War, Yu-Gi-Oh!. Expand index (39 more) »

A. J. Ayer

Sir Alfred Jules "Freddie" Ayer, FBA (29 October 1910 – 27 June 1989), usually cited as A. J. Ayer, was a British philosopher known for his promotion of logical positivism, particularly in his books Language, Truth, and Logic (1936) and The Problem of Knowledge (1956).

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A. J. Cronin

Archibald Joseph Cronin, MBChB, MD, DPH, MRCP (19 July 1896 – 6 January 1981) was a Scottish novelist and physician.

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Adam Roberts (British writer)

Adam Charles Roberts (born 30 June 1965) is a British science fiction and fantasy novelist.

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Alastair Reynolds

Alastair Preston Reynolds (born 13 March 1966) is a British science fiction author.

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Alison Sinclair

Alison Sinclair is a professor of Modern Spanish Literature and Intellectual History at the University of Cambridge, Hispanist, and a fellow of Clare College, Cambridge.

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Anthony Price

Anthony Price (born 16 August 1928 in Hertfordshire, England) is an author of espionage thrillers.

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Arthur C. Clarke

Sir Arthur Charles Clarke (16 December 1917 – 19 March 2008) was a British science fiction writer, science writer and futurist, inventor, undersea explorer, and television series host.

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Bob Shaw

Robert "Bob" Shaw (31 December 1931 – 11 February 1996) was a science fiction writer and fan from Northern Ireland, noted for his originality and wit.

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Bruce Sterling

Michael Bruce Sterling (born April 14, 1954) is an American science fiction author known for his novels and work on the Mirrorshades anthology.

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Case Closed

Case Closed, also known as, is an ongoing Japanese detective manga series written and illustrated by Gosho Aoyama.

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Cassell (publisher)

Cassell & Co is a British book publishing house, founded in 1848 by John Cassell (1817–1865), which became in the 1890s an international publishing group company.

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Christopher Evans (author)

Christopher Evans (born 4th April 1951 in Tredegar, Wales) is a British science fiction writer and children's author.

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Christopher Priest (novelist)

Christopher Priest (born 14 July 1943) is a British novelist and science fiction writer.

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Colin Wilson

Colin Henry Wilson (26 June 1931 – 5 December 2013) was an English writer, philosopher and novelist.

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Common Sense (series)

The Common Sense series included thirteen political books published by Victor Gollancz Ltd in the United Kingdom during the early 1960s.

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Dan Simmons

Dan Simmons (born April 4, 1948) is an American science fiction and horror writer.

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Daphne du Maurier

Dame Daphne du Maurier, Lady Browning, (13 May 1907 – 19 April 1989) was an English author and playwright.

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Down and Out in Paris and London

Down and Out in Paris and London is the first full-length work by the English author George Orwell, published in 1933.

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Dragon Ball

is a Japanese media franchise created by Akira Toriyama in 1984.

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E-book

An electronic book (or e-book or eBook) is a book publication made available in digital form, consisting of text, images, or both, readable on the flat-panel display of computers or other electronic devices.

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E. P. Thompson

Edward Palmer Thompson (3 February 1924 – 28 August 1993), usually cited as E. P.

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Fantasy

Fantasy is a genre of speculative fiction set in a fictional universe, often without any locations, events, or people referencing the real world.

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Flame of Recca

is a manga series written and illustrated by Nobuyuki Anzai, which was adapted into an anime series spanning forty-two episodes by Studio Pierrot.

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Fushigi Yûgi

, also known as Fushigi Yûgi: The Mysterious Play or Curious Play, is a Japanese shōjo manga series written and illustrated by Yuu Watase.

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Gene Wolfe

Gene Rodman Wolfe (born May 7, 1931) is an American science fiction and fantasy writer.

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Geoff Ryman

Geoffrey Charles Ryman (born 1951) is a writer of science fiction, fantasy, slipstream and historical fiction.

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Geoffrey Cox (journalist)

Sir Geoffrey Sandford Cox, CNZM, CBE (7 April 1910 – 2 April 2008) was a New Zealand-born newspaper and television journalist.

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George Orwell

Eric Arthur Blair (25 June 1903 – 21 January 1950), better known by his pen name George Orwell, was an English novelist, essayist, journalist and critic whose work is marked by lucid prose, awareness of social injustice, opposition to totalitarianism and outspoken support of democratic socialism.

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George R. R. Martin

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Graham Joyce

Graham Joyce (22 October 1954 – 9 September 2014) was a British writer of speculative fiction and the recipient of numerous awards, including the O Henry Award and the World Fantasy Award, for both his novels and short stories.

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Greg Bear

Gregory Dale "Greg" Bear (born August 20, 1951) is an American writer and illustrator best known for science fiction.

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Gwyneth Jones (novelist)

Gwyneth Jones (born 14 February 1952) is an English science fiction and fantasy writer and critic, and a young adult/children's writer under the name Ann Halam.

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Hachette (publisher)

Hachette is a French publisher.

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Hilde Meisel

Hilde Meisel (July 31, 1914 – April 17, 1945) was a German socialist and journalist who published articles against the Nazi regime in Germany.

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Homage to Catalonia

Homage to Catalonia is George Orwell's personal account of his experiences and observations in the Spanish Civil War.

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Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

Houghton Mifflin Harcourt (HMH) is an educational and trade publisher in the United States.

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Ian McDonald (British author)

Ian McDonald (born 1960) is a British science fiction novelist, living in Belfast.

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Ian Watson (author)

Ian Watson (born 20 April 1943) is a British science fiction writer.

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J. G. Ballard

James Graham Ballard (15 November 193019 April 2009) was an English novelist, short story writer, and essayist who first became associated with the New Wave of science fiction for his post-apocalyptic novels such as The Wind from Nowhere (1961) and The Drowned World (1962).

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Jaine Fenn

Jaine Fenn is a British science fiction author.

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James Lovegrove

James M. H. Lovegrove (born 1965) is a British writer of speculative fiction.

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Joe Abercrombie

Joe Abercrombie (born 31 December 1974) is a British fantasy writer and film editor.

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Joe Hill (writer)

Joseph Hillstrom King (born June 4, 1972), better known by the pen name Joe Hill, is an American author and comic book writer.

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John Sladek

John Thomas Sladek (December 15, 1937 – March 10, 2000) was an American science fiction author, known for his satirical and surreal novels.

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Jon Courtenay Grimwood

Jon Courtenay Grimwood (born 1953 in Valletta, Malta) is a British science fiction and fantasy author.

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Jonathan Carroll

Jonathan Samuel Carroll (born January 26, 1949) is an American fiction writer primarily known for novels that may be labelled magic realism, slipstream or contemporary fantasy.

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Keith Roberts

Keith John Kingston Roberts (20 September 1935 – 5 October 2000), was an English science fiction author.

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Kingsley Amis

Sir Kingsley William Amis, CBE (16 April 1922 – 22 October 1995) was an English novelist, poet, critic, and teacher.

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Language, Truth, and Logic

Language, Truth, and Logic is a 1936 work of philosophy by Alfred Jules Ayer.

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Left Book Club

The Left Book Club was a publishing group that exerted a strong left-wing influence in Great Britain from 1936 to 1948.

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Lucky Jim

Lucky Jim is a novel by Kingsley Amis, first published in 1954 by Victor Gollancz.

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M. John Harrison

Michael John Harrison (born 26 July 1945), known for publication purposes primarily as M. John Harrison, is an English author and literary critic.

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Maggie Furey

Maggie Furey (née Armstrong) was a British fantasy writer.

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Maison Ikkoku

is a Japanese manga series written and illustrated by Rumiko Takahashi.

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Manga

are comics created in Japan or by creators in the Japanese language, conforming to a style developed in Japan in the late 19th century.

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Mark Chadbourn

Mark Chadbourn is an English fantasy, science fiction, historical fiction, and horror author with more than a dozen novels (and one non-fiction book) published around the world.

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Mary Gentle

Mary Rosalyn Gentle (born 29 March 1956) is a UK science fiction and fantasy author.

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Michael G. Coney

Michael Greatrex Coney (September 28, 1932 - November 4, 2005) was a British science fiction writer, best known for his novel Hello Summer Goodbye. He spent the later half of his life in Canada.

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Modern Records Centre, University of Warwick

The Modern Records Centre (MRC) is the specialist archive service of the University of Warwick in Coventry, England, located adjacent to the Central Campus Library.

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One Piece

is a Japanese manga series written and illustrated by Eiichiro Oda.

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Orion Publishing Group

Orion Publishing Group Ltd.

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Patrick Rothfuss

Patrick James Rothfuss (born June 6, 1973) is an American writer of epic fantasy.

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Paul J. McAuley

Paul J. McAuley (born 23 April 1955) is a British botanist and science fiction author.

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Rebecca (novel)

Rebecca is a thriller novel by English author Dame Daphne du Maurier.

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Richard K. Morgan

Richard Morgan, known as Richard K. Morgan in the U.S., (born 1965) is a British science fiction and fantasy author.

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Robert Cormier

Robert Edmund Cormier (January 17, 1925 – November 2, 2000) was an American author and journalist, known for his deeply pessimistic novels, many of which were written for young adults.

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Robert Holdstock

Robert Paul Holdstock (2 August 1948 – 29 November 2009) was an English novelist and author best known for his works of Celtic, Nordic, Gothic and Pictish fantasy literature, predominantly in the fantasy subgenre of mythic fiction.

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Robert J. Sawyer

Robert James Sawyer (born April 29, 1960) is a Canadian science fiction writer.

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Robert V.S. Redick

Robert von Stein Redick is an American author of epic fantasy and mainstream fiction.

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Roger Levy

Roger Levy is a British science fiction writer.

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Rurouni Kenshin

,Note: The Japanese title literally means "Rurouni Kenshin: Meiji Swordsman, a collection of Romantic Folk Tales." "Rurouni" is a neologism created from the verb "ru," meaning "to wander," and "ronin," meaning "masterless samurai." A rough translation of the title would be "Kenshin the Wandering Swordsman".

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Scott Lynch

Scott Lynch (born April 2, 1978) is an American fantasy author who wrote the Gentleman Bastard series of novels.

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SF Masterworks

SF Masterworks is a series of science fiction books started by Millennium and currently published by Victor Gollancz Ltd (both being imprints of the UK based Orion Publishing Group).

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Stephen Baxter (author)

Stephen Baxter (born 13 November 1957) is an English hard science fiction author.

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Stephen Hunt (author)

Stephen Hunt is a writer best known for a series of fantasy novels with steampunk elements known as the Jackelian series, whose central setting is a nation somewhat resembling Victorian England named the Kingdom of Jackals.

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Stephen R. Donaldson

Stephen Reeder Donaldson (born May 13, 1947) is an American fantasy, science fiction and mystery novelist, most famous for The Chronicles of Thomas Covenant, his ten-novel fantasy series.

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Terry Pratchett

Sir Terence David John Pratchett (28 April 1948 – 12 March 2015) was an English author of fantasy novels, especially comical works.

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The Bookseller

The Bookseller is a British magazine reporting news on the publishing industry.

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The Citadel (novel)

The Citadel is a novel by A. J. Cronin, first published in 1937, which was groundbreaking with its treatment of the contentious theme of medical ethics.

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The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction

The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction is an English language reference work on science fiction, first published in 1979.

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The Making of the English Working Class

The Making of the English Working Class is a work of English social history, written by E. P. Thompson, a 'New Left' historian.

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The Outsider (Colin Wilson)

The Outsider is a non-fiction book by English writer Colin Wilson, first published in 1956.

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The Road to Wigan Pier

The Road to Wigan Pier is a book by the British writer George Orwell, first published in 1937.

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Thomas M. Disch

Thomas Michael Disch (February 2, 1940 – July 4, 2008) was an American science fiction author and poet.

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Victor Gollancz

Sir Victor Gollancz (9 April 1893 – 8 February 1967) was a British publisher and humanitarian.

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Viz Media

VIZ Media LLC is an American manga and anime distribution and entertainment company headquartered in San Francisco, California.

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William Gibson

William Ford Gibson (born March 17, 1948) is an American-Canadian speculative fiction writer and essayist widely credited with pioneering the science fiction subgenre known as cyberpunk.

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Winter War

The Winter War was a military conflict between the Soviet Union (USSR) and Finland.

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Yu-Gi-Oh!

is a Japanese manga series about gaming written and illustrated by Kazuki Takahashi.

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