Victor Gollancz Ltd

Victor Gollancz Ltd

Parent company	Orion Publishing Group
Founded	1927
Founder	Victor Gollancz
Country of origin	United Kingdom
Headquarters location	London
Publication types	Books
Fiction genres	science fiction, fantasy, horror
Official website	www.gollancz.co.uk

A Gollancz edition of The Door into Summer, displaying the distinctive yellow dust jacket style.

Victor Gollancz Ltd was a major British book publishing house of the twentieth century. It was founded in 1927 by Victor Gollancz (1893–1967) and specialised in the publication of high quality literature, nonfiction and popular fiction, including science fiction. Upon Gollancz's death in 1967, ownership passed to his daughter, Livia, who sold it to Houghton Mifflin in 1989. Three years later, in October 1992, Houghton Mifflin sold Gollancz to the publishing house Cassell & Co. Cassell and Orion Publishing Group were acquired by Hachette in 1996,^[1] and in December 1998 the merged Orion/Cassell group turned Gollancz into its science fiction/fantasy imprint.

Origins as a political house

Gollancz was left-inclined in politics and a supporter of socialist movements. This is reflected in some of the books he published. Victor Gollancz commissioned George Orwell to write about the urban working class in the North of England; the result was The Road to Wigan Pier. His break with Orwell came when he declined to publish Orwell's account of the Spanish Civil War, Homage to Catalonia, the pair having drifted apart on political grounds. He did publish The Red Army Moves by Geoffrey Cox on the Winter War, which was critical of the Soviet attack on Finland, but also foresaw that the Red Army would defeat the Germans. He also published works by German exiles, such as Hilde Meisel.

Gollancz was the original publisher of a number of famous authors and their books including:

George Orwell with Down and Out in Paris and London in 1933
Alfred Ayer with Language, Truth and Logic in 1936
A. J. Cronin with The Citadel in 1937
Daphne du Maurier with Rebecca in 1938
Kingsley Amis with Lucky Jim in 1953
Colin Wilson with The Outsider in 1956
E. P. Thompson with The Making of the English Working Class in 1963
Anthony Price with The Labyrinth Makers in 1971.

Many of Gollancz's books were published in one of their familiar house dust jackets, of which the most famous was bright yellow, with the title and author rendered in a vibrant, bold typography.

Transition to science fiction and fantasy genres

In 1998 Gollancz was developed into a science fiction and fantasy imprint Gollancz Science Fiction after it was acquired by Orion Publishing Group. Gollancz then proceeded to manage the SF Masterworks series, previously overseen by Orion sister-imprint Millenium. Gollancz has published award-winning and award-nominated books by, among others:

Expansion into manga

In 2005 Gollancz set up a manga publishing arm, Gollancz Manga, which published UK editions of various Viz Media properties. As of 2014, Gollancz no longer publish manga and Viz Media have re-released the publisher's series.

The following titles have been published:

Case Closed	volumes 1–15
Dragon Ball	volumes 1–16
Dragon Ball Z	volumes 1–4
Fushigi Yūgi	volumes 1–17
Flame of Recca	volumes 1–10
Maison Ikkoku	volumes 1–15
One Piece	volumes 1–12
Rurouni Kenshin	volumes 1–16
Yu-Gi-Oh!	volumes 1–7
Yu-Gi-Oh! Duelist	volumes 1–15

SF Gateway website

In 2011, Gollancz launched the SF Gateway website, an online library that features out-of-print science fiction books republished as e-books. Gollancz aims to make 5,000 or more books available by 2014 and the website will be integrated with the online Encyclopedia of Science Fiction.^[2]

Accolades

In terms of the number of published works that have been nominated for major awards, Gollancz ranks as one of the field's top publishers of science fiction, fantasy and horror fiction.^[3]

References

^ "Worlds Without End Science Fiction and Fantasy publishers". Worlds Without End. Retrieved 1 April 2009.

↑ https://www.hachette.com.au/Information/CompanyHistory.page
↑ Neill, Graeme (20 July 2011). "Gollancz opens sci-fi Gateway to e-books". The Bookseller. Retrieved 6 April 2012.
↑ "Top SF/F/H Publishers". Worlds Without End. Retrieved October 2015.

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Works by George Orwell

Novels	Burmese Days (1934) A Clergyman's Daughter (1935) Keep the Aspidistra Flying (1936) Coming Up for Air (1939) Animal Farm (1945) Nineteen Eighty-Four (1949)

Nonfiction	Down and Out in Paris and London (1933) The Road to Wigan Pier (1937) Homage to Catalonia (1938)

Essays	"A Hanging" (1931) "The Spike" (1931) "Bookshop Memories" (1936) "Shooting an Elephant" (1936) "Spilling the Spanish Beans" (1937) "Boys' Weeklies" (1940) "Inside the Whale" (1940) "My Country Right or Left" (1940) "England Your England" (1941) "The Lion and the Unicorn: Socialism and the English Genius" (1941) "The Art of Donald McGill" (1940) "Poetry and the Microphone" (1943) "Raffles and Miss Blandish" (1944) "Good Bad Books" (1945) "Notes on Nationalism" (1945) "Books v. Cigarettes" (1946) "Confessions of a Book Reviewer" (1946) "Decline of the English Murder" (1946) "A Good Word for the Vicar of Bray" (1946) "How the Poor Die" (1946) "The Moon Under Water" (1946) "A Nice Cup of Tea" (1946) "Pleasure Spots" (1946) "Politics and the English Language" (1946) "The Politics of Starvation" (1946) "Politics vs. Literature: An Examination of Gulliver's Travels" (1946) "The Prevention of Literature" (1946) "Riding Down from Bangor" (1946) "Second Thoughts on James Burnham" (1946) "Some Thoughts on the Common Toad" (1946) "Why I Write" (1946) "Lear, Tolstoy and the Fool" (1947) "The English People" (1947) "Such, Such Were the Joys" (1952)

Related	"As I Please" (1943–1947) "London Letters" (1941–1946) Betrayal of the Left (1941) Inside the Whale and Other Essays (1940) Critical Essays (1946) Searchlight Books Secker and Warburg Victor Gollancz Ltd Eileen O'Shaughnessy Sonia Orwell Orwell's list (1949) Eric & Us Why Orwell Matters Orwell Award Orwell Prize Orwellian

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