I’ve promised that each month I will bring to you guys a list of the following month’s Fantasy Book Releases (if you missed April/May’s post, click here). However, I also wanted to put together a post about the upcoming re-releases of Gollancz’s Masterworks series, because I think it’s important as many modern SFF readers check them out as possible.
Today Fantasy and Science-Fiction bookshelves are (excuse the pun) stacked with incredible titles. Where we are today is a product of the writers who led the genre in a certain direction by inspiring today’s authors and shaping the market by revealing what readers wanted more of.
Too many titles have been lost to the ages, but the Science Fiction & Fantasy Masterworks series by Gollancz have done a good job of bringing some of the books in the aforementioned category to today’s readers. They’ve done this consistently over the years by releasing and re-releasing books they think will strike a chord with readers of today, but their most recent choice of books to put in front of today’s readers and cover designs is pretty damned impressive. There’s a perfect mix of magic, grittiness, high-concepts and weirdness in there.
Future publications in the series are set to include:
The Forgotten Beasts of Eld – 14 May 2015
by Patricia A. McKillip
Votan and Other Novels – 28 May 2015
by John James
Lavondyss – 11 Jun 2015
by Robert Holdstock
Thomas the Rhymer – 9 Jul 2015
by Ellen Kushner
Grendel – 9 Jul 2015
by John C. Gardner
The Riddle-Master’s Game – 13 Aug 2015
by Patricia A. McKillip
The Anvil of Ice – 10 Sep 2015
by Michael Scott Rohan
Something Wicked This Way Comes * – 8 Oct 2015
by Ray Bradbury
Earthquake Weather – 12 Nov 2015
by Tim Powers
*COVER STILL IN PRODUCTION*
Elleander Morning * – 10 Dec 2015
by Jerry Yulsman
*COVER STILL IN PRODUCTION*
The Circus of Dr Lao – 7 Jan 2016
by Charles G. Finney
Published so far (2014 & 2015):
Aegypt by John Crowley
The Dragon Griaule – Lucius Shepard
Last Call – Tim Powers
The Falling Woman – Pat Murphy
The Phoenix and the Mirror – Avram Davidson
Lord Darcy – Randall Garrett
The Broken Sword – Poul Anderson
Ombria in Shadow – Patricia A. McKillip
Beauty – Sheri S. Tepper
Mythago Wood – Robert Holdstock
Little, Big – John Crowley
The Book of the New Sun, Volume 1: Shadow and Claw – Gene Wolfe
Expiration Date – Tim Powers
Have you guys read any of Gollancz’s Masterworks series?
Are there any you’d recommend to our fellow readers?
What do you think of the covers?
Do you have a favourite?
Let us know what you think!
