SF Masterworks

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SF Masterworks is a series of science fiction books originally published by Millennium, but currently by Gollancz (both being imprints of the UK based Orion Publishing Group). It began in 1999 and comprises selected pieces of science-fiction literature from 1950 onwards (with a few exceptions). The list was compiled by the managing director of Orion Books, Malcolm Edwards, with the help of "leading SF writers and editors" and the goal of bringing important books back into print.^[1]

The list was described by science fiction author Iain M. Banks as "amazing - genuinely the best novels from sixty years of SF".

It has a companion series in the Fantasy Masterworks line. A separate Future Classics^[2] line has also started featuring eight science fiction novels from the last few decades.

Contents 1 Paperback titles 1.1 Unpublished paperback titles 2 Hardcover titles 3 References 4 External links

[edit] Paperback titles

Number	Title	Author	Year*	ISBN
Published in 1999
1	The Forever War	Joe Haldeman	1974	ISBN 1-85798-808-6
2	I Am Legend	Richard Matheson	1954	ISBN 1-85798-809-4
3	Cities in Flight	James Blish	1950-1962	ISBN 1-85798-811-6
4	Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?	Philip K. Dick	1968	ISBN 1-85798-813-2
5	The Stars My Destination	Alfred Bester	1956	ISBN 1-85798-814-0
6	Babel-17	Samuel R. Delany	1966	ISBN 1-85798-805-1
7	Lord of Light	Roger Zelazny	1967	ISBN 1-85798-820-5
8	The Fifth Head of Cerberus	Gene Wolfe	1972	ISBN 1-85798-817-5
9	Gateway	Frederik Pohl	1977	ISBN 1-85798-818-3
10	The Rediscovery of Man	Cordwainer Smith	1950-1966	ISBN 1-85798-819-1
11	Last and First Men	Olaf Stapledon	1930	ISBN 1-85798-806-X
12	Earth Abides	George R. Stewart	1949	ISBN 1-85798-821-3
13	Martian Time-Slip	Philip K. Dick	1964	ISBN 1-85798-837-X
14	The Demolished Man	Alfred Bester	1953	ISBN 1-85798-822-1
15	Stand on Zanzibar	John Brunner	1968	ISBN 1-85798-836-1
16	The Dispossessed	Ursula K. Le Guin	1974	ISBN 1-85798-882-5
17	The Drowned World	J.G. Ballard	1962	ISBN 1-85798-883-3
18	The Sirens of Titan	Kurt Vonnegut	1959	ISBN 1-85798-884-1
19	Emphyrio	Jack Vance	1969	ISBN 1-85798-885-X
20	A Scanner Darkly	Philip K. Dick	1977	ISBN 1-85798-847-7
21	Star Maker	Olaf Stapledon	1937	ISBN 1-85798-807-8
22	Behold the Man	Michael Moorcock	1969	ISBN 1-85798-848-5
23	The Book of Skulls	Robert Silverberg	1972	ISBN 1-85798-914-7
24	The Time Machine and The War of the Worlds	H.G. Wells	1895 & 1898	ISBN 1-85798-887-6
25	Flowers for Algernon	Daniel Keyes	1966	ISBN 1-85798-938-4
Published in 2000
26	Ubik	Philip K. Dick	1969	ISBN 1-85798-853-1
27	Timescape	Gregory Benford	1980	ISBN 1-85798-935-X
28	More Than Human	Theodore Sturgeon	1953	ISBN 0-575-60207-4
29	Man Plus	Frederik Pohl	1976	ISBN 1-85798-946-5
30	A Case of Conscience	James Blish	1958	ISBN 1-85798-924-4
31	The Centauri Device	M. John Harrison	1975	ISBN 1-85798-997-X
32	Dr. Bloodmoney	Philip K. Dick	1965	ISBN 1-85798-952-X
33	Non-Stop	Brian W. Aldiss	1958	ISBN 1-85798-998-8
34	The Fountains of Paradise	Arthur C. Clarke	1979	ISBN 1-85798-721-7
35	Pavane	Keith Roberts	1968	ISBN 1-85798-937-6
36	Now Wait for Last Year	Philip K. Dick	1966	ISBN 1-85798-701-2
Published in 2001
37	Nova	Samuel R. Delany	1968	ISBN 1-85798-742-X
38	The First Men in the Moon	H.G. Wells	1901	ISBN 1-85798-746-2
39	The City and the Stars	Arthur C. Clarke	1956	ISBN 1-85798-763-2
40	Blood Music	Greg Bear	1985	ISBN 1-85798-762-4
41	Jem	Frederik Pohl	1980	ISBN 1-85798-789-6
42	Bring the Jubilee	Ward Moore	1953	ISBN 1-85798-764-0
43	Valis	Philip K. Dick	1981	ISBN 1-85798-339-4
44	The Lathe of Heaven	Ursula K. Le Guin	1971	ISBN 1-85798-951-1
45	The Complete Roderick	John Sladek	1980 & 1983	ISBN 1-85798-340-8
46	Flow, My Tears, the Policeman Said	Philip K. Dick	1974	ISBN 1-85798-341-6
47	The Invisible Man	H.G. Wells	1897	ISBN 1-85798-949-X
Published in 2002
48	Grass	Sheri S. Tepper	1989	ISBN 1-85798-798-5
49	A Fall of Moondust	Arthur C. Clarke	1961	ISBN 0-575-07317-9
50	Eon	Greg Bear	1985	ISBN 0-575-07316-0
Published in 2003
51	The Shrinking Man	Richard Matheson	1956	ISBN 0-575-07463-9
52	The Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldritch	Philip K. Dick	1965	ISBN 0-575-07480-9
53	The Dancers at the End of Time	Michael Moorcock	1974-1976	ISBN 0-575-07476-0
54	The Space Merchants	Frederik Pohl and Cyril M. Kornbluth	1953	ISBN 0-575-07528-7
55	Time Out Of Joint	Philip K. Dick	1959	ISBN 0-575-07458-2
Published in 2004
56	Downward to the Earth	Robert Silverberg	1970	ISBN 0-575-07523-6
57	The Simulacra	Philip K. Dick	1964	ISBN 0-575-07460-4
Published in 2005
58	The Penultimate Truth	Philip K. Dick	1964	ISBN 0-575-07481-7
59	Dying Inside	Robert Silverberg	1972	ISBN 0-575-07525-2
60	Ringworld	Larry Niven	1970	ISBN 0-575-07702-6
61	The Child Garden	Geoff Ryman	1989	ISBN 0-575-07690-9
62	Mission of Gravity	Hal Clement	1954	ISBN 0-575-07708-5
63	A Maze of Death	Philip K. Dick	1970	ISBN 0-575-07461-2
Published in 2006
64	Tau Zero	Poul Anderson	1970	ISBN 0-575-07732-8
65	Rendezvous With Rama	Arthur C. Clarke	1972	ISBN 0-575-07733-6
66	Life During Wartime	Lucius Shepard	1987	ISBN 0-575-07734-4
67	Where Late the Sweet Birds Sang	Kate Wilhelm	1976	ISBN 0-575-07914-2
Published in 2007
68	Roadside Picnic	Arkady and Boris Strugatsky	1972	ISBN 0-575-07978-9
69	Dark Benediction	Walter M. Miller Jr.	1951	ISBN 0-575-07977-0
70	Mockingbird	Walter Tevis	1980	ISBN 0-575-07915-0
71	Dune**	Frank Herbert	1965	ISBN 0-575-08150-5

* Year of original publication.

** This entry in the SF Masterworks collection is unusual; it is the only entry (so far) to be printed as a hardcover in this otherwise exclusively paperback series. The edition is clearly identified as #71 in the regular series by the number on the spine. This edition is different from the 2001 edition (see below), which is marked with a roman numeral 'I' on the spine, and also in that the text has been completely reset, making this new edition unique among all currently published versions of Dune.

Some titles have been reprinted with different covers, such as movie tie-in versions of A Scanner Darkly and I Am Legend, and also as part of the SF4U series.

[edit] Unpublished paperback titles

The following were solicited for publication in 2006, but never actually appeared in print under the SF Masterworks banner.

Number	Title	Author	Year*	ISBN
?	Camp Concentration	Thomas M. Disch	1968	ISBN 0-575-07877-4
?	334	Thomas M. Disch	1972	ISBN 0-575-07897-9

* Year of original publication.

[edit] Hardcover titles

The following were all printed in 2001, and featured a dust jacket numbered by Roman numerals.

Number	Title	Author	Year*	ISBN
I	Dune	Frank Herbert	1965	ISBN 0-575-07334-9
II	The Left Hand of Darkness	Ursula K. Le Guin	1969	ISBN 0-575-07219-9
III	The Man in the High Castle	Philip K. Dick	1962	ISBN 0-575-07335-7
IV	The Stars My Destination	Alfred Bester	1956	ISBN 0-575-07337-3
V	A Canticle for Leibowitz	Walter M. Miller, Jr.	1960	ISBN 0-575-07220-2
VI	Childhood's End	Arthur C. Clarke	1953	ISBN 0-575-07263-6
VII	The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress	Robert A. Heinlein	1966	ISBN 0-575-07336-5
VIII	Ringworld	Larry Niven	1970	ISBN 0-575-07702-6
IX	The Forever War	Joe Haldeman	1974	ISBN 1-85798-808-6
X	The Day of the Triffids	John Wyndham	1951	ISBN 0-575-07338-1

* Year of original publication.

[edit] References

1. ^ Locus Online: Malcolm Edwards interview excerpts
2. ^ Gollancz editor Simon Spanton on the Future Classics promotion

[edit] External links

• Official SF Masterworks Website — An incomplete list of all novels published to date (several titles are missing).
• SF Masterworks overview and reviews — Overview and reviews of the series.