SF Masterworks

S.F. Masterworks

Country	United Kingdom
Language	English
Genre	Science fiction
Publisher	Millennium Gollancz Gateway
Published	1999–present
Media type	Print (Hardcover / Paperback)

S.F. Masterworks is a series of science fiction novel reprints published by the Orion Publishing Group. The series is intended for the United Kingdom and Australian markets, but many editions are distributed to the United States and Canada by Hachette.

Developed to feature important science fiction novels, the selections were described by science fiction author Iain M. Banks as "amazing" and "genuinely the best novels from sixty years of SF". Many of the selected novels had been out of print in the United Kingdom for decades.

Its companion series include Fantasy Masterworks and Gateway Essentials.

Numbered series

Softcover editions (1999–2007)

No.	Title	Author(s)	Date	ISBN
1	The Forever War ‡	Joe Haldeman	21 January 1999	1-85798-808-6
2	I Am Legend	Richard Matheson		1-85798-809-4
3	Cities in Flight	James Blish	11 February 1999	1-85798-811-6
4	Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?	Philip K. Dick		1-85798-813-2
5	The Stars My Destination ‡	Alfred Bester	11 March 1999	1-85798-814-0
6	Babel-17	Samuel R. Delany		1-85798-805-1
7	Lord of Light	Roger Zelazny	8 April 1999	1-85798-820-5
8	The Fifth Head of Cerberus	Gene Wolfe		1-85798-817-5
9	Gateway	Frederik Pohl	13 May 1999	1-85798-818-3
10	The Rediscovery of Man	Cordwainer Smith		1-85798-819-1
11	Last and First Men	Olaf Stapledon	10 June 1999	1-85798-806-X
12	Earth Abides	George R. Stewart		1-85798-821-3
13	Martian Time-Slip	Philip K. Dick	8 July 1999	1-85798-837-X
14 *	The Demolished Man	Alfred Bester		1-85798-822-1
15 *	Stand on Zanzibar	John Brunner	12 August 1999	1-85798-836-1
16 *	The Dispossessed	Ursula K. Le Guin		1-85798-882-5
17 *	The Drowned World	J. G. Ballard	9 September 1999	1-85798-883-3
18	The Sirens of Titan	Kurt Vonnegut		1-85798-884-1
19	Emphyrio	Jack Vance	14 October 1999	1-85798-885-X
20	A Scanner Darkly	Philip K. Dick		1-85798-847-7
21	Star Maker	Olaf Stapledon	11 November 1999	1-85798-807-8
22	Behold the Man	Michael Moorcock		1-85798-848-5
23	The Book of Skulls	Robert Silverberg	16 December 1999	1-85798-914-7
24	The Time Machine   and The War of the Worlds	H. G. Wells		1-85798-887-6
25	Flowers for Algernon	Daniel Keyes	13 January 2000	1-85798-938-4
26 *	Ubik	Philip K. Dick	10 February 2000	1-85798-853-1
27 *	Timescape	Gregory Benford	9 March 2000	1-85798-935-X
28 *	More Than Human	Theodore Sturgeon	13 April 2000	1-85798-852-3
29	Man Plus	Frederik Pohl	11 May 2000	1-85798-946-5
30	A Case of Conscience	James Blish	15 June 2000	1-85798-924-4
31	The Centauri Device	M. John Harrison	13 July 2000	1-85798-997-X
32	Dr. Bloodmoney	Philip K. Dick	10 August 2000	1-85798-952-X
33	Non-Stop	Brian Aldiss	14 November 2000	1-85798-998-8
34	The Fountains of Paradise	Arthur C. Clarke	12 October 2000	1-85798-721-7
35	Pavane	Keith Roberts	9 November 2000	1-85798-937-6
36	Now Wait for Last Year	Philip K. Dick	4 December 2000	1-85798-701-2
37	Nova	Samuel R. Delany	11 January 2001	1-85798-742-X
38	The First Men in the Moon	H. G. Wells	8 February 2001	1-85798-746-2
39	The City and the Stars	Arthur C. Clarke	8 March 2001	1-85798-763-2
40	Blood Music	Greg Bear	12 April 2001	1-85798-762-4
41	Jem	Frederik Pohl	10 May 2001	1-85798-789-6
42	Bring the Jubilee	Ward Moore	14 June 2001	1-85798-764-0
43	VALIS	Philip K. Dick	12 July 2001	1-85798-339-4
44	The Lathe of Heaven	Ursula K. Le Guin	9 August 2001	1-85798-951-1
45	The Complete Roderick	John Sladek	12 October 2001	1-85798-340-8
46	Flow My Tears, the Policeman Said	Philip K. Dick	8 November 2001	1-85798-341-6
47	The Invisible Man	H. G. Wells	6 December 2001	1-85798-949-X
48	Grass	Sheri S. Tepper	14 February 2002	1-85798-798-5
49	A Fall of Moondust	Arthur C. Clarke	14 March 2002	0-575-07317-9
50 *	Eon	Greg Bear	11 April 2002	0-575-07316-0
51 *	The Shrinking Man	Richard Matheson	9 January 2003	0-575-07463-9
52 *	The Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldritch	Philip K. Dick	31 July 2008	0-575-07480-9
53 *	The Dancers at the End of Time	Michael Moorcock	8 May 2003	0-575-07476-0
54	The Space Merchants	Frederik Pohl and Cyril M. Kornbluth	10 July 2003	0-575-07528-7
55	Time Out of Joint	Philip K. Dick	11 September 2003	0-575-07458-2
56	Downward to the Earth	Robert Silverberg	12 February 2004	0-575-07523-6
57	The Simulacra	Philip K. Dick	9 September 2004	0-575-07460-4
58 *	The Penultimate Truth		10 February 2005	0-575-07481-7
59 *	Dying Inside	Robert Silverberg	14 April 2005	0-575-07525-2
60 *	Ringworld	Larry Niven	30 March 2009	0-575-07702-6
61	The Child Garden	Geoff Ryman	11 August 2005	0-575-07690-9
62	Mission of Gravity	Hal Clement	13 October 2005	0-575-07708-5
63	A Maze of Death	Philip K. Dick	1 December 2005	0-575-07461-2
64	Tau Zero	Poul Anderson	9 February 2006	0-575-07732-8
65	Rendezvous with Rama	Arthur C. Clarke	13 April 2006	0-575-07733-6
66 *	Life During Wartime	Lucius Shepard	8 June 2006	0-575-07734-4
67 *	Where Late the Sweet Birds Sang	Kate Wilhelm	12 October 2006	0-575-07914-2
68 *	Roadside Picnic	Arkady and Boris Strugatsky	8 February 2007	978-0-575-07978-6
69	Dark Benediction	Walter M. Miller Jr.	12 April 2007	978-0-575-07977-9
70 *	Mockingbird	Walter Tevis	14 June 2007	978-0-575-07915-1
71 *	Dune ‡	Frank Herbert	18 October 2007	978-0-575-08150-5
72 *	The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress ‡	Robert A. Heinlein	11 December 2008	978-0-575-08241-0
73 *	The Man in the High Castle ‡	Philip K. Dick	17 September 2007	978-0-575-08205-2

• ‡ Also published as part of SF Masterworks hardcover series.
• * Some printings missing number stamps.

Hardcover editions (2001)

First edition dust jackets included roman numeral number stamp. Reprints and editions distributed worldwide were stamped with arabic numerals.

No.	Title	Author(s)	Date	ISBN
1	Dune	Frank Herbert	25 October 2001	0-575-07334-9
2	The Left Hand of Darkness	Ursula K. Le Guin	18 October 2001	0-575-07219-9
3	The Man in the High Castle	Philip K. Dick		0-575-07335-7
4	The Stars My Destination	Alfred Bester		0-575-07337-3
5	A Canticle for Leibowitz	Walter M. Miller Jr.		0-575-07220-2
6	Childhood's End	Arthur C. Clarke		0-575-07263-6
7	The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress	Robert A. Heinlein		0-575-07336-5
8	Ringworld	Larry Niven		0-575-07339-X
9	The Forever War	Joe Haldeman		0-575-07318-7
10	The Day of the Triffids	John Wyndham		0-575-07338-1

Unpublished editions

The following were announced for publication in 2006, but were withdrawn in 2007.

Tentative Title	Author	Scheduled	ISBN
Camp Concentration	Thomas Disch	10 August 2006	0-575-07877-4
334		9 November 2006	0-575-07897-9

Relaunch series

A selection of titles from the series on display at a London bookshop.

Softcover editions (2010–present)

The new designs sport yellow/white spines, with the SF Masterworks logo written vertically on the cover. For titles that were previously issued in the original series, generally the cover artwork is tinted in a different colour from the original version; for example, The Dispossessed cover artwork is primarily red in the original release, but was partly tinted green when republished in the new series.

Title	Author(s)	Date	ISBN
The Forever War (reprint)	Joe Haldeman	29 March 2010	978-0-575-09414-7
I Am Legend (reprint)	Richard Matheson		978-0-575-09416-1
Cities in Flight (reprint)	James Blish		978-0-575-09417-8
Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? (reprint)	Philip K. Dick		978-0-575-09418-5
The Stars My Destination (reprint)	Alfred Bester		978-0-575-09419-2
Babel-17 (reprint)	Samuel R. Delany		978-0-575-09420-8
Lord of Light (reprint)	Roger Zelazny		978-0-575-09421-5
The Fifth Head of Cerberus (reprint)	Gene Wolfe		978-0-575-09422-2
Gateway (reprint)	Frederik Pohl		978-0-575-09423-9
The Rediscovery of Man (reprint)	Cordwainer Smith		978-0-575-09424-6
Dhalgren	Samuel R. Delany	22 Jul 2010	978-0-575-09099-6
Helliconia	Brian Aldiss	12 August 2010	978-0-575-08615-9
The Body Snatchers	Jack Finney	14 October 2010	978-0-575-08531-2
Inverted World	Christopher Priest	26 October 2010	978-0-575-08210-6
The Female Man	Joanna Russ	11 November 2010	978-0-575-09499-4
Arslan	M. J. Engh	9 December 2010	978-0-575-09501-4
The Difference Engine	William Gibson and Bruce Sterling	13 January 2011	978-0-575-09940-1
The Prestige	Christopher Priest	10 February 2011	978-0-575-09941-8
Greybeard	Brian Aldiss	18 March 2011	978-0-575-07113-1
Sirius	Olaf Stapledon	14 April 2011	978-0-575-09942-5
Hyperion	Dan Simmons	12 May 2011	978-0-575-09943-2
City	Clifford D. Simak	9 June 2011	978-0-575-10523-2
Hellstrom's Hive	Frank Herbert	14 July 2011	978-0-575-10108-1
Of Men and Monsters	William Tenn	11 August 2011	978-0-575-09944-9
The Affirmation	Christopher Priest	13 October 2011	978-0-575-09946-3
R.U.R. and War with the Newts	Karel Čapek	27 October 2011	978-0-575-09945-6
Floating Worlds	Cecelia Holland	30 December 2011	978-0-575-10823-3
Rogue Moon	Algis Budrys	12 January 2012	978-0-575-10800-4
Dangerous Visions	Harlan Ellison	9 February 2012	978-0-575-10802-8
Odd John	Olaf Stapledon	8 March 2012	978-0-575-07224-4
The Fall of Hyperion	Dan Simmons	12 April 2012	978-0-575-09948-7
Synners	Pat Cadigan	9 August 2012	978-0-575-11954-3
Sarah Canary	Karen Joy Fowler	13 September 2012	978-0-575-13136-1
Ammonite	Nicola Griffith		978-0-575-11823-2
The Continuous Katherine Mortenhoe	D. G. Compton	11 October 2012	978-0-575-11831-7
Frankenstein	Mary Shelley		978-0-575-09960-9
Roadside Picnic (reprint)	Arkady and Boris Strugatsky		978-0-575-09313-3
Doomsday Book	Connie Willis	8 November 2012	978-0-575-13109-5
Unquenchable Fire	Rachel Pollack	13 December 2012	978-0-575-11854-6
The Caltraps of Time	David I. Masson		978-0-575-11828-7
Engine Summer	John Crowley	10 January 2013	978-0-575-08281-6
Take Back Plenty	Colin Greenland		978-0-575-11952-9
Slow River	Nicola Griffith	14 February 2013	978-0-575-11825-6
The Gate to Women's Country	Sheri S. Tepper	14 March 2013	978-0-575-13104-0
The Sea and Summer	George Turner		978-0-575-11869-0
Wasp	Eric Frank Russell	9 May 2013	978-0-575-12904-7
To Say Nothing of the Dog	Connie Willis		978-0-575-11312-1
The Gods Themselves	Isaac Asimov	13 June 2013	978-0-575-12905-4
This Is the Way the World Ends	James Morrow		978-0-575-08118-5
The Deep	John Crowley	11 July 2013	978-0-575-08264-9
Time is the Fire: The Best of Connie Willis	Connie Willis	8 August 2013	978-0-575-13114-9
No Enemy But Time	Michael Bishop		978-0-575-09311-9
Double Star	Robert A. Heinlein	12 September 2013	978-0-575-12203-1
Revelation Space	Alastair Reynolds		978-0-575-12906-1
Random Acts of Senseless Violence	Jack Womack	10 October 2013	978-0-575-13230-6
Transfigurations	Michael Bishop	14 November 2013	978-0-575-09309-6
The Door Into Summer	Robert A. Heinlein	31 December 2013	978-0-575-12072-3
Dr. Bloodmoney (reprint)	Philip K. Dick	9 January 2014	978-1-4732-0168-2
Half Past Human	T. J. Bass	30 January 2014	978-0-575-12962-7
The Long Tomorrow	Leigh Brackett	13 February 2014	978-0-575-13156-9
The Godwhale	T. J. Bass	13 March 2014	978-0-575-12993-1
Jem (reprint)	Frederik Pohl	10 April 2014	978-1-4732-0170-5
The Shrinking Man (reprint)	Richard Matheson		978-1-4732-0169-9
A Case of Conscience (reprint)	James Blish	15 May 2014	978-1-4732-0543-7
Her Smoke Rose Up Forever	James Tiptree Jr	10 July 2014	978-1-4732-0324-2
Stand on Zanzibar (reprint)	John Brunner	11 September 2014	978-1-4732-0637-3
Mission of Gravity (reprint)	Hal Clement	11 December 2014	978-1-4732-0638-0
The Word for World Is Forest	Ursula K. Le Guin	26 March 2015	978-1-4732-0578-9
Downward to the Earth (reprint)	Robert Silverberg	9 April 2014	978-1-4732-1192-6
Hard to Be a God	Arkady and Boris Strugatsky		978-1-4732-0829-2
Night Lamp	Jack Vance	14 May 2015	978-1-4732-0892-6
Life During Wartime (reprint)	Lucius Shepard	11 June 2015	978-1-4732-1193-3
Dark Benediction (reprint)	Walter M. Miller	13 August 2015	978-1-4732-1194-0
The Wind's Twelve Quarters   and The Compass Rose	Ursula K. Le Guin		978-1-4732-0576-5
Dying of the Light	George R. R. Martin	10 September 2015	978-1-4732-1252-7
Nova (reprint)	Samuel R. Delany	12 November 2015	978-1-4732-1191-9
A Fire Upon the Deep	Vernor Vinge	7 January 2016	978-1-4732-1195-7
Norstrilia	Cordwainer Smith	11 February 2016	978-1-4732-1253-4
Monday Begins on Saturday	Arkady and Boris Strugatsky	28 April 2016	978-1-4732-0221-4
Fairyland	Paul J. McAuley	12 May 2016	978-1-4732-1516-0
The Man Who Fell to Earth	Walter Tevis	26 May 2016	978-1-4732-1311-1
Always Coming Home	Ursula K. Le Guin	14 July 2016	978-1-4732-0580-2
A Deepness in the Sky	Vernor Vinge		978-1-4732-1196-4
Swastika Night	Murray Constantine	11 August 2016	978-1-4732-1466-8
China Mountain Zhang	Maureen F. McHugh	3 November 2016	978-1-4732-1462-0
Shadow and Claw   (The Book of the New Sun, Vol. 1)	Gene Wolfe	10 November 2016	978-1-4732-1649-5
Sword and Citadel   (The Book of the New Sun, Vol. 2)			978-1-4732-1200-8
Limbo	Bernard Wolfe	8 December 2016	978-1-4732-1247-3
The Left Hand of Darkness	Ursula K. Le Guin	13 April 2017	978-1-4732-2162-8
The Island of Doctor Moreau ‡	H. G. Wells	2 May 2017	978-1-4732-1799-7
The Invisible Man ‡ (reprint)			978-1-4732-1798-0
The Shape of Things to Come		8 June 2017	978-1-4732-2165-9
The Food of the Gods ‡		4 July 2017	978-1-4732-1801-7
The First Men in the Moon ‡ (reprint)			978-1-4732-1800-0
The War of the Worlds ‡ (reprint)		18 July 2017	978-1-4732-1802-4
The Time Machine ‡ (reprint)			978-1-4732-1797-3
The Doomed City	Arkady and Boris Strugatsky	27 July 2017	978-1-4732-2228-1
Raising the Stones	Sheri S. Tepper	10 August 2017	978-1-4732-2265-6
The Embedding	Ian Watson	19 October 2017	978-1-4732-2267-0
Cryptozoic	Brian Aldiss	2 November 2017	978-1-4732-2273-1
Land Under England	Joseph O'Neill	28 June 2018	978-1-4732-2406-3
Raft	Stephen Baxter	11 July 2018	978-1-4732-2405-6
Dreaming in Smoke	Tricia Sullivan	23 August 2018	978-1-4732-2474-2
Fools	Pat Cadigan	7 March 2019	978-1-4732-2602-9
The Best of R. A. Lafferty	R. A. Lafferty	4 April 2019	978-1-4732-1344-9
Light	M. John Harrison	9 July 2019	978-1-4732-2767-5
Native Tongue	Suzette Haden Elgin	22 August 2019	978-1-4732-2756-9
The Snail on the Slope	Arkady and Boris Strugatsky	17 October 2019	978-1-4732-2828-3
The Shockwave Rider	John Brunner	9 January 2020	978-1-4732-2830-6
Lord Valentine's Castle	Robert Silverberg	6 February 2020	978-1-4732-2922-8
River of Gods	Ian McDonald	19 March 2020	978-1-4732-2950-1
A Time of Changes (forthcoming)	Robert Silverberg	20 August 2020	978-1-4732-2923-5
The Andromeda Anthology (forthcoming)	Fred Hoyle and John Elliot	1 October 2020	978-1-4732-3011-8
Worlds of Exile and Illusion (forthcoming)	Ursula K. Le Guin	15 October 2020	978-1-4732-3098-9
Bold as Love (forthcoming)	Gwyneth Jones	12 November 2020	978-1-4732-3019-4
Desolation Road (forthcoming)	Ian McDonald	10 December 2020	978-1-4732-3099-6
Castles Made of Sand (forthcoming)	Gwyneth Jones	7 January 2021	978-1-4732-3020-0

‡ Also reprinted as hardcover edition

Hardcover editions (2010–2017)

Title	Author(s)	Date	ISBN
Cat's Cradle	Kurt Vonnegut	20 May 2010	978-0-575-08195-6
Childhood's End	Arthur C. Clarke	17 June 2010	978-0-575-08235-9
The Island of Doctor Moreau	H. G. Wells		978-0-575-09516-8
The Time Machine		15 July 2010	978-0-575-09517-5
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy	Douglas Adams	10 May 2012	978-0-575-11534-7
Riddley Walker	Russell Hoban	8 November 2012	978-0-575-11951-2
The Food of the Gods	H. G. Wells	11 April 2013	978-0-575-09518-2
The Invisible Man			978-0-575-11537-8
A Canticle for Leibowitz	Walter M. Miller	25 April 2013	978-0-575-07357-9
The First Men in the Moon	H. G. Wells	11 July 2013	978-0-575-11538-5
The War of the Worlds		1 September 2013	978-0-575-11535-4
The Restaurant at the End of the Universe   (The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy)	Douglas Adams	28 November 2013	978-1-4732-0066-1
Life, the Universe and Everything   (The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy)		31 December 2013	978-1-4732-0067-8
Feersum Endjinn	Iain M. Banks	14 April 2016	978-1-4732-0251-1
The Day of the Triffids	John Wyndham	12 May 2016	978-1-4732-1267-1
The Chrysalids		9 June 2016	978-1-4732-1268-8
The Midwich Cuckoos		8 September 2016	978-1-4732-1269-5
Starship Troopers	Robert A. Heinlein	13 October 2016	978-1-4732-1748-5
Neuromancer	William Gibson	11 May 2017	978-1-4732-1737-9

Unpublished editions

The following were announced, but appear to have been withdrawn:

Tentative Title	Author(s)	Scheduled	ISBN
The Long Loud Silence	Wilson Tucker	February 2015	—
The Forge of God	Greg Bear	2017–2018	978-1-4732-2266-3
The Iron Dream	Norman Spinrad	14 November 2017	978-1-4732-2264-9

Other series

50th Anniversary (2011)

To celebrate the 50th anniversary of the Gollancz, Orion published ten fan-chosen editions. Each were published with Gollancz's traditional red-on-yellow cover design. The series was marketed as part the S.F. Masterworks series.

No.	Title	Author(s)	Date	ISBN
1	Shadow and Claw   (The Book of the New Sun, Vol. 1)	Gene Wolfe	1 September 2011	978-0-575-11673-3
2	Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?	Philip K. Dick		978-0-575-11676-4
3	Flowers for Algernon	Daniel Keyes		978-0-575-11674-0
4	I Am Legend	Richard Matheson		978-0-575-11670-2
5	Dune	Frank Herbert		978-0-575-11678-8
6	The Lies of Locke Lamora	Scott Lynch		978-0-575-11672-6
7	Eric	Terry Pratchett		978-0-575-11669-6
8	Hyperion	Dan Simmons		978-0-575-11677-1
9	The Name of the Wind	Patrick Rothfuss		978-0-575-11671-9
10	The Time Machine	H. G. Wells		978-0-575-11675-7

Golden Age Masterworks (2019–present)

Published to celebrate the 20th anniversary. The novels are marketed as S.F. Golden Age Masterworks.

Title	Author(s)	Date	ISBN
Doomsday Morning	C. L. Moore	10 January 2019	978-1-4732-2326-4
Galactic Patrol	E. E. 'Doc' Smith		978-1-4732-2470-4
Fury	Henry Kuttner		978-1-4732-2255-7
The Sands of Mars	Arthur C. Clarke		978-1-4732-2236-6
Earthlight		7 February 2019	978-1-4732-2237-3
Grey Lensman	E. E. 'Doc' Smith		978-1-4732-2471-1
Second Stage Lensman		7 March 2019	978-1-4732-2472-8
Northwest of Earth	C. L. Moore		978-1-4732-2254-0
Jirel of Joiry		4 April 2019	978-1-4732-2252-6
Children of the Lens	E. E. 'Doc' Smith		978-1-4732-2473-5
Against the Fall of Night	Arthur C. Clarke	2 May 2019	978-1-4732-2234-2
Judgement Night	C. L. Moore	13 June 2019	978-1-4732-2253-3
The Stainless Steel Rat	Harry Harrison	19 September 2019	978-1-4732-2768-2
The Deathworld Omnibus		14 November 2019	978-1-4732-2837-5
Sidewise in Time (forthcoming)	Murray Leinster	3 September 2020	978-1-4732-2739-2

See also

• Fantasy Masterworks

External links

• Gollancz SF Masterworks (HC) series listing at the Internet Speculative Fiction Database
• Millennium / Gollancz SF Masterworks series listing at the Internet Speculative Fiction Database
• Gollancz SF Masterworks (II) series listing at the Internet Speculative Fiction Database
• SF Masterworks at LibraryThing
• SF Masterworks at Worlds Without End