Fifty Years of Science Fiction From Gollancz

Its books might feature deadly androids or cowardly wizards, but the history of the UK publishing company Gollancz reads like one of the fantastical stories with which it has become synonymous. Fifty years ago, its editor Hilary Rubenstein was so intrigued by a series of lectures given by Kingsley Amis on science fiction writing that he published them in book form as New Maps of Hell. Little did Rubenstein know what he had begun. In the five decades that followed, Gollancz has been responsible for some of the most exciting, groundbreaking and best-selling science fiction and fantasy writing.