Orbit Books is an international publisher that specialises in science fiction and fantasy books. It was founded in 1974 as part of the Macdonald Futura publishing company. In 1992, its parent company was bought by Little, Brown & Co., at that stage part of the Time Warner Book Group

Hachette Book Group USA

Hachette Book Group is a publishing company owned by Hachette Livre, the largest publishing company in France, and the second largest publisher in the world. Hachette Livre is a wholly owned subsidiary of Lagardère Group. HBG was formed when Hachette Livre purchased the Time Warner Book Group from...

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In 1997, Orbit acquired the Legend imprint from Random House.

In 2006, Orbit's parent company Little, Brown was sold by Time Warner to the French publishing group Hachette Livre

Hachette Livre

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In summer 2006, it was announced that Orbit would expand internationally, with the establishment of Orbit imprints in the United States and Australia. Orbit Publishing Director Tim Holman relocated to New York to establish Orbit US as an imprint of Hachette Book Group USA

Hachette Book Group USA

Hachette Book Group is a publishing company owned by Hachette Livre, the largest publishing company in France, and the second largest publisher in the world. Hachette Livre is a wholly owned subsidiary of Lagardère Group. HBG was formed when Hachette Livre purchased the Time Warner Book Group from...

. In June 2007, Orbit announced the appointment of Bernadette Foley as publisher for Orbit Australia, an imprint of Hachette Livre Australia.

Selected authors

Some of the authors published by Orbit include the following:

• Allen Steele
  Allen Steele
  Allen Mulherin Steele, Jr. is an American science fiction author.Steele began publishing short stories in 1988. His early novels formed a future history beginning with Orbital Decay and continuing through Labyrinth of Night...
  
  
• Amanda Downum
• Barb & JC Hendee
• Brent Weeks
  Brent Weeks
  Brent Weeks, born , is an American author living and writing in Oregon. Born in Montana, Weeks graduated from Hillsdale College with a degree in English. After brief stints teaching and bar tending, he devoted himself to writing full time....
  
  
• Briant W.Aldiss
• Celine Kiernan
• Charlie Huston
  Charlie Huston
  Charlie Huston is an American author of crime novels and superhero comic books. He lives in Los Angeles with his wife, the actress Virginia Louise Smith...
  
  
• Daniel Abraham
  Daniel Abraham
  Daniel Abraham may refer to:* Daniel Abraham , science fiction and fantasy author* Daniel Abraham , French record producer, sound engineer and record mixer* Daniel Abraham , Australian rugby league footballer...
  
  
• David Farland
• Fiona McIntosh
  Fiona McIntosh
  Fiona McIntosh is a fantasy author who lives in Australia. She was born in Brighton, England and between the ages of three and eight, travelled a lot to Africa due to her father's work. At the age of nineteen, she travelled first to Paris and later to Australia, where she has lived ever since...
  
  
• Gail Z. Martin
  Gail Z. Martin
  Gail Z. Martin is an American writer and the author of The Chronicles of The Necromancer fantasy adventure series for Solaris Books.-Biography:...
  
  
• Helen Lowe
• Ian Graham
  Ian Graham
  Ian Graham is a former Australian rules footballer who played with Collingwood in the VFL during the 1960s.His best season came in 1964 when he won the Copeland Trophy for Collingwood's Best and Fairest player...
  
  
• James Clemens
• Jaye Wells
• Jennifer Rardin
  Jennifer Rardin
  Jennifer Rardin was an American author. Rardin lived in Robinson, Illinois and had a bachelor's degree in English Literature from Eastern Illinois University. She is best known for the Jaz Parks series of urban fantasy novels...
  
  
• Jim Butcher
  Jim Butcher
  Jim Butcher is a New York Times Best Selling author most known for his contemporary fantasy book series The Dresden Files. He also wrote the Codex Alera series. Butcher grew up as the only son of his parents, and has two older sisters. He currently lives in Independence with his wife, Shannon K...
  
  
• Joe Abercrombie
  Joe Abercrombie
  Joe Abercrombie is a British fantasy writer and film editor. He is the author of The First Law trilogy.-Early life:Abercrombie was born in Lancaster, England...
  
  
• John R. Fultz
• JV Jones
• Karen Miller
  Karen Miller
  Karen Miller is an Australian writer.Miller was born in Vancouver, Canada and moved to Australia at the age of two. After graduating from the Sydney University of Technology she moved to England for three years before moving back to Australia...
  
  
• Kate Elliot
• Kelley Armstrong
  Kelley Armstrong
  Kelley Armstrong is a Canadian author, primarily of fantasy works.She has published sixteen fantasy novels , set in the world of the Women of the Otherworld and the Darkest Powers series, also two crime novels in 2007 and 2009...
  
  
• Kevin Hearne
• Kristen Painter
  Kristen Painter
  Kristen Painter is a fictional romance author. Her paranormal romance novels are All Fired Up, Her Viking Valentine, The Perfect Dish, and Dark Kiss of the Reaper...
  
  
• Lilith Saintcrow
  Lilith Saintcrow
  Lilith Saintcrow writes mainly paranormal romance and urban fantasy. She currently resides in Vancouver, WA.-The Watcher Series:*Dark Watcher *Storm Watcher *Fire Watcher...
  
  
• Marianne de Pierres
  Marianne de Pierres
  Marianne de Pierres is an Australian science fiction author. Born in Western Australia, she did her undergraduate studies at Curtin University in Perth and later studied a Postgraduate Certificate of Arts in Writing, Editing and Publishing at the University of Queensland...
  
  
• Michael J. Sullivan
• Mira Grant
• Nicole Peder
• Pamela Freeman
  Pamela Freeman
  Pamela Freeman is an Australian author of books for both adults and children. Most of her work is fantasy but she has also written mystery stories, science fiction, family dramas and non-fiction. Her first adult series, the Castings Trilogy is published globally by Orbit books...
  
  
• Patricia Briggs
  Patricia Briggs
  Patricia Briggs is an American author, well-known for the Mercy Thompson urban fantasy series. Briggs was born in Butte, Montana, and lived in various cities in the Pacific Northwest...
  
  
• R Scott Bakker
• Rachel Neumeier
• Robert Jackson Bennett
• Simon Morden
• Tad Williams
  Tad Williams
  Robert Paul "Tad" Williams, born in San Jose, California, is the author of several fantasy and science fiction novels, including Tailchaser's Song, the Memory, Sorrow, and Thorn series, the Otherland series, and The War of the Flowers....
  
  
• Terry Brooks
  Terry Brooks
  Terence Dean "Terry" Brooks is an American writer of fantasy fiction. He writes mainly epic fantasy, and has also written two movie novelizations. He has written 23 New York Times bestsellers during his writing career, and has over 21 million copies of his books in print...
  
  
• Tim Lebbon
  Tim Lebbon
  Tim Lebbon is a horror and dark fantasy writer, and a judge at the 2005 World Fantasy Convention.-Life and career:Lebbon was born in London. His short story "Reconstructing Amy" won the Bram Stoker Award for Short Fiction in 2001 and his novel Dusk won the 2007 August Derleth Award from the...
  
  
• Tricia Sullivan
  Tricia Sullivan
  Tricia Sullivan is a science fiction writer. She also writes fantasy under the pseudonym Valery Leith....
  
  
• Walter Jon Williams
  Walter Jon Williams
  Walter Jon Williams is an American writer, primarily of science fiction.Several of Williams' novels have a distinct cyberpunk feel to them, notably Hardwired , Voice of the Whirlwind and Angel Stationn...
  
  
• Amanda Carlson
• Andy Remic
  Andy Remic
  Andy Remic is a UK born author of thrillers, science fiction and military science fiction. His first three novels, Spiral , Quake and Warhead were published by Orbit Books...
  
  
• Brandon Sanderson
  Brandon Sanderson
  Brandon Sanderson is an American fantasy author. A Nebraska native, he currently resides in American Fork, Utah. He earned his Master's degree in Creative Writing in 2005 from Brigham Young University, where he was on the staff of Leading Edge, a semi-professional speculative fiction magazine...
  
  
• Brian Ruckley
  Brian Ruckley
  Brian Ruckley is a Scottish fantasy writer. He is the author of The Godless World trilogy: Winterbirth, Bloodheir, and Fall of Thanes.-Biography:...
  
  
• Celia Friedman
• Charles Stross
  Charles Stross
  Charles David George "Charlie" Stross is a British writer of science fiction, Lovecraftian horror and fantasy. He was born in Leeds.Stross specialises in hard science fiction and space opera...
  
  
• Christopher Moore
  Christopher Moore
  Christopher Moore is an American writer of comic fantasy. He grew up in Mansfield, Ohio, and attended Ohio State University and Brooks Institute of Photography in Santa Barbara, California....
  
  
• David Brin
  David Brin
  Glen David Brin, Ph.D. is an American scientist and award-winning author of science fiction. He has received the Hugo, Locus, Campbell and Nebula Awards.-Biography:...
  
  
• Elizabeth Moon
  Elizabeth Moon
  Elizabeth Moon is an American science fiction and fantasy author. Her novel The Speed of Dark won the 2003 Nebula Award.-Biography:...
  
  
• Gail Carriger
  Gail Carriger
  Gail Carriger is the pen name of Tofa Borregaard, an archaeologist and author of steampunk fiction. She was born in Bolinas, an unincorporated community in Marin County, California, and attended high school at Marin Academy...
  
  
• Glenda Lake
• Iain M. Banks
• Ian Irvine
  Ian Irvine
  Ian Irvine is an Australian fantasy and eco-thriller author and marine scientist. To date Irvine has written 27 novels, including fantasy, eco-thrillers and books for children. He has had books published in at least 12 countries and continues to write full-time.- Career :Irvine was born in...
  
  
• James S.A. Corey
• Jeff Somers
  Jeff Somers
  -Literary career:Since 1995, Somers has published his zine The Inner Swine and has been a prolific contributor to alt.zines. The 21st century has seen Somers's transformation from an observational essayist into a science fiction writer of no small talent, "a gifted craftsman" with a "funky wit." ...
  
  
• Jesse Bullington
  Jesse Bullington
  Jesse Bullington is a fantasy writer from Boulder, Colorado.Bullington grew up in Pennsylvania, before his family moved to the Netherlands, and then back to the United States. In 2000, Bullington received his high school diploma from SAIL High School, an arts-focused magnet school in Tallahassee,...
  
  
• Jo Graham
  Jo Graham
  Jo Graham is an American author who debuted in 2008 with her novel Black Ships, a re-imagination of The Aeneid. She lives in Maryland...
  
  
• Joel Shepherd
  Joel Shepherd
  Joel Shepherd is an Australian science fiction author. He moved to Perth, Western Australia with his family when he was seven, where he later studied film and television arts at Curtin University....
  
  
• Jon Courtenay Grimwood
  Jon Courtenay Grimwood
  Jon Courtenay Grimwood is a British science fiction and fantasy author.He was born in Valletta, Malta, grew up in Britain, Southeast Asia and Norway in the 1960s and 1970s. He studied at Kingston College, then worked in publishing and as a freelance writer for magazines and newspapers including The...
  
  
• K.J. Parker
• Karen Traviss
  Karen Traviss
  Karen Traviss is a science fiction author, and full-time novelist from Wiltshire, England. Originally from the Portsmouth area, Traviss worked as both a journalist and defence correspondent before turning her attention to writing fiction. She also served in both the Territorial Army and the Royal...
  
  
• Kate Griffin
  Kate Griffin
  Kate Griffin may refer to:* Kate Obenshain Griffin, former chairwoman of the Republican Party of Virginia* Kathleen Griffin, British educationist* Katie Griffin, Canadian actress, voice actress, and singer...
  
  
• Ken MacLeod
  Ken MacLeod
  Ken MacLeod , is a Scottish science fiction writer.MacLeod was born in Stornoway. He graduated from Glasgow University with a degree in zoology and has worked as a computer programmer and written a masters thesis on biomechanics....
  
  
• Kevin J. Anderson
  Kevin J. Anderson
  Kevin J. Anderson is an American science fiction author with over forty bestsellers. He has written spin-off novels for Star Wars, StarCraft, Titan A.E., and The X-Files, and with Brian Herbert is the co-author of the Dune prequels...
  
  
• Laurell K. Hamilton
  Laurell K. Hamilton
  Laurell Kaye Hamilton is an American fantasy and romance writer. She is the author of two series of stories. Hamilton is known for her New York Times-bestselling Anita Blake series, featuring a professional zombie raiser/supernatural consultant for the police as the protagonist in a world where...
  
  
• M.L.N. Hanover
• Marjorie M. Liu
• Micahael Carey
• N.K. Jemisin
• Orson Scott Card
  Orson Scott Card
  Orson Scott Card is an American author, critic, public speaker, essayist, columnist, and political activist. He writes in several genres, but is primarily known for his science fiction. His novel Ender's Game and its sequel Speaker for the Dead both won Hugo and Nebula Awards, making Card the...
  
  
• Paolo Bacigalupi
  Paolo Bacigalupi
  Paolo Tadini Bacigalupi is an American science fiction and fantasy writer.He has won the Hugo, Nebula, Compton Crook, Theodore Sturgeon, and Michael L. Printz awards, and was nominated for the National Book Award...
  
  
• Philip Palmer
  Philip Palmer
  Philip Palmer is a British novelist and screenwriter. He studied English at Jesus College, Oxford, matriculating in 1979.-Writing career:His first novel was Debatable Space, published in January 2008 by Orbit Books in the United Kingdom and the USA. Philip Palmer describes himself as "...a...
  
  
• Rachel Aaron
• Robert Buettner
  Robert Buettner
  Robert Buettner is an American author of military science fiction novels. He is a former Military Intelligence Officer, National Science Foundation Fellow in Paleontology and has been published in the field of Natural Resources Law. He has written five volumes of the Jason Wander series and two...
  
  
• Russell Kirkpatrick
  Russell Kirkpatrick
  Russell Kirkpatrick is a geography lecturer and a novelist. He holds a PhD in geography from the University of Canterbury, and currently lectures at the University of Waikato in Hamilton...
  
  
• Sean Williams
  Sean Williams
  Sean Llewellyn Williams is a New York Times best selling science fiction author who lives in Adelaide, Australia. He was born in Whyalla, Australia. He is the author of almost seventy published short stories and twenty-seven novels, including the Books of the Catalcysm and Evergence, Orphans and...
  
  
• T.C. McCarthy
• Tanya Huff
  Tanya Huff
  Tanya Sue Huff is a Canadian fantasy author. Her stories have been published since the late 1980s, including five fantasy series and one science-fiction series. One of these, her Blood Books series, featuring detective Vicki Nelson, was adapted for television under the title Blood...
  
  
• Terry DeHart
• Trent Jamieson
  Trent Jamieson
  -Biography:Jamieson was first published in 1994 with the short story "Threnody " which was published in the winter edition Eidolon. In 2003 Jamieson was nominated for the Ditmar Award for best professional achievement but lost to Jonathan Strahan. In 2005 Jamieson won the Aurealis Award for best...
  
  
• Trudi Canavan
  Trudi Canavan
  Trudi Canavan is an Australian writer of fantasy novels, best known for her best-selling fantasy trilogies The Black Magician trilogy and Age of the Five. While establishing her writing career she worked as a graphic designer...