Re: David Gerrold - War with the Cthorr

Lawrence Watt-Evans <lwe@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:

> On Sat, 3 May 2008 04:05:51 +0000 (UTC), jdnicoll@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
 (James
> Nicoll) wrote:
> 
> >     Can someone refresh my memory as to what happened with 
> >Bantam Spectra? I'm sure I've seen stuff from them recently.
> 
> As I understand it, after both Bantam and Ballantine were bought by
> Bertelsmann, there was some reorganizing to eliminate redundancies.
> Plain ol' SF and fantasy all goes to Del Rey now, while Bantam does
> slipstream and some of the media tie-ins.
> 
> But since I wasn't being published by either of them, or interested in
> being published by either of them, I may have that garbled.

Bantam Spectra does still exist, though it's been severely downsized at
least twice in the last ten-twelve years. (Doubleday Foundation, which
used to be the hardcover imprint what was then Bantam Doubleday Dell,
was killed by the Random House acquisition and subsequent
reorganization, but it had been mostly the Asimov imprint anyway.)

I think Spectra has two full editors acquiring basically full-time for
it -- Anne Groell and Juliet Ullman -- but it does a lot of urban
fantasy right on the paranormal romance borderline these days, along
with writers like George R.R. Martin, Alan Campbell, Tim Lebbon, Kelley
Armstrong, Tim Pratt, Scott Lynch and Felix Gilman. (They also published
John Klima's very hard-to-spell anthology _Logorrhea_.)

They don't have a strong line identity, which might be why they're not
as instantly recognizable. (Though I usually think I can tell Anne's
books from Juliet's.)

Actually, they seem to publish quite a bit, once I look at the lists.
They're a bit smaller than Del Rey, but still a substantial genre
imprint.

-- 
Andrew Wheeler
still obsessive about publi****ng houses