The Ballantine Publishing Group, better known as Ballantine Books, is a major American book publisher founded in 1952 by Ian Ballantine. It was acquired by Random House in 1973 and remains part of that company today.... , which is owned by Random House
Random House
Random House, Inc. is the world's largest English-language general trade book publisher. It has been owned since 1998 by the large German Privately held company media corporation Bertelsmann and has become the umbrella brand for Bertelsmann book publishing.... . It is a separate imprint
Imprint
In the publishing industry, an imprint can refer to two different things:* It can mean a brand name under which a work is published. One single publishing company may have multiple imprints; the different imprints are used by the publisher to marketing the work to different demographic consumer market segment.... (brand name) established in 1977 under the editorship of author Lester del Rey
Lester del Rey
Lester del Rey was an United States science fiction author and editing. Del Rey is especially famous for his juvenile novels such as those which are part of the Winston Science Fiction series, and for Del Rey Books, the fantasy and science fiction branch of Ballantine Books edited by Lester del Rey and his fourth wife Judy-Lynn del Rey.... and his wife Judy-Lynn del Rey
Judy-Lynn del Rey
Judy-Lynn del Rey n?e Benjaminwas a science fiction editing.Born with dwarfism, she was a fan and regular attendee at science fiction conventions and worked her way up the publishing ladder, starting with work at the SF magazine Galaxy science fiction.... . It specializes in science fiction
Science fiction
Science fiction is a broad genre of fiction that often involves speculations based on current or future science or technology. Science fiction is found in books, art, television, films, games, theatre, and other media.... and fantasy
Fantasy
Fantasy is a genre that uses magic and other supernatural forms as a primary element of Plot , Theme , and/or Setting . Fantasy is generally distinguished from science fiction and horror by the expectation that it steers clear of technological and macabre themes, respectively, though there is a great deal of overlap between the three .... books, as well as manga
Manga
, , are comics and print cartoons , in the Japanese language and conforming to the style developed in Japan in the late 20th century. In their modern form, manga date from shortly after World War II, but they have a long, complex pre-history in earlier Japanese art.... under its Del Rey Manga
Del Rey Manga
is the manga-publishing imprint of Del Rey Books, a branch of Ballantine Books, which in turn is part of Random House, the publishing division of Bertelsmann.... imprint.
The Ballantine Publishing Group, better known as Ballantine Books, is a major American book publisher founded in 1952 by Ian Ballantine. It was acquired by Random House in 1973 and remains part of that company today.... , which is owned by Random House
Random House
Random House, Inc. is the world's largest English-language general trade book publisher. It has been owned since 1998 by the large German Privately held company media corporation Bertelsmann and has become the umbrella brand for Bertelsmann book publishing.... . It is a separate imprint
Imprint
In the publishing industry, an imprint can refer to two different things:* It can mean a brand name under which a work is published. One single publishing company may have multiple imprints; the different imprints are used by the publisher to marketing the work to different demographic consumer market segment.... (brand name) established in 1977 under the editorship of author Lester del Rey
Lester del Rey
Lester del Rey was an United States science fiction author and editing. Del Rey is especially famous for his juvenile novels such as those which are part of the Winston Science Fiction series, and for Del Rey Books, the fantasy and science fiction branch of Ballantine Books edited by Lester del Rey and his fourth wife Judy-Lynn del Rey.... and his wife Judy-Lynn del Rey
Judy-Lynn del Rey
Judy-Lynn del Rey n?e Benjaminwas a science fiction editing.Born with dwarfism, she was a fan and regular attendee at science fiction conventions and worked her way up the publishing ladder, starting with work at the SF magazine Galaxy science fiction.... . It specializes in science fiction
Science fiction
Science fiction is a broad genre of fiction that often involves speculations based on current or future science or technology. Science fiction is found in books, art, television, films, games, theatre, and other media.... and fantasy
Fantasy
Fantasy is a genre that uses magic and other supernatural forms as a primary element of Plot , Theme , and/or Setting . Fantasy is generally distinguished from science fiction and horror by the expectation that it steers clear of technological and macabre themes, respectively, though there is a great deal of overlap between the three .... books, as well as manga
Manga
, , are comics and print cartoons , in the Japanese language and conforming to the style developed in Japan in the late 20th century. In their modern form, manga date from shortly after World War II, but they have a long, complex pre-history in earlier Japanese art.... under its Del Rey Manga
Del Rey Manga
is the manga-publishing imprint of Del Rey Books, a branch of Ballantine Books, which in turn is part of Random House, the publishing division of Bertelsmann.... imprint.
Isaac Asimov , was a Russian-born United States author and professor of biochemistry, best known for his works of science fiction and for his popular science books....
Amber Nicole Benson is an United States actress, writer, film director, and film producer. She is best known for her role as Tara Maclay on the TV series Buffy the Vampire Slayer ....
Terence Dean "Terry" Brooks is a writer of fantasy fiction. He writes mainly high fantasy, and has also written two movie novelizations. He has written 22 New York Times Best Seller List during his writing career, and has over 21 million copies of his books in print....
Jack Laurence Chalker was an United States of America science fiction author. Chalker was also a BCPSS history teacher in Maryland for a time. He also was a member of the Washington Science Fiction Association and was involved in the founding of the Baltimore Science Fiction Society....
Sri Lankabhimanya Sir Arthur Charles Clarke, Order of the British Empire was a British people science fiction author, inventor, and Futurology, most famous for the novel 2001: A Space Odyssey , written in collaboration with director Stanley Kubrick, a collaboration which also produced the 2001: A Space Odyssey ; and as a host and comment...
Philip Kindred Dick was an United States science fiction novelist, short story writer, and essayist. Dick explored sociological, political and metaphysics themes in novels dominated by monopoly corporations, Authoritarianism, and altered states of consciousness....
Stephen Reeder Donaldson is an United States fantasy fiction, science fiction and Mystery fiction novelist. He earned his bachelor's degree from The College of Wooster and master's degree from Kent State University....
David Eddings is an United States author who has written several best-selling series of high fantasy novels. David Eddings' wife, Leigh Eddings, is uncredited as co-author on many of his early books, but he has since acknowledged that she contributed to them all....
Alan Dean Foster is a prolific United States author of fantasy and science fiction. He currently resides in Prescott, Arizona, with his wife, and is also known for his novelisations of film scripts....
Gregory Frost is an United States author of science fiction and fantasy, and directs a fiction writing workshop at Swarthmore College in Swarthmore, Pennsylvania....
Barbara Hambly is an award winning and prolific United States novelist and screenwriter within the genres of fantasy, science fiction, mystery, and historical fiction....
Ward Hawkins is an author, who wrote from the 1940s through the 1980s. His later works seem to have been science fiction, but earlier he wrote serial stories for the Saturday Evening Post in the 1940s and 1950s....
Katherine Kurtz is the author of numerous fantasy novels, especially the Deryni novels. Although born in United States, for the past several years, up until just recently, she has lived in a castle in Republic of Ireland....
James Luceno is the New York Times bestseller list author of three Star Wars: The New Jedi Order novels, Agents of Chaos: Hero's Trial, Agents of Chaos: Jedi Eclipse and The Unifying Force....
Donald E. McQuinn is an American best-selling author, and former U.S. Marine.McQuinn graduated high school in Texas, and attended the University of Washington on a Navy scholarship....
Laurence van Cott Niven is a US science fiction author. Perhaps his best-known work is Ringworld , which received Hugo Award for Best Novel, Locus Award, Ditmar Award, and Nebula Award for Best Novel awards....
Frederik George Pohl, Jr. is an United States science fiction science fiction writer, editor and science fiction fandom, with a career spanning over seventy years....
Christopher Rowley is a prolific writer of both science fiction and fantasy novels. He was born in 1948 in Lynn, Massachusetts to an American mother and an English father....
David Sherman is an American novelist who deals overwhelmingly with military themes at the small-unit tactical level. His experiences as a United States Marine Corps during the Vietnam War show prominently in his work....
Lucy A. Snyder is an United States science fiction, fantasy, humor, and nonfiction writer. Born in South Carolina, she grew up in San Angelo, Texas as a result of her father being stationed at Goodfellow Air Force Base....
The Sword of Shannara is a 1977 in literature high fantasy novel by Terry Brooks. The first book of the Original Shannara Trilogy, it was followed by The Elfstones of Shannara and The Wishsong of Shannara.... by Terry Brooks
Terry Brooks
Terence Dean "Terry" Brooks is a writer of fantasy fiction. He writes mainly high fantasy, and has also written two movie novelizations. He has written 22 New York Times Best Seller List during his writing career, and has over 21 million copies of his books in print.... in 1977.
Robotech is a science fiction franchise that was launched by an 85-episode adaptation of three different anime television series. Within the combined and edited story, Robotechnology refers to the scientific advances discovered in an alien starship that crashed on a South Pacific island.... series across over 20 books
Robotech (novels)
Robotech was adapted into novel form by "Jack McKinney ", a pseudonym for the team of James Luceno and the late Brian Daley, a pair of writers who had previously collaborated on the animated series Galaxy Rangers.... since 1987.
Del Rey is currently the publisher of the adult Star Wars
Star Wars
Star Wars is an epic film space opera Media franchise initially conceived by George Lucas. The first film in the franchise was simply titled Star Wars Episode IV: A New Hope, but later had the subtitle Episode IV: A New Hope added to distinguish it from its sequels and prequels.... novels while Scholastic Press
Scholastic Press
Scholastic is a North American book publisher corporation known for publishing educational materials for schools, teachers, and parents, and selling and distributing them by mail order and via Book sales club and book fairs.... deals with young reader Star Wars books.
Del Rey novelized the popular video game series Halo
Halo (video game series)
Halo is a science fiction video game franchise, created by Bungie and owned and published by Microsoft Game Studios. The main trilogy of games center on the experiences of the Master Chief , a cybernetics-enhanced human super-soldier, and his artificial intelligence companion, Cortana.... .
Halo: The Fall of Reach is a 2001 science fiction novel by Eric Nylund based on the Halo series of video games and acts as a prequel to Halo: Combat Evolved, the first game in the series....
Halo: The Flood is a 2003 novel based on the 2001 in video gaming Halo: Combat Evolved written by William C. Dietz. Closely depicting the events of the video game, The Flood begins with the escape of a human ship Pillar of Autumn from enemy aliens known as the Covenant....
Halo: First Strike is the third novel in the Halo and the second Halo novel written by Eric S. Nylund. Published in 2003, it serves as a bridge between the events of the video games Halo: Combat Evolved and its 2004 sequel Halo 2....
Ghosts of Albion started as a computer-animated web movie series on the BBC's website and has now spawned two book adaptations and two novels with a new role-playing game on the way.... novels by Amber Benson
Amber Benson
Amber Nicole Benson is an United States actress, writer, film director, and film producer. She is best known for her role as Tara Maclay on the TV series Buffy the Vampire Slayer .... and Christopher Golden
Christopher Golden
Christopher Golden is an United States author of horror fiction, fantasy, and Thriller novels for adults, teens, and young readers.... .
Accursed (October 2005)
Witchery (September 2006)
A series of tie-in novels with the film Batman Begins
Batman Begins
Batman Begins is a 2005 superhero film based on the fictional DC Comics character Batman, directed by Christopher Nolan. It stars Christian Bale as Batman, along with Michael Caine, Gary Oldman, Liam Neeson, Katie Holmes, Cillian Murphy, Morgan Freeman, Ken Watanabe, Tom Wilkinson, and Rutger Hauer.... was published throughout 2006 and 2007.
Batman: Dead White is a novel set in the universe of DC Comics superhero Batman and was penned by cyberpunk/science fiction author John Shirley.... (July 2006)
Batman: Inferno is a novel set in the universe of DC Comics superhero Batman and was penned by Alex Irvine, a writer and assistant professor of English at the University of Maine.... (October 2006)
Batman: Fear Itself is a novel set in the universe of DC Comics superhero Batman and was penned by science fiction authors Michael Reaves and Steven-Elliot Altman.... (February 2007)
