Del Rey Books
Del Rey Books is a branch of Ballantine Books, which is owned by Random House and, in turn, by Penguin Random House. It is a separate imprint established in 1977 under the editorship of author Lester del Rey and his wife Judy-Lynn del Rey. It specializes in science fiction and fantasy books, and formerly manga under its (now defunct) Del Rey Manga imprint.
Type | Subsidiary of Random House |
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Industry | Books, publishing |
Founded | 1977 |
Founders | Lester del Rey, Judy-Lynn del Rey |
Key people | Lester del Rey, Judy-Lynn del Rey |
Products | Books |
Owner | Penguin Random House |
Parent | Random House |
Website | randomhousebooks |
The first new novel published by Del Rey was The Sword of Shannara by Terry Brooks in 1977. Del Rey also publishes the Star Wars novels under the LucasBooks sub-imprint (licensed from Lucasfilm, a subsidiary of The Walt Disney Studios division of The Walt Disney Company).
Authors
- Piers Anthony
- Isaac Asimov
- Stephen Baxter
- Amber Benson
- Ray Bradbury
- Terry Brooks
- Pierce Brown
- Bonnie Burton
- Jack L. Chalker
- Arthur C. Clarke
- James Clemens
- Dan Cragg
- Brian Daley
- Maurice G. Dantec
- Philip K. Dick
- Stephen R. Donaldson
- David Eddings
- Philip José Farmer
- Mick Farren
- Joe Clifford Faust
- Lynn Flewelling
- Robert L. Forward
- Alan Dean Foster
- Gregory Frost
- Christopher Golden
- James L. Halperin
- Barbara Hambly
- Peter F. Hamilton
- Ward Hawkins
- Kevin Hearne
- Robert A. Heinlein
- Robert E. Howard
- Robert Don Hughes
- J. Gregory Keyes
- Rosemary Kirstein
- Katherine Kurtz
- H. P. Lovecraft
- James Luceno
- Anne McCaffrey
- Donald E. McQuinn
- China Miéville
- Elizabeth Moon
- Sylvain Neuvel
- Robert Newcomb
- Larry Niven
- John Norman
- Naomi Novik
- Frederik Pohl
- Michael Poore
- Christopher Rowley
- David Sherman
- Scott Sigler
- Lucy A. Snyder
- Michael J. Sullivan
- J. R. R. Tolkien
- Harry Turtledove
- Lawrence Watt-Evans
- Terry Miles
Series
- Batman
- A trilogy based on the Dark Knight version of the character.
- Batman: Dead White (2006 novel) by John Shirley
- Batman: Inferno (2006 novel) by Alex Irvine
- Batman: Fear Itself (2007 novel) by Michael Reaves and Steven-Elliot Altman
- Dragonriders of Pern
- Twenty-three Dragonriders of Pern novels by Anne McCaffrey and Todd McCaffrey beginning with the first edition of the third novel—The White Dragon (1978)—and reprints of the first two novels.[1]
- Ghosts of Albion
- Accursed (2005 novel) by Amber Benson and Christopher Golden
- Witchery (2006 novel) by Amber Benson and Christopher Golden
- God of War
- God of War (2010 novelization) by Matthew Stover and Robert E. Vardeman
- God of War II (2013 novelization) by Robert E. Vardeman
- Halo
- Halo: The Fall of Reach (2001 novel) by Eric Nylund
- Halo: The Flood (2003 novel) by William C. Dietz
- Halo: First Strike (2003 novel) by Eric Nylund
Ink & Sigil by Kevin Hearne
- Ink & Sigil (2020 novel)
- Paper & Blood (2021 novel)
- Rabbits by Terry Miles
- Rabbits (June 2021 novel)
- The Quiet Room (October 2023 novel)
- Robotech
- Twenty-one Robotech novels (1987–1996) by James Luceno and Brian Daley
- Shannara
- Eleven (and counting) Shannara novels by Terry Brooks
- Spider-Man by Peter David
- Spider-Man (2002 novelization) by Peter David
- Spider-Man 2 (2004 novelization) by Peter David
- Spider-Man 3 (2007 novelization) by Peter David
- Southern Victory
- Eleven Southern Victory novels (1997–2007) by Harry Turtledove
- Star Wars
- Many Star Wars novels by various authors.
- Tarzan
- Time's Last Gift (1977 revised edition) by Philip José Farmer
- Tarzan: The Epic Adventures (1996) by R. A. Salvatore
- The Dark Heart of Time (June 1999) by Philip José Farmer
Temeraire
Nine Temeraire novels (2006-2016) by Naomi Novik, published by Del Rey books in the US.
- X-Men
- X-Men (2000 novelization) by Kristine Kathryn Rusch and Dean Wesley Smith
- X-Men 2 (2003 novelization) by Chris Claremont
- X-Men: The Last Stand (2006 novelization) by Chris Claremont
References
- Dragonriders of Pern series listing at the Internet Speculative Fiction Database. Retrieved 2011-10-23.
External links
- Del Rey on Random House Books
- Del Rey Books on Wookieepedia, a Star Wars wiki