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| Company type | Subsidiary |
|---|---|
| Industry | Books, publishing |
| Founded | 1977; 47 years ago (1977) |
| Founders | Judy-Lynn del Rey and Lester del Rey |
| Key people |
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| Products | Books |
| Parent | Random House |
| Website | randomhousebooks |
Del Rey Books is an imprint of the Random House Group, a division of Penguin Random House. The imprint was established in 1977 under the editorship of Judy-Lynn del Rey and her husband, author Lester del Rey. Today, the imprint specializes in science fiction, fantasy, horror, and fantasy romance.
The first new novel published by Del Rey was The Sword of Shannara by Terry Brooks in 1977. Del Rey formerly published Star Wars novels under the Lucasbooks sub-imprint (licensed from Lucasfilm, a subsidiary of The Walt Disney Studios division of The Walt Disney Company) that are now published by its sister imprint, Random House Worlds.
Authors
- Piers Anthony
- Isaac Asimov
- Stephen Baxter
- Amber Benson
- Ray Bradbury
- Max Brooks
- Terry Brooks
- Pierce Brown
- John Brunner
- Bonnie Burton
- Jack L. Chalker
- Cassandra Clare
- 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
- Heather Fawcett
- 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
- Danielle L. Jensen
- J. Gregory Keyes
- Rosemary Kirstein
- Katherine Kurtz
- H. P. Lovecraft
- James Luceno
- Anne McCaffrey
- Donald E. McQuinn
- China Miéville
- Terry Miles
- 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
Books published
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Series
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- 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.
- 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
- StarFist
- Fourteen StarFist novels (1997–2009) and three StarFist: Force Recon novels (2005-2008) by David Sherman and Dan Cragg
- 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
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