Fantasy Masterworks

Fantasy Masterworks is a series of British paperbacks intended to comprise "some of the greatest, most original, and most influential fantasy ever written", and claimed by its publisher Millennium (an imprint of Victor Gollancz) to be "the books which, along with Tolkien, Peake and others, shaped modern fantasy."^[1]

It has a companion series in the SF Masterworks line. A separate Future Classics^[2] line has also started featuring eight science fiction novels from the last few decades.

The books were numbered only through No. 50; in the 2013 reboot of the series the books are unnumbered, have a uniform look, and feature introductions by well-known writers and critics.

Numbered paperback series (2000-2007)

Number	Title	Author	Originally Published	ISBN	Masterworks Published
1	The Book of the New Sun, Volume 1: Shadow and Claw	Gene Wolfe	1983	ISBN 978-1-857-98977-9	2000
2	Time and the Gods	Lord Dunsany	1905–1916	ISBN 978-1-857-98989-2	2000
3	The Worm Ouroboros	E.R. Eddison	1922	ISBN 978-1-857-98993-9	2000
4	Tales of the Dying Earth	Jack Vance	1950–1984	ISBN 978-1-857-98994-6	2000
5	Little, Big	John Crowley	1981	ISBN 978-1-857-98711-9	2000
6	The Chronicles of Amber	Roger Zelazny	1970–1978	ISBN 978-1-857-98726-3	2000
7	Viriconium	M. John Harrison	1971–1985	ISBN 978-1-857-98995-3	2000
8	The Conan Chronicles Volume 1: The People of the Black Circle	Robert E. Howard	2000	ISBN 978-1-857-98996-0	2000
9	The Land of Laughs	Jonathan Carroll	1980	ISBN 978-1-857-98999-1	2000
10	The Compleat Enchanter: The Magical Misadventures of Harold Shea	L. Sprague de Camp and Fletcher Pratt	1940–1954	ISBN 978-1-857-98757-7	2000
11	Lud-in-the-Mist	Hope Mirrlees	1926	ISBN 978-1-857-98767-6	2000
12	The Book of the New Sun, Volume 2: Sword and Citadel	Gene Wolfe	1982 & 1983	ISBN 978-1-857-98700-3	2000
13	Fevre Dream	George R. R. Martin	1982	ISBN 978-1-857-98331-9	2001
14	Beauty	Sheri S. Tepper	1991	ISBN 978-1-857-98722-5	2001
15	The King of Elfland's Daughter	Lord Dunsany	1924	ISBN 978-1-857-98790-4	2001
16	The Conan Chronicles Volume 2: The Hour of the Dragon	Robert E. Howard	2001	ISBN 978-1-857-98747-8	2001
17	Elric	Michael Moorcock	1961–1965	ISBN 978-1-857-98743-0	2001
18	The First Book of Lankhmar	Fritz Leiber	1968–1970	ISBN 978-1-857-98327-2	2001
19	The Riddle-Master's Game	Patricia A. McKillip	1976–1979	ISBN 978-1-857-98796-6	2001
20	Time and Again	Jack Finney	1970	ISBN 978-0-575-07360-9	2001
21	Mistress of Mistresses	E.R. Eddison	1935	ISBN 978-0-575-07284-8	2001
22	Gloriana	Michael Moorcock	1978	ISBN 978-0-575-07359-3	2001
23	The Well of the Unicorn	Fletcher Pratt	1948	ISBN 978-0-575-07267-1	2001
24	The Second Book of Lankhmar	Fritz Leiber	1968–1988	ISBN 978-0-575-07358-6	2001
25	Voice of Our Shadow	Jonathan Carroll	1983	ISBN 978-0-575-07367-8	2002
26	The Emperor of Dreams	Clark Ashton Smith	2002	ISBN 978-0-575-07373-9	2002
27	Lyonesse I: Suldrun's Garden	Jack Vance	1983	ISBN 978-0-575-07374-6	2002
28	Peace	Gene Wolfe	1975	ISBN 978-0-575-07376-0	2002
29	The Dragon Waiting	John M. Ford	1983	ISBN 978-0-575-07378-4	2002
30	Chronicles of Corum	Michael Moorcock	1977	ISBN 978-0-575-07366-1	2002
31	Black Gods and Scarlet Dreams	C.L. Moore	1933–1939	ISBN 978-0-575-07417-0	2002
32	The Broken Sword	Poul Anderson	1954	ISBN 978-0-575-07425-5	2002
33	The House on the Borderland and Other Novels	William Hope Hodgson	1946	ISBN 978-0-575-07372-2	2002
34	The Drawing of the Dark	Tim Powers	1979	ISBN 978-0-575-07426-2	2002
35	Lyonesse II and III: The Green Pearl and Madouc	Jack Vance	1985 & 1989	ISBN 978-0-575-07517-7	2003
36	The History of the Runestaff	Michael Moorcock	1979	ISBN 978-0-575-07469-9	2003
37	A Voyage to Arcturus	David Lindsay	1920	ISBN 978-0-575-07483-5	2003
38	Darker Than You Think	Jack Williamson	1948	ISBN 978-0-575-07546-7	2003
39	The Mabinogion	Evangeline Walton	2002	ISBN 978-0-575-07538-2	2003
40	Three Hearts & Three Lions	Poul Anderson	1961	ISBN 978-0-575-07498-9	2003
41	Grendel	John Gardner	1971	ISBN 978-0-575-07582-5	2004
42	The Iron Dragon's Daughter	Michael Swanwick	1993	ISBN 978-0-575-07605-1	2004
43	Was	Geoff Ryman	1992	ISBN 978-0-575-07669-3	2005
44	Song of Kali	Dan Simmons	1985	ISBN 978-0-575-07659-4	2005
45	Replay	Ken Grimwood	1986	ISBN 978-0-575-07559-7	2005
46	Sea-Kings of Mars and Otherworldly Stories	Leigh Brackett	2005	ISBN 978-0-575-07689-1	2005
47	The Anubis Gates	Tim Powers	1983	ISBN 978-0-575-07725-6	2005
48	The Forgotten Beasts of Eld	Patricia A. McKillip	1974	ISBN 978-0-575-07765-2	2005
49	Something Wicked This Way Comes	Ray Bradbury	1962	ISBN 978-0-575-07874-1	2006
50	The Mark of the Beast and Other Fantastical Tales	Rudyard Kipling	2007	ISBN 978-0-575-07791-1	2007

New design

Title	Author	Originally Published	ISBN	Masterworks Published
Aegypt	John Crowley	1987	ISBN 978-0-575-08300-4	2013
The Dragon Griaule	Lucius Shepard	2013	ISBN 978-0-575-08992-1	2013
Last Call	Tim Powers	1992	ISBN 978-0-575-11681-8	2013
The Falling Woman	Pat Murphy	1986	ISBN 978-0-575-13314-3	2013
The Phoenix and the Mirror	Avram Davidson	1969	ISBN 978-0-575-13038-8	2013
Lord Darcy	Randall Garrett	1964–1979	ISBN 978-1-473-20104-0	2014
Votan and Other Novels	John James	1966–1969	ISBN 978-0-575-10550-8	2014
The Broken Sword *	Poul Anderson	1954	ISBN 978-1-473-20544-4	2014
Ombria in Shadow	Patricia A. McKillip	2002	ISBN 978-1-473-20574-1	2014
Beauty *	Sheri S. Tepper	1991	ISBN 978-1-473-20659-5	2014
Mythago Wood	Robert Holdstock	1984	ISBN 978-1-473-20545-1	2014
Little, Big *	John Crowley	1981	ISBN 978-1-473-20547-5	2015
The Book of the New Sun, Volume 1: Shadow and Claw *	Gene Wolfe	1983	ISBN 978-1-473-21197-1	2015
Expiration Date	Tim Powers	1996	ISBN 978-1-473-21198-8	2015
The Forgotten Beasts of Eld *	Patricia A. McKillip	1974	ISBN 978-1-473-21203-9	2015
Lavondyss	Robert Holdstock	1988	ISBN 978-1-473-21199-5	2015

* Also published in the Fantasy Masterworks numbered series.

See also

• SF Masterworks

External links

• List of Fantasy Masterworks in order of publication with extensive reviews.
• Fantasy Masterworks overview and reviews — List of Fantasy Masterworks numbered series in reverse order of publication with shorter reviews at The SF Site.
• The Fantasy Masterworks List — A graphical presentation of the Fantasy Masterworks.

References

1. According to the back cover of e.g. Howard, Robert E. (2000). The Conan Chronicles Volume 1: The People of the Black Circle. Fantasy Masterworks. Millennium. ISBN 1-85798-996-1.
2. Gollancz editor Simon Spanton on the Future Classics promotion