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Sphere Books is the name of two British paperback publishers.
History [ edit ]
The original Sphere Books was launched in 1966 by Thomson Corporation .[1] Pearson PLC in 1985 and became part of Penguin .[2] [citation needed
In 1976, Sphere paid $225,000 for the British publishing rights from Ballantine Books for the novelisation of a forthcoming science fiction film, Star Wars: From the Adventures of Luke Skywalker by George Lucas (ghostwritten by Alan Dean Foster ). The book, like the film Star Wars [3] [4] Conan fantasy series by Robert E. Howard .[5] occult writer Dennis Wheatley edited a series of books published under the umbrella title of The Dennis Wheatley Library of the Occult ,[6] Dracula by Bram Stoker , Moonchild by Aleister Crowley , Frankenstein by Mary Shelley and Faust by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe .[7] Sphere Science Fiction Classics series published throughout the 1970s, which included The World of Null-A The Pawns of Null-A by A. E. van Vogt , Arthur C. Clarke 's The Sands of Mars Larry Niven 's Neutron Star [8]
In 2006, Hachette Book Group acquired a number of imprints from the Time Warner Book Group , including Little, Brown and Company , Hodder & Stoughton Virago Press and Sphere.[9] Sphere is an imprint of Little, Brown. Writers whose works have been published with Sphere have included Patricia Cornwell , Mark Billingham , Jenny Colgan , Mitch Albom , Nicholas Sparks and Nicholas Evans . Sphere best-sellers have included Long Way Round by Ewan McGregor and Charley Boorman , Ricky Tomlinson 's autobiography Ricky , Sharon Osbourne 's autobiography Extreme , A Brother's Journey by Richard B. Pelzer , Scar Tissue by Anthony Kiedis and Is It Just Me or Is Everything Shit? [10]
Notes and references [ edit ]
^ "Media Profiles: Thomson" . Ketupa.net . April 2002. Archived from the original on 17 June 2002. Retrieved 19 June 2017 .
^ Burns, Kevin (director) (2004). Empire of Dreams
^ Sutherland, John; Sutherland, Northcliffe Professor of Modern English Literature John (2010). "8. Star Wars - a real gee-whizz book" . Bestsellers (Routledge Revivals): Popular Fiction of the 1970s . Routledge. ISBN 9781136830631 . Retrieved 16 June 2017 .
^ "Publication Series: Conan (Sphere)" . isfdb.org . Archived from the original on 19 June 2017. Retrieved 19 June 2017 .
^ Rothwell, Bob. "The Dennis Wheatley Library of the Occult Introduction" . denniswheatley.info . Archived from the original on 19 June 2017. Retrieved 19 June 2017 .
^ "Publication Series: The Dennis Wheatley Library of the Occult" . isfdb.org . Archived from the original on 19 June 2017. Retrieved 19 June 2017 .
^ "Publication Series: Sphere Science Fiction Classics" . isfdb.org . Archived from the original on 19 June 2017. Retrieved 19 June 2017 .
^ Guthrie, Richard (2011). Publishing: Principles and Practice ISBN 9781446249994 . Retrieved 19 June 2017 .
^ "About Us: Sphere" . Little Brown Book Group. Archived from the original on 12 October 2007. Retrieved 16 June 2017 .
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R e t r i e v e d f r o m " https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Sphere_Books&oldid=1194157150 " C a t e g o r i e s : ● F o r m e r a s s e t s o f T h o m s o n R e u t e r s ● B o o k p u b l i s h i n g c o m p a n i e s o f t h e U n i t e d K i n g d o m ● 1 9 6 1 e s t a b l i s h m e n t s i n E n g l a n d ● P e a r s o n p l c ● P u b l i s h i n g c o m p a n i e s e s t a b l i s h e d i n 1 9 6 6 ● L a g a r d è r e M e d i a ● S c i e n c e f i c t i o n p u b l i s h e r s ● F a n t a s y b o o k p u b l i s h e r s ● H o r r o r b o o k p u b l i s h i n g c o m p a n i e s ● B r i t i s h s p e c u l a t i v e f i c t i o n p u b l i s h e r s H i d d e n c a t e g o r i e s : ● E n g v a r B f r o m J u n e 2 0 1 8 ● U s e d m y d a t e s f r o m J u n e 2 0 1 8 ● A l l a r t i c l e s w i t h u n s o u r c e d s t a t e m e n t s ● A r t i c l e s w i t h u n s o u r c e d s t a t e m e n t s f r o m J u n e 2 0 1 7 ● O f f i c i a l w e b s i t e d i f f e r e n t i n W i k i d a t a a n d W i k i p e d i a ● A r t i c l e s w i t h V I A F i d e n t i f i e r s ● A r t i c l e s w i t h L C C N i d e n t i f i e r s
● T h i s p a g e w a s l a s t e d i t e d o n 7 J a n u a r y 2 0 2 4 , a t 1 4 : 2 4 ( U T C ) . ● T e x t i s a v a i l a b l e u n d e r t h e C r e a t i v e C o m m o n s A t t r i b u t i o n - S h a r e A l i k e L i c e n s e 4 . 0 ;
a d d i t i o n a l t e r m s m a y a p p l y . B y u s i n g t h i s s i t e , y o u a g r e e t o t h e T e r m s o f U s e a n d P r i v a c y P o l i c y . W i k i p e d i a ® i s a r e g i s t e r e d t r a d e m a r k o f t h e W i k i m e d i a F o u n d a t i o n , I n c . , a n o n - p r o f i t o r g a n i z a t i o n . ● P r i v a c y p o l i c y ● A b o u t W i k i p e d i a ● D i s c l a i m e r s ● C o n t a c t W i k i p e d i a ● C o d e o f C o n d u c t ● D e v e l o p e r s ● S t a t i s t i c s ● C o o k i e s t a t e m e n t ● M o b i l e v i e w
