The combined backlists of Ace and Berkley made a powerful presence in the science fiction field, with Frank Herbert's bestselling Dune series, T. Putnam's Sons (later known as The Putnam Berkley Group), and Ace soon became Berkley's science fiction imprint. In 1982, Grosset & Dunlap was acquired by G. Under Publisher Tom Doherty, Ace produced books in all genres, though science fiction remained a specialty. In 1972, Wollheim left the company, and it was later acquired by Grosset & Dunlap. Ace was known for marketing innovations such as the Ace Doubles, which contained two short novels bound back to back, and for the critically acclaimed Ace Specials edited by Terry Carr. Wollheim as editor, it issued some of the most outstanding science fiction writers of the 1950s and 1960s, including Samuel R.
Wyn, and is the oldest continuously operating science fiction publisher in the United States.
A Crash Course in the History of Black Science FictionĪce Books was founded in 1953 by A.200 Significant SF Books by Women, 1984-2001.
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