Orbit

About Orbit

Orbit is a science fiction and fantasy publisher founded in London in 1974 as part of Macdonald Futura, and now a group of imprints in the UK and US owned by Hachette.

In 1992 Macdonald Futura's parent was bought by Little, Brown, then part of the Time Warner Book Group, and in 1997 Orbit took over the Legend imprint from Random House. Time Warner sold Little, Brown to Hachette Livre in 2006, and that year Orbit expanded abroad: publishing director Tim Holman moved to New York to set up Orbit US within Hachette Book Group, an Australian list was set up at the same time and a French one followed with Calmann-Lévy in 2009. Today Orbit publishes under the Orbit, Redhook and Orbit Works names.

Its authors include Iain M. Banks, Joe Abercrombie, N. K. Jemisin, Ann Leckie, Kim Stanley Robinson and Andrzej Sapkowski. Orbit published Leviathan Wakes by James S. A. Corey, the pen name of Daniel Abraham and Ty Franck, in June 2011, the first novel of the series adapted for television as The Expanse, and Ann Leckie's debut Ancillary Justice in October 2013, which won the Hugo, Nebula and Arthur C. Clarke awards.