Pyr (SF&F Imprint)
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Pyr is the science fiction and fantasy imprint
of Prometheus Books
, launched in March 2005 with the publication of John Meaney
's Paradox.
Prometheus Books' name was derived from Prometheus
, the Titan from Greek mythology who gave fire to humans. The name Pyr, the Greek word for fire, was chose to continue this connection to fire and the liveliness of imagination.
Lou Anders
has served as Pyr's editorial director since its inception.
Imprint
In the publishing industry, an imprint can mean several different things:* As a piece of bibliographic information about a book, it refers to the name and address of the book's publisher and its date of publication as given at the foot or on the verso of its title page.* It can mean a trade name...
of Prometheus Books
Prometheus Books
Prometheus Books is a publishing company founded in August 1969 by Paul Kurtz, who also founded the Council for Secular Humanism and co-founded the Committee for Skeptical Inquiry. He is currently the chairman of all three organizations. Prometheus Books publishes a range of books, including many...
, launched in March 2005 with the publication of John Meaney
John Meaney
-Biography:Meaney grew up in London and Slough, England with his brother Colm . He has been studying martial arts since childhood and has a black belt in shotokan karate. Meaney originally studied at Birmingham University and holds a combined degree in Physics and Computer Science from the Open...
's Paradox.
Prometheus Books' name was derived from Prometheus
Prometheus
In Greek mythology, Prometheus is a Titan, the son of Iapetus and Themis, and brother to Atlas, Epimetheus and Menoetius. He was a champion of mankind, known for his wily intelligence, who stole fire from Zeus and gave it to mortals...
, the Titan from Greek mythology who gave fire to humans. The name Pyr, the Greek word for fire, was chose to continue this connection to fire and the liveliness of imagination.
Lou Anders
Lou Anders
Lou Anders is an American editor, author and journalist, primarily of science fiction/fantasy novels, articles and short stories.-Biography and journalism:...
has served as Pyr's editorial director since its inception.
Authors published by Pyr
- Joe AbercrombieJoe AbercrombieJoe Abercrombie is a British fantasy writer and film editor. He is the author of The First Law trilogy.-Early life:Abercrombie was born in Lancaster, England...
- Fiona AveryFiona AveryFiona Kai Avery is a comic book and television writer. Avery was hired as a reference editor for the fifth season of Babylon 5, and later continued in that role for the failed spin-off Crusade...
- Michael BlumleinMichael BlumleinMichael Blumlein, M.D. is a fiction writer and a physician. Most of his writing is in or near the genres of science fiction, fantasy, and horror. His novels include The Healer, The Movement of Mountains and X, Y. He has been nominated for the World Fantasy Award and the Bram Stoker Award...
- Keith BrookeKeith BrookeKeith Brooke is a science fiction author, editor, web publisher and anthologist from Essex, England. He is the founder and editor of the infinity plus webzine. He also writes children's fiction under the name Nick Gifford.- Biography and publishing history :...
- Storm ConstantineStorm ConstantineStorm Constantine is a British science fiction and fantasy author, primarily known for her Wraeththu series.- Life and work :Since the late 1980s Constantine has written more than 20 novels, plus several non-fiction books...
- Jack DannJack DannJack Dann is an American writer best known for his science fiction, an editor and a writing teacher, who has lived in Australia since 1994. He has published over seventy books, in the majority of cases as editor or co-editor of story anthologies in the science fiction, fantasy and horror genres...
- Gardner DozoisGardner DozoisGardner Raymond Dozois is an American science fiction author and editor. He was editor of Asimov's Science Fiction magazine from 1984 to 2004...
- David Louis EdelmanDavid Louis EdelmanDavid Louis Edelman is an American novelist and web programmer. He was raised in Orange County, California and graduated from Villa Park High School in 1989. He majored in Writing Seminars at John Hopkins, where he graduated in 1993....
- Charles Coleman FinlayCharles Coleman FinlayCharles Coleman Finlay is an American science fiction and fantasy author.He grew up in Marysville, Ohio and attended Ohio State University. He also attended the University of Oxford. His first story, Footnotes, was published in 2001 in Fantasy and Science Fiction where many of his stories have...
- Alan Dean FosterAlan Dean FosterAlan Dean Foster is an American author of fantasy and science fiction. He currently resides in Prescott, Arizona, with his wife, and is also known for his novelizations of film scripts...
- K.V. Johansen
- Kay Kenyon
- Alexis Glynn Latner
- Scott MackayScott MackayScott Mackay is a Canadian science fiction author from Toronto, where he still lives with his wife and two children. He is the award-winning author of eleven novels and over forty short stories. His short story, Last Inning, won the 1999 Arthur Ellis Award for best short mystery fiction...
- Ian MacDonaldIan MacDonaldIan MacCormick was a British music critic and author, best known for Revolution in the Head, his forensic history of The Beatles which borrowed techniques from art historians, and The New Shostakovich, a controversial study of the Russian composer Dmitri Shostakovich...
- John MeaneyJohn Meaney-Biography:Meaney grew up in London and Slough, England with his brother Colm . He has been studying martial arts since childhood and has a black belt in shotokan karate. Meaney originally studied at Birmingham University and holds a combined degree in Physics and Computer Science from the Open...
- Michael MoorcockMichael MoorcockMichael John Moorcock is an English writer, primarily of science fiction and fantasy, who has also published a number of literary novels....
- Mike ResnickMike ResnickMichael Diamond Resnick , better known by his published name Mike Resnick, is an American science fiction author. He was executive editor of Jim Baen's Universe.-Biography:...
- Chris RobersonChris Roberson (author)Chris Roberson is a science fiction author, tromboner, and publisher based in Austin, Texas, best known for alternate history novels and short stories.-Biography:Chris Roberson grew up near Dallas, Texas, and attended the University of Texas, Austin...
- Adam Roberts
- Justina RobsonJustina RobsonJustina Robson is a science fiction author from Leeds, England.- Biography and publishing history :Justina Robson was born in Leeds , and studied philosophy and linguistics at the University of York...
- Joel ShepherdJoel ShepherdJoel Shepherd is an Australian science fiction author. He moved to Perth, Western Australia with his family when he was seven, where he later studied film and television arts at Curtin University....
- Robert SilverbergRobert SilverbergRobert Silverberg is an American author, best known for writing science fiction. He is a multiple nominee of the Hugo Award and a winner of the Nebula Award.-Early years:...
- Martin Sketchley
- Adrian TchaikovskyAdrian TchaikovskyAdrian Czajkowski is a British fantasy author. His best known work is the ongoing Shadows of the Apt series.-Biography:...
- Sean Williams
- George ZebrowskiGeorge ZebrowskiGeorge Zebrowski is a science fiction author and editor who has written and edited a number of books. He lives with author Pamela Sargent, with whom he has co-written a number of novels, including Star Trek novels.Zebrowski won the John W. Campbell Memorial Award in 1999 for his novel Brute Orbits...
Awards and nominations
- 2011 John W. Campbell Memorial Award for Best Science Fiction NovelJohn W. Campbell Memorial Award for Best Science Fiction NovelThe John W. Campbell Memorial Award for Best Science Fiction Novel for best science fiction novel was created in 1973 by writers and critics Harry Harrison and Brian W. Aldiss to honor Campbell's name...
winner: Ian McDonald The Dervish House - 2011 Hugo Award for Best NovelHugo Award for Best NovelThe Hugo Awards are given every year by the World Science Fiction Society for the best science fiction or fantasy works and achievements of the previous year. The award is named after Hugo Gernsback, the founder of the pioneering science fiction magazine Amazing Stories, and was once officially...
nominee: Ian McDonald The Dervish House - 2011 Arthur C. Clarke AwardArthur C. Clarke AwardThe Arthur C. Clarke Award is a British award given for the best science fiction novel first published in the United Kingdom during the previous year. The award was established with a grant from Arthur C. Clarke and the first prize was awarded in 1987...
nominee: Ian McDonald The Dervish House - 2011 Locus Award for Best Science Fiction NovelLocus Award for Best Science Fiction NovelWinners of the Locus Award for Best SF Novel, awarded by the Locus magazine. Awards presented in a given year are for works published in the previous calendar year....
nominee: Ian McDonald The Dervish House - 2010 Philip K. Dick Award: Mark Hodder The Strange Affair of Spring Heeled Jack
- 2010 British Science Fiction Award for Best NovelBSFA Award for Best NovelThe BSFA Awards are given every year by the British Science Fiction Association. The Best Novel award is open to any novel-length work of science fiction or fantasy that has been published in the UK for the first time in the previous year. Serialised novels are eligible, provided that the...
winner: Ian McDonald The Dervish House - 2010 British Science Fiction Award for Best NovelBSFA Award for Best NovelThe BSFA Awards are given every year by the British Science Fiction Association. The Best Novel award is open to any novel-length work of science fiction or fantasy that has been published in the UK for the first time in the previous year. Serialised novels are eligible, provided that the...
nominee: Ken MacLeod The Restoration Game - 2010 John W. Campbell Memorial Award for Best Science Fiction NovelJohn W. Campbell Memorial Award for Best Science Fiction NovelThe John W. Campbell Memorial Award for Best Science Fiction Novel for best science fiction novel was created in 1973 by writers and critics Harry Harrison and Brian W. Aldiss to honor Campbell's name...
nominee: Paul J. McAuley Gardens of the Sun - 2010 World Fantasy Award for Best NovelWorld Fantasy Award for Best NovelThis World Fantasy Award is given to the fantasy novel or novels voted best by a panel of judges, and presented each year at the World Fantasy Convention.-1975:...
nominee: James Enge Blood of Ambrose - 2009 Chesley Award for Best Art DirectorChesley Award for Best Art DirectorThe Chesley Award for Best Art Director is given by the Association of Science Fiction and Fantasy Artists to recognize the achievements of a science fiction or fantasy art director eligible in the year previous to the award.- Winners and nominees :...
: Lou Anders - 2009 Philip K. Dick Award nominee: Ian McDonald Cyberabad Days
- 2009 Arthur C. Clarke AwardArthur C. Clarke AwardThe Arthur C. Clarke Award is a British award given for the best science fiction novel first published in the United Kingdom during the previous year. The award was established with a grant from Arthur C. Clarke and the first prize was awarded in 1987...
nominee: Paul J. McAuley The Quiet War - 2008 Hugo Award for Best NovelHugo Award for Best NovelThe Hugo Awards are given every year by the World Science Fiction Society for the best science fiction or fantasy works and achievements of the previous year. The award is named after Hugo Gernsback, the founder of the pioneering science fiction magazine Amazing Stories, and was once officially...
nominee: Ian McDonald Brasyl - 2008 Nebula Award for Best NovelNebula Award for Best NovelWinners of the Nebula Award for Best Novel, awarded by the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America. The stated year is that of publication; awards are given in the following year.- Winners and other nominees :...
nominee: Ian McDonald Brasyl - 2008 John W. Campbell Memorial Award for Best Science Fiction NovelJohn W. Campbell Memorial Award for Best Science Fiction NovelThe John W. Campbell Memorial Award for Best Science Fiction Novel for best science fiction novel was created in 1973 by writers and critics Harry Harrison and Brian W. Aldiss to honor Campbell's name...
nominee: Ian McDonald Brasyl - 2008 Locus Award for Best Science Fiction NovelLocus Award for Best Science Fiction NovelWinners of the Locus Award for Best SF Novel, awarded by the Locus magazine. Awards presented in a given year are for works published in the previous calendar year....
nominee: Ian McDonald Brasyl - 2008 Hugo Award for Best Editor Long Form, nominee: Lou AndersLou AndersLou Anders is an American editor, author and journalist, primarily of science fiction/fantasy novels, articles and short stories.-Biography and journalism:...
- 2008 John W. Campbell Award for Best New Writer nominee: Joe AbercrombieJoe AbercrombieJoe Abercrombie is a British fantasy writer and film editor. He is the author of The First Law trilogy.-Early life:Abercrombie was born in Lancaster, England...
- 2008 John W. Campbell Award for Best New Writer nominee: David Louis EdelmanDavid Louis EdelmanDavid Louis Edelman is an American novelist and web programmer. He was raised in Orange County, California and graduated from Villa Park High School in 1989. He majored in Writing Seminars at John Hopkins, where he graduated in 1993....
- 2008 Philip K. Dick Award nominee: Lou AndersLou AndersLou Anders is an American editor, author and journalist, primarily of science fiction/fantasy novels, articles and short stories.-Biography and journalism:...
Fast Forward 2 - 2007 British Science Fiction Award for Best NovelBSFA Award for Best NovelThe BSFA Awards are given every year by the British Science Fiction Association. The Best Novel award is open to any novel-length work of science fiction or fantasy that has been published in the UK for the first time in the previous year. Serialised novels are eligible, provided that the...
winner: Ian McDonaldIan McDonaldIan McDonald may refer to:* Ian McDonald , Australian first-class cricketer* Ian McDonald , member of King Crimson, 1969–70, and Foreigner, 1977–79...
Brasyl - 2007 Philip K. Dick Award nominee: Adam Roberts GradisilGradisilGradisil is a science fiction novel by British author Adam Roberts.-Plot summary:Gradisil takes place over several generations of the Gyeroffy family, the novel's timeline spanning from 2059 to the first half of the 22nd century, circa 2130. On these generations hang the novel's basic plots...
- 2007 Arthur C. Clarke AwardArthur C. Clarke AwardThe Arthur C. Clarke Award is a British award given for the best science fiction novel first published in the United Kingdom during the previous year. The award was established with a grant from Arthur C. Clarke and the first prize was awarded in 1987...
nominee: Adam Roberts GradisilGradisilGradisil is a science fiction novel by British author Adam Roberts.-Plot summary:Gradisil takes place over several generations of the Gyeroffy family, the novel's timeline spanning from 2059 to the first half of the 22nd century, circa 2130. On these generations hang the novel's basic plots... - 2007 Quill Award nominee: Ian McDonald, Brasyl
- 2007 Hugo Award for Best Editor Long Form nominee: Lou AndersLou AndersLou Anders is an American editor, author and journalist, primarily of science fiction/fantasy novels, articles and short stories.-Biography and journalism:...
- 2007 Chesley Award for Best Art Director nominee: Lou AndersLou AndersLou Anders is an American editor, author and journalist, primarily of science fiction/fantasy novels, articles and short stories.-Biography and journalism:...
- 2006 World Fantasy Award - Special Award, Professional nominee: Lou AndersLou AndersLou Anders is an American editor, author and journalist, primarily of science fiction/fantasy novels, articles and short stories.-Biography and journalism:...
- 2006 John W. Campbell Memorial Award for Best Novel nominee: David Louis Edelman, Infoquake
- 2006 Independent Publisher Book Award winner: John MeaneyJohn Meaney-Biography:Meaney grew up in London and Slough, England with his brother Colm . He has been studying martial arts since childhood and has a black belt in shotokan karate. Meaney originally studied at Birmingham University and holds a combined degree in Physics and Computer Science from the Open...
, Paradox - 2005 Philip K Dick Award nominee: Justina RobsonJustina RobsonJustina Robson is a science fiction author from Leeds, England.- Biography and publishing history :Justina Robson was born in Leeds , and studied philosophy and linguistics at the University of York...
, Silver Screen - 2006 John W. Campbell Award for Best New Writer nominee: Chris RobersonChris Roberson (author)Chris Roberson is a science fiction author, tromboner, and publisher based in Austin, Texas, best known for alternate history novels and short stories.-Biography:Chris Roberson grew up near Dallas, Texas, and attended the University of Texas, Austin...
- 2005 John W. Campbell Award for Best New Writer nominee: Chris RobersonChris Roberson (author)Chris Roberson is a science fiction author, tromboner, and publisher based in Austin, Texas, best known for alternate history novels and short stories.-Biography:Chris Roberson grew up near Dallas, Texas, and attended the University of Texas, Austin...
- 2005 World Fantasy Award - Best Artist, for Pyr covers nominee: Jeremy Caniglia
Further recommendations and endorsements
- Kay Kenyon, Bright of the Sky - selected as one of PW's Best Books of the Year for 2007.
- Ian McDonald, Brasyl - selected as the number two title in Amazon's Best Books of 2007 - Top 10 Editors' Picks: Science Fiction & Fantasy for 2007.
- Ian McDonald, Brasyl - selected as one of Amazon's Best of the Year, So Far: Hidden Gems for 2007.
- Locus magazine Recommended Reading: 2006 : Joe Abercombie - The Blade Itself, Justina Robson - Keeping It Real
- Pyr Books included in the B&N Editor's Choice: Top Ten SF&F Novels of 2006: David Louis Edelman - Infoquake (#1), Sean Williams - The Crooked Letter, John Meaney - Resolution
- 2 Pyr Books included in Waterstone's Top Ten SF for 2006: Joel Shepherd - Crossover, Chris Roberson - Paragaea: A Planetary Romance
- 3 Pyr Books included in Bookgasm's Top Five SciFi Books of 2006 - Ian McDonald - River of Gods (#1), Joel Shepherd - Crossover, David Louis Edelman - Infoquake
- Sean Williams, The Hanging Mountains selected as a BookSense Notable Book for July
- Kay Kenyon, Bright of the Sky - one of four novels selected by ReaderCon "the con that assigns homework" for their attendees to read pre-convention
- Justina Robson, Silver Screen selected for Kirkus Reviews Best SF&F Books of 2005
- John Meaney, Paradox - #2 on Barnes & Noble's Editor's Choice: Top Ten SF&F Novels of 2005
External links
- PYR website
- Prometheus Books – Official website
- Pyromania - the Pyr blog
- WWEnd Publisher Profile for Pyr