Victor Gollancz Ltd

Victor Gollancz Ltd was a British book publisher founded by Victor Gollancz in 1927; its most notable authors were George Orwell and Ford Madox Ford. Upon Gollancz's death in 1967, ownership passed to his daughter, Livia. She sold it to Houghton Mifflin in 1989. Three years later, in October 1992, Houghton Mifflin sold Gollancz to Cassell . In 1998, the Orion Publishing Group purchased Gollancz from Cassell and turned it into its science fiction and fantasy imprint, Gollancz Science Fiction.