Simon & Schuster’s 100 Most Influential Titles
Simon & Schuster has compiled a list of the 100 most influential titles published during the company’s history, as part of its 100th anniversary celebrations. Several works of genre interest were listed, including:
- Fahrenheit 451, Ray Bradbury (Simon & Schuster)
- City of Bones, Cassandra Clare (Margaret K. McElderry)
- The Dark is Rising, Susan Cooper (Margaret K. McElderry)
- The House of the Scorpion, Nancy Farmer (Atheneum Books for Young Readers)
- Time and Again, Jack Finney (Atria)
- On Writing, Stephen King (Scribner)
- Sing, Unburied, Sing, Jesmyn Ward (Scribner)
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Simon & Schuster has been a friend to genre writers and readers back to the late 1940s, when it issued hardback editions of The World of Null-A (A. E. van Vogt) and The Humanoids (Jack Williamson). Other notable titles the publisher issued: John Christopher (No Blade of Grass), Robert Bloch (Psycho), Ray Bradbury (Something Wicked This Way Comes), Larry Niven and Jerry Pournelle (The Mote in God’s Eye), George R. R. Martin (Dying of the Light, and under its Poseidon Press imprint, Fevre Dream and The Armageddon Rag), Gregory Benford (Timescape), Suzy McKee Charnas (The Vampire Tapestry), Carl Sagan (Contact), J. G. Ballard (Empire of the Sun), and one of my favorite books of the last decade: Space Odyssey: Stanley Kubrick, Arthur C. Clarke, and the Making of a Masterpiece, by Michael Benson. Simon & Schuster published sturdy, handsome editions its authors could be proud of, and book collectors could treasure.