Ballantine Books

Ballantine Books, founded in 1952 by Ian Ballantine, is a major book publisher and is currently owned by Random House. With a 3000-title backlist, Ballantine Books has several imprints of its own, including DelRey and Fawcett. During the early 1950s, Ballantine attracted attention as one of the leading publishers of paperback science fiction and fantasy.

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Publisher - Random House - Imprints - Fawcett - Paperback - Science fiction - Fantasy

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In the early 1970s Ballantine launched the Ballantine Adult Fantasy series under the editorship of Lin Carter, which brought a number of rare titles back into print, as well as launching Katherine Kurtz's Deryni series.

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1970s - Lin Carter - Katherine Kurtz - Deryni

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Some years later Ballantine set up a separate science fiction and fantasy imprint, Del Rey Books, under the editorship of Lester del Rey and his wife Judy-Lynn. This may have been a response to rival Donald A. Wollheim's launch of specialist science fiction publisher DAW Books.

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Del Rey Books - Lester del Rey - Judy-Lynn - Donald A. Wollheim - DAW Books

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Ballantine's logo is a pair of mirrored letter "B"'s back to back (similar to the center of the ABBA logo).

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