Abaddon Books

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Abaddon Books
Abaddon Books.png
Parent company Rebellion
FoundedAugust 2006
Country of originUnited Kingdom
Headquarters location Oxford
Distribution Simon & Schuster (US) [1]
Fiction genres Science fiction
Fantasy
Horror
Official website www.abaddonbooks.com

Abaddon Books is a British publishing imprint, founded in 2006. [2] It is part of the Rebellion group of companies, along with publishing companies Solaris Books, 2000 AD, 2000 AD Graphic Novels, and Cubicle 7. [3]

Contents

Abaddon publishes "shared world" novels in the horror, science fiction and fantasy genres. [4] Describing itself as a return to "the good old days of pulp fiction", the imprint focuses on shorter, action-driven novels with dark or horrific themes. [5]

The line was founded by Jonathan Oliver, [4] who has been Editor-in-Chief of Abaddon and Solaris Books since Rebellion bought the latter from BL Publishing in 2009. [6]

Shared-world series

Abaddon publishes "shared-world" novels set in a number of narrative settings, with two or more authors writing in each series. Abaddon's editorial team creates the worlds in collaboration with the authors, placing an emphasis on original and engaging ideas:

It's franchise fiction without a franchise. We’re giving writers the spark of an idea and asking, "can you do this?” But we’re not giving them an idea that is based on a game or a film, or anything... we’re just saying: "Wouldn’t it be cool if this kind of fiction existed? Could you write this kind of fiction for us?”

Jonathan Oliver [7]

The imprint is currently publishing books in six series:

A seventh series was announced in 2010:

A further two series were launched in the imprint's first year, but have since ceased:

Publications

The following titles have been previously published or are announced as upcoming.

All releases prior to 2009, and most releases since, have featured cover art by Greg Staples or Mark Harrison; covers for the new The Infernal Game and No Man's World titles, and for the upcoming omnibus editions, have been created by 2000 AD staff designers Simon Parr and Luke Preece.

The Afterblight Chronicles

Novels

  1. Spurrier, Simon (August 2006). The Culled. ISBN   978-1-905437-01-6.
  2. Levene, Rebecca (April 2007). Kill or Cure. ISBN   978-1-905437-32-0.
  3. Andrews, Scott K. (August 2007). School's Out. ISBN   9781905437405.
  4. Bark, Jaspre (April 2008). Dawn Over Doomsday. ISBN   978-1-905437-62-7.
  5. Kane, Paul (September 2008). Arrowhead. ISBN   978-1-905437-76-4.
  6. Andrews, Scott K. (May 2009). Operation Motherland. ISBN   978-1-906735-04-3.
  7. Ewing, Al (October 2009). Death Got No Mercy. ISBN   978-1-906735-15-9.
  8. Kane, Paul (November 2009). Broken Arrow. ISBN   978-1-906735-27-2.
  9. Andrews, Scott K. (August 2010). Children's Crusade . UK- ISBN   978-1-906735-53-1, US- ISBN   978-1-906735-81-4.
  10. Kane, Paul (September 2010). Arrowland. UK- ISBN   978-1-907519-13-0, US- ISBN   978-1-907519-12-3.
  11. Ochse, Weston (2012). Blood Ocean. ISBN   9781907992872.
  12. Andrews, Scott K. (September 2012). School's Out Forever. ISBN   9781781080269.
  13. Cross, Malcolm (January 2014). Orbital Decay. ISBN   9781849976787.
  14. Harvey, C.B. (February 2014). Dead Kelly. ISBN   9781849976800.
  15. Tchaikovsky, Adrian (July 2014). The Bloody Deluge. ISBN   9781849977647.

Omnibus collections

  • Cross, Malcolm; Harvey, C.B. & Tchaikovsky, Adrian (August 2014). Journal of the Plague Year: an Omnibus of Post-Apocalyptic Tales. ISBN   9781781082461. Includes: Orbital Decay, Dead Kelly, and The Bloody Deluge.
  • Spurrier, Simon; Levene, Rebecca & Ewing, Al (June 2011). The Afterblight Chronicles Omnibus, Volume 1: America. ISBN   9781907992148. Includes: The Culled, Kill or Cure, and Death Got No Mercy.

The Infernal Game

No Man's World

Pax Britannia

Tomes of the Dead

Twilight of Kerberos

  1. Shadowmage (Matthew Sprange, February 2008, ISBN   978-1-905437-54-2)
  2. The Clockwork King of Orl (Mike Wild, August 2008, ISBN   978-1-905437-75-7)
  3. The Light of Heaven (David A. McIntee, February 2009, ISBN   978-1-905437-87-0)
  4. The Crucible of the Dragon God (Mike Wild, June 2009, ISBN   978-1-906735-13-5)
  5. The Call of Kerberos (Jonathan Oliver, October 2009, ISBN   978-1-906735-16-6)
  6. Night's Haunting (Matthew Sprange, October 2009, ISBN   978-1-906735-25-8)
  7. Engines of the Apocalypse (Mike Wild, August 2010, UK- ISBN   978-1-906735-37-1, US- ISBN   978-1-906735-79-1)
  8. The Trials of Trass Kathra (Mike Wild, Date TBC, UK- ISBN   978-1-907519-64-2, US- ISBN   978-1-907519-65-9)
  9. The Wrath of Kerberos (Jonathan Oliver, Date TBC, ISBN TBC)

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References

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  2. "Rebellion Talks 2000 AD," Archived 29 March 2012 at the Wayback Machine Forbidden Planet International, 10 July 2006, discussing "a new prose range" with editor Jonathan Oliver.
  3. Rebellion Developments Ltd. on Moby Games, 2006.
  4. 1 2 "An Interview with Jonathan Oliver," Archived 19 October 2010 at the Wayback Machine The Literary Project, 16 April 2010
  5. "About Us," Abaddon Books, October 2009
  6. "Rebellion Acquires Solaris Imprint," Archived 6 September 2009 at the Wayback Machine The Bookseller, 3 September 2009.
  7. "PK Interview: Jonathan Oliver (Part 4)," Pornokitsch , 24 March 2010
  8. "Interview with Jasper Bark by JD'L," Horror Reanimated, 4 June 2010
  9. "News Series Announcement!" Abaddon Books, 19 March 2010
  10. "Zombies go medieval". Variety. 21 October 2010.