Orbit is the UK’s leading SF and fantasy imprint, with a market share twice that of any other publisher. Launched in 1974, Orbit has published many of the most popular and important science fiction and fantasy authors in the modern history of both genres. In addition to SF writers such as Iain M. Banks and Arthur C. Clarke, we have published many of fantasy’s international bestsellers, including Terry Brooks, Robert Jordan and Tad Williams.

Orbit remains committed to writers we believe to be exceptional, and we publish them accordingly. Every author on the list is published with a purpose that is clearly understood by the whole team. We strive to reach the widest possible readership for each of our authors and have achieved many recent successes by targeting more general readers. Our repackaging of Tom Holt’s comic fiction, for example, has more than doubled his sales and our commitment to online marketing and publicity is helping us to raise the profile of our authors in exciting new ways.

With Orbit successfully launched in the US in September 2007, and plans for another sister imprint in Australia to launch in 2008/9, Orbit will soon be SF & Fantasy's first truly global publishing imprint.