Bantam Spectra is the science fiction division of American publishing company

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, which is owned by Random House. According to their website, Spectra publishes "science fiction, fantasy,

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, and speculative novels from recognizable authors". Spectra authors have collectively won 31 such awards in the fields of science fiction and fantasy, and been nominated on 132 occasions. These authors include the following: * Anthony Ballantyne *

Bruce Sterling Michael Bruce Sterling (born April 14, 1954) is an American science fiction author known for his novels and short fiction and editorship of the ''Mirrorshades'' anthology. In particular, he is linked to the cyberpunk subgenre. Sterling's first ...

Catherine Asaro Catherine Ann Asaro (born November 6, 1955) is an American science fiction and fantasy author, singer and teacher. She is best known for her books about the Ruby Dynasty, called the Saga of the Skolian Empire. Biography Catherine Asaro was bo ...

Catherynne Valente Catherynne M. Valente (born May 5, 1979) is an American fiction writer, poet, and literary critic. For her speculative fiction novels she has won the annual James Tiptree, Andre Norton, and Mythopoeic Fantasy awards. Her short fiction has a ...

* Charles Platt * Christopher Barzak * Connie Willis * Dan Simmons * David Brin *

David J Williams __NOTOC__ David J. Williams is a British-born American science fiction writer and video game writer. His debut novel, '' The Mirrored Heavens'', was described as "Tom Clancy interfacing Bruce Sterling" by Stephen Baxter, and is part of the ''A ...

* Doug Beason *

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* Elizabeth Bear *

Elizabeth Hand Elizabeth Hand (born March 29, 1957) is an American writer. Life and career Hand grew up in Yonkers and Pound Ridge, New York. She studied drama and anthropology at The Catholic University of America. Since 1988, Hand has lived in coastal Maine ...

* Ellen Kushner * George R. R. Martin * Gregory Benford * Ian McDonald *

Jamil Nasir Jamil Nasir is an American science fiction and fantasy author born in Chicago, Illinois, United States. He has won a Grand Prix de l'Imaginaire for foreign novel and received a special citation from the Philip K. Dick Award The Philip K. Dic ...

* Joe Lansdale * John Ford *

Justina Robson Justina Robson (born 11 June 1968 in Leeds, England) is a science fiction author from Leeds, England. Biography and publishing history Justina Robson was born in Leeds on 11 June 1968, and studied philosophy and linguistics at the University o ...

Karen Fowler Karen Joy Fowler is an American author of science fiction, fantasy, and literary fiction. Her work often centers on the nineteenth century, the lives of women, and Social alienation, alienation. She is best known as the author of the best-selli ...

* Kelley Armstrong *

Kevin J. Anderson Kevin James Anderson (born March 27, 1962) is an American science fiction author. He has written spin-off novels for ''Star Wars'', ''StarCraft'', ''Titan A.E.'' and ''The X-Files literature#Novels, The X-Files'', and with Brian Herbert is the ...

Kim Robinson Kim Stanley Robinson (born March 23, 1952) is an American writer of science fiction. He has published twenty-two novels and numerous short stories and is best known for his ''Mars'' trilogy. His work has been translated into 24 languages. Many ...

* Lisa Goldstein * Liz Williams *

M. K. Hobson M. K. Hobson (born January 21, 1969) is an American speculative fiction and fantasy writer. In 2003 she was a Pushcart Prize nominee, and her debut novel The Native Star was nominated for the 2010 Nebula Award. She lives in Oregon City, Oregon. ...

Maggie Furey Maggie Furey (''née'' Armstrong) was a British fantasy writer who was born in Northumberland, England, UK in 1955. A qualified teacher, she wrote fantasy since 1994, and is best known for the '' Artefacts of Power'' tetralogy. A resident in Co ...

Margaret Ogden Margaret Astrid Lindholm Ogden (born March 5, 1952), known by her pen names Robin Hobb and Megan Lindholm, is an American writer of speculative fiction. As Hobb, she is best known for her fantasy novels set in the ''Realm of the Elderlings'', w ...

* Mark Budz * Michael McQuay *

Neal Stephenson Neal Town Stephenson (born October 31, 1959) is an American writer known for his works of speculative fiction. His novels have been categorized as science fiction, historical fiction, cyberpunk, postcyberpunk, and baroque. Stephenson's work exp ...

* Patrice Murphy *

Patricia Geary Patricia Geary is an American author. After writing two borderline fantasy novels, '' Living in Ether'' (1982) and '' Strange Toys'' (1987), the latter of which won the Philip K. Dick Award, she found it difficult to sell her third novel as she h ...

Paula Volsky Paula Volsky is an American fantasy author. Biography Paula Volsky was born in Fanwood, New Jersey. She majored in English literature at liberal arts college, Vassar College, Vassar, in New York (state), New York State, where she became friendly ...

* Richard Grant * Robert Charles Wilson * Roberta MacAvoy *

Roger MacBride Allen Roger MacBride Allen (born September 26, 1957) is an American science fiction author. He was born in Bridgeport, Connecticut and grew up outside of Washington, D.C., graduating from Walt Whitman High School. He graduated from Boston University ...

* Scott Lynch *

Sheri Tepper Sheri Stewart Tepper (July 16, 1929 – October 22, 2016) was an American writer of science fiction, horror fiction, horror and mystery fiction, mystery novels. She is primarily known for her feminist science fiction, which explored themes of so ...

* T. A. Pratt * Tim Lebbon * William Gibson * William McCarthy

Bantam Spectra series

Star Wars

More than 20 ''Star Wars'' novels have been published under the Bantam Spectra Imprint. Notable Spectra ''Star Wars'' novels include Timothy Zahn's blockbuster ''Thrawn Trilogy'', Barbara Hambly's '' Children of the Jedi'', and others. Eventually

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, which owns ''Star Wars'', decided to have

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and Del Rey publish their books, leading to the end of the Bantam Spectra Star Wars era.

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