Publisher:Sphere

Thomson Books founded the Sphere paperback imprint in 1966. In 1985 Thomson Books sold Hamish Hamilton, Michael Joseph, Sphere Books, Rainbird Publishing Group and TBD Book Service to Pearson-controlled Penguin. In 1989 Robert Maxwell bought Sphere Books from Pearson's Penguin for £13.75m.

Common ISBN Ranges:
 * 07221 	1970-1990 (Then taken over by Orbit)
 * 074740 	1988-1989 (Later used by Orbit)

Wikipedia entry for Sphere

The publisher Logo changed between 1968 and 1969: the circle divided in two horizontally, lower half black, upper half usually red (as seen here) changed to a more stylised Globe (as seen here).
 * [[Image:Sphere (logo).jpg]]
 * "Modern" logo

=Addresses= 1970: 30/32 Gray's Inn Road, London, WC1 Source: 1971: 30/32 Gray's Inn Road, London, WC1X 8JL Source: 1973: 30/32 Gray's Inn Road, London, WC1X 8JL Source: 1982: 30/32 Gray's Inn Road, London, WC1X 8JL Source: 1984: 30/32 Gray's Inn Road, London, WC1X 8JL Source: 1989: Sphere Books Ltd, Published by the Penguin Group, 27 Wrights Lane, London W8 5TZ, England Source:

Sphere Science Fiction Classics (Incomplete)

 * Michael Moorcock


 * No. 1  Brian W. Aldiss
 * No. 2   A. E. van Vogt


 * No. 4  C. M. Kornbluth
 * No. 5  A. E. van Vogt
 * No. 6   Arthur C. Clarke
 * No. 7  Piers Anthony
 * No. 8  Larry Niven
 * No. 10 Samuel R. Delany
 * No. 11 Alexei Panshin
 * No. 12 Poul Anderson
 * No. 13 Eric Frank Russell
 * No. 14 Stanley G. Weinbaum
 * No. 14 Stanley G. Weinbaum