Three years later in October 1992, Houghton Mifflin sold Gollancz to the publishing house Cassell & Co. Cassell and its parent company Orion Publishing Group were acquired by Hachette in 1996,[1] and in December 1998 the merged Orion/Cassell group turned Gollancz into its science fiction/fantasy imprint.

Victor Gollancz commissioned George Orwell to write about the urban working class in the North of England; the result was The Road to Wigan Pier.

It offered a monthly book choice, for sale to members only, as well as a newsletter that acquired the status of a major political magazine.

Full-colour dust-jackets were introduced on the science fiction list from the mid-1980s adding significantly to production costs, but also to commercial sales - an important consideration with increasing pressure upon the UK's public library system's budgets.

[citation needed] The following titles have been published: In 2011, Gollancz launched the SF Gateway website, an online library that features out-of-print science fiction books republished as e-books.