Farrar, Straus and Giroux has launched a new science imprint, Quanta Books, in partnership with the Simons Foundation, where the imprint is an editorially independent subsidiary. The mission, the publisher said, is to “publish books that illuminate and elucidate the central questions and fundamental ideas of modern science for readers.”

The imprint is led by publisher Thomas Lin, the founding editor of the Pulitzer Prize–winning Quanta Magazine, and overseen by Jenna Johnson, SVP and editor-in-chief of FSG. Lin leads a team of three, including himself; senior editor Tisse Takagi, previously a literary agent at the Science Factory (now Curious Minds Agency) and an editor for the science lists at Basic Books and Oxford University Press; and editorial assistant Sheena Meng.

A science-focused imprint is new ground for FSG, although the publisher has published works merging the scientific and literary before, including those by Pulitzer Prize–winning nonfiction writer John McPhee. Quanta, Johnson said, aims to “bring together complex thought and these very specific, technical scientific ideas and merge them with people who know how to tell a story, turn a phrase, and construct a book that is interesting on its own terms.”

The imprint is the first to be launched by FSG since AUWA in 2023, and marks its sixth, including the flagship and Picador, its paperback division. Quanta plans to publish three to five titles per year, beginning in spring 2026 with former Quanta senior math editor Kevin Hartnett’s The Proof in the Code, which FSG bills as “the definitive account of the birth and rise of Lean, a computer program developed by Microsoft that is transforming the enterprise of mathematics and ushering in a new era of human–computer collaboration.”

“One of the calling cards for Quanta Magazine is that we respect the intelligence of our readers,” Lin said. “We don't expect people to come in with a ton of science or math background, but at the same time, we're not afraid to write about and report and help make accessible some of our latest technical subjects. At Quanta Books, we'll be publishing trade, popular, literary science books for everyone.”