New Worlds: An Anthology by Michael Moorcock

NEW WORLDS was the single most influential sf and creative writing magazine of the post-war years. It published more award winning stories than any other sf publication; it achieved a unique cross-fertilization between sf and mainstream literature; it was the vanguard of the ‘New Wave’ that stood traditional sf on its head in the 1960s; it was banned, it received an Arts Council grant, it became a matter for debate in the House of Commons. In short, New Worlds represented the boldest and most innovative of contemporary imaginative writing.

Here is fiction, criticism and verse by the writers most closely associated with this unique magazine: BRIAN ALDISS, J.G. BALLARD, ВARRINGTON BAYLEY, THOMAS M. DISCH, GEORGE MACBETH, D.M. THOMAS, MICHAEL MOORCOCK, NORMAN SPINRAD and others. With an introduction by its most famous editor, and an invaluable contents checklist of each issue, this collection stands as a definitive anthology of the best and most exciting writing of recent years.

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Gravity by Harvey Jacobs
Concentrate 3 by Michael Butterworth
Dr. Gelabius by Hilary Bailey
Four-colour problem by Barrington Bayley
Running down by M. John Harrison
Eye of the lens by Langdon Jones
Assassination weapon by J.G. Ballard
Heat death of the universe by Pamela Zoline
Valve transcript by Joel Zoss
Tank trapeze by Michael Moorcock
Angouleme by Thomas M. Disch
Scream by Giles Gordon
Masterson and the clerks by John T. Sladek
Multi-value motorway by Brian W. Aldiss
Traveller's rest by David I. Masson
A landscape of shallows by Christopher Finch
Disaster story by Charles Platt
Conversations at Ma Maia Metron by Robert Meadley
No direction home by Norman Spinrad
Mr. Black's poems of innocence by D.M. Thomas
Soft world sequence by George MacBeth
Space hopping with Captain God by John T. Sladek
Scholia, seasoned with crabs, Blish is by John Clute
Sweet analytics by M. John Harrison
A literature of acceptance by James Colvin
Alphabets of unreason by J.G. Ballard
Language mechanisms by Christopher Finch
Languages of science by David Harvey
Circle of the white horse by Francis Arnold