‘New Worlds Quarterly’

New Worlds Quarterly

(Also known as New Worlds Vol. 55 No. 202)
London:  Sphere, 1971 (June*) mass-sized paperback;
as New Worlds 1: The Science Fiction Quarterly on cover, and New Worlds 1 on spine;
edited and introduced by Michael Moorcock;
original price:  25p;
175 pages;
I.S.B.N.:  none  (code:  62081);
cover artist:  unknown;
illustrated by Richard Glyn Jones, Mal Dean, Mervyn Peake, Keith Roberts & Brian Vickers;
no hardcover edition.

(* Planned [and sometimes cited] as simultaneous with American edition — see below — in September 1971, but believed possibly not to have been.)

An anthology of short fiction & non-fiction (both new and previously published) serving as a full, original issue of New Worlds, the seminal speculative fiction magazine which Moorcock edited for many years and with which he remains closely associated.

Contents (first edition):-
p. 9: Introduction (non-fiction) by Michael Moorcock;
p. 13: ‘Angouleme’ by Thomas M. Disch;
p. 31: ‘Prisoners Of Paradise’ by David Redd (from N.W. No. 167);
p. 39: ‘Journey Across A Crater’ by J.G. Ballard (from N.W. No. 198);
p. 50: ‘The Lamia And Lord Cromis’ by M. John Harrison;
p. 70: ‘Pemberly’s Start-Afresh Calliope; or, The New Proteus’ (as ‘Pemberly’s Start-Afresh Calliope’ only, on contents page) by John Sladek;
p. 78 (as 79 on contents page): ‘The God House’ by Keith Roberts;
p. 114: ‘The Day We Embarked For Cythera’ by Brian W. Aldiss;
p. 123: ‘The Short, Happy Wife Of Mansard Eliot’ by Sladek;
p. 130: ‘A Place And A Time To Die’ by Ballard (from N.W. No. 194);
p. 139: ‘Exit From City 5’ by Barrington Bayley (as B.J. Bayley on contents page);
p. 166: ‘A Literature Of Comfort’ (non-fiction) by Harrison;
p. 173: ‘The Authors’ (non-fiction, uncredited, presumably Moorcock);
p. 175: ‘New Worlds Back Issues’ (non-fiction, uncredited, presumably Moorcock).

Contents (American edition):-
p. 5: Introduction (non-fiction) by Michael Moorcock;
p. 8: ‘Angouleme’ by Thomas M. Disch;
p. 28: ‘Journey Across A Crater’ by J.G. Ballard;
p. 40: ‘The Lamia And Lord Cromis’ by M. John Harrison;
p. 63: ‘The Day We Embarked For Cythera’ by Brian W. Aldiss;
p. 73: ‘Pemberly’s Start-Afresh Calliope; or, The New Proteus’ by John Sladek;
p. 83: ‘The God House’ by Keith Roberts;
p. 124 : ‘Prisoners Of Paradise’ by David Redd;
p. 133: ‘The Short, Happy Wife Of Mansard Eliot’ by Sladek;
p. 141: ‘A Place And A Time To Die’ by Ballard;
p. 151: ‘Exit From City 5’ by Barrington Bayley;
p. 166: ‘A Literature Of Comfort’ (as ‘Essay: A Literature Of Comfort’ on contents page) (non-fiction) by Harrison;
p. 191: ‘The Authors’ (non-fiction, uncredited, presumably Moorcock).

(Followed by New Worlds Quarterly 2)