‘SF Reprise 1’

SF Reprise 1

London:  Compact Books, circa 1966 mass-sized paperback;
sub-titled “First-rate Science Fiction originally published in NEW WORLDS MAGAZINE” on title page;
‘edited’ by Michael Moorcock;
original price:  5/-;
232 pages (see below);
I.S.B.N.:  none (code: H323);
cover artist:  unknown;
illustrated by James Cawthorn, Maeve Gilmore & Arthur Thomson;
no other edition.

Not a book edited by Michael Moorcock, as such, this was in fact a cynically cobbled-together ‘anthology’ of short (mostly) fiction from two issues of New Worlds, the seminal speculative fiction magazine which Moorcock edited for many years and with which he remains closely associated.

Contents:-
(N.B. The book is split into two parts, each separately paginated; there is no page 1 or 2 in either part.)
p. 3: title page;
p. 4: “Index: part 1” (all from New Worlds No. 144);
p. 5: ‘The Shores Of Death’ (“First Of Two Parts”) by Moorcock;
p. 50: ‘Private Shape’ by Sydney J. Bounds;
p. 55: ‘Integrity’ by P.F. Woods (a.k.a. Barrington J. Bayley);
p. 69: ‘I Remember, Anita…’  by Langdon Jones;
p. 81: ‘Andromeda’ by Clifford C. Reed;
p. 107–118: ‘New Experience’ by E.C. Tubb;
p. 3: “Index: part 2” (all from N.W. No. 145);
p. 4: blank page;
p. 5: ‘The Shores Of Death’ (“Conclusion”);
p. 52: ‘Mix-up’ by George Collyn;
p. 64: ‘Gamma Positive’ by Ernest Hill;
p. 78: ‘Some Will Be Saved’ by Colin R. Fry;
p. 86: ‘The Patch’ by Peter Woods (a.k.a. Bayley);
p. 111: ‘Greybeard by Brian Aldiss’ (non-fiction [p]review, uncredited, presumably Moorcock);
p. 112–118: ‘Emissary’ by John Hamilton.

(Followed by SF Reprise 2)