New Worlds (Paperback) edited by Nick Gevers & Peter Crowther (DINK)

AN ANTHOLOGY edited by Nick Gever & Peter Crowther
CATEGORY SF
PUBLICATION DATE August 2021
COVER ART
INTRODUCTION Mike Ashley
PAGES 360
ISBN 978-1-786367-22-8

EDITION
Trade Paperback

ABOUT THE BOOK

In the 1960s & 1970s, New Worlds magazine, edited by Michael Moorcock, became famous for its avant garde approach to SF, energising the genres New Wave with exciting innovations in style, content, & presentation. Here J G Ballard & Brian Aldiss shared pages with Samuel R Delany & Norman Spinrad, Pamela Zoline with M John Harrison, Charles Platt with Harlan Ellison. Hilary Bailey with Thomas M. Disch.

Now PS Publishing, with the enthusiastic endorsement & participation of Moorcock himself, presents the first in a revived New Worlds anthology series. Award-winning co-editors Peter Crowther & Nick Gevers have gathered brilliant new stories by the finest short fiction writers in SF. A sampling:

• Continuing his topical yet timeless Jerry Cornelius sequence begun during the heyday of New Worlds, Michael Moorcock delineates The Wokingham Agreement.
• Alan Moore, titan of the graphic novel, artfully explores surprising & hilarious events immediately after the Bing Bang in The Improbably Complex High-Energy State.
• Gwyneth Jones ventures to the outer solar system & probes the perils of posthumanity in The Ploughshare & the Storm.
• Ken MacLeod explores the subtle dangers of a very wired future Europe in Cold Revolution Blues.
• Margo Lanagan brings her cunning sidewise sensibility to another England in Tell-Tale Tit.
• Michael Swanwick slyly & movingly contemplates combat-machine fetishism in The White Leopard.

Add tales by Ian R. MacLeod, Lavie Tidhar, Ian Watson, Paul Park, James Lovegrove, M T Hill, Robert Edric, John Grant, a reprint story by Peter Crowther, the first in a series of columns from Steve Aylett, & a knowledgeable Introduction by the noted SF scholar Mike Ashley, & here is New Worlds reborn in all its fabled glory.