In a Facebook group I’m on, someone started listing the contents of Moorcock-edited issues of New Worlds SF, the science fiction magazine he edited in the 1960s (and various later incarnations). One of these was the November 1965 issue (Vol. 49, No.156), which not only includes a Moorcock essay, Part 1 of a serialized novel, The Wrecks of Time by James Colvin (which was a pen name for Moorcock), and no less than eleven book reviews by “Colvin,” which lead me to pen the following:
Woman: What’s in this New Worlds?
Waitress: Moorcock, Bailey, Moorcock, Platt, Jones, Moorcock and spam.
Woman: Do you have any New Worlds with less Moorcock?
Man: Oh, I love Moorcock! I’m having the New Worlds with Moorcock, Moorcock, Moorcock, Cawthorn, Moorcock, Moorcock, Bailey, Moorcock, Moorcock, Moorcock, Jones, Moorcock and spam!
Having edited Nova Express, I know well the “Hey, looks like I’ve got to fill out the rest of this issue myself!” feeling. That’s a sign you need to find more suckers contributors…