Posts Tagged ‘New Worlds’

Library Additions: Two PBOs

Monday, October 9th, 2023

I guess that technically one of these is a magazine, but it looks and feel just like a paperback.

  • Brunner, John. The Traveler in Black. Ace, 1971. First edition paperback original (no statement of printing and 75¢ as per Currey), a Fine- copy with slight wear at points and a drop of discoloration to bottom page block at heel, otherwise a very nice copy. Celebrated fix-up of linked stories. Currey, page 74. De Bolt, The Happening Worlds of John Brunner, page 57.

  • Moorcock, Michael, editor (John Brunner, Roger Zelazny, J. G. Ballard, etc.). New Worlds March 1966, Vol. 49, No. 160. Compact SF, 1966. First edition magazine in the form of a paperback original, a Near Fine copy with slight glue ridging to spine, slight wear at points, a faint, thin line of abrasion down rear cover near outer edge, and a few touches of general wear. Right in the middle of Moorcock’s acclaimed run as editor of New Worlds when it became the epicenter of the New Wave, with a murder’s row of writers in this issue. The Zelazny is the first appearance of the classic “For a Breath I Tarry” (Levack, Stories 69a), and both this and the above came from the last purchase of books from Bob Pylant’s Zelazny collection.

    • I have cover scans, but for some reason BlueHost isn’t letting me upload pics right now, so you’ll have to wait to see them…

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    Library Addition: Signed Limited Edition of New Worlds #1

    Thursday, June 16th, 2022

    I should point out that this is the new, new, new, new, new incarnation of New Worlds, this time as a hardback anthology series.

    Gevers, Nick, and Peter Crowther, editors. New Worlds Issue #1. PS Publishing, 2021 (i.e., 2022). First edition hardback, #49 of 200 copies, a Fine copy in decorated boards and a Fine dust jacket, and a Fine embossed slipcase. Latest resurrection of this venerable UK fiction title, most famous for Michael Moorcock’s New Wave editorship in the 1960s, and Moorcock contributes a story (and signature) here, as do Alan Moore, Michael Swanwick, Ken MacLeod, James Lovegrove, Ian Watson, Ian R. MacLeod, etc. The trade paperback version came out last year, but this hardback edition is already out of print. Bought from the publisher at the usual discount.

    I will have two copies of this to sell in the next Lame Excuse Books catalog (currently in progress).

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    Moorcock, Moorcock, Moorcock, Eggs, Moorcock and Spam

    Thursday, February 10th, 2022

    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…

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