Latest Updates - John Carnell

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Comment by ppint.:

*nods* - so it was a bit rich for one of the "new worlds gang" to put down "traditional" sf as old-fashioned & boring, when you consider that, the odd arts council grant aside, the primary finance of new worlds post- roberts & vinter were the advances michael moorcock received from granada publishing, allison & busby and the like for his interminable° trilogies of trilogies piled ever higher and higher, until they toppled willy-nilly into an inconsistent, incoherent multiverse. . .

° - but commercially successful - the granada publishing mayflower, then granada, later grafton (and eventually harpercollinspublishers) & namara group quartet books uk p/bs and the berkley publishing group & lancer books mmpbs are still around on secondhand bookstalls and in charity shops...

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Comment by David Whiteley:

The review in New Worlds SF was by James Cawthorn.

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Comment by ppint.:

it'd be worth noting by whom the review published in new worlds was written:
the magazine was by then a flag-waver for "the new wave" and for "speculative fiction", and rather prone to get very sniffy about perfectly good "traditional" sf that did not adhere to their - somewhat ironically - rather narrow definitions of what "speculative fiction" was, or ought to be - or, was simply written by the "wrong (/wrong kind of) writers".

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Comment by ppint.:

dennis dobson h/cvr first printing, first edition (as scheduled: possibly preceded by corgi books p/b)

original anthology of two short stories, three novelelettes and a novella, introduction by john carnell

cover (d-j) art none: typographical in black on dennis dobson's long-time uniform two-colour "new writings in sf" design by eric ayers (credited on d-j front flap)
cover price 21/-
192pp. (check) including titles, indicia, table-of-contents etc, bound with endpapers between cloth-covered boards

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Comment by ppint.:

6/1969 was presumably the month in which dennis dobson first advertised this original anthology would be published° - but the copyright date of 1970 does seem pretty conclusive, doesn't it - ?

° - traditionally, publishers advertised their new titles lists seasonally; this may've started off as a direct consequence of the link between the ecclesiastical and law terms, and a considerable proportion of early book publishing's catering to these two of the three oldest professions.

by nineteen-sixties & seventies, this had long since settled down into a spring and an autumn list, with titles having their scheduled month of publication noted, where this had been decided upon (plus a dedicated christmas list from those publishers as indulged themselves in such).
so titles might commonly be announced up to six months before their provisionally scheduled publication date - and then other factors might intrude, including matters from the real world™. . .

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Comment by ppint.:

contents:

foreword (nf) john carnell
getaway from getawehi (novella) colin kapp (an unorthodox engineers story)
all done by mirrors (short story) douglas r. mason
throwback (ss) sydney j. bounds
the perihelion man (novelelette) christopher priest
R26/5/PSY and i (ntte) michael g. coney
meatball (ntte) james white (a sector general story)

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Comment by David Whiteley:

Added cover and some page images, plus, a review by James Cawthorn from New Worlds SF magazine, #200 April 1970.

The copyright page shows a 1970 publication date and the New World review is from the April 1970 edition.

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Comment by ppint.:

bantam books mmpb first printing, first edition thus

reprint anthology of six short stories and three novelettes

cover art by david mccall johnston (signed)
cover price 75¢
192pp. (check) including titles, indicia etc, end p. advertising

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Comment by ppint.:

thanks, jimess.

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Comment by JimEss SUBS:

Covers added.