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Editor:	John Carnell
Title:	New Writings In Sf16
Publisher:	Dennis Dobson
Country:	UK
Date:	1970
Format:	Hardcover
Genre:	Fiction, Science Fiction
Total Editions:	2
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Collection:	I Own It I Want It
Community:	1 Owns
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ppint. 20th Apr 2024		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...



David Whiteley 19th Apr 2024		The review in New Worlds SF was by James Cawthorn.



ppint. 19th Apr 2024		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".



ppint. 19th Apr 2024		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



ppint. 19th Apr 2024		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™. . .



David Whiteley 18th Apr 2024		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.



ppint. 19th Apr 2024		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) (this comment is from another edition of this book)



ppint. 19th Aug 2020		transworld publishers corgi books first printing, first p/b edition (possibly first edition by release date) original anthology of two short stories, three novelelettes and a novella, introduction by john carnell cover art unsigned, uncredited; sfaik still as-yet unattributed with any degree of certainty cover price 4s. (20p), 50c south africa, 65c australia, 65c new zealand 192pp. including titles, indicia, foreword etc, end pp. advertising (check footer final p. for month) (this comment is from another edition of this book)

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John Carnell - New Writings In Sf16 - Corgi Books - Paperback - UK - 0552083615 (1970)