New Writings in SF-24

Sprache: Englisch

Verlag: Corgi Books - Transworld Publishers Ltd., London, 1975

0552098515 / 9780552098519

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Light Creasing on Front Cover, Spine; Front, Rear Covers, Spine Lightly Chipped; Edges Moderately Soiled; Slight Yellowing Due to Age. CONTENTS: The Ark of James Carlyle - Cherry Wilder; And When I Die - Peter Linnett; Three Enigmas: III. All in God's Mind - Brian W. Aldiss; A Strange and Terrible Sea - Donald Malcolm; New Canute - Martin I. Ricketts; No Certain Armour - John Kippax; Now Hear the Word - David S. Garnett. SYNOPSIS: NEW WRITINGS IN SF featuring stories by Brian W. Aldiss, David S. Garnett, Martin Ricketts, Peter Linnett, Cherry Wilder, John Kippax and Donald Malcolm. NEW WRITINGS IN SF brings to lovers of science fiction, strange exciting stories - stories written specially for the series by international authors. NEW WRITINGS IN SF is now one of the most popular and well-established series in science fiction and presents a stimulating and energetic approach to modern SF. In The Ark of James Carlyle, Cherry Wilder depicts an island populated by quogs. These small creatures, not unlike baboons, wept when their mee-haw tree was cut down. But Carlyle evacuated them before their island submerged beneath the flood. And between Carlyle and the quogs there grew a strange affinity. A Strange and Terrible Sea is the story of ten-year-old Sammy, who was partially paralysed: the result of a blow struck by his father in a drunken rage. Sammy read a lot of books on astronomy, and sf - but could this account for the weird repetitive dream he had each night? When he was put under observation in the Dream Research Establishment, it seemed that someone - or something - was trying to enter his mind. Was Bamfield-Taylor trying to be the New Canute? He was no tourist, visiting the Time-currents of Cirene merely to relish a taste of "Time-terror". His request to be taken back to a specific minute in time worried the skipper of the Time-boat in which Bamfield-Taylor was an out-of-season passenger. David S. Garnett's Now Hear the Word brings horribly alive the resort of Sunville-a place of sanctuary for the rich and the old - while the rest of the world went to hell. Howard Felix, the Sunville reporter, tampered with his newscasts out of boredom. But the events he foretold had a disturbing way of coming true. Size: 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall.…

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Titel
New Writings in SF-24
Autor
Bulmer, Kenneth (edited by)
Verlag
Corgi Books - Transworld Publishers Ltd., London
Erscheinungsjahr
1975
Zustand
Good
Einband
Mass Market Paperback
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN-10
0552098515
ISBN-13
9780552098519
Auflage
First Thus.
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