''New Writings in SF 11'' is an
anthology
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of
science fiction
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short stories edited by
John Carnell, the eleventh volume in a series of thirty, of which he edited the first twenty-one. It was first published in paperback by
Corgi in 1967, followed by a hardcover edition by
Dennis Dobson
Dennis Dobson (1919 – 1978)Lewis Foreman, Susan Foreman''London: A Musical Gazetteer'' Yale University Press, 2005, p. 327. was a British book publisher who was the eponymous founder of a small but respected company in London.
Background
Set up ...
in 1968. This marked a reversal of the usual publication sequence, in which the Corgi paperback followed an initial hardcover from Dobson.
The book collects nine novelettes and short stories by various science fiction authors, with a foreword by Carnell. The first, third and eighth stories were later reprinted in the American edition of ''
New Writings in SF 8
''New Writings in SF 8'' is an anthology of science fiction short stories edited by John Carnell, the eighth volume in a series of thirty, of which he edited the first twenty-one. It was first published in hardcover by Dennis Dobson in the United K ...
''.
Contents
*"Foreword" (
John Carnell)
*"The Wall to End the World" (
Vincent King
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Writing career
King's novels were p ...
)
*"Catharsis" (
John Rackham)
*"Shock Treatment" (
Lee Harding
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Career Bedrock
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)
*"Bright Are the Stars That Shine, Dark Is the Sky" (
Dennis Etchison)
*"There Was This Fella..." (
Douglas R. Mason)
*"For What Purpose?" (W. T. Webb)
*"Flight of a Plastic Bee" (
John Rankine)
*"Dead to the World" (
H. A. Hargreaves)
*"The Helmet of Hades" (
Jack Wodhams
Jack Wodhams (1931 – 2017) was an English-born science fiction writer who lived in Australia from 1955 until his death. He also wrote as Trudy Rose and Caroline Edwards. Wodhams was born on 3 September 1931 in Dagenham, London and died on 3 Au ...
)
External links
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1967 anthologies
11
Corgi books
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