''New Writings in SF 15'' is an
anthology
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of
science fiction
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short stories edited by
John Carnell, the fifteenth volume in a series of thirty, of which he edited the first twenty-one. It was first published in hardcover 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 1969, followed by a paperback edition issued under the slightly variant title ''New Writings in SF-15'' by
Corgi the same year.
The book collects six novelettes and short stories by various science fiction authors, with a foreword by Carnell. The third and fourth stories were later reprinted in the American edition of ''
New Writings in SF 9''.
Contents
*"Foreword" (
John Carnell)
*"Report from Linelos" (
Vincent King
Rex Thomas Vinson (October 22, 1935 – May 2000) was an English art teacher, artist and science fiction author active in writing in the late 1960s and early 1970s, who wrote under the pen name of Vincent King.
Writing career
King's novels were p ...
)
*"The Interrogator" (
Christopher Priest)
*"When I Have Passed Away" (
Joseph Green)
*"Symbiote" (
Michael G. Coney
Michael Greatrex Coney (28 September 1932 - 4 November 2005) was a British science fiction writer, best known for his novel ''Hello Summer, Goodbye.''
Life
Coney was born in Birmingham, England, on 28 September 1932. As an adult, he worked as ...
)
*"The Trial" (
Arthur Sellings)
*"Therapy 2000" (
Keith Roberts
Keith John Kingston Roberts (20 September 1935 – 5 October 2000) was an English science fiction author. He began publishing with two stories in the September 1964 issue of ''Science Fantasy'' magazine, "Anita" (the first of a series of stor ...
)
External links
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1969 anthologies
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