''New Writings in SF 2'' is an
anthology
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of
science fiction
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short stories edited by
John Carnell
Edward John Carnell (8 April 1912 – 23 March 1972) was a British science fiction editor known for editing ''New Worlds'' in 1946 then from 1949 to 1963. He also edited ''Science Fantasy'' from the 1950s. After the magazines were sold to anothe ...
, the second 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 1964, followed by a paperback edition under the slightly variant title ''New Writings in S.F.-2'' by
Corgi
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in 1965, and an American paperback edition by
Bantam Books
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in October 1966. Selections from this volume, together with others from volumes 1 and 3-4 of the series, were later included in ''The Best from New Writings in SF'', issued by Dobson in 1971 and Corgi in 1972.
The book collects eight novelettes and short stories by various science fiction authors, with a foreword by Carnell.
Contents
*"Foreword" (
John Carnell
Edward John Carnell (8 April 1912 – 23 March 1972) was a British science fiction editor known for editing ''New Worlds'' in 1946 then from 1949 to 1963. He also edited ''Science Fantasy'' from the 1950s. After the magazines were sold to anothe ...
)
*"Hell-Planet" (
John Rackham)
*"The Night-Flame" (
Colin Kapp
Derek Ivor Colin Kapp (3 April 1928["C Kapp birth record ...](_blank)
)
*"The Creators" (
Joseph Green)
*"Rogue Leonardo" (
G. L. Lack)
*"Maiden Voyage" (
John Rankine
John Rankine (born Douglas Rankine Mason; 26 September 1918 – 8 August 2013) was a British science fiction author, who wrote books as John Rankine and Douglas R. Mason. Rankine was born in Hawarden, Flintshire, Wales and first attended Ch ...
)
*"Odd Boy Out" (
Dennis Etchison
Dennis William Etchison (March 30, 1943 – May 29, 2019) was an American writer and editor of fantasy and horror fiction. )
*"The Eternal Machines" (
William Browning Spencer
William Browning Spencer (born 1946) is an American novelist and short story writer living in Austin, Texas. His science fiction and horror (genre), horror stories are often darkly and surrealistically humorous.
Awards and honors
His novel ''RÃ ...
)
*"A Round Billiard Table" (
Steve Hall)
External links
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1964 anthologies
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