''New Writings in SF 25'' is an
anthology
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of
science fiction
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short stories edited by
Kenneth Bulmer
Henry Kenneth Bulmer (14 January 1921 – 16 December 2005) was a British author, primarily of science fiction.
Life
Born in London, he married Pamela Buckmaster on 7 March 1953. They had one son and two daughters, and they divorced in 1981. B ...
, the fourth volume of nine he oversaw in the ''
New Writings in SF
''New Writings in SF'' was a series of thirty British science fiction original anthologies published from 1964 to 1977 under the successive editorships of John Carnell from 1964 to 1972 (the last volume with the aid of Diane Lloyd) and Kenneth Bulm ...
'' series in succession to the series' originator,
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 ...
. It was first published in hardcover by
Sidgwick & Jackson
Sidgwick & Jackson is an imprint of book publishing company Pan Macmillan. Formerly it was an independent publisher; as such it was founded in Britain in 1908. Its notable early authors include poet Rupert Brooke and novelist E.M. Forster. In mor ...
in April 1975, followed by a paperback edition issued by
Corgi
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in 1976.
The book collects nine novelettes and short stories by various science fiction authors, with a foreword by Bulmer.
Contents
*"Foreword" (
Kenneth Bulmer
Henry Kenneth Bulmer (14 January 1921 – 16 December 2005) was a British author, primarily of science fiction.
Life
Born in London, he married Pamela Buckmaster on 7 March 1953. They had one son and two daughters, and they divorced in 1981. B ...
)
*"Rice Brandy" (
Michael Stall)
*"The Cat and the Coin" (
Keith Wells)
*"The Debris of Recent Lives" (
Charles Partington)
*"Talent Spotter" (
Sydney J. Bounds)
*"The Black Hole of Negrav" (
Colin Kapp
Derek Ivor Colin Kapp (3 April 1928["C Kapp birth record ...](_blank)
)
*"A Little More Than Twelve Minutes" (
Wolfgang Jeschke
Wolfgang Jeschke (19 November 1936 – 10 June 2015) was a German science fiction author and editor at Heyne Verlag. In 1987, he won the Harrison Award for international achievements in science fiction.
Biography
Jeschke was born in 1936 in Dě ...
)
*"The Enemy Within" (
Donald Malcolm
Donald Malcolm (1930–2013) was a Scottish author of science fiction and fact who was active as a writer from the mid-1950s until the mid-1970s. Some of his nonfiction was written under the pen name Roy Malcolm.
Career
Malcolm's work was publi ...
)
*"The Halted Village" (
John Rackham)
*"The Green Fuse" (
Martin I. Ricketts)
External links
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1975 anthologies
25
Sidgwick & Jackson books
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