''New Writings in SF 7'' is an
anthology
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of
science fiction
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short stories edited by
John Carnell, the seventh 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 the United Kingdom in January 1966, followed by a paperback edition by
Corgi the same year, and an American paperback edition with different contents by
Bantam Books
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in August 1971.
The United Kingdom edition of the book collects seven novelettes and short stories by various science fiction authors, with a foreword by Carnell. The American edition contains three pieces from the UK version, one from the UK 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 ...
'', and three from the UK edition of ''
New Writings in SF 9
''New Writings in SF 9'' is an anthology of science fiction short stories edited by John Carnell, the ninth 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 (UK edition)
*"Foreword" (
John Carnell)
*"Invader" (
James White)
*"The Man Who Missed the Ferry" (
Douglas R. Mason)
*"The Night of the Seventh Finger" (
Robert Presslie)
*"Six Cubed Plus One" (
John Rankine)
*"Coco-Talk" (
William F. Temple
William Frederick Temple (9 March 1914 – 15 July 1989) was a British science fiction writer, best known for authoring the novel-turned-film '' Four Sided Triangle''.
Early life and career
Temple was born in Woolwich in 1914.Mike Ashley, "Intr ...
)
*"A Touch of Immortality" (
R. W. Mackelworth
Ronald Walter Mackelworth (7 April 193015 January 2000) was an English science fiction
Science fiction (sometimes shortened to Sci-Fi or SF) is a genre of speculative fiction which typically deals with imaginative and futuristic concepts ...
)
*"Manscarer" (
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 ...
)
Contents (US edition)
*"Foreword" (
John Carnell)
*"The Pen and the Dark" (
Colin Kapp - from UK 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 ...
''
*"Gifts of the Gods" (
Arthur Sellings
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) - from UK edition of ''
New Writings in SF 9
''New Writings in SF 9'' is an anthology of science fiction short stories edited by John Carnell, the ninth 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 ...
''
*"The Long Memory" (
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 ...
) - from UK edition of ''
New Writings in SF 9
''New Writings in SF 9'' is an anthology of science fiction short stories edited by John Carnell, the ninth 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 ...
''
*"The Man Who Missed the Ferry" (
Douglas R. Mason) - from UK edition
*"The Night of the Seventh Finger" (
Robert Presslie) - from UK edition
*"Six Cubed Plus One" (
John Rankine) - from UK edition
*"Defense Mechanism" (
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 ...
) - from UK edition of ''
New Writings in SF 9
''New Writings in SF 9'' is an anthology of science fiction short stories edited by John Carnell, the ninth 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 ...
''
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