THE BEST FROM NEW WORLDS SCIENCE FICTION. London, New York: T. V. Boardman & Company, Ltd, [1955]. Octavo, pictorial wrappers. First edition. Boardman Books 163. The second anthology edited by Carnell, who was also editor of the British magazine from which these stories were selected. Eight stories plus a short foreword by Carnell and an amusing five-page introduction by John Wyndham, who was closely associated with the magazine, which Carnell took over in 1946. "His [Carnell's] contribution to UK SF was enormous. For over a quarter of a century he was an early and often first publisher of an entire generation of UK and Irish SF writers. Although his own preference was for conservative Hard SF and SF adventure -- he published a lot of it by writers such as John Christopher and later Kenneth Bulmer and E C Tubb -- he also gave active encouragement to many of the writers who were later to become strongly associated with Michael Moorcock's NEW WORLDS, writers of the New Wave including Brian W. Aldiss, J. G. Ballard, John Brunner and Moorcock himself, whose succession to the editorship of NEW WORLDS Carnell supported." - SFE (online). Reginald 02588. A clean, very good copy. (#146599).
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"First published in Great Britain 1955" on copyright page.