"Intoduction and Foreword by Poul Anderson" - читать интересную книгу автора (Nebula Awards)

Harrison, book reviews came to be handled by such as Fritz
Leiber and James Blish; the anthropologist Leon Stover began
a series of regular reports from the frontiers of his science;
and besides old hands, we got extremely promising recruits
like Robert Taylor and James Tiptree, Jr. When Barry
Malzberg took command, he proved especially sympathetic
to experimental writing: which is not the same thing as
amateurish writing.
But Frederik Pohl was unquestionably the innovator of the
year. He was not content with good solid periodicals like
Galaxywhich regularly includes articles by Willy Leyand
//which has thrice in a row taken the annual Hugo Award
for best magazine, bestowed through vote of fans rather than
writers. He also launched two new, at present irregular,
publications. One is called Worlds of Fantasy and is devoted
to precisely what the title implies. If you don't like space-
ships but do like Tolkien or Lovecraft, this is probably for
you. The other is International Science Fiction, featuring
stories from places as remote as Japan and the Soviet Union.
I hope both of these will become firmly established. Everyone
would benefit.
When he ran the two head-on Vietnam declarations, Fred
PoM and his publisher did not go out and spend the five
hundred dollars they had collected. Instead, they announced
that it would be paid out in prizes for the best ideas they
received on what the United States might actually do about
the situation. Response was large and imaginative. After win-
nowing, it was turned over to a professional study group
which in turn may well call some of the suggestions to the
attention of the government. Again, this does not mean that
science fictioneers can bail out the human race. But it does
mean that, far from being escapists, they are uncommonly
aware of and concerned about reality.
In addition, Galaxy Publishing Corporation instituted its
own awards, cash, for the best stories it has printed within
a year. These are determined by a poll of subscribers, em-
ploying standard statistical methods of sampling and valida-
tion. It is interesting that none of the winners (first was
Clifford Simak's novel Goblin Reservation) made the final
Nebula ballot. I suspect this indicates not so much a failure
of either system as it does the diversity of science fiction.
In fact, the range is so very healthily wide that what's
going on in Britain today is often too much for me, even
though I consider myself to have catholic tastes. Rather than
scold what I seldom understand, I asked one of that country's
most distinguished writers in our field to comment on it.
Ladies and gentlemen, Brian Aldiss:
"New Worlds: totters from strength to strength. The appear-
ance of every issue is a triumph of hope over economics; the
persistence of the editor, Michael Moorcock, who is now