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also publisher, is perhaps a triumph over himself.
"New Worlds is no longer a magazine but a cause: thrown
away the magazine, kept the courage. The November 1968
issue contained only stories by new authorsthey were being
given a chance to speak before the magazine sank forever.
In December, the magazine bobbed up again, with stories by
such Nebula winners as.Delany, Moorcock, and Aldiss. Disch
and Bill Butler were also present, and there was an article on
Andy Warhol. So the vessel still floats, despite severe trouble
with distributors during the year, when Spinrad's Bug Jack
Barron was running. Of course, a hefty Arts Council grant
(now extended into 1969) helps buoyancy.
"Subject matter in the stories is sometimes thin, inexpertise
sometimes shows below the wish to set convention at nought;
but what matters most is the attitude of questioning: the good
hard look at what is going on, the wish to interpret without
falsifying.
"English science fiction has never been too greatly sub-
jected to the enervating pressures of pulp markets. Moorcock's
New Worlds merely uses its liberty to the full; it's for writers
and not for publishers (under either system, readers, as
readers must, fend for themselves). Writers respond to this
policy by writing freelyand sometimes for free, if necessary.
This dedication finds an echo in the staff, and more than an
echo in the editor himself. Moorcock, as he ascends into
legend, begins to look like a Gerald Scarfe portrait of the
French philosopher Rene Descartes.
"Many of Moorcock's contributors are AmericanZeiazny,
Disch, Sladek, Spinrad, Leiber, Zoline, Jacobs, et al. The
typical New Worlds story is pretty cool, has connections with
the attitudes of the 'underground,' and shares little in com-
mon with the American New Wave, which is characterized
by heavier breathing. It is against nothing but mediocrity:
which is why it has aroused so much anger here and there."
I take special pleasure in having Brian's remarks because
one of my great regrets in editing this book was that there
turned out to be no way of including his novelette Total
Environment. Look for it elsewhere, together with the other
fine runners-up. If 1968 had more than its share of catastro-
phes, it also had some very special gloriesamong them the
return of the Pueblo crew, Apollo 8's Christmas journey
around the moon . . . and, not altogether bathos in the
present context, a great deal of first-class science fiction.
Pout Anderson
FOREWORD

The Science Fiction Novel in 1968
by Willis E. McNelly
Professor of English, California State College, Fullerton
The Wandering Jew is alive and an activist in Berkeley.