New Worlds (magazine)

New Worlds was a British science fiction magazine, published in 222 editions from 1946 to 1997. From the mid- 1960s, the magazine was an important platform for the authors of the New Wave.

History

New Worlds evolved from an existing since 1936 fanzine called Nova Terrae, which was renamed under the editor John Carnell, 1939 in New Worlds. The first professional edition appeared under Carnells editorship in 1946 when Pendulum Publications. The magazine was published in the early years of irregular, from the number 22 in the April 1954 monthly. Among the writers of this period include, among others, Arthur C. Clarke, John Wyndham and James White, whose orbit -hospital series found its beginning in New Worlds.

As of May appeared in 1964 New Worlds in a new publisher and a new editor. Michael Moorcock was in the first edition which he was responsible in the essay A New Literature for the Space Age, the new direction of the magazine before. With reference to William S. Burroughs, Moorcock called for a more experimental literature regarding the form and content and science fiction, which is important for your own life and the time of the reader. In New Worlds published authors have included Brian Aldiss, James Graham Ballard, John Brunner and from the United States Samuel R. Delany, Thomas M. Disch and Norman Spinrad. Also Moorcock's Jerry Cornelius own figure came into the world in the magazine. Towards the end of the 1960s became New Worlds, which had been temporarily supported by the Arts Council of Great Britain, in financial difficulties. The last issue ( number 200) was released in April 1970. Afterwards published in March 1971in irregular intervals with various publishers until 1979, 16 more editions and six last of 1991 until 1997.

New Worlds and the New Wave

The magazine is inseparable from the New Wave in science fiction. connected. Moorcock encouraged authors on both sides of the Atlantic, something different, something new to wagen.Viele important writers of this movement wrote stories for New Worlds. Apart from the above Barrington J. Bayley also, Philip José Farmer, John Sladek and Pamela Zoline. The first publication of Norman Spinrads controversial novel Bug Jack Barron in New Worlds led because of its obscene language and political cynicism to a debate in the House. about the meaning of state support through the Arts Council of Great Britain.