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New Maps of Hell

Kingsley Amis

First published 1960
Publisher Harcourt, Brace & World
Format Hardcover
Type Nonfiction
Cover art Milton Glaser
Pages 161
Price $3.95

Critical essays based on a series of lectures (the Christian Gauss Seminars) given at Princeton. Michael Moorcock, in his announcement of the onset of the New Wave movement in the April 1963 issue of New Worlds, referred to this text stating: "Science fiction has gone to hell and Kingsley Amis is mapping it."


• Artist credited here. • Contents from the Gollancz edition, which has the same page count (primary verifier, please check).

Title Year Publisher Format Type Catalog ID Cover Artist Pages
New Maps of Hell Cover 1961 Ballantine Books Paperback Nonfiction 479K Richard Powers (artist) 141
New Maps of Hell Cover 1961 Gollancz Hardcover Nonfiction 161
New Maps of Hell Cover 1961 Gollancz Hardcover Nonfiction 161
New Maps of Hell Cover 1961 Gollancz Hardcover Nonfiction 161
New Maps of Hell Cover 1962 The Science Fiction Book Club (UK) Hardcover Nonfiction 61 John Griffiths
New Maps of Hell Cover 1963 Four Square Books Paperback Nonfiction 863 141
New Maps of Hell Cover 1969 New English Library Paperback Nonfiction Bruce Pennington 144
New Maps of Hell: A Survey of Science Fiction Cover 1975 Arno Press Hardcover Nonfiction 161
New Maps of Hell Cover 2012 Penguin Books Trade Paperback Nonfiction