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New Writings in SF2

John Carnell

First published 1966
Publisher Bantam Books
Format Paperback
Type Anthology
Catalog ID F3379
Pages [8]+150
Price $0.50


Dated U.S.A. 1st printing of this 1966 edition. Title page:

  • "New Writings in [over] SF2 [over] edited by John Carnell"
  • Bantam colophon.
Copyright page:
  • "New Writings in SF2"
  • "A Bantam Book"
  • "Printing History"
  • "Originally published in Great Britain [over] by Dobson Books, Ltd., 1964"
  • "Corgi edition published 1965"
  • "Bantam edition published October 1966"
  • " "Hell-Planet": Copyright © 1964 by John Rackham. "The Night- [over] Flame": Copyright © 1964 by Colin Kapp. "The Creators": Copy- [over] right © 1964 by Joseph Green. "Rogue Leonardo": Copyright © [over] 1964 by G. L. Lack. "Maiden Voyage": Copyright © 1964 by John [over] Rankine. "Odd Boy Out": Copyright © 1961 by Bruce Royal Pub- [over] lishing Corp., Connecticut, U.S.A., for ESCAPADE magazine; re- [over] printed by permission of the author. "The Eternal Machines": [over] Copyright © 1964 by William Spencer. "A Round Billiard Table": [over] Copyright © 1964 by Steve Hall."
  • "Copyright © 1964 by John Carnell."
  • "Published simultaneously in the United States and Canada"
  • "Bantam Books are published by Bantam Books, Inc., a subsidiary [over] of Grosset & Dunlap, Inc. [...] Bantam Books, Inc., 271 Madison Avenue, New York, N.Y. 10016."
  • "Printed in the United States of America"
  • No number line.
Front cover:
  • "F3379 * 50c * A Bantam Fifty"
  • No signatures on the artwork.
Spine:
  • "F3379 [over] 9 [over] 50c" (9 being the last digit of the catalogue #, not a series number)
  • "New Writings in SF2"
Back cover: First numbered page is page 1. ToC, on unnumbered page [5], states the page numbers which are the titling, one-paragraph editorial introduction, and start of each story. Whereas the Foreword pages are unnumbered, ToC states start as page vii, being a count from the very first page of the book. Foreword is titled "foreword", and is signed, on page [8], "John Carnell [over] August 1964". Last story finishes on the last numbered page, 150. Gloss cover.

Page Title Author(s) Type
1 Hell-Planet John Rackham Novelette
52 The Night-Flame Colin Kapp Short Story
69 The Creators Joseph Green Short Story
83 Rogue Leonardo G. L. Lack Short Story
93 Maiden Voyage John Rankine Novelette
118 Odd Boy Out Dennis Etchison Short Story
129 The Eternal Machines William Spencer Short Story
143 A Round Billiard Table Steve Hall Short Story
[7]|0.1 Foreword (New Writings in SF2) John Carnell Essay

Title Year Publisher Format Type Catalog ID Cover Artist Pages
New Writings in SF2 Cover 1966 Bantam Books Paperback Anthology F3379 [8]+150