Watching this after my late shift was just what I needed. My head was full of work stuff! I now feel revitalized and inspired again. Many thanks, as always, Steve.
Michael is a gentleman, such a likeable chap, an interview will be very entertaining. Great episode! Thank you for the preview, the art truly inspires a desire to get reading.
Thank you for all you do on your channel. I am glad it's you that gets to show this for the first time. Its well deserved. You have been a catalyst in my reading life with some great recommendations. Cant wait for that interview, Michael Moorcock is my favourite writer. And with your insights and knowledge its going to be great.
Very interesting indeed. A lovely clean layout too. Look forward to it. Interesting to see the Norstrilia Press ad too, they’re back publishing here in Oz after a very long hiatus. World exclusive! Nice one.
This is good news! I have a stack of old American and British paperbacks of Best of New Worlds and New Worlds Quarterly that are overdue for rereading, at least partially, so time to get busy.
Oh crap, you just made me order a copy... I did not have the money for that.. I just had yo have it!!! It looks amazing By the way, thanks for all videos, i realy like them. Keep them coming mate!
So Glad you like the cover . . . and yes, the woman with red hair smoking the gold tipped Balkan Sobranie is indeed Miss Brunner. The B/W internal illustration is called 'A Chocolate Bickie Moment.'
Thanks for this sneak peek! So many writers in here to treasure, be they departed or still around. Looking forward to hearing more from you about Sladek. As someone with an interest in surrealism, I wonder if you've read The Last Days of New Paris by China Mieville?
I've not read anything by China for years, though I have looked at that one several times. Who knows, it may happen yet. Hope to get a Sladek video up before too long, need to do some rereading.
Serendipity seeing Clute’s book about missing jackets at British Library. On order. I’m interested in tracking down if any of the UK legal deposit libraries hold any of the jackets for a particular publisher. ChatGPT thinks not but the V&A museum holds some BL examples they deemed interesting and other libraries retained some jackets too. But it does seem an act of vandalism not to have kept them all.
It was standard to throw away DJs until at least the 1940s, which has always made collecting early Modern Firsts a nightmare (luckily I stick to 1970s-early 1990s). The Clute book apparently covers around 15 surviving jackets. Shocking, right? Thanks for your comment and sterling support, Simon, you are one of my heroes!!!!!
Thanks for putting this up. I can remember coming across New Worlds in our local library van one hot summer when I was at junior school and much too young to read it. I knew about the influence of surrealism and modernist, experimental literature in the magazine but not about the inclusion of illustrations. But it explains the weird diagrams and even musical notation in Bester's Golem 100, his last and very 'New Wave' book.
Bester was doing this kind of thing before the New Wave, which is why he- more than anyone from Genre SF before New Worlds- is seen as the Godfather of New Wave and Cyberpunk. He was a well read man and borrowed these ideas from Concrete Poetry and experimental 19th century novels. Moorcock et all picked these ideas up and ran with them. Watch my review of Bester's 'The Dark Side of the Earth' on the channekl, in which I explain why his story "The Pi Man" is seminal to New Wave.
First of all, any author published this century is 'Contemporary', not 'Modern', as in cultural terms 'Modern' ended in the 1980s- this may sound pedantic, as people (mis)use 'Modern' all the time for 'contemporary', but it's an important distinction. Would suggest watching some of my videos on Hauntology & SF etc. Beyond that, I'd struggle to pick just one. I posted a video last week highlight 10 of the books I've read this century that most inspired me, but some are from the 20th. Gibson, M John Harrison, Christopher Priest, Tom McCarthy loom large, but there is no one writer I'd pick- except maybe Ballard and he's been dead for 16 years....
Just a quick note on the cover artist. Mark Reeve has collaborated with Moorcock before in the ‘Michael Moorcock’s Multiverse’ 12-issue maxi-series from Helix/DC. There’s three stories per issue: Moonbeams and Roses (which I seem to recall features the characters from ‘Blood’, drawn by Walt Simononson), The Metatemporal Detective (Sir Seaton Begg, this was the one drawn by Reeve) and Duke Elric (‘nuff said, true believer! Drawn by John Ridgeway). In true Multiverse fashion, it’s all connected!! Wight Heat, Commandante!
Thanks for that, Tim! Great to have 'The Good Doctor' of Comics Knowledge onside as ever! Incidentally, they had quite a few original comic pages on show at the Pompidou Centre last week - a Corto Maltese full-blown special exhibit, Chris Ware stuff and STUNNING Will Eisner pages.
@@outlawbookselleroriginal Can’t beat a bit of Corto Maltese! Just with they’d keep it in print in English. The last editions that were printed are mega expensive these days. Chris Ware is a true original of the modern age. ‘Jimmy Corrigan’ is a heartbreaking masterpiece! As for Eisner, what more needs to be said! It’s a real shame that France, and indeed most of continental Europe have seen comics as a genuine art form for a lot longer than the UK and US.
@@timcoombs2780 The Eisner stuff blew me away. The first I ever heard of CM was in the oblique dialogue references in 'Watchmen'. They had CM t-shirts at the Pomp.
I've covered JC a little in my New Wave UK, New Wave Anthologies and Psychedelic SF vids, but I'll be going into more depth re Jerry and Co over the next year.
Interesting! I read multiple shorts that appeared in "New Worlds" back in the day. I still have some in various anthologies. I will call the US source and order a copy.
@@outlawbookselleroriginal I emailed to order in the US, they called me right away. Very nice and thoughtful people, they had me email them again and placed me on the list. Then suggesting I hold my order for another book they have and ship both at the same time!
Will be buying this. Incidentally, I read somewhere that the Sladek story mentioned here inspired Philip K Dick to return to writing short stories (A Little Something For Us Tempunauts, I think).
Yes, that does sound familiar to me as well. Sladek's Dick parody ("Solar Shoe Salesman") in 'The Steam Driven Boy' and his bridging section written for the once- missing page from PKD's 'Lies Inc' were bravura examples of imitating another author's style.
The fact that Moorcock is still writing SF/F to this day is spectacular. He's the real Eternal Champion.
I can't argue with that! My interview with Mike in Paris- 58 minutes - will appear here on Friday night.
Watching this after my late shift was just what I needed. My head was full of work stuff! I now feel revitalized and inspired again. Many thanks, as always, Steve.
Many thanks as always Clive- you and others here always inspire me to make these efforts.
Michael is a gentleman, such a likeable chap, an interview will be very entertaining.
Great episode! Thank you for the preview, the art truly inspires a desire to get reading.
He certainly is! You'll see the interview here on friday night, old chum!
Very generous with his work, too. He's supplied a number of small press SF magazines with his material over the years to help them out.
@@beastrabban5991 Yes, Mike's always been like that.
I missed this. I just came to your presentation of NW here after the big interview. I just ordered my copy too and am full of anticipation!
Thank you for all you do on your channel. I am glad it's you that gets to show this for the first time. Its well deserved. You have been a catalyst in my reading life with some great recommendations. Cant wait for that interview, Michael Moorcock is my favourite writer. And with your insights and knowledge its going to be great.
That's very kind of you. I always try and keep the faith for the good stuff.
Very interesting indeed. A lovely clean layout too. Look forward to it. Interesting to see the Norstrilia Press ad too, they’re back publishing here in Oz after a very long hiatus. World exclusive! Nice one.
Thanks for this, I've ordered my copy. I haven't been this excited about a magazine since I first encountered Interzone in 1985.
Yes, it's great ti see NW back in the classic magazine format.
Great! Really looking forward to the interview...
This is good news! I have a stack of old American and British paperbacks of Best of New Worlds and New Worlds Quarterly that are overdue for rereading, at least partially, so time to get busy.
News of unparalleled excitement!
Oh crap, you just made me order a copy... I did not have the money for that.. I just had yo have it!!! It looks amazing
By the way, thanks for all videos, i realy like them. Keep them coming mate!
Fantastic art and so many gems in this issue! Looking forward to getting a copy myself!
You're gonna love it. Interview with Mike here on friday, 58 minutes!
thanks for sharing, steve! looks awfully nice. i'd buy it for the disch story alone. thanks to you, i've become quite the disch fanboy ;)
I feel intellectually stimulated just from your flip-through.
Thanks Mark, that's the idea as you know!
So Glad you like the cover . . . and yes, the woman with red hair smoking the gold tipped Balkan Sobranie is indeed Miss Brunner. The B/W internal illustration is called 'A Chocolate Bickie Moment.'
I loved it, Mark- and thanks for commenting. You nailed the characters beautifully!
Thanks for this sneak peek! So many writers in here to treasure, be they departed or still around. Looking forward to hearing more from you about Sladek. As someone with an interest in surrealism, I wonder if you've read The Last Days of New Paris by China Mieville?
I've not read anything by China for years, though I have looked at that one several times. Who knows, it may happen yet. Hope to get a Sladek video up before too long, need to do some rereading.
Serendipity seeing Clute’s book about missing jackets at British Library. On order. I’m interested in tracking down if any of the UK legal deposit libraries hold any of the jackets for a particular publisher. ChatGPT thinks not but the V&A museum holds
some BL examples they deemed interesting and other libraries retained some jackets too. But it does seem an act of vandalism not to have kept them all.
It was standard to throw away DJs until at least the 1940s, which has always made collecting early Modern Firsts a nightmare (luckily I stick to 1970s-early 1990s). The Clute book apparently covers around 15 surviving jackets. Shocking, right? Thanks for your comment and sterling support, Simon, you are one of my heroes!!!!!
Love a good Jerry Cornelius story!
These are words to live by.
Thanks for putting this up. I can remember coming across New Worlds in our local library van one hot summer when I was at junior school and much too young to read it. I knew about the influence of surrealism and modernist, experimental literature in the magazine but not about the inclusion of illustrations. But it explains the weird diagrams and even musical notation in Bester's Golem 100, his last and very 'New Wave' book.
Bester was doing this kind of thing before the New Wave, which is why he- more than anyone from Genre SF before New Worlds- is seen as the Godfather of New Wave and Cyberpunk. He was a well read man and borrowed these ideas from Concrete Poetry and experimental 19th century novels. Moorcock et all picked these ideas up and ran with them. Watch my review of Bester's 'The Dark Side of the Earth' on the channekl, in which I explain why his story "The Pi Man" is seminal to New Wave.
Love your channel! Question: If you had to convince me to read one modern author (published this century), who would it be?
First of all, any author published this century is 'Contemporary', not 'Modern', as in cultural terms 'Modern' ended in the 1980s- this may sound pedantic, as people (mis)use 'Modern' all the time for 'contemporary', but it's an important distinction. Would suggest watching some of my videos on Hauntology & SF etc. Beyond that, I'd struggle to pick just one. I posted a video last week highlight 10 of the books I've read this century that most inspired me, but some are from the 20th. Gibson, M John Harrison, Christopher Priest, Tom McCarthy loom large, but there is no one writer I'd pick- except maybe Ballard and he's been dead for 16 years....
REALLY looking forward to that Alan Moore book.
V For Vendetta is one of my favourite pieces of SF.
Yes, it looks great, doesn't it?
@@outlawbookselleroriginalfantastic looking stuff, but again, I expect great things from Alan Moore.
Just a quick note on the cover artist. Mark Reeve has collaborated with Moorcock before in the ‘Michael Moorcock’s Multiverse’ 12-issue maxi-series from Helix/DC. There’s three stories per issue: Moonbeams and Roses (which I seem to recall features the characters from ‘Blood’, drawn by Walt Simononson), The Metatemporal Detective (Sir Seaton Begg, this was the one drawn by Reeve) and Duke Elric (‘nuff said, true believer! Drawn by John Ridgeway). In true Multiverse fashion, it’s all connected!! Wight Heat, Commandante!
Thanks for that, Tim! Great to have 'The Good Doctor' of Comics Knowledge onside as ever! Incidentally, they had quite a few original comic pages on show at the Pompidou Centre last week - a Corto Maltese full-blown special exhibit, Chris Ware stuff and STUNNING Will Eisner pages.
@@outlawbookselleroriginal Can’t beat a bit of Corto Maltese! Just with they’d keep it in print in English. The last editions that were printed are mega expensive these days. Chris Ware is a true original of the modern age. ‘Jimmy Corrigan’ is a heartbreaking masterpiece! As for Eisner, what more needs to be said! It’s a real shame that France, and indeed most of continental Europe have seen comics as a genuine art form for a lot longer than the UK and US.
@@timcoombs2780 The Eisner stuff blew me away. The first I ever heard of CM was in the oblique dialogue references in 'Watchmen'.
They had CM t-shirts at the Pomp.
It would be great to hear your take on the jerry cornelius stories.
I've covered JC a little in my New Wave UK, New Wave Anthologies and Psychedelic SF vids, but I'll be going into more depth re Jerry and Co over the next year.
Interesting! I read multiple shorts that appeared in "New Worlds" back in the day. I still have some in various anthologies.
I will call the US source and order a copy.
Zeising are very long established as dealers and small press publishers. Mark Z did some great books, have a few myself, lovely stuff.
@@outlawbookselleroriginal I emailed to order in the US, they called me right away. Very nice and thoughtful people, they had me email them again and placed me on the list. Then suggesting I hold my order for another book they have and ship both at the same time!
Will be buying this. Incidentally, I read somewhere that the Sladek story mentioned here inspired Philip K Dick to return to writing short stories (A Little Something For Us Tempunauts, I think).
Yes, that does sound familiar to me as well. Sladek's Dick parody ("Solar Shoe Salesman") in 'The Steam Driven Boy' and his bridging section written for the once- missing page from PKD's 'Lies Inc' were bravura examples of imitating another author's style.
How do we order this please ?
It's not out for another 4 days- 30th- refer to the Jayde Design website- or if you are in the USA, Zeising Books can help
@@outlawbookselleroriginal. Many thanks
@@outlawbookselleroriginal thank you