Sixty years ago Michael Moorcock took over as editor of New Worlds magazine.
So began a giant leap for science fiction as published in the UK.
Inner space was the place.
A time of the Acid Head War.
This literary medium was the massage; Ballard, Moorcock, Disch, Burroughs, Aldiss etc, the masseurs.
When Humphrey Lyttelton dared to try something different in the 50s the (ex) fans raised a banner saying "Go Home Dirty Bopper".
When Bob Dylan first went electric on stage in '65 some people booed.
When Moorcock started to alter the course of science fiction he probably got letters asking where all the space ships and bug-eyed monsters had gone!
Here's his first editorial:
The first Moorcock issue features a story by Brian Aldiss (Never Let Go Of My Hand), part of which I used for this collage...
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| RTomens, 2024 |
New Worlds magazine had entered another dimension and science fiction would never be the same again.
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