New Horizons (book)

New Horizons (book)
New Horizons  
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Dust-jacket illustration by Stephen E. Fabian for New Horizons
Author(s) edited by August Derleth
Cover artist Stephen E. Fabian
Country United States
Language English
Genre(s) Science fiction short stories
Publisher Arkham House
Publication date 1998 (1999)
Media type Print (Hardback)
Pages xv, 299 pp
ISBN 0-87054-174-9
OCLC Number 40230833
Dewey Decimal 813/.0876208 21
LC Classification PS648.S3 N427 1998

New Horizons is an anthology of science fiction stories edited by the famed August Derleth (d. 1971). It was released posthumously by the specialty house publisher Arkham House in an hardcover edition of 2,917 copies. While the title page gives the date of publication as 1998, the book was not actually printed and released until 1999. The is an anthology that Derleth had planned in the early 1960s, but never published.

Contents

New Horizons contains the following stories:

  1. "Introduction", by Joseph Wrzos
  2. Part I: Time Travel Before Tachyons
  3. Part II: Technological Triumphs: The Light Side
    • "The Feline Light and Power Company", by Jacque Morgan
    • "Solander's Radio Tomb", by Ellis Parker Butler
    • "The Perambulating Home", by Henry Hugh Simmons
  4. Part III: Global Catastrophe: Atlantean
  5. Part IV: Amazing Discoveries: The Flip Side
  6. Part V: Menace from Above: Local, Interstellar
  7. Appendix: August Derleth's Science Fiction Anthologies

References

  • Chalker, Jack L.; Mark Owings (1999). The Science-Fantasy Publishers: A Bibliographic History, 1923-1998, Supplement 7. Westminster, MD and Baltimore: Mirage Press, Ltd.. pp. 4. 
  • Joshi, S.T. (1999). Sixty Years of Arkham House: A History and Bibliography. Sauk City, WI: Arkham House. pp. 173. ISBN 0-87054-176-5. 
  • Nielsen, Leon (2004). Arkham House Books: A Collector's Guide. Jefferson, NC and London: McFarland & Company, Inc.. pp. 143–144. ISBN 0-7864-1785-4. 

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