Created way back when – in the world April of 2018 – I’ve since acquired a new copy of Raymond Healy’s New Tales of Space and Time, the cover of which appears below, the original image (a little chipped, slightly dinged and somewhat dented) appearing at the bottom of the post.
According to the Internet Speculative Fiction Database, the book’s cover art was the third cover illustration to have been created by Paul Lehr, whose most recent work appeared on the cover of 2019’s Cosmic Assembly. It’s extremely evocative of the best of science fiction art of the 40s and 50s, for it combines themes of simple machines having an abstract look, with a man wearing a futuristic helmet the shape of which imparts a sort of “ancient” appearance. More importantly, the book’s content: All the stories are unique to this volume, not having previously appeared in pulp magazines.
You can view the 1952 paperback edition here.
(I like this one more.)
What’s in the Book?
“Here There Be Tygers”, by Ray Bradbury, from this volume…
“In A Good Cause –“, by Isaac Asimov, also from this volume…
“Tolliver’s Travels”, by Fran Fenton and Joseph Petracca, from this volume, too…
“Bettyann”, by Kris Neville, unsurprisingly, from this volume…
“Little Anton”, by R. Bretnor, from this volume, too? – yes!
“Status Quondam”, by P. Schuyler Miller, yet again, from this volume…
“B + M – Planet 4”, by Gerald Heard, and another, from this volume…
“You Can’t Say That”, by Clive Cartmill, as above…
“Fulfillment”, by A.E. van Vogt, first appearance in this volume…
“The Quest for Saint Aquin”, by Anthony Boucher, but I repeat myself; from this very volume…
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Alas, the dinged original.
Some Things to Refer To…
New Tales of Space and Time, at…
… Internet Speculative Fiction Database
Raymond J. Healy, at…
… Internet Speculative Fiction Database
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