New Worlds Science Fiction No. 32

About this issue

This issue of the British science fiction magazine New Worlds features four short stories, the conclusion of a serial, and an article on ultrasonics. C.M. Kornbluth's "Gomez" opens the issue—a narrative by a journalist recounting his discovery of Julio Gomez, a brilliant seventeen-year-old Puerto Rican immigrant working in a restaurant, whose mathematical insights into reactor physics impressed a university physicist. Sydney J. Bounds contributes "Sole Survivor," while Kenneth Bulmer writes "The Black Spot" and E.C. Tubb provides "School for Beginners." The serial "Prisoner in the Skull" by Charles Dye concludes. John Newman's article examines ultrasonics. The issue includes editorial commentary, book reviews, a literary column, and results from a reader survey conducted in issue 30. Artwork by Quinn, Hunter, and Hutchings illustrates the contents.