New Worlds Science Fiction No. 48

About this issue

New Worlds Science Fiction, June 1956 (Vol. 16, No. 48) This issue contains editor John Carnell's commentary on recent science fiction publishing, noting a slowdown in both British and American markets. Notable forthcoming titles include Arthur C. Clarke's The City and the Stars (expanded from 1948's "Against the Fall of Night"), Alfred Bester's Tiger, Tiger, Robert Heinlein's Double Star, and John Mantley's The 27th Day. The fiction includes Alan Barclay's "The Refugee"—concerning a defeated military force occupying a barren planet, facing an ultimatum from a victorious enemy fleet called the Troll-Angar; John Brunner's "To Make a Man"; Francis C. Rayer and E. R. James's "Period of Quarantine"; Duncan Lamont's "Sun Cycle"; and part three of Lan Wright's serial "Who Speaks of Conquest?" An article by Kenneth Johns covers "Project Vanguard."