New Worlds Science Fiction No. 51

About this issue

This September 1956 issue of New Worlds (Volume 17, No. 51) collects several science fiction narratives. The featured novelette "Time Will Tell" by Lan Wright follows industrial psychologist Hal Romberg, summoned by Iberia City's Director Calder to investigate a mysterious three-hundred-percent rise in accidents over the past decade—incidents that defy rational explanation and threaten the city's survival. The Editor's column by John Carnell defends the film Forbidden Planet as exemplary science fiction cinema while criticizing Hollywood's trend toward creature-horror films mislabeled as science fiction. The issue includes novelette "Report on Earth" by J. T. McIntosh, short stories by Brian W. Aldiss ("Conviction"), Sydney J. Bounds ("Mutation"), N. K. Hemming ("Dwellers in Silence"), and E. R. James ("Creep"), plus Kenneth Johns's article "Origin of the Solar System." The Quinn cover depicts spacecraft investigating an asteroid belt.