New Worlds Science Fiction No. 60

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New Worlds Science Fiction, Volume 20, No. 60 (June 1957) This issue features a novelette and five short stories. "Misfit" by Alan Barclay is the lead novelette, depicting a United Nations military invasion of Mars. A thirty-five-ship transport fleet carrying three thousand troops lands in the Martian desert under cover of darkness, establishes a supply cache, then marches across the desert to capture Jonesville, a mining and industrial settlement. General Knowles commands the invading force and addresses the townspeople via television, explaining the UN's arrival. The issue also contains Robert Silverberg's "Sunrise on Mercury," John Boland's "Fabulous Photographer," John Brunner's "Eye of the Beholder," Philip E. High's "Golden Age," and Francis G. Rayer's "Stress Complex." Kenneth Johns contributes an article on the nuclear navy; John Newman's two-part article "Planets Calling Earth" begins. The editorial by John Carnell discusses the upcoming 1957 World Science Fiction Convention in London, with details on hotel arrangements, American delegate attendance, and associated film screenings and exhibitions.