The New Improved Sun

The New Improved Sun

First edition cover
Author Thomas M. Disch, ed.
Cover artist Jonathan Weld
Country United States
Language English
Genre Science fiction short stories
Publisher Harper & Row
Publication date
1975
Media type Print (hardback)
Pages viii + 208
OCLC 1499739

The New Improved Sun, subtitled "An Anthology of Utopian S-F", is an anthology of science fiction stories edited by Thomas M. Disch, published in hardcover by Harper & Row in 1975. Second edition published by Hutchinson in 1976. Many of the stories are original to the volume.

Contents

Each of the vignettes in Sladek's "Fifteen Utopias" carries an individual subtitle. "Cassandra Nye" is a pseudonym of Charles Naylor.[1]

Reception

Writing in The New York Times, Gerald Jonas noted that while the anthology's contents contradicted its subtitle, being mostly satires and dystopias, "Disch knows exactly what he is doing: he points out in a brief introduction that prescriptive Utopias tend to be not only dull but also silly and repugnant."[2]

References

  1. http://www.philsp.com/homeville/isfac/t37.htm#A803 Index to Science Fiction Anthologies and Collections
  2. "Of Things to Come", The New York Times Book Review, October 26, 1975
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