New Worlds 8 (1975)

M.John Harrison - Running down

A chance meeting with an old school acquaintance leads to a deepening involvement with chaos...

White stars - Michael Moorcock

No Jerry Cornelius but lots of strange characters, happenings and locales...

Barrington J.Bayley - The bees of knowledge

A man left in a space suit after an accident is rescued by some very familiar aliens....

Peter Jobling - Building blocks

On a planet with threw moons an archaeologist notices something odd in his latest dig...starts well but loses focus...

Mal Dean - Slow drag

A rather painful visit to a library?

Robert Meadly - Conversations at Ma Ata

A difficult journey is interrupted by a fanciful argument about a crime seen in a mirror....

Robert Meadly - Love at lost sight

A man is transfixed by a woman on a train...things get stranger and stranger...

Nigel Francis - The broken field

Very odd, seems to be about missing limbs...

Nigel Francis - Black hole

Declares this is about 'Bloodseed space disturbances' dated from 1999to 2000... ( )

This was hard going and I didn't even bother to finish some of the stories, which is extremely unusual for me. A very insular British 60s feel to it, in a way that hasn't been true of any of the other New Worlds collections that I've read on and off since I was at school. ( )