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the day of forever

Scanner collage based on New World's SF 170 featuring J G Ballard's
The Day of forever

The New Worlds SF series were collections of short stories. Sneakily, they don't advertise this on the front, but instead present their top story as if it were a novel on its own. The Day of Forever, Ballard's mystical view of a world no longer turning, uneasily straddles the space between Vermillion Sands and the apocalypse; a world of ambiguous motives, troubled sleep and threads of life dissolving into a greater, world-consuming end.

The cover is by Langdon Jones, who was also the assistant editor (Michael Moorcock edits). To add to the SF family feel, the story inside is illustrated by J Cawthorn.


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