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The New Improved Sun

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The New Improved Sun
First edition cover
EditorThomas M. Disch
Cover artistJonathan Weld
LanguageEnglish
GenreScience fiction
PublisherHarper & Row
Publication date
1975
Publication placeUnited States
Media typePrint (hardback)
Pagesviii + 208
OCLC1499739

The New Improved Sun: An Anthology of Utopian S-F is an anthology of science fiction stories edited by American writer 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

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

Reception

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In The New York Times, Gerald Jonas notes 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

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  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