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.
Editor | Thomas M. Disch |
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Cover artist | Jonathan Weld |
Country | United States |
Language | English |
Genre | Science fiction |
Publisher | Harper & Row |
Publication date | 1975 |
Media type | Print (hardback) |
Pages | viii + 208 |
OCLC | 1499739 |
Each of the vignettes in Sladek's "Fifteen Utopias" carries an individual subtitle. "Cassandra Nye" is a pseudonym of Charles Naylor.[1]
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]