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And those of his allies; and that an act of violence perpetrated on the King was sure to bring both on France and Burgundy a train of the most unhappy consequences among which not the least to be feared was that the English might avail themselves of the. generic prozac We were responsible for interesting many critics academics and journalists in what might be called the SF renaissance. I think we achieved an enormous amount. If what we were trying to do has been misinterpreted in America this has largely been because most people received their impressions at second-hand through say the Judith Merril Year's Best and England Swings anthologies. Judy did a lot to publicise New Worlds and was a good friend but her interpretations were often some- what at odds with our views! New Worlds became a banner in Judy's own crusadeâ€"and Judy after all started the ball rolling in the US. If the issues be- came clouded in rhetor! ic about "new wave specula- tive fiction" or "The New Thing' it wasn't much to do with us. Harlan Ellison followed Judy with Dan- gerous Visions and I think it's fair to claim that again if obliquely New Worlds supplied the impetus. I think however that battles are being fought in the States which have been over in this country for some yearsâ€" everyone's settled down to doing their own thing. There was never any danger of one idea superceding another but it was necessary to make room for other ideas and that if nothing else is what New Worlds achieved. And our influence if that isn't too pomp- ous a phrase extended well beyond the SF world in this country if nowhere else. We know many rock musicians who've claimed that New Worlds gave them the impetus they were looking for for we know artists non-SF writers and poets who think the same. A lot of our ideasâ€"and indeed our contributorsâ€" turned up in the pages of the "alternative" press. We still meet readers of the large! size New Worlds who tell us it was the only magazine which gave them any hope or spoke to them in a vocabulary which made sense to them. And we have possibly influenced the vocabulary (both in terms of ideas and language) of SF-broadened its possibilities. Fail- ures? We claimed too much for what we were doing in the early days and are only now beginning to see the results. We never licked the distribution problemâ€" until it was too lateâ€"and so never reached as many readers as we might have done. We failed completely to convince the majority of fans that we felt writers like Heinlein were short-changing them with bad writing and simple-minded notions. We failed to im- prove the standard of writing in SF which in the main remains abominable. On the other hand we offered an alternative to readers who couldn't face that kind of writing and of course we still do. We've certainly failed to convince the majority of US publishers concerning the merits of typical New Worlds fiction for they plainly prefer to publish the sensa- tionalistic and poor! ly-conceived SF they have always publishedâ€"and their preference doesn't appear to be dictated by commercial reasoning.. fsef5e4e485e844u4jj4dzjsjdn