Lambda 1 and Other Stories

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Includes a short story by Michael Moorcock, titled 'Flux'. This eight top-line SF stories in this selection have been chosen by John Carnell from the best of year's contributions to New World's Science Fiction. They include Colin Knapp's Lambda 1, which reaches spine-chilling dimensions when a spacecraft, packed with a thousand passengers, loses it capacity to re-enter a normal environment. In Quest, by Lee Harding, an ordinary man look for 'something real' in a world dominated by robots and megapolitan madness. The atomic submarine Taurus, in Philip E. High's Routine Exercise, returns to base with two dead men, minus its nuclear warheads, and fantastic report of attack by an unknown craft. "This is", the editor wrote, "a cross-section of recently popular British science-fiction which has been well-liked by many thousands of readers in different countries of the world".