New Arrivals

 

I wrote about my impressions of the fifth volume in this series here,

https://ajaggedorbit.blogspot.com/2019/07/new-writings-in-sf5-edited-by-john.html 

and here,

https://ajaggedorbit.blogspot.com/2019/07/new-writings-in-sf5-edited-by-john_7.html. 

I enjoyed John Carnell's story selections enough that I was happy to expand my holdings. These volumes contain a number of authors I enjoyed in number five including R.W Mackelworth, John Baxter, and Joseph Green. They also contain two stories by Vincent King, an author I have been meaning to read.

Since a number of science fiction covers are based on the work of surrealist artists I thought I would mention a book we purchased today. Helen and I are interested in Surrealism and have a number of books on this topic. We love visiting museums and art galleries, and have visited the Peggy Guggenheim Collection in Venice twice. This gallery has a wonder collection of Surrealist paintings and is one of my favourites. So we could not resist this book. It looks quite interesting and mentions some artists we are not familiar with. However women artists appear under represented. Leonora Carrington appears but seems to be mainly discussed due to her relationship with Max Ernst. Dorothea Tanning is briefly mentioned in the section on Surrealism in America. Kati Horna and Remedios Varo are not mentioned in the index. Given their significance in Surrealist art and their involvement in the Spanish Civil War this seemed to be a striking omission based on the stated topic of the book. 

Cover credits:

New Writings 3:  not attributed

New Writings 4:  R. Foster

New Writings 6:  David McCall Johnston

New Writings 7:  David McCall Johnston

New Writings 9:  Seafron?

Monsters and Myths: detail from Europe after the Rain, by Max Ernst