New Worlds Science Fiction #61

# New Worlds Science Fiction, July 1957

This issue contains a novella and five short stories. Kenneth Bulmer's "Defiance" opens the issue, depicting the crash-landing of two Survey Corps scout ships on a hostile planet with three moons orbiting a G-type star a thousand light years from Earth. Survivors of the Outrider, led by Commander Loftus Tait, must contend with wreckage, injuries, a destroyed communications system, and a barren landscape featuring a molten magma desert. Other fiction includes Frank B. Bryning's "For Men Must Work," Arthur Sellings's "Fresh Start," Brian W. Aldiss's "Gesture of Farewell," Richard Wilson's "QRM," and James White's "False Alarm." Kenneth Johns contributes a non-fiction article on nuclear naval technology. The issue also profiles author Richard Wilson, who discusses his career path from casual creative writing exercises in junior high school to professional fiction and journalism. Editor John Cornell's editorial debates the state of British science fiction publishing.