New Worlds Science Fiction #125

# New Worlds Science Fiction, December 1962

This issue features five science fiction stories across various lengths. Colin Kapp's novelette "Lambda 1" opens the issue, exploring a transportation system enabling solid bodies to occupy the same space simultaneously through atomic resonance physics. The story follows Paul Porter, who receives a surprise visit from his old friend Eric Brevis just as an emergency at Tau Terminal demands his attention. Russ Markham contributes the novelette "Mood Indigo." Short stories include David Rome's "Meaning," Francis C. Rayer's "Capsid," Paul Corey's "Operation Survival," and Joseph Green's "Transmitter Problem." The issue includes a guest editorial by Lan Wright arguing that science fiction need not pursue mass-market appeal to justify its existence, contending that readership proportions have remained stable for three decades regardless of new ideas or treatments. Book reviews by Leslie Flood conclude the issue.