I had lunch with my friend Jon Turney on Thursday last week. Jon had been doing a little sorting out, and he presented me with an unusual book that he had found in his collection. It is Beyond This Horizon: An Anthology of Science Fiction and Science Fact, edited by Christopher Carrell and published by Ceolfrith Press in Sunderland in 1973. The book has an introduction by Peter Weston and articles by people such as Brian Stableford, Tom Shippey, Patrick Moore, David Hardy and George Hay. There is short fiction from, amongst others, Brian Aldiss, Peter Nichols, Bob Shaw, James Blish and John Brunner. There are also extracts from “work in progress” including Inverted World by Chris Priest and Stars in My Pocket Like Grains of Sand by Samuel Delany.

I suspect that this belongs in a fan history collection somewhere, and I’d be happy to hand it over to a suitable repository. In the meantime, many thanks to Jon for giving me something rather cool to look at.