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Paperback: 8" x 5¼". Condition: Good: Moderate signs of wear. Cover Art: Milton Glaser (illustrator). 1st Edition. © 1969: An anthology of science fiction verse. 1st edition, 1st printing. Some wear to front cover with handwritten personal dedication to inside front cover & second-hand book seller's stamp to Half-Title page:- Synopsis: As Edward Lucie-Smith points out in his introduction to this volume, "after the first sputnik was launched, space itself became both less rewarding and less easy to write about". One result of this was the discovery of what has been described as "inner space - the realm of the mind and its mysterious workings. The exploration of this by the science-fiction writers gradually brought them into closer and closer contact with the world of modern poetry, which for reasons of its own had set up operations in much the same tract of territory". Out of this blending of genres has come a new type of contemporary poetry, defined and collected for the first time in this volume, and with appeal to the science-fiction fan and the lover of poetry alike. Edward Lucie-Smith, the British poet, anthologist, and art critic, has long been interested in science fiction and was vice-chairman of the Science Fiction Conference held in England in 1968. In putting together this collection, he has selected the best examples to be found on both sides of the Atlantic:- (original cost $1.95).