Spectrum
Entry updated 12 August 2018. Tagged: Publication.
Highly regarded, if decidedly conservative, sf reprint Anthology sequence edited by Kingsley Amis (whom see) and Robert Conquest. Five volumes, 1964-1966. The fiction is drawn almost entirely from the US magazines, with just two selections from New Worlds. A single exception to the reprints-only rule is Mark Rose's "We Would See a Sign" in Spectrum III: A Third Science Fiction Anthology (anth 1963), a brief, bleak glimpse of Post-Holocaust existence. The verse epigraphs for each volume are by Conquest (whom see), and four of the five (omitting #1 for some reason) are collected as "Spectra" in his The Abomination of Moab (coll 1979). [DRL]
Spectrum
- Spectrum (London: Victor Gollancz, 1961) [anth: Spectrum: hb/nonpictorial]
- Spectrum I: A Science Fiction Anthology (London: Victor Gollancz, 1964) [anth: vt of above: Spectrum: hb/]
- Spectrum II: A Second Science Fiction Anthology (London: Victor Gollancz, 1962) [anth: Spectrum: hb/nonpictorial]
- Spectrum III: A Third Science Fiction Anthology (London: Victor Gollancz, 1963) [anth: Spectrum: hb/nonpictorial]
- Spectrum IV: A Fourth Science Fiction Anthology (London: Victor Gollancz, 1965) [anth: Spectrum: hb/nonpictorial]
- Spectrum V: A Fifth Science Fiction Anthology (London: Victor Gollancz, 1966) [anth: Spectrum: hb/nonpictorial]
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