and Moorcock didn’t start New Worlds but became it’s editor years after it was first established,if memory serves…
[reply]That’s cool. New Worlds had a lot of Ballard short stories if I recall correctly, so it’s got mad cache already. Brute really ran with the duo tone color scheme and font but I definitely see the inspiration.
Wasn’t ‘New Worlds’ Michael Moorcock’s baby? Another writer who really helped to make sci-fi something other than just a “spaceships and robots” genre, and helped it cross over into the musical underground.
Although I could never get into Moorcock’s collabs with Hawkwind, much as I tried. I just can’t listen to the band singing “Needle, Needle, Needle Needle Gun…gonna make you run!!!” without laughing.[/reply]
Yeah, Moorcock edited New Worlds for a while and he championed a lot of Ballard’s early work. Personally I’m a bigger Ballard fan than Moorcock, so I always think of 60s New Worlds being his home.
I too have tried unsuccessfully to find much actual enjoyment with Moorcock/Hawkwind’s collab output. Conceptually I think it’s great, but the execution is excrible.
ETA: Now I want that issue of New Worlds! I only like a little KMFDM here and there (mostly the Wax Trax stuff, though I was shocked to enjoy tha WTF album they put out a few years back), but I do think the covers have a great sensibility that make the albums into trading card-like totems that encourage collecting even when the contents fails to provide many thrills.