Some more strange editing here - is this book supposed to be a sixties overview? The introduction certainly focused on England and New Worlds, etc. Then they throw in the odd Laumer story, things like that. Some good stories, but in no way could you consider this a best of, as far as I can see.
Two Jerry Cornelius stories out of 18? Moorcock very influential, certainly, but surely something else Spinrad could have been picked - not to mention a better Cornelius piece by Moorcock.
Decade the 1960s : The Assassination of John Fitzgerald Kennedy Considered as a Downhill Motor Race - J. G. Ballard
Decade the 1960s : Gravity - Harvey Jacobs
Decade the 1960s : Harrison Bergeron - Kurt Vonnegut
Decade the 1960s : Computers Don't Argue - Gordon R. Dickson
Decade the 1960s : The Food Goes in the Top - Will Worthington
Decade the 1960s : Subversive - Mack Reynolds
Decade the 1960s : Descending - Thomas M. Disch
Decade the 1960s : The Village Swindler - Brian W. Aldiss
Decade the 1960s : Manscarer - Keith Roberts
Decade the 1960s : Hybrid - Keith Laumer
Decade the 1960s : The Heat Death of the Universe - Pamela Zoline
Decade the 1960s : Devil Car - Roger Zelazny
Decade the 1960s : The Nature of the Catastrophe [short story] - Michael Moorcock
Decade the 1960s : Hawksbill Station [short story] - Robert Silverberg
Decade the 1960s : Day Million - Frederik Pohl
Decade the 1960s : The Electric Ant - Philip K. Dick
Decade the 1960s : The Last Hurrah of the Golden Horde - Norman Spinrad
Decade the 1960s : Hemingway in Space - Kingsley Amis
Finishing gun.
3 out of 5
Space cuckold.
3 out of 5
Handicap gravity uplift termination.
4 out of 5
Bureaucratic escalation.
4 out of 5
Found the Wall.
2.5 out of 5
Economic efficiency counterespionage.
4 out of 5
Definitely too long a way down this escalator.
3 out of 5
Urban high-caste heart please.
3 out of 5
Burn the Colony down.
3 out of 5
Tree team-up, at length.
3.5 out of 5
Numbered inserts finished finally.
2 out of 5
Autokill relations decision.
3.5 out of 5
JC media bits.
3 out of 5
but effective way of controlling dissidents. Send them back a billion or so years into the past. A bit hard to escape from there, really.
When a new prisoner is sent back, the current top dog, an aging main with a recent serious injury has to try and hang onto his life, and work out what is up with the new guy.
3 out of 5
Stored love.
3.5 out of 5
Mechanical slave tape experiment.
3.5 out of 5
The English Assassin goes in for a spot of Chinese, with a side dish of Italian.
3.5 out of 5
Wyndham-Clarke blaster Martian sacrifice.
3.5 out of 5
3 out of 5
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