Courageous New Planet, The Birmingham SF Group, No ISBN

Courageous New Planet is a special printing of a short story by Bob Shaw to commemorate his appearance at Novacon 11 in October 1981. 550 copies were printed of which I have copy number 185, purchased recently via Amazon. The story itself is short and sweet and has a nice twist. It is one of those fish out of water stories about a man from present time being saved by future humans. Of course, he doesn’t like what people have done with society. It was reprinted in Dark Night In Toyland but strangely there is no acknowledgement in the copyright page of either the hardback or paperback.

Courageous New Planet cover

Courageous New Planet inside