{"id":343,"date":"2026-07-13T15:08:50","date_gmt":"2026-07-13T15:08:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.shadowdevil.com\/jp\/?p=343"},"modified":"2026-07-13T15:08:50","modified_gmt":"2026-07-13T15:08:50","slug":"vision-of-tomorrow-volume-1-number-11-august-1970","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shadowdevil.com\/jp\/?p=343","title":{"rendered":"Vision of Tomorrow – Volume 1, Number 11, August 1970."},"content":{"rendered":"

I was at primary school in 1970. Very little interest in Science Fiction at that time. I don’t think I was even aware of Star Trek which was trundling through the BBC from 1969.<\/p>\n

My latest acquisition is Vision of Tomorrow – Volume 1, number 11, from August 1970, cover price 5\/- (five shillings) bought mainly because it has a Bob Shaw story in it. Not any old Bob Shaw story but one which apparently has never been anthologised or reprinted anywhere else so it is totally new to me.<\/p>\n

This is something I am really looking forward to, and although it is “early” Bob Shaw it will be savoured like fine wine. Personally I consider the 1980s to be when Bob Shaw produced his best work, particularly the novels of the 1980s.<\/p>\n

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The story is called “Cold Crucible” and the editorial says “Bob Shaw makes his VISION debut with COLD CRUCIBLE, which sets a new hallmark for magazine sf for the excellence of its writing and depth of characterisation.”<\/p>\n

The rest of the contents look reasonable too. I’ll definitely read the Michael Moorcock story and perhaps others.<\/p>\n

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The magazine itself is Australian, and this is an anniversary issue – as noted on the cover – and it gives a shout out to the 28th World Science Fiction Convention taking place in Germany in August 1970 – the magazine was published a ahead of the cover date as per normal. And the magazine also publicises the launching of Sword and Sorcery Magazine, featuring stories by Michael Moorcock, Brian Aldiss, E C Tubb and John Brunner. But it looks like that never got off the ground as the next issue,\u00a0 September 1970, was the final issue of Vision of Tomorrow.<\/p>\n

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