Quark 1

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Paperback Library, 1970. Original science fiction stories. Editorial essay by Samuel R. Delany and Marilyn Hacker; “Critical Methods: Speculative Fiction” essay by Delany. Story listing: “The Cliff Climbers” by R. A. Lafferty ”The Sound of Muzak” by Gardner Dozois ”A Trip to the Head” by Ursula K. Le Guin ”Let Us Quickly Hasten to the Gate of Ivory” by Thomas M. Disch ”Inalienable Rite” by Gregory Benford ”Orion” by George Stanley ”The View from This Window” by Joanna Russ ”Gone Are the Lupo” by H. B. Hickey ”Fire Storm” by Christopher Priest ”Dogman of Islington” by Hilary Bailey ”Shades” by Sandy Boucher ”Carthing” by A. E. van Vogt ”Adrift on the Freeway” by Edward Bryant ”My Father's Guest” by Joan Bernott ”Ramona, Come Softly” by Gordon Eklund Poetry by Link, Helen Adam Six Drawings, interior artwork by Stephen Gilden. Cover art “Appomattox” and interior artwork by Russell FitzGerald. US Original-Anthology series from Paperback Library 1970-1971, subtitled ‘A Quarterly of Speculative Fiction''. QUARK/ was the most overtly experimental and “New-Wave” of the anthology series of the early 1970s, and provoked some hostility in the sf world. It attempted an ambitious, graphically sophisticated package. The series lasted only four quarterly issues. It sold well, but the hostile critical reaction caused the publisher to close it down.