Synopsis
Paperback Library, 1971. Mass market paperback original. 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. this issue feature the following stories:
Encased in Ancient Rind” by R. A. Lafferty
”Home Again, Home Again” by Gordon Eklund
”Dog in a Fisherman's Net” by Samuel R. Delany
”The Zanzibar Cat” by Joanna Russ
”Field” by James Sallis
”Where Have You Been, Billy Boy, Billy Boy?” by Kate Wilhelm
”Brave Salt” by Richard Hill
”Nature Boy” by Josephine Saxton
”Balls: A Meditation at the Graveside” by Virginia Kidd
”Ring of Pain” by M. John Harrison
”A Sexual Song” by Tom Veitch
”Twenty-Four Letters from Underneath the Earth” by Hilary Bailey
”The Coded Sun Game” by Brian Vickers
plus poetry by Sonya Dorman and by George Stanley
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