title: New Writings in SF 17
text: # New Writings in SF 17
  
  New Writings in SF 17 is an anthology of science fiction short stories edited by John Carnell, the seventeenth volume in a series of thirty, of which he edited the first twenty-one. It was first published in hardcover by Dennis Dobson in 1970, followed by a paperback edition issued under the slightly variant title New Writings in SF -- 17 by Corgi the same year.
  
  The book collects seven novelettes and short stories by various science fiction authors, with a foreword by Carnell.
  
  ## Contents
  
  * "Foreword" (John Carnell)
  * "More Things in Heaven and Earth" (H. A. Hargreaves)
  * "Aspect of Environment" (L. Davison)
  * "Soul Survivors" (Lee Harding)
  * "Death and the Sensperience Poet" (Joseph Green)
  * "Two Rivers" (R. W. Mackelworth)
  * "The Hero" (Ernest Hill)
  * "The True Worth of Ruth Villiers" (Michael G. Coney)
  