There is a lot of worthwhile content in this September issue, such as the interview with UK author Anthony Burgess. He reveals that an inspiration for his novel 'A Clockwork Orange' was a brutal incident involving his wife, that took place during the Second World War..........
It's a measure of how integral magazines were to the print media of the 1970s that this issue has some rather elaborate formatting, including a keyhole (the iris centered in the star) overlay of a brilliant illustration by Don Ivan Punchatz:
Elsewhere, we have a 'stepback' illustration for a short story by John Collier. These kinds of special inserts were expensive, but publishers (back then) deemed them valuable. It's doubtful if magazines being printed nowadays would be willing to do this sort of thing.........
The magazine's 'After Hours' section highlights the growing footprint of comics, and Marvel comics, in particular, as a pop culture phenomenon.
A noteworthy short story in this issue is 'A Place to Avoid' by David Ely. Ely (b. 1927), perhaps best known for his 1963 suspense novel 'Seconds,' presents a well-told tale of an Ugly German interacting with the peasantry of postwar Italy.
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