New Horizons is an anthology of science fiction

Science fiction

Science fiction is a genre of fiction dealing with imaginary but more or less plausible content such as future settings, futuristic science and technology, space travel, aliens, and paranormal abilities...

 stories edited by the famed August Derleth

August Derleth

August William Derleth was an American writer and anthologist. Though best remembered as the first publisher of the writings of H. P...

 (d. 1971). It was released posthumously by the specialty house publisher Arkham House

Arkham House

Arkham House is a publishing house specializing in weird fiction founded in Sauk City, Wisconsin in 1939 by August Derleth and Donald Wandrei to preserve in hardcover the best fiction of H.P. Lovecraft. The company's name is derived from Lovecraft's fictional New England city, Arkham. Arkham House...

 in an hardcover edition of 2,917 copies. While the title page gives the date of publication as 1998

1998 in literature

The year 1998 in literature involved some significant events and new books.-Events:*March 5 - Tennessee Williams' 1938 play, Not About Nightingales, receives its stage première....

, the book was not actually printed and released until 1999

1999 in literature

The year 1999 in literature involved some significant events and new books.-Events:*June 19 - Stephen King is hit by a Dodge van while taking a walk. He spends the next three weeks hospitalized...

. The is an anthology that Derleth had planned in the early 1960s, but never published.

Contents

New Horizons contains the following stories:

1. "Introduction", by Joseph Wrzos
2. Part I: Time Travel Before Tachyons
   • "The Runaway Skyscraper
     The Runaway Skyscraper
     "The Runaway Skyscraper" is a science fiction short story by Murray Leinster that first appeared in the February 22, 1919 issue of Argosy magazine...
     
     ", by Murray Leinster
     Murray Leinster
     Murray Leinster was a nom de plume of William Fitzgerald Jenkins, an award-winning American writer of science fiction and alternate history...
     
     
   • "A Dream of Armageddon", by H.G. Wells
   • "Willie", by Frank Belknap Long
     Frank Belknap Long
     Frank Belknap Long was a prolific American writer of horror fiction, fantasy, science fiction, poetry, gothic romance, comic books, and non-fiction. Though his writing career spanned seven decades, he is best known for his horror and science fiction short stories, including early contributions to...
     
     
   • "The Pureblind Prophet", by David H. Keller
     David H. Keller
     David H. Keller was a writer for pulp magazines in the mid-twentieth century who wrote science fiction, fantasy and horror. He was the first psychiatrist to write for the genre, and was most often published as David H...
     
      and Paul Spencer
3. Part II: Technological Triumphs: The Light Side
   • "The Feline Light and Power Company", by Jacque Morgan
   • "Solander's Radio Tomb", by Ellis Parker Butler
     Ellis Parker Butler
     Ellis Parker Butler was an American author.Butler was born in Muscatine, Iowa. He was the author of more than 30 books and more than 2,000 stories and essays and is most famous for his short story "Pigs is Pigs", in which a bureaucratic stationmaster insists on levying the livestock rate for a...
     
     
   • "The Perambulating Home", by Henry Hugh Simmons
4. Part III: Global Catastrophe: Atlantean
   • "Countries in the Sea", by August Derleth
     August Derleth
     August William Derleth was an American writer and anthologist. Though best remembered as the first publisher of the writings of H. P...
     
      and Mark Schorer
     Mark Schorer
     Mark Schorer was an American writer, critic, and scholar born in Sauk City, Wisconsin.-Biography:Schorer earned an MA at Harvard and his Ph.D. in English at the University of Wisconsin–Madison in 1936...
     
     
5. Part IV: Amazing Discoveries: The Flip Side
   • "The Ultra-Elixir of Youth", by A. Hyatt Verrill
   • "The Book of Worlds", by Miles J. Breuer
     Miles J. Breuer
     Miles John Breuer was an American physician and science fiction writer. He was part of the first generation of writers to appear regularly in the pulp science fiction magazines, publishing his first story, "The Man with the Strange Head", in the January 1927 issue of Amazing Stories...
     
     
   • "The Truth About the Psycho-tector", by Stanton A. Coblentz
     Stanton A. Coblentz
     Stanton Arthur Coblentz was an American author and poet. He received a Master's Degree in English literature and then began publishing poetry during the early 1920s. His first published science fiction was "The Sunken World," a satire about Atlantis, in Amazing Stories Quarterly for July, 1928...
     
     
6. Part V: Menace from Above: Local, Interstellar
   • "Raiders of the Universes", by Donald Wandrei
     Donald Wandrei
     Donald Albert Wandrei was an American science fiction, fantasy and weird fiction writer, poet and editor. He wrote as Donald Wandrei. He was the older brother of science fiction writer and artist Howard Wandrei...
     
     
   • "The Planet Entity", by E.M. Johnston and Clark Ashton Smith
     Clark Ashton Smith
     Clark Ashton Smith was a self-educated American poet, sculptor, painter and author of fantasy, horror and science fiction short stories. He achieved early local recognition, largely through the enthusiasm of George Sterling, for traditional verse in the vein of Swinburne...
     
     
7. Appendix: August Derleth's Science Fiction Anthologies