New Worlds magazine returns

new_worlds_193903_v1_n1.jpgNew Worlds, the seminal science fiction magazine edited for many years by Michael Moorcock, is back. SF Signal reports:

The magazine will appear in both electronic and traditional print on paper formats and be backed up by an extensive website that will feature exclusive editorial features free to all interested readers.

It is anticipated that the new incarnation of the magazine will debut in September/October 2011, initially on a quarterly publishing schedule.

Warren Ellis writes that it is "the most groundbreaking sf magazine of the last half of the 20th Century, if not one of the most groundbreaking magazines of any kind in the way it reshaped fiction and captured invention in the culture at large."

Pictured above is a sketch for the cover of issue 1, hosted by Phil Stephensen-Payne.