Dave Langford reviewed New Worlds: An Anthology for White Dwarf #47, and stated that "it's an immensely valuable book for fans, no less than 131 pages being devoted to a complete index of all 216 issues of NW".[1]
Dave Pringle reviewed New Worlds: An Anthology for Imagine magazine, and commented that "the highlights include Barry Bayley's brilliant pastiche of William Burroughs, 'The Four-Colour Problem' (surely the best thing Bayley ever wrote?) and Pamela Zoline's oddly moving 'The Heat Death of the Universe', a Pop Art painting come to life".[2]