Interzone 246

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Interzone 246 will be published in the next couple of days. If you have a joint subscription then your copy will arrive with Black Static 34. Use the links for further details.

This issue’s Book Zone features the first of Jonathan McCalmont’s “Future Interrupted” columns, which will be a regular feature from now on. We also have reviews of the following books:

The Shining Girls by Lauren Beukes (reviewed and interviewed by Maureen Kincaid Speller)

The Best of all Possible Worlds by Karen Lord (reviewed by Jonathan McCalmont)

Adam Robots by Adam Roberts (reviewed by Paul Graham Raven)

The Mad Scientist’s Guide to World Domination edited by John Joseph Adams (reviewed by Barbara Melville)

Wool by Hugh Howey (reviewed by Ian Sales)

Planesrunner by Ian McDonald (reviewed by Jack Deighton)

Judge Dredd: Day of Chaos; The Fourth Faction by John Wagner, Ben Willsher, Staz Johnson, Colin MacNeil and Henry Flint (reviewed by Ian Hunter)

Herald of the Storm by Richard Ford (reviewed by Peter Loftus)

The Explorer by James Smythe (reviewed by Matthew S. Dent)

Dangerous Gifts by Gaie Sebold (reviewed by Lawrence Osborn)

The Emperor of All Things by Paul Witcover (reviewed by Duncan Lunan)

Osiris by E.J. Swift (reviewed by Simon Marshall Jones)

There is a dedicated forum thread for this issue at Interaction.

Books Received

Haven’t done one of these for a while. Here’s the stuff that’s come in for Interzone, the BFAs and one or two other places.

Angel City by Jon Steele

Love Minus Eighty by Will McIntosh

The Blue Blazes by Chuck Wendig

Tomorrow the Killing by Daniel Polansky

World War Z by Max Brooks

The People’s Will by Jasper Kent

The Bone Season by Samantha Shannon

God’s War by Kameron Hurley

The Adjacent by Christopher Priest

Theatre of the Gods by M. Suddain

The Bloodline Feud by Charles Stross

Slave State by Chris Kelso

The Science of Discworld IV: Judgement Day by Terry Pratchett, Ian Stewart & Jack Cohen

Vurt by Jeff Noon

Pollen by Jeff Noon

The 5th Wave by Rick Yancey

Slaine: The Grail War by John Smith, art by Nick Percival & Steve Tappin

Blood and Bone: a Novel of the Malazan Empire by Ian C. Esslemont

Across the Event Horizon by Mercurio D. Rivera

Misspent Youth by Peter F. Hamilton

The Age Atomic by Adam Christopher

The Lives of Tao by Wesley Chu

Indigo Prime: Anthropocalypse by John Smith, Lee Carter, Edmund Bagwell

Wolfhound Century by Peter Higgins

Play With Fire & Midnight at the Oasis by Justin Gustainis

Solaris Rising 2 edited by Ian Whates

Sea Change by S.M. Wheeler

The Peacock Cloak by Chris Beckett

Seoul Survivors by Naomi Foyle

Spectrums: Our Mind-boggling Universe from Infinitesimal to Infinity by David Blatner

The New Watch by Sergei Lukyanenko

The Desert of Souls by Howard Andrew Jones

Sold for Endless Rue by Madeleine E. Robins

Angelopolis by Danielle Trussoni

Burnt Island by Alice Thompson

Gemsigns by Stephanie Saulter

City in the Dusk and other stories by Matt Colborn

The Warring States by Aidan Harte

The Promise of Blood by Brian McClellan

Nod by Adrian Barnes

Hair Side, Flesh Side by Helen Marshall

Peel Back the Sky by Stephen Bacon

The Alchemist of Souls by Anne Lyle

There is obviously not enough space to review everything and it should be stated that the absence of a review is no reflection on the quality of the book. Editing is a messy business and sometimes a great book will fall by the wayside for all sorts of reasons. Feel free to use the links to browse any of the books that look of interest.

Hope I haven’t missed anyone out. Apologies if I have; please let me know and I will rectify it.

Black Static 32

Both Black Static 32 and Interzone 244 have been published. It’s official.

Go get ‘em! Go get ‘em together with a joint subscription! And look out for Flux - a free new magazine that will be sent out to subscribers of the above two.

And vote for your favourite stories from last year’s issues of Interzone in the annual poll. Check the – uh – checklist to refresh your memory.

That should keep you quiet for a while.

Smashwords Interzone 243

Interzone 243 is an ebook!

Get yourself a jugful and pour its electronic goodness into your ereader.

Good Homes Wanted

Peter Coleborn is getting rid of some magazines and all you have to do is pay the postage. Some of the BFS titles are particularly hard to track down (especially for non-members) but there are also some Interzones in there too.

Hulk Nerd

Tony Lee scores the DVDs and blu-rays he reviews in Interzone 243.

Colinthology

Here’s a video interview with the late Colin Harvey. Gareth L. Powell originally intended it for the TTA Press site.

Interzone 243

And Interzone 243 has also been published. Couldn’t see it because Black Static 31 was sitting on top of it.

Go get ‘em!

Black Static 31

The new Black Static got here today. Looks like there’s plenty of quality horror fiction inside from Jackson Kuhl, V.H. Leslie, Steven J. Dines, Sean Padraic Birnie, Steven Pirie and James Cooper. Some great non-fiction from the usual suspects, and the art is to die for. Use the link for a glimpse of the contents.

All of which reminds me that I must renew my subscription.

[click, click, typety-type, click]

Done.

Simple.

Interzone 242 at Smashwords

Interzone 242 is available as an ebook from Smashwords.

Recent Arrivals

More books for the Interzone reviewers. I’m mentioning them here because we won’t have enough room to review all of them. Hope I haven’t missed anyone out.

Redshirts by John Scalzi

The Folly of the World by Jesse Bullington

London Falling by Paul Cornell

Splintered by A.G. Howard

Outlaw Bodies edited by Lori Selke & Djibril al-Ayad

Malice by John Gwynne

Clockwork Angels by Kevin J Anderson & Neil Peart

The Immortals of Meluha by Amish

The Holders by Julianna Scott

The Mad Scientist’s Daughter by Cassandra Rose Clarke

World’s End by Will Elliott

Bells of the Kingdom by Leona Wisoker

Fires of the Desert by Leona Wisoker

Advent by James Treadwell

The Doctor and the Rough Rider by Mike Resnick

The Alchemy Press Book of Ancient Wonders edited by Jan Edwards & Jenny Barber

The Alchemy Press Book of Pulp Heroes edited by Mike Chinn

Interzone 243

Artwork by Ben Baldwin

This issue should be out very, very soon; we’re talking days now. There will be fiction from Jon Wallace, Chen Qiufan (translated by Ken Liu), Priya Sharma, Jason Sanford and Caroline M. Yoachim; non-fiction columns from David Langford, Tony Lee and Nick Lowe; and artwork from Ben Baldwin, Richard Wagner, Martin Hanford and Warwick Fraser-Coombe. Go here for details and samples.

The Bookzone will feature:

Jack Glass by Adam Roberts (reviewed and interviewed by Paul Kincaid)

Alif the Unseen by G. Willow Wilson (reviewed by me)

Blood and Feathers by Lou Morgan (reviewed by Paul F. Cockburn)

Empty Space by M. John Harrison (reviewed by Jack Deighton)

The Hydrogen Sonata by Iain M. Banks (reviewed by Lara Buckerton)

Some Kind of Fairy Tale by Graham Joyce (reviewed by Elaine Gallagher)

Sorry Please Thank You by Charles Yu (reviewed by me)

The Sphinx of the Ice Realm by Jules Verne (reviewed by Duncan Lunan)

The Fractal Prince by Hannu Rajaniemi (reviewed by Paul F. Cockburn)

The Wurms of Blearmouth by Steven Erikson (reviewed by Stephen Theaker)

Three Parts Dead by Max Gladstone (reviewed by Ian Sales)

 

 

Save Roy’s Back

A new stock of TTA Press back issues has been discovered. Interzone, The Fix, Crimewave, The Third Alternative, Zine, Black Static, The Planet Suite.

Please buy them and save Roy from having to lug them to conventions.

Black Static 27

Black Static 27 is on sale now. Fiction from Simon Bestwick, Gord Sellar, Jacob Ruby, V.H. Leslie and Stephen Bacon, and non-fiction from Peter Tennant, Tony Lee, Christopher Fowler, Mike O’Driscoll and Stephen Volk. And an interview with Charlie Brooker.

Go HERE to see some samples from it.

Black Static 26

Black Static 26 has stories from Ray Cluly, Gary McMahon, Mark Rigney, Carole Johnstone and Andrew Hook.

Time for Christmas ghosts.