INTERZONE 29

Interzone #29

by Unknown Author

Paperback

Published January 1, 1989

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[Kevin Phyland · Rating 3 out of 5]

A man obsessed with becoming a father realizes he is too self-centred to have one with a woman and opts for an ersatz child. “The Cutie”, as they are called, have a limited lifespan and not much intelligence, but this one seems just a bit brighter in Greg Egan’s tale. Alison finds herself pregnant and abandoned and winds up at “Game Night At The Fox & Goose”, where she meets a mysterious woman who gives her some unusual options, but her version of history seems strangely off in Karen Joy Fowler’s story. Jody and Hildergarde inhabit a world where companion androids are commonolace, but it comes as a bit of a shock to Jody when he finds that their personas and bits are interchangeable, and not really user-repairable in “An Old-Fashioned Story” by Phillip Mann. “Cronus” by Marianne Puxley shows us a future of Communities, fully isolated from the surrounding countryside, where life is regimented and very Big Brother-ish. But when Rhea becomes pregnant and her neighbours become secretive it dawns on her that something terrible is happening, and she must flee to the Greenwomen outside. Gary Kilworth explores sexual roles in “The Men’s Room”, where the protagonist Charles goes back in time and finds he occupies the body of a boy but with the societal expectations of a girl. When a mouse researcher’s laboratory is firebombed it leads to an astonishing discovery that will change half the planet in “The Magic Bullet” by Brian Stableford, and “Green-Eyed Monstera” by Andrew Ferguson sees a jealous wife come to an erroneous conclusion when tracking her husband.