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Interzone 295
In this issue: stories by Seán Padraic Birnie, Rachael Cupp, Frank Dumas, Stephanie Lane Gage, Jendia Gammon, Ai Jiang, Jonathan Laidlow, Edward R. Morris, Nozaki Mado, Katie McIvor, H. Pueyo, Amal Singh, R.L. Summerling, Corey J. White, and Aigner Loren Wilson; columns by Alexander Glass, David Langford, Nick Lowe, Val Nolan, and Aliya Whiteley; book reviews by Gautam Bhatia, Alexander Glass, Kelly Jennings, and Paul Kincaid; an interview with Agnes Gomillion by Gautam Bhatia; and art by Carly A-F, Martin Hanford, Emma Howitt, Dante Luiz, Juliana Pinho, Vinayak Varma, and Richard Wagner.
275 pages, Paperback
Published September 1, 2023
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Interzone
3 booksInterzone publishes fiction and non-fiction from all over the planet.
It was founded in 1982 by David Pringle, John Clute, Alan Dorey, Malcolm Edwards, Colin Greenland, Graham Jones, Roz Kaveney, and Simon Ounsley. It was published by TTA Press and edited by Andy Cox from 2004 to 2022 and is now published by MYY Presss and edited by Gareth Jelley.
Support Interzone at Patreon and get each new issue on the day of release.
Interzone has a free online sister zine, IZ Digital which is like Interzone, but digital.
Thank you for reading IZ in all its forms!
— Gareth Jelley, Editor & Publisher
It was founded in 1982 by David Pringle, John Clute, Alan Dorey, Malcolm Edwards, Colin Greenland, Graham Jones, Roz Kaveney, and Simon Ounsley. It was published by TTA Press and edited by Andy Cox from 2004 to 2022 and is now published by MYY Presss and edited by Gareth Jelley.
Support Interzone at Patreon and get each new issue on the day of release.
Interzone has a free online sister zine, IZ Digital which is like Interzone, but digital.
Thank you for reading IZ in all its forms!
— Gareth Jelley, Editor & Publisher
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December 15, 2023
Interzone is a large magazine containing a wealth of stories, articles, and art. As to the latter, every story is illustrated with a cover splash (sometimes more) which brings life to the stories with pleasantly varied and eclectic art. The articles are great, too, ranging from David Langford's somewhat random collection of ephemera and Nick Lowe's reflection on recently released movies.
But what I'm writing about here really are those stories that make reading the entire magazine worthwhile. To be clear, none of the stories are bad. Some are more focused on the world-building equivalent of technophilia, characters taking a seat behind the details of how something is done (particularly in the case of several alt-history stories), and those aren't to my taste.
But what I love here are stories like those by H. Pueyo and Stephanie Lane Gage. H. Pueyo writes a fantasy story that works similar to Marlon James' novels in that it's clearly epic fantasy, but the world is unique, involving cultures that seem South and Central American. The writing is beautiful, the characters engrossing, and I want to read a novel in this world. On the opposite end, Gage writes a story told in fragments, sketching out a tale of one town terrorized/changed by aliens (?) who echo bodysnatchers or changelings, inhabitants being transformed and those transformations freaking people out more than any violence or physicalized terror. The story is a series of excerpts from a catalog of anomalous events, and though there is no strict character work that arcs over the entire story, the mood is delicious, and the characters that show up for sentences or paragraphs etch a particular feeling into my mind that makes the whole story work for me. I'd read an entire book by Gage, too.
But what I'm writing about here really are those stories that make reading the entire magazine worthwhile. To be clear, none of the stories are bad. Some are more focused on the world-building equivalent of technophilia, characters taking a seat behind the details of how something is done (particularly in the case of several alt-history stories), and those aren't to my taste.
But what I love here are stories like those by H. Pueyo and Stephanie Lane Gage. H. Pueyo writes a fantasy story that works similar to Marlon James' novels in that it's clearly epic fantasy, but the world is unique, involving cultures that seem South and Central American. The writing is beautiful, the characters engrossing, and I want to read a novel in this world. On the opposite end, Gage writes a story told in fragments, sketching out a tale of one town terrorized/changed by aliens (?) who echo bodysnatchers or changelings, inhabitants being transformed and those transformations freaking people out more than any violence or physicalized terror. The story is a series of excerpts from a catalog of anomalous events, and though there is no strict character work that arcs over the entire story, the mood is delicious, and the characters that show up for sentences or paragraphs etch a particular feeling into my mind that makes the whole story work for me. I'd read an entire book by Gage, too.
October 19, 2023
Recent Reads: Interzone 295. Edited by Gareth Jelley, this hefty edition of the venerable SF magazine is best thought of as an anthology of modern SFF. An excellent collection of international stories that spans the genre, Well worth subscribing. Sadly the last paper edition.
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