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Interzone 267, November-December 2016
The November–December issue of Britain's longest running science fiction and fantasy magazine contains new stories by Harmony Neal, Ryan Row, Sarah Brooks, Rich Larson, Samantha Henderson, and David Cleden. Cover art is by Vincent Sammy and interior colour illustrations are by Jim Burns, Richard Wagner, Martin Hanford, and Dave Senecal. Features: Martin McGrath on the James White Award; Ansible Link by David Langford (news and obits); Mutant Popcorn by Nick Lowe (film reviews); Laser Fodder by Tony Lee (DVD/Blu-ray reviews); Book Zone (book reviews, including an interview with Tade Thompson by Maureen Kincaid Speller, and an interview with Chris Beckett by Juliet E. McKenna); Jonathan McCalmont's Future Interrupted (comment); Nina Allan's Time Pieces (comment).
Cover Art:
The Orion Crusades: Infection by 2016 cover artist Vincent Sammy
Fiction:
Alts by Harmony Neal
illustrated by Richard Wagner
Dogfights in Olympus and Other Absences by Ryan Row
illustrated by Jim Burns
The Hunger of Auntie Tiger by Sarah Brooks
illustrated by Jim Burns
You Make Pattaya by Rich Larson
illustrated by Dave Senecal
Rock, Paper, Incisors by David Cleden
illustrated by Martin Hanford
(The 2016 James White Award Winner)
My Generations Shall Praise by Samantha Henderson
illustrated by Richard Wagner
Features:
Guest Editorial: The James White Award
Martin McGrath
Future Interrupted: More Than Fools. More Than Fodder.
Jonathan McCalmont
Time Pieces: High Road to the Future
Nina Allan
Ansible Link
David Langford
Reviews Interviews:
Book Zone
Books reviewed include Making Wolf and Rosewater by Tade Thompson (plus interview by Maureen Kincaid Speller), Daughter of Eden by Chris Beckett (plus interview by Juliet E. McKenna), Wicked Weeds by Pedro Cabiya, Isra Isle by Nana Semel, The Kraken Sea by E. Catherine Tobler, Europe in Winter by Dave Hutchinson, The Tourist by Robert Dickinson, Invasion by Luke Rhinehart, Slipping by Lauren Beukes
Mutant Popcorn
Nick Lowe
Cinema releases reviewed include Doctor Strange, Swiss Army Man, Trolls, Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children, Kubo and the Two Strings, Storks, Sausage Party, Morgan, The Purge: Election Year, Under the Shadow, Set the Thames on Fire
Laser Fodder
Tony Lee
DVDs and Blu-rays reviewed include Arrow Season Four, The Flash Season Two, Dr. Strange (1978)
Cover Art:
The Orion Crusades: Infection by 2016 cover artist Vincent Sammy
Fiction:
Alts by Harmony Neal
illustrated by Richard Wagner
Dogfights in Olympus and Other Absences by Ryan Row
illustrated by Jim Burns
The Hunger of Auntie Tiger by Sarah Brooks
illustrated by Jim Burns
You Make Pattaya by Rich Larson
illustrated by Dave Senecal
Rock, Paper, Incisors by David Cleden
illustrated by Martin Hanford
(The 2016 James White Award Winner)
My Generations Shall Praise by Samantha Henderson
illustrated by Richard Wagner
Features:
Guest Editorial: The James White Award
Martin McGrath
Future Interrupted: More Than Fools. More Than Fodder.
Jonathan McCalmont
Time Pieces: High Road to the Future
Nina Allan
Ansible Link
David Langford
Reviews Interviews:
Book Zone
Books reviewed include Making Wolf and Rosewater by Tade Thompson (plus interview by Maureen Kincaid Speller), Daughter of Eden by Chris Beckett (plus interview by Juliet E. McKenna), Wicked Weeds by Pedro Cabiya, Isra Isle by Nana Semel, The Kraken Sea by E. Catherine Tobler, Europe in Winter by Dave Hutchinson, The Tourist by Robert Dickinson, Invasion by Luke Rhinehart, Slipping by Lauren Beukes
Mutant Popcorn
Nick Lowe
Cinema releases reviewed include Doctor Strange, Swiss Army Man, Trolls, Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children, Kubo and the Two Strings, Storks, Sausage Party, Morgan, The Purge: Election Year, Under the Shadow, Set the Thames on Fire
Laser Fodder
Tony Lee
DVDs and Blu-rays reviewed include Arrow Season Four, The Flash Season Two, Dr. Strange (1978)
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January 26, 2021
This is an extremely driven, plain-spoken, evocative story where you as reader learn to FEEL as if you are morphing into an animal, like those thus already morphed in this Interzone’s first story and in the accompanying ‘Black Static 55’, not so much amorphous twins as complements in battle.
Here a female is incubated claustrophobically, chosen as a cast-off from the other tribe, but connected by birth to that tribe, incubated to become the optimal rock or paper or knife as complementary battle-destiny, her new tribe’s representative in the semi-symbolic battle between tribes in the two respective duellists’ shapes.
The detailed review of this book posted elsewhere under my name is too long or impractical to post here.
Above is one of its observations at the time of the review.
Here a female is incubated claustrophobically, chosen as a cast-off from the other tribe, but connected by birth to that tribe, incubated to become the optimal rock or paper or knife as complementary battle-destiny, her new tribe’s representative in the semi-symbolic battle between tribes in the two respective duellists’ shapes.
The detailed review of this book posted elsewhere under my name is too long or impractical to post here.
Above is one of its observations at the time of the review.
December 10, 2016
An average issue with reasonable stories by Harmony Neal, Sarah Brooks, Rich Larson and David Cledem.
- "Alts" by Harmony Neal: in a comedic variation of HG Wells' "The Island of Doctor Moreau", a genetically engineered 'person' sits in on a group of similar altered people, trying to figure out what they are good or; or rather, what a military complex thinks they may be good for.
- "Dogfights in Olympus and Other Absences" by Ryan Row: a strange planet with a huge atmosphere becomes the backdrop for this dogfighting story around an ace pilot who only wants what's best for his daughter. But then the daughter wants to become like him.
- "The Hunger of Auntie Tiger" by Sarah Brooks: in a desert future, two kids eke out a living among the wreckage of a city, being told tales of a hungry tiger. But will the tale become true when they are caught in a huge dust storm and they see a familiar figure in the sand.
- "You Make Pattaya" by Rich Larson: sex, deception and money form the backdrop of this story of a future Thailand, when a man sees an opportunity for quick gains by exposing a celebrity secretly looking for adventure.
- "Rock, Paper, Incisors" by David Cledem: the story of a young girl tricked into become her tribe's chosen hero / monster by transforming herself in one of three types of creatures to do battle with the other tribe's hero / monster. But when she senses a connection with her enemy, she may be able to escape being killed and perhaps, to escape the constant strife between the tribes.
- "My Generations Shall Praise" by Samantha Henderson: a story about a prison inmate being signed up for a procedure to allow a dying relative take over her body in exchange for money for her children. But can she go through with it, especially when she realises that doing so would make her children end up being effective body slaves to her relative in the future.
- "Alts" by Harmony Neal: in a comedic variation of HG Wells' "The Island of Doctor Moreau", a genetically engineered 'person' sits in on a group of similar altered people, trying to figure out what they are good or; or rather, what a military complex thinks they may be good for.
- "Dogfights in Olympus and Other Absences" by Ryan Row: a strange planet with a huge atmosphere becomes the backdrop for this dogfighting story around an ace pilot who only wants what's best for his daughter. But then the daughter wants to become like him.
- "The Hunger of Auntie Tiger" by Sarah Brooks: in a desert future, two kids eke out a living among the wreckage of a city, being told tales of a hungry tiger. But will the tale become true when they are caught in a huge dust storm and they see a familiar figure in the sand.
- "You Make Pattaya" by Rich Larson: sex, deception and money form the backdrop of this story of a future Thailand, when a man sees an opportunity for quick gains by exposing a celebrity secretly looking for adventure.
- "Rock, Paper, Incisors" by David Cledem: the story of a young girl tricked into become her tribe's chosen hero / monster by transforming herself in one of three types of creatures to do battle with the other tribe's hero / monster. But when she senses a connection with her enemy, she may be able to escape being killed and perhaps, to escape the constant strife between the tribes.
- "My Generations Shall Praise" by Samantha Henderson: a story about a prison inmate being signed up for a procedure to allow a dying relative take over her body in exchange for money for her children. But can she go through with it, especially when she realises that doing so would make her children end up being effective body slaves to her relative in the future.
December 28, 2016
Another fantastic issue with a great selection of speculative fiction stories. Review to come (probably in 2017)
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