Interzone 19, Spring 1987

by David Pringle (Editor)

60 pages, Unknown Binding

Published March 1, 1987

Reviews

[Kevin Phyland · Rating 3 out of 5]

A lexicographer whose trips into forbidden areas to gather authentic local patois, and a prostitute who trades her favours for books, meet in a relationship doomed by the fascist regime they inhabit in “The Second Third Of C” by Neil Ferguson. Luiz D’Amalfi has obtained an exclusive contract to go to Santa Maria and get samples of, or indeed an entire dragon, reported by a scoutship. When he gets there he finds somebody else is there ahead of him and he has been seriously misinformed about the nature of the ‘dragon’ in “A Dragon For Seyour Chan” by Paul J. McAuley. Kim Newman mines the rich vein that is Twilight Zone with the harrowing tale of an unpleasant salesman who cuts in line at the bank only to find that from then on nobody admits him into any queue. “The Next-But-One Man” is an entertaining fantasy. Abstract avant-garde artist Parnell, battered by his girlfriend’s abandonment, seeks to make a defining artistic statement to mark his rebirth as an artist. His provocative use of enriched uranium has many consequences in “Goodbye Houston Street, Goodbye” by Richard Kadrey. Astonishingly “The Xeelee Flower” marks Stephen Baxter’s debut story! A piece of Xeelee tech saves Jones from a nova in this seminal tale.