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Interzone #279
The January–February 2019 issue contains new cutting edge science fiction and fantasy by Sean McMullen, Benjamin A. Wilgus, Tim Chawaga, G.V. Anderson, William Squirrel, and David Cleden. The 2019 cover artist is Richard Wagner, and interior colour illustrations are by Richard Wagner and Martin Hanford. Features: Ansible Link by David Langford (news and obits); Mutant Popcorn by Nick Lowe (film reviews); Book Zone (book reviews); Andy Hedgecock's Future Interrupted (comment); Aliya Whiteley's Climbing Stories (comment); guest editorial by Sean McMullen.
Interzone's 2019 cover artist is Richard Wagner
Fiction:
The Backstitched Heart of Katharine Wright by Benjamin A. Wilgus
illustrated by Richard Wagner
The Fukinaga Special Chip Job by Tim Chawaga
illustrated by Richard Wagner
This Buddhafield is Not Your Buddhafield by William Squirrell
For the Wicked, Only Weeds Will Grow by G.V. Anderson
illustrated by Richard Wagner
Seven Stops Along the Graffiti Road by David Cleden
illustrated by Martin Hanford
Terminalia by Sean McMullen
illustrated by Richard Wagner
Features:
Guest Editorial: Escaping Into Visions
Sean McMullen
Future Interrupted: Do it All Over Again
Andy Hedgecock
Climbing Stories: Chaotic Goodness
Aliya Whiteley
Ansible Link
David Langford
Reviews:
Book Zone
Books reviewed include Puma by Anthony Burgess, Near Future by Suzannah Evans, Europe at Dawn by Dave Hutchinson, Our Child of the Stars by Stephen Cox, Starfield edited by Duncan Lunan, The Sky Woman by J.D. Moyer, The Quantum Magician by Derek Künsken
Mutant Popcorn
Nick Lowe
Films reviewed include Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse, Ralph Breaks the Internet, The Nutcracker and the Four Realms, The Grinch, Mortal Engines, Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald, Overlord, Sorry to Bother You, Aquaman
Interzone's 2019 cover artist is Richard Wagner
Fiction:
The Backstitched Heart of Katharine Wright by Benjamin A. Wilgus
illustrated by Richard Wagner
The Fukinaga Special Chip Job by Tim Chawaga
illustrated by Richard Wagner
This Buddhafield is Not Your Buddhafield by William Squirrell
For the Wicked, Only Weeds Will Grow by G.V. Anderson
illustrated by Richard Wagner
Seven Stops Along the Graffiti Road by David Cleden
illustrated by Martin Hanford
Terminalia by Sean McMullen
illustrated by Richard Wagner
Features:
Guest Editorial: Escaping Into Visions
Sean McMullen
Future Interrupted: Do it All Over Again
Andy Hedgecock
Climbing Stories: Chaotic Goodness
Aliya Whiteley
Ansible Link
David Langford
Reviews:
Book Zone
Books reviewed include Puma by Anthony Burgess, Near Future by Suzannah Evans, Europe at Dawn by Dave Hutchinson, Our Child of the Stars by Stephen Cox, Starfield edited by Duncan Lunan, The Sky Woman by J.D. Moyer, The Quantum Magician by Derek Künsken
Mutant Popcorn
Nick Lowe
Films reviewed include Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse, Ralph Breaks the Internet, The Nutcracker and the Four Realms, The Grinch, Mortal Engines, Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald, Overlord, Sorry to Bother You, Aquaman
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January 25, 2019
An average issue of Interzone, with interesting stories by Alison Wilgus, G.V. Anderson and Sean McMullen.
- "The Backstitched Heart of Katharine Wright" by Alison Wilgus: an interesting story involving Katharine Wright, the sister of the famous Wright brothers (Orville and Wilbur) who suddenly discovers the ability to find a particular 'thread' of time, jump back through time and alter the future. This she does to help save her brother from an early death from a bicycle accident and twice during their early flying days. But when Wilbur dies from typhoid fever, possibly an unavoidable death, she has to decide whether she want to jump back through time one last time to try to save him and keep their family together.
- "The Fukinaga Special Chip Job" by Tim Chawaga: a glimpse of a future where people live in mainly isolated cities and some people make a living by hunting through the remains of civilisation. In this case, hunting for a rare brand of potato chips.
- "This Buddhafield is Not Your Buddhafield" by William Squirrell: a tale that goes nowhere, as far as I can tell. A maid is offered a job cleaning a floating mansion above Uranus, which she does, year after year. And as the years past, her connections to her family and humanity gradually disappear. Yet she never questions her job or why she still works there.
- "For the Wicked, Only Weeds Will Grow" by G.V. Anderson: a unusual tale about a colony of alien, mobile plant-like species who ease people waiting to die by providing pain-reducing drugs. One day, a grumpy terminal patient arrives and it would involve a lot of patience and communication from one alien provider to ease his journey into death.
- "Seven Stops Along the Graffiti Road" by David Cleden: a meandering story about people who seem to be wandering forever down a forest road, looking for it to end, and meeting fellow travellers along the way. Unresolved threads make the story feel like a fragment of a larger tale.
- "Terminalia" by Sean McMullen: an interesting glimpse of an alternate history where rich and powerful people can live for longer (and keep control their wealth) by having their 'souls' transferred into mechanical beings. But one group wants to break their stranglehold but it would involve a temporary death of an associate and the involvement of a doctor who can revive people who have cardiac arrests.
- "The Backstitched Heart of Katharine Wright" by Alison Wilgus: an interesting story involving Katharine Wright, the sister of the famous Wright brothers (Orville and Wilbur) who suddenly discovers the ability to find a particular 'thread' of time, jump back through time and alter the future. This she does to help save her brother from an early death from a bicycle accident and twice during their early flying days. But when Wilbur dies from typhoid fever, possibly an unavoidable death, she has to decide whether she want to jump back through time one last time to try to save him and keep their family together.
- "The Fukinaga Special Chip Job" by Tim Chawaga: a glimpse of a future where people live in mainly isolated cities and some people make a living by hunting through the remains of civilisation. In this case, hunting for a rare brand of potato chips.
- "This Buddhafield is Not Your Buddhafield" by William Squirrell: a tale that goes nowhere, as far as I can tell. A maid is offered a job cleaning a floating mansion above Uranus, which she does, year after year. And as the years past, her connections to her family and humanity gradually disappear. Yet she never questions her job or why she still works there.
- "For the Wicked, Only Weeds Will Grow" by G.V. Anderson: a unusual tale about a colony of alien, mobile plant-like species who ease people waiting to die by providing pain-reducing drugs. One day, a grumpy terminal patient arrives and it would involve a lot of patience and communication from one alien provider to ease his journey into death.
- "Seven Stops Along the Graffiti Road" by David Cleden: a meandering story about people who seem to be wandering forever down a forest road, looking for it to end, and meeting fellow travellers along the way. Unresolved threads make the story feel like a fragment of a larger tale.
- "Terminalia" by Sean McMullen: an interesting glimpse of an alternate history where rich and powerful people can live for longer (and keep control their wealth) by having their 'souls' transferred into mechanical beings. But one group wants to break their stranglehold but it would involve a temporary death of an associate and the involvement of a doctor who can revive people who have cardiac arrests.
July 13, 2021
Väldigt bra nummer - läs det!
A very good issue. Thoughts on the stories:
The backstitched heart of Katharine Wright - Alison Wilgus- time traveling story in the trails of the Wright family (ie the inventors and fliers), where Katherine saves their lives through time travel over and over again, unraveling herself doing it. Very interesting and heartfelt.
This Buddhafield is not Your Buddhafield - William Squirrel - a story of a maid left alone on a space mansion for her whole life. Melancholy and a bit fascinating. The lack of explanation makes it a bit thin, in this case. Good atmosphere though.
For the wicked, only weeds will grow - G.V. Anderson - brillliant story about a hospice run by floating aliens and the bitter human they coax back to spiritual life before he dies. Probably my favorite.
Seven stops along the graffiti road - David Cleden - cool idea both mysterious and haunting. Reminds you of the Road, of course. Not bad, not great. Interesting.
Terminalia - Sean McMullen - steam punk story about a doctor who can revive the dead and is asked to help kill and revive a woman who wants to chat with Death and return. Also robots inhabited by spirits. Good story well executed. Manages a fairly complex plot over few pages and is a page turner.
A very good issue. Thoughts on the stories:
The backstitched heart of Katharine Wright - Alison Wilgus- time traveling story in the trails of the Wright family (ie the inventors and fliers), where Katherine saves their lives through time travel over and over again, unraveling herself doing it. Very interesting and heartfelt.
This Buddhafield is not Your Buddhafield - William Squirrel - a story of a maid left alone on a space mansion for her whole life. Melancholy and a bit fascinating. The lack of explanation makes it a bit thin, in this case. Good atmosphere though.
For the wicked, only weeds will grow - G.V. Anderson - brillliant story about a hospice run by floating aliens and the bitter human they coax back to spiritual life before he dies. Probably my favorite.
Seven stops along the graffiti road - David Cleden - cool idea both mysterious and haunting. Reminds you of the Road, of course. Not bad, not great. Interesting.
Terminalia - Sean McMullen - steam punk story about a doctor who can revive the dead and is asked to help kill and revive a woman who wants to chat with Death and return. Also robots inhabited by spirits. Good story well executed. Manages a fairly complex plot over few pages and is a page turner.
April 7, 2019
Sean McMullen’s guest Editorial argues real life has not, quite, caught up with Science Fiction. Andy Hedgcock’s Future Interrupted riffs on the drawbacks of repetition and sequels in art while noting the originality of recent radio works by Stephen Bacziewicz and Anita Sullivan. Aliya Whiteley’s Climbing Stories ponders the writer’s relationship with and duty towards morality via her life experiences with role-playing games. In Book Zone Andy Hedgecock comes round to Anthomy Burgess’s Puma despite the author’s disparagement of SF, Ian Hunter appreciates Suzannah Evans’s poetry collection Near Future, Duncan Lawie finds reacquainting himself with Dave Hutchinson’s Fractured Europe series in Europe at Dawn a warm, comforting experience, Juliet McKenna says Our Child of the Stars by Stephen Cox is whooly fresh and intensely gripping, Barbara Melville is charmed by the reprint of Starfield edited by Duncan Lunan, Stephen Theaker’s initial reservations about The Sky Woman by J D Moyer are overcome by the tory’s development into a “solid three-star book”, while Ian Sales finds Derek Kunsken’s The Quantum Magician naggingly familiar.
As to the fiction:-
In The Backstitched Heart of Katharine Wright by Alison Wilgus, Katharine, the sister of Orville and Wilbur Wright, is able to unravel time and retsitch it to prevent Orville’s early deaths.
The Fukinaga Special Chip Job by Tim Chagawa has its narrator travelling to all the world’s floating cities seeking out the mythical crisps of the title.
This Buddhafield Is Not Your Buddhafield by William Squirrell is printed sideways and tells the tale of a cleaner on a structure in the clouds of Uranus, a structure whose owner never lives there.
For the Wicked Only Weeds Will Grow by G V Anderson is set on a kind of interplanetary hospice called Requis. A curmudgeonly Terran tests the narrator’s soothing powers. The story displays an idiosyncratic approach to personal pronouns, use of which seems to depend on species but is inconsistent.
In Seven Stops Along the Graffiti Road by David Cleden survivors of an unspecified catastrophe wend their way along a road bedecked with graffiti – all of it encouraging. The road however becones strange at night, when they are all safely off to the side at way-stations.
Terminaliaby Sean McMullen is a cod-Edwardian piece of fiction about cardiac resuscitation, a mechanical lady and the elimination of ghosts. The story is good but its execution feels more than a bit rushed.
As to the fiction:-
In The Backstitched Heart of Katharine Wright by Alison Wilgus, Katharine, the sister of Orville and Wilbur Wright, is able to unravel time and retsitch it to prevent Orville’s early deaths.
The Fukinaga Special Chip Job by Tim Chagawa has its narrator travelling to all the world’s floating cities seeking out the mythical crisps of the title.
This Buddhafield Is Not Your Buddhafield by William Squirrell is printed sideways and tells the tale of a cleaner on a structure in the clouds of Uranus, a structure whose owner never lives there.
For the Wicked Only Weeds Will Grow by G V Anderson is set on a kind of interplanetary hospice called Requis. A curmudgeonly Terran tests the narrator’s soothing powers. The story displays an idiosyncratic approach to personal pronouns, use of which seems to depend on species but is inconsistent.
In Seven Stops Along the Graffiti Road by David Cleden survivors of an unspecified catastrophe wend their way along a road bedecked with graffiti – all of it encouraging. The road however becones strange at night, when they are all safely off to the side at way-stations.
Terminaliaby Sean McMullen is a cod-Edwardian piece of fiction about cardiac resuscitation, a mechanical lady and the elimination of ghosts. The story is good but its execution feels more than a bit rushed.
February 28, 2020
Favourite stories in this issue were: The Backstitched Heart of Katharine Wright by Alison Wilgus, a time-twisty tale of family love, sacrifice, the Wright brothers and their sister. The Buddhafield is not your Buddafield by William Squirrell, another tale of sacrifice, this time set in the farthest reaches of space. Terminalia by Sean McMullen has a nod to the Wright brothers in this story that offers shades of next-generation Flatliners.
January 28, 2021
Some mighty new archetypes of imagination made effectively or virtually real in this magazine, in which there are also book reviews and articles about SF, and fine artwork.
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Above is one of my observations at the time of the review.
The detailed review of this book posted elsewhere under my name is too long or impractical to post here.
Above is one of my observations at the time of the review.
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