
The March–April issue of Britain's longest running science fiction and fantasy magazine contains new long and short stories by James Sallis, Antony Johnston, Julie C. Day, Alexandra Renwick, T.R. Napper, Michael Reid, and Eliot Fintushel. The cover artist for 2018 is Vince Haig (on the theme of abductees), and interior colour illustrations are by Richard Wagner, Martin Hanford, and Warwick Fraser-Coombe. Ansible Link by David Langford (news and obits); Mutant Popcorn by Nick Lowe (film reviews); Book Zone (book reviews, plus an interview with Sam J. Miller); Jonathan McCalmont's Future Interrupted (comment); Nina Allan's Time Pieces (comment); and a guest editorial by Antony Johnston. Cover Abductees 1 by 2018 cover artist Vince Haig Beautiful Quiet of the Roaring Freeway by James Sallis Soul Music by Antony Johnston illustrated by Warwick Fraser-Coomber Schrödinger's by Julie C. Day illustrated by Richard Wagner Never the Twain by Michael Reid illustrated by Richard Wagner Opium for Ezra by T.R. Napper illustrated by Martin Hanford baleen, baleen by Alexandra Renwick Zen by Eliot Fintushel Guest Editorial Antony Johnston Future Infinite Diversity in Repressive Combinations Jonathan McCalmont Time The Gernsback Conundrum Nina Allan Ansible News, obituaries David Langford Book Zone Books reviewed include Blackfish City by Sam J. Miller (plus interview conducted by Maureen Kincaid Speller), Mad Hatters and March Hares edited by Ellen Datlow, Science A Literary History edited by Roger Luckhurst, The Queen of All Crows by Rod Duncan, Embers of War by Gareth L. Powell, Paris Adrift by E.J. Swift, Dark State by Charles Stross, Blood Binds the Pack by Alex Wells, The Smoke by Simon Ings, Improbable Botany edited by Gary Dalkin Mutant Popcorn Nick Lowe Films reviewed include The Shape of Water, Black Panther, Coco, Maze The Death Cure, Attraction, Jupiter's Moon, Downsizing