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
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** Sign up for Antony's newsletter at http://ajwriter.substack.com ** Antony Johnston is one of the most versatile writers of the modern era. The Charlize Theron movie Atomic Blonde was based on his graphic novel. His murder mystery series The Dog Sitter Detective won the Barker Book Award. The Brigitte Sharp spy thrillers are in development for TV. And his productivity guide The Organised Writer has helped authors all over the world take control of their workload. Antony is a celebrated videogames writer, with genre-defining titles including Dead Space, Shadow of Mordor, and Resident Evil Village to his credit. His work on Silent Hill Ascension made him the only writer in the world to have contributed to all of gaming’s ‘big three’ horror franchises. His immense body of work also includes Marvel superheroes such as Daredevil and Shang-Chi, the Alex Rider graphic novels, the post-apocalypse epic Wasteland, and more. He wrote and directed the film Crossover Point, made entirely in quarantine during the coronavirus pandemic. An experienced podcaster and public speaker, he also frequently writes articles on the life of an author, and is a prolific musician. Antony is a former vice chair of the Crime Writers’ Association, a member of International Thriller Writers and the Society of Authors, a Shore Scripts screenwriting judge, and sits on the Writers’ Guild of Great Britain’s videogames committee. He lives and works in England.
Julie C. Day's novella THE RAMPANT (Aqueduct Press) is a 2020 Lambda Literary Award finalist. Her genre-bending debut collection, UNCOMMON MIRACLES (PS Publishing, 2018), contains some of her most beloved work. She’s also the Editor-in-Chief of the charity anthology WEIRD DREAM SOCIETY (Reckoning Press, 2020) and the forthcoming DREAMS FOR A BROKEN WORLD (2022). Julie is currently working on the mosaic novel STORIES OF DRIESCH (Vernacular Books). She’s published over forty stories in magazines such as Interzone, Split Lip Magazine, Black Static, Podcastle and the Cincinnati Review. John Crowley describes her fiction as "strongly strange, whether happening in a sort of now in this country or in a weirdly altered past. These stories seem to be what the term American Gothic was meant for." Some of her favorite things include loose teas, standing desks and the tricolored prevost's squirrel.
