Interzone #283 (September-October 2019)

New Science Fiction & Fantasy

By David Langford, Lucy Harlow, Fiona Moore, and more

2019

First Published

3.91

Average Rating

213

Number of Pages

6H28M

Audio Length

The September-October 2019 issue contains new cutting edge science fiction and fantasy by John Kessel, Robert Minto, Lucy Harlow, Fiona Moore, David Cleden, and James White Award winner Dustin Blair Steinacker. The 2019 cover artist is Richard Wagner, and interior colour illustrations are by Richard Wagner, Martin Hanford and others. 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 John Kessel. Interzone's 2019 cover artist is Richard Wagner Fiction: The Winds and Persecutions of the Sky by Robert Minto illustrated by Martin Hanford Of the Green Spires by Lucy Harlow Jolene by Fiona Moore illustrated by Richard Wagner The Palimpsest Trigger by David Cleden Fix That House! by John Kessel James White Award Winner: Two Worlds Apart by Dustin Blair Steinacker Features: Guest Editorial John Kessel Future Interrupted: Irrationality, Forgetfulness and a Load of Goebbels Andy Hedgecock Climbing Stories: From One to the Next Aliya Whiteley Ansible Link David Langford Reviews: Book Zone Books reviewed include A Year Without A Winter edited by Dehlia Hannah, This is How YOu LOse the Time War by Amal El-Mohtar & Max Gladstone, Palestine +100 edited by Basma Ghalayini, Menace of the Machine edited by Mike Ashley, The End of the World and Other Catastrophes edited by Mike Ashley, A Brightness Long Ago by Guy Gavriel Kay, Learning Monkey and Crocodile by Nick Wood, Driving Ambition by Fiona Moore, Chilling Effect by Valerie Valdes, The Library of the Unwritten by A.J. Hackwith, The Complex by Michael Walters, Ivory Apples by Lisa Goldstein Mutant Popcorn Nick Lowe Films reviewed include Aniara, Spider-Man: Far From Home, The Angry Birds Movie 2, UglyDolls, Playmobil: The Movie, Yesterday, In Fabric

Avg Rating

3.91

Number of Ratings

5 STARS

18%

4 STARS

55%

3 STARS

27%

2 STARS

1 STARS

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Authors

Fiona Moore is a writer and academic whose work has appeared in Asimov, Interzone, and Clarkesworld, with reprints in Forever Magazine and two consecutive editions of The Best of British SF; her story “Jolene” was shortlisted for the 2019 BSFA Award for Shorter Fiction, and her first novel Driving Ambition is available from Bundoran Press. She has written and cowritten a number of articles and guidebooks on cult television, including guides to Blake’s Seven, The Prisoner and Battlestar Galactica. She has also written three stage plays and four audio plays, and a blog entitled A Doctor Of Many Things. When not writing, she is a Professor of Business Anthropology at Royal Holloway University.. She lives in Southwest London with a tortoiseshell cat who is bent on world domination.

John (Joseph Vincent) Kessel co-directs the creative writing program at North Carolina State University in Raleigh. A winner of the Nebula, Locus, Sturgeon, and Tiptree Awards, his books include Good News From Outer Space, Corrupting Dr. Nice, The Pure Product, and The Baum Plan for Financial Independence and Other Stories. His story collection Meeting in Infinity was a New York Times Notable Book. Most recently, with James Patrick Kelly he has edited the anthologies Feeling Very Strange, Rewired, The Secret History of Science Fiction and Kafkaesque. Born in Buffalo, NY, Kessel has a PhD in American Literature, has been an NEA Fellow, and for twenty years has been one of the organizers of the Sycamore Hill Writers Workshop.