Interzone 213 is published on the 8th November and will be in the post to subscribers by then.

The cover is by Kenn Brown of Mondolithic Studios. Click for a larger view. (PS: the final version changed slightly, but only in the sidebar.)

The cover illustration is inspired by Chris Roberson’s ‘Metal Dragon Year’, a story in his Celestial Empire sequence. Also in this issue is Aliette de Bodard’s ‘The Lost Xuyan Bride’ (illustrated by Paul Drummond). These two stories share, coincidentally, a similar background: a world where China and the Aztecs are the dominant powers, and where the Spanish either didn‚Äôt discover America or were defeated by the Aztecs. Rather than hide the similarity we decided to run both in the same issue, and invited Chris and Aliette to describe how they imagined and then developed their alternate worlds.

Other stories in the issue are ‘Molly and the Red Hat’ by Benjamin Rosenbaum, ‘Odin’s Spear’ by Steve Bein (illustrated by Paul Drummond), ‘The Men in the Attic’ by John Phillip Olsen (illustrated by David Gentry), and ‘The Best of Your Life’ by Jason Stoddard (illustrated by Warwick Fraser-Coombe, see below, and click for a larger view).

We have the usual Interzone features, including book reviews by John Clute and others, DVD reviews by Tony Lee, David Langford’s Ansible Link, and more. Plus a special WorldCon report from our man in Japan John Paul Catton (JP sends a regular column from Japan to Interzone’s sister magazine Black Static, by the way), and Andrew Hedgecock interviews Gary Gibson (below ‚Äì click for a larger view) about his work including his latest novel Stealing Light.

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