Once again Interzone is up for the Best Semi Prozine award on this year’s Hugo Ballot. So if you think we deserve to win, and surely we do, then vote accordingly. The list of semi prozine contenders is below (more…)

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The July/August issue is out now with stories by Paul McAuley, Karen Fishler, Paul G. Tremblay, M.K. Hobson, Suzanne Palmer, Jason Sanford; art by Paul Drummond, Darren Winter, Vincent Chong; plus all the usual news and reviews. (more…)

Tags: Chris Beckett • Darren Winter • David Langford • Fantasy • INTERZONE • Jason Sanford • Karen Fishler • MK Hobson • Nick Lowe • Paul Drummond • Paul McAuley • Paul Tremblay • Science Fiction • Suzanne Palmer • Tony Lee • Vincent Chong

Interzone 217 is published on 3rd July. Stories by Paul McAuley, M.K. Hobson, Jason Sanford, Paul G. Tremblay, Suzanne Palmer and Karen Fishler. Cover art by Paul Drummond, for Karen Fishler’s ‘Africa’.

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Tags: INTERZONE • Jason Sanford • Karen Fishler • MK Hobson • Paul Drummond • Paul McAuley • Paul Tremblay • Suzanne Palmer

Denvention 3 is the 66th Worldcon and the 2008 World Science Fiction Convention and, obviously, in Denver, Colorado; dates August 6th to 10th this year. With the help of Interzone’s US friends we will have a dealer stand at the convention.

We will sell Interzone and Black Static there at the unbelievably low price of $7 or $8. The local and State taxes along with exchange rate volatility make it difficult to decide immediately on pricing. I expect US readers think $8 is not ‘unbelievably low’ but it is less than the $12, or more, charged in their normal retail emporia. (more…)

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In case you missed it, Black Static 4 and Interzone 216 are now available at Fictionwise.

Sam Tomaino’s review at SFRevu calls Black Static 4 “the best yet”.  He goes on to say “I loved the articles and all but one of the stories got a Very Good from me.”

Interzone 216 is our Mundane-SF Special issue,  with fiction selected by guest editors and Mundanistas Geoff Ryman, Julian Todd, and Trent Walters.  This issue features a story by Élisabeth Vonarburg, who will be the French-speaking Guest of Honor at Anticipation, the 2009 Worldcon in Montréal. 

Tags: Black Static • INTERZONE • Mundane-SF • Worldcon

Wednesday 11 June 2008

We organised this event with the library several weeks ago to try and publicize Interzone locally. I noised it around the internet and Tony, who has had 12 stories published in the magazine and one in the original Third Alternative very kindly agreed to help with a reading. (more…)

Tags: Joely Black • Manchester Central Library • Tony Ballantyne

Gollancz say:

“Unfortunately there’s been a bit of a mix up, and the principle edition that has just come out is a large format paperback at £12.99 and not a hardback at £18.99. We’re still more than happy to do the offer and I have instructed the mailing house to adjust the price to £6.99 still with free p&p so it’s still a half price offer and cheaper than amazon!”

Any Interzone reader ringing through with the original offer and reference number will be offered this deal. If you want to take advantage of it now please ring 01903 828503 (overseas readers dial 44 1903 828503) and quote reference number MA03. Postage and packing is free within the UK, overseas readers will be charged £1.60.

Tags: Greg Egan • Incandescence

THE NEW WEIRD edited by ANN & JEFF VANDERMEER
Tachyon Publications paperback, 320pp, RRP US$14.95

Reviewed by David McWilliam

Ann & Jeff VanderMeer’s impressive anthology is the perfect starting point for an exploration of the innovative “New Weird� movement in genre fiction, which was brought to prominence in 2000 by the critical and commercial success of China Miéville’s Perdido Street Station. Prior to reviewing The New Weird I was familiar with the works of several of the contributing authors, whose inventive take on fantasy writing made me want to know more about the generic milieu from which their ideas were spawned.

Editor Jeff VanderMeer’s introduction, ‘The New Weird: “It’s Alive?â€�’, explores the genesis of the genre in the New Wave experimentation of the 1960s and the transformative horror, spearheaded by the works of Clive Barker, in the 1980s. An anthology that seeks to present a representative sample of the style of writing typifying a literary subgenre requires a working definition in order to assist its readers’ understanding of the project. (more…)

Tags: anthology • book • Fantasy • fiction • genre • review • The New Weird • Vandermeer

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As a service to readers and advertisers, here are links to advertisements in IZ 216 ready to click.

Abaddon Books
The Afterblight Chronicles: Dawn Over Doomsday Jaspre Bark
Rules, and details on how to enter the BSFA 50th Anniversary Short Story competition for writers from the UK & Ireland
Incandescence Greg Egan’s new novel and a (near) half price offer on the large format paperback for Interzone readers
Swimming Kangaroo Books
Silk Palace Colin Harvey.
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Tags: Abaddon • BSFA • Colin Harvey • Greg Egan

A chance for Manchester’s SF magazine starved millions to get their hands on the hard stuff.

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We have organised a lunchtime reading by Interzone alumni Tony Ballantyne at the Central Library (St Peter’s Square) in the 2nd floor Reception Roomon Wednesday 11 June 1-2pm.
Roy will be selling Interzone and Black Static and a few books in the room before and after the event and will try to be set up there by 12:30. Entry is free but the books and magazines aren’t, though prices tend to be less than cover.
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Tags: Manchester Central Library • Reading • Recursion • Tony Ballantyne