If so; lucky you as TTA Press publications are available for E readers and E books from Fictionwise.

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Interzones 211 to 219 are now posted at Fictionwise as are Black Statics 1 to 6 with #7 due soon.

Crimewaves 9 & 10 are also there and TTA’s first published novel Alison by Andrew Humphrey (a horror novel set in East Anglia) is ready to download.

Coming soon on Fictionwise Paul Meloy’s first collection Islington Crocodiles.

You can subscribe to electronic editions of Interzone and Black Static on Fictionwise or download, and pay for, them individually.

If you don’t have an E reader no worry as you can subscribe to the print edition of Black Static and get a free copy of issue #8 to start your subscription be it 6 or 12 issues, or a combination with Interzone, while stocks of BS 8 last. To take up that offer start here. (more…)

Tags: Andrew Humphrey • E Books • E readers • Fictionwise • Paul Meloy

The first Interzone of 2009 has now gone to press for an early January release.

Cover art is by Adam Tredowski, and we fiddled with the template a bit to better match his spectacular art.

Stories:

Monetized by Jason Stoddard
illustrated by Paul Drummond

Sinner, Baker, Fabulist, Priest; Red Mask, Black Mask, Gentleman, Beast by Eugie Foster
illustrated by Geoffrey Grisso

After Everything Woke Up by Rudy Rucker
illustrated by Rudy Rucker

Spy vs Spy by Neil Williamson

Miles to Isengard by Leah Bobet
illustrated by Warwick Fraser-Coombe

Memory Dust by Gareth L. Powell
illiustrated by Daniel Bristow-Bailey

Features:

Ansible Link by David Langford
news, obituaries

Readers’ Poll
vote for your favourite stories of 2008

Book Zone
book reviews from Jim Steel and the team, including Jeffrey Ford interviewed by Rick Kleffel

Laser Fodder by Tony Lee
DVD reviews

Mutant Popcorn by Nick Lowe
film reviews

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Tags: Adam Tredowski • Ansible • books • Daniel Bristow-Bailey • David Langford • DVDs • Eugie Foster • films • Gareth Powell • Geoffrey Grisso • INTERZONE • Jason Stoddard • Leah Bobet • Neil Williamson • Paul Drummond • Rudy Rucker • Warwick Fraser-Coombe

The January Dancer . . . . . . . . . . . Michael Flynn Tor, 350pp, $24.95 hb

Peter Loftus’ review from Interzone 219 follows this brief ‘ad’.

The devalued £ makes this the time for overseas readers to subscribe. Within Europe Interzone is only Euro 28.79 for 6 issues and beyond Europe US$ 41.21 or E 32.39 at this moment. (13:52hrs UK 8/12/08) So why not subscribe? UK readers: subscriptions make great Christmas gifts.

Forced to stop for repairs in an unnamed backwater system, Captain Amos January and his misfit crew set out to investigate the nearest planet for materials with which to construct spare parts. They find more than they bargained for when they stumble upon a cache of alien artefacts of which the ‘dancer’ is the trophy; an innocuous looking red brick that changes shape continuously. While nobody can figure out exactly what it is, or what it does, pretty soon every major player in the galaxy wants to get their hands on it.
From the blurb, one could easily believe we are in for a traditional space opera. The January Dancer is far from conventional however. The far-future setting provides a mongrel mosaic of cultures, all twisted and deformed like the mysterious artefact of the title. Characters change their names, identities and allegiance as often as their underwear in a future fusion universe as exotic as it is familiar. (more…)

Tags: Interzone 219 • January Dancer • Michael Flynn

Four Ads this issue so the economy must be in prime condition.

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Below are the links from advertisements in Interzone 219 ready to click and well in time for your seasonal splurge of expenditure.

Abaddon Books
Twilight of Kerberos: The Light of Heaven by David A. McIntee

Prison by Paul Western. Read an excerpt and/or buy it here.

Morpheus Tales see issue 2 of this new quarterly Magazine of Horror, Science Fiction and Fantasy also on Myspace

Swimming Kangaroo Books
Silk Palace by Colin Harvey. (more…)

Tags: Abaddon • Colin Harvey • Morpheus Tales • Paul Western • Prison • Silk Palace • Twilight of Kerberos

IZ219 will be on its way to subscribers and on sale in some UK shops (the rest to follow) by the 13th November.

Cover art is a digital, colorized version of an original painting by Kenn Brown of Mondolithic Studio called The Traveler.

Stories:

Everything That Matters by Jeff Spock
illustrated by Kenn Brown

When Thorns Are The Tips Of Trees by Jason Sanford
illustrated by Vincent Chong

The Shenu by Alexander Marsh Freed

The Fifth Zhi by Mercurio D. Rivera
illustrated by Paul Drummond

The Country Of The Young by Gord Sellar
illustrated by Daniel Bristow-Bailey

Butterfly, Falling At Dawn by Aliette de Bodard
illustrated by Paul Drummond

Features:

Editorial: Hope Springs Eternal

Ansible Link by David Langford
news, obituaries

Book Zone by Various
book reviews, Tim Lebbon interview, competitions

Laser Fodder by Tony Lee
DVD reviews and competitions

Mutant Popcorn by Nick Lowe
film reviews

More details to follow. Meanwhile, subscribe now!

Tags: Alexander Marsh Freed • Aliette de Bodard • Ansible • Book Reviews • Daniel Bristow-Bailey • David Langford • DVD reviews • film reviews • Gord Sellar • INTERZONE • Jason Sanford • Jeff Spock • Kenn Brown • Mercurio D Rivera • Mondolithic • Nick Lowe • Paul Drummond • Tim Lebbon • Tony Lee • Vincent Chong

The Dream

The Interzone mission to the 66th World SF Convention in Denver began with Pete Bullock booking the dealer’s table for the princely sum of $250 in January. What to ship over, where to send it and how were the nest questions. Luckily Pete’s friend Pete Bartell, brother of author David, volunteered to receive and store the incoming material for us in their garage, so our thanks go to Pete & Sonya Bartell of Parker, CO.

Jetse – remembering 640 lb (300 kg) unsold stock in California in 2006 – was cautious but, with 3 of us to do the selling, I felt we should be brave. Problems were cost and unsold material - I hate throwing it out - and return shipping is prohibitive. So we sent 140 kilo (308 lb) of magazines and books at a cost of £410. ($820?) (more…)

Tags: Conventions • Denvention 3

Never mind the stories I need you to look at the ads and I’ve made it easy with the following links.

Abaddon Books.
Twilight of Kerberos: The Clockwork King of Orl by Mike Wild

Elastic Press
The Last Reef by Gareth L. Powell
The Turing Test by Chris Beckett

Morpheus Tales a new quarterly Magazine of Horror, Science Fiction and Fantasy also on Myspace

Tags: Abaddon • Chris Beckett • Elastic Press • Gareth Lyn Powell • Morpheus Tales

TTA Press will have a dealer table at MonsterCon ‘08 in Concord, NC, USA.  The event is Saturday and Sunday, the 4th and 5th of October 2008.  This is a great opportunity to fill in those missing issues in your collection or just come out and find out about us and have some fun.

Scott Nicholson, who has had stories appear in Crimewave and Black Static, will be a guest author at MonsterCon.  Scott has an upcoming podcast story at Transmissions From Beyond on Monday October 13, 2008.  TFB editor Pete Bullock will be at MonsterCon too.

The event also features many notable guests, including actor Brian Krause who played Leo on the hit television show “Charmed”.  If you live on the U.S. east coast, you’ll want to seriously consider going to MonsterCon.

Tags: Black Static • Conventions • CRIMEWAVE • INTERZONE • MonsterCon

IZ218 is a Chris Beckett special. Chris was an Interzone ‘discovery’ in 1990 and went on to publish a further 18 stories here. We recently received three more quality stories from him in quick succession, so we decided to run all three in the same issue, along with Chris’s own introductions and an in-depth interview conducted by Andy Hedgecock.

The Chris Becket stories are:

Poppyfields, illustrated by Vincent Chong

Greenland, illustrated by Warwick Fraser-Coombe

Rat Island, illustrated by Daniel Bristow-Bailey

The cover image is by Warwick Fraser-Coombe, for Greenland.

(click the image to make it bigger)

Other stories in this issue:

If by Daniel Akselrod & Lenny Royter

His Master’s Voice by Hannu Rajaniemi
illustrated by Paul Drummond

The Corner of the Circle by Tim Lees
illustrated by Warwick Fraser-Coombe

Features:

Ansible Link by David Langford
news, gossip, obituaries

Book Reviews
many titles covered, plus interviews with Charles Stross and Gareth L. Powell

Mutant Popcorn by Nick Lowe
film reviews

Laser Fodder by Tony Lee
DVD reviews, with competitions to win discs, including the director’s cut of Dark City

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Tags: Charles Stross • Chris Beckett • Daniel Akselrod • Daniel Bristow-Bailey • David Langford • Gareth Powell • Hannu Rajaniemi • INTERZONE • Lenny Royter • Nick Lowe • Paul Drummond • Tim Lees • Tony Lee • Vincent Chong • Warwick Fraser-Coombe

We’re genuinely sorry to have lost Jetse de Vries from the Interzone editorial group. He’s always demonstrated enormous levels of commitment in working with us to choose exciting, imaginative and well-crafted SF and Fantasy stories. We will miss his discernment and passion for interesting and polished writing, and we fully agree with the positive and sincere feedback from readers and writers who share our disappointment at his departure.

We are, however, a little perplexed at the idea that Jetse’s departure has been caused by a change in Interzone’s “direction and tone”. No such change was identified or discussed at any time within the team. The three remaining fiction editors do not feel there has been any shift in our editorial process, quality standards, ethics or strategy.

We are also puzzled by the suggestion that the nature of our material will change next year: Jetse has played a full and significant part in selecting the stories our readers will be enjoying for many months to come. It will be quite a while before anyone gets to read a post-Jetse story in Interzone. In fact, we have yet to select a story without his input.

We would like to reassure readers and authors that there is no change in editorial ethos or policy – explicit or implicit, actual or pending – at Interzone.

Andy Cox, David Mathew and Andy Hedgecock (fiction editorial group, Interzone)

Tags: INTERZONE