Geoff Ryman will be talking about Interzone 216, the mundane sf issue, on Radio 4 tonight (Friday 2 May) at 7:30, Front Row, I assume, and you should be able to listen again using the BBC website if you miss it.

Damien G Walter has a brilliant article in the Guardian Unlimited/Guardian On line.
Here is a quote

“The Mundane manifesto was perfectly pitched to infuriate the SF community. On the one hand it aimed a casual insult at SF readers who enjoyed the powerful myths it criticised. On the other it alienated the science-obsessed “Hard SF” faction who felt directly attacked by the Mundanistas. The attitudes of both sides hardened around a series of wonderfully arrogant statements issuing from the Mundanista camp, claiming ….â€�

Tags: Damien G Walter • Geoff Ryman • Guardian • Mundane-SF • Radio 4

IZ216 has now gone to press. It’s the special Mundane-SF issue with fiction guest edited by Geoff Ryman, Julian Todd and Trent Walters. Introduction by Geoff Ryman. Stories by Lavie Tidhar, Chelsea Quinn Yarbro, Bille Aul, R.R. Angell, Anil Menon, Élisabeth Vonarbug and Geoff Ryman.

Cover art and all illustrations by featured artist Christopher Nurse. Greg Egan and Alastair Reynolds are interviewed. We have the results of the 2007 Readers’ Poll. And the usual columns and reviews including David Langford’s Ansible Link, Nick Lowe’s Mutant Popcorn and Tony Lee’s Laser Fodder.

IZ216 is out on the 8th May. Subscribe now!

Tags: Alastair Reynolds • Anil Menon • Billie Aul • Chelsea Quinn Yarbro • Elisabeth Vonarburg • Geoff Ryman • Greg Egan • INTERZONE • Lavie Tidhar • Mundane-SF • R.R. Angell

TTA Press will be there

with Interzone, Black Static, Alison, Success…, Crimewave etc.

Tags: alt Fiction 2008 • Derby • TTA

The website’s been down for a couple of days. Please bear with us while we finish fixing and updating it. Thanks!

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Sorry about the short notice, but here comes, for the first time in over a year…

TTACon 9

Date: Saturday February 9, from early afternoon onwards;

Place: London

Venue: Filthy MacNastys

Adress: 68 Amwell Street, London EC1R 1UU, Copy & paste this in Google Maps, or (as described by Dave Matthew):

It’s about ten minutes from Kings Cross on foot. Leave the station, turn left, keep walking up the hill, turn right when you see the tapas bar on the other side of the road.

Special Guests: Ellen Datlow, Pat Cadigan, John & Judith Clute.

Also attending: a variety of people from Interzone & Black Static.

Beers on tap: Guinness, Hoegaarden, Red Stripe, Adnams and a large variety of whisky…

Tags: Black Static • Cadigan • Clute • Datlow • Guinness • Interone • TTACon

Readers cannot click the links in a printed magazine, yet. As a service we include them here.

Matter by Iain M. Banks.

Abaddon Books
The Afterblight Chronicles: Kill or Cure by Rebecca Levene
Dreams of Inan: Stealing Life by Antony Johnston
Tomes Of The Dead: The Words Of Their Roaring by Matthew Smith
Pax Brittania: El Sombra by Al Ewing

Swimming Kangaroo Books
Silk Palace by Colin Harvey

Tags: Abaddon • Banks • Harvey

Close to the the end the covered/armoured units do look familiar.

See here or here

Tags: Alien movie • exoskeleton • Powered armour • Star Wars

Jay Lake has posted his story, originally published in issue 35 of The Third Alternative (now Black Static), on his website. Recommended!

Tags: Jay Lake • TTA

If you’re a regular visitor the the Forum (if you’re not, click on the Forum link above and register) you’ll know that overseas subscribers regularly report back on the delivery times of their magazines. The company we used to deliver these copies, Mercury, were taken over by DHL a few months ago and since then we’ve seen delivery times lengthen considerably. (more…)

Tags: Black Static • DHL • Intezone • subscriptions

“The Union between Man and Vampire is over.”

Last day for entries! We have five copies of this DVD to give away to T3A readers (and five more in December’s issue of Black Static). (more…)

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