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Interzone, #220, February 2009

By Martin McGrath ⋅ February 20, 2009

Jason Stoddard, whose story “Monetized” opens issue #220 of Interzone, seems to have decided that the primary purpose of science fiction (or, at least, his science fiction) is to provide some sort of ideological and economic underpinning for the wilder predictions about the network economy. His speculations are overwhelmingly concerned with demonstrating how “everything is [...]

Interzone, #219, November 2008

By Ziv Wities ⋅ November 13, 2008

Issue #219 of Interzone opens with “Everything That Matters” by Jeff Spock. The story kicks off with the viewpoint character being devoured by an immense, alien shark—an opening that’s right up there with exploding volcanoes on the list of “Tough Acts to Follow.” Russo escapes, alive but badly mutilated. We learn he’s scavenging for an [...]

Interzone, #218, October 2008

By David Hebblethwaite ⋅ October 16, 2008

Issue #218 of Interzone is described as a “Chris Beckett special,” and contains an interview with Beckett and three of his stories. This led me to think over how much of Beckett’s work I’d read previously. Although his name was familiar from reading Interzone over the years, I could recall only one of his stories [...]

Interzone, #217, August 2008

By David Hebblethwaite ⋅ July 2, 2008

Advance publicity in several forum posts heralds issue #217 of Interzone as “not so Mundane this time,” following as it does from the Mundane SF special issue. And it’s quite right: only two of this issue’s stories are Earth-bound, and those two are outlandish enough that they’re far away from Mundane SF. Whether this contrast [...]

Interzone #216, June 2008

By Rae Bryant ⋅ May 2, 2008

Interzone #216, the special Mundane SF issue, guest edited by Geoff Ryman, Julian Todd, and Trent Walters, exhibits spectacular artwork by Christopher Nurse and offers seven original, earthly stories full of change and hope, what Ryman maintains are the cornerstones of science fiction.
Opening the issue is “How to Make Paper Airplanes” by Lavie Tidhar. In [...]

Interzone, #215, April 2008

By Kimberly Lundstrom ⋅ April 1, 2008

As befits a springtime issue, Interzone #215 offers six stories of transition, death, and new life (of one sort or another).
In “The Endling,” Jamie Barras introduces a host of interesting characters in a complex situation of interlocking fates. Wright is the last member of a human space colony taken captive by the Melzemi, aliens [...]

Interzone #214, February 2008

By Martin McGrath ⋅ January 26, 2008

This review should start with a declaration of interests. Eagle-eyed readers bored enough to have nothing better to do will note that the name of this reviewer appears in this issue of Interzone. For the last three years I have run Interzone’s annual Readers’ Poll—which basically amounts to eliciting, collecting, and counting the votes submitted [...]

Interzone #213, December 2007

By Nader Elhefnawy ⋅ November 16, 2007

Chris Roberson’s “Metal Dragon Year” is an alternate history story in which China dominates not only Eurasia and Africa, but colonized the Americas. (Only the “Mexic Dominion” lies outside the control of the “Dragon Throne,” which leaves the two fighting a skirmish war.) It has also industrialized to the point of launching its [...]

Interzone, #212, September/October 2007

By Jessica E. Kaiser ⋅ October 12, 2007

Perhaps the only statement that could equally apply to the handful of stories in issue #212 of Interzone is that after reading one of them, you’d never have guessed what the next would be like. The only real similarity is that they are all, on some level, science fiction, and what this issue may do [...]

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