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Cover art is by Adam Tredowski

Stories:

Johnny and Emmie-Lou Get Married by Kim Lakin-Smith
illustrated by Warwick Fraser-Coombe

Unexpected Outcomes by Tim Pratt

Lady of the White-Spired City by Sarah L. Edwards
illustrated by Martin Bland

Microcosmos by Nina Allan

Ys by Aliette de Bodard
illustrated by Mark Pexton

Mother of Champions by Sean McMullen
illustrated by Anne Stone-Coyote


Features:

Editorial
the second edition of Paul Meloy's Islington Crocodiles, a free Black Static issue 10, improved overseas delivery…

Ansible Link by David Langford
news

Readers' Poll
results of the 2008 poll plus comments

Book Zone by Jim Steel and the team
book reviews including Cosmocopia by Paul Di Filippo & Jim Woodring (review and interview by Peter Loftus), Green by Jay Lake (review by Maureen Kincaid Speller), "It" Came From Outer Space by Christopher Priest (review by Duncan Lunan), Lavinia by Ursula Le Guin (review by Laurence Osborn), The Accord by Keith Brooke (review by David Mathew), The City and the City by China Miéville (review by Mike Cobley), Psychological Methods to Sell Should be Destroyed by Robert Freeman Wexler (review by Paul Kincaid), The Solaris Book of New Science Fiction Vol 3 + Subtle Edens + Premonitions: Causes For Alarm + Subterfuge + Future Bristol (anthology reviews by Andy Hedgecock)

Mutant Popcorn by Nick Lowe
film reviews including Watchmen, Push, Franklyn, Knowing

Laser Fodder by Tony Lee
DVD/Blu-ray reviews including War Inc, The Signal, Day the Earth Stood Still (2008), X-Men Trilogy, The Promise, The Spirit, Man From Earth, Alien Agent, Inkheart, Screamers 2, Aqua Teen Hunger Force, The Myth, Star Wreck, plus draws to win blu-rays of the X-Men Trilogy, The Promise and the 1951 Day the Earth Stood Still (will start a separate thread for the draws and also make a dedicated page in the IZ section of the website)

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We hope you enjoy the issue and look forward to your comments.

Coming soon: Interzone 223 will be something of a Dominic Green special issue with three stories (illustrated by Daniel Bristow-Bailey), author introductions and in-depth interview (by Andy Hedgecock).

Arrived in Macc today. Looks good.

Arrived in Sussex.

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Arrived in London this morning.

Thanks

Many thanks to Andy Hedgecock - for his review comments on Premonitions!


btw - does that amazing Tredowski cover artwork have a title?
To me, it says: 'Saved By Technology'.

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arrived today . the brilliant cover wow

Arrived in Bentley / DOnny today - and the dog was out at work so the plastic bag remains in one piece

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Just received it today.
Looking good, glad I've taken out the double subscription

Came home from work today to find my copy waiting for me. Wahoo!

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Just starting to read mine

The cover-art is stunning, but the link to the artist's website is not working?

Seems to be working OK now, Schnappi...?

It does, how odd.

I got what looked like a domain placeholder when I tried earlier. Must have been a typo.

The paintings (many listed on his blog) are truly amazing.

Another great issue. I especially enjoyed Unexpected Outcomes by Tim Pratt - a great idea written brilliantly.

Eric Gregory agrees with you, Rich.

"Microcosmos" by Nina Allan was the stand out for me, not really SF or fantasy I guess (though as a bit of science had a key role, it could be said to be literally science fiction), but there was a nice sense of a dark, untold story moving beneath it. "Unexpected Outcomes" by Tim Pratt was also good; "Lady of the White-Spired City" by Sarah L. Edwards wasn't bad either.

"Johnny and Emmie-Lou Get Married" by Kim Lakin-Smith didn't work for me: it's a storyline that has been used so frequently that its impossible to write as anything but pastiche these days. However, if the conceit was to use a different Shakespeare play (i.e. other than Romeo & Juliet) in a futurised West Side Story type of venue, then fair enough (but if that's the case, I can't work out which play).