Interzone 213 is published on the 8th November and will be in the post to subscribers by then.
The cover (see above) is by
Kenn Brown of
Mondolithic Studios. (PS: the final version changed slightly, but only in the sidebar.)
The cover illustration is inspired by
Chris Roberson's 'Metal Dragon Year', a story in his Celestial Empire sequence. Also in this issue is
Aliette de Bodard's 'The Lost Xuyan Bride' (illustrated by
Paul Drummond). These two stories share, coincidentally, a similar background: a world where China and the Aztecs are the dominant powers, and where the Spanish either didn’t discover America or were defeated by the Aztecs. Rather than hide the similarity we decided to run both in the same issue, and invited Chris and Aliette to describe how they imagined and then developed their alternate worlds.
Other stories in the issue are 'Molly and the Red Hat' by
Benjamin Rosenbaum, 'Odin's Spear' by
Steve Bein (illustrated by
Paul Drummond), 'The Men in the Attic' by
John Phillip Olsen (illustrated by
David Gentry), and 'The Best of Your Life' by
Jason Stoddard (illustrated by
Warwick Fraser-Coombe, see below).
We have the usual Interzone features, including book reviews by
John Clute and others, DVD reviews by
Tony Lee,
David Langford's Ansible Link, and more. Plus a special WorldCon report from our man in Japan
John Paul Catton (JP sends a regular column from Japan to Interzone's sister magazine Black Static, by the way), and
Andy Hedgecock interviews
Gary Gibson about his work including his latest novel
Stealing Light.
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