All being well IZ216 will be on its to subscribers and contributors, and in shops on the 8th May. It’s the special Mundane-SF issue with fiction selected by guest editors and Mundanistas Geoff Ryman, Julian Todd and Trent Walters. (more…)

Tags: Alastair Reynolds • Anil Menon • Billie Aul • Chelsea Quinn Yarbro • Chris Beckett • Christopher Nurse • David Langford • Elisabeth Vonarburg • Geoff Ryman • Greg Egan • INTERZONE • Lavie Tidhar • Mundane-SF • Nick Lowe • Paul McAuley • R.R. Angell • Tony Lee

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

STATES OF GRACE by CHELSEA QUINN YARBRO
Tor hardback, 332pp, $25.95

Chelsea Quinn Yarbro is a woman writer with a penchant for bloodsuckers in the traditional vein, her work adhering closely to the aristocratic prototype of this subgenre. Like Bram Stoker she took a minor historical character and vampirised him, in this case the Count Saint-Germain, a shadowy figure connected with the court of Louis XV and rumoured to be a 2000 year old immortal. Yarbro introduced the character in her 1978 novel Hotel Transylvania, and since then has written a whole slew of books recording Saint-Germain’s adventures back into pre-history and forward to the present day.

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