Thanks once again to Martin McGrath for running the poll, collating the results and collecting the comments. Thanks to everyone who voted – Martin says we received more votes than ever – and sent in letters of comment. Full results and comments are presented in IZ216 (out now), and continued discussion on the forum is welcomed!

So, many congratulations to Gareth and Kenn, and to the runners up in both categories. Special mention for Grace whose story had the same aggregate score as Gareth’s but one or two fewer positive votes; and for Aliette who had two stories voted into the top ten. Those top ten stories and the top seven artworks, as voted by IZ readers, are listed after the jump. (more…)

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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

Readers cannot click the links in a printed magazine yet, so, as a service to readers and advertisers, here they are ready for clicking.
Advertisements are an important component of TTA’s finances and we’d like to sell more. If live links here improve responses maybe we will, so here are links from advertisements in Interzone 215
If you are interested in advertising e mail is roy (at) ttapress (dot) demon (dot) co (dot) uk (more…)

Tags: Abaddon • Advertisements • Harvey • INTERZONE • Murky Depths • Paul Western • youwriteon

Interzone 215 is now on its way to subscribers and contributors, and will be in shops and on Fictionwise shortly. Contents and images after the jump. (more…)

Tags: Greg Egan • INTERZONE • Rudy Rucker

Orbital 2008, the 59th British National Science Fiction Convention, will take place from the 21st to 24th March in the Radisson Edwardian Heathrow Hotel, London. Guests of honour are Neil Gaiman, Tanith Lee, China Mi?©ville and Charles Stross, plus fan guest Rog Peyton.

Jetse, one of Interzone’s esteemed editors, will make the journey from Holland to be there and I (Roy) will be selling TTA magazines in the dealers’ room. I’ll try to get attending Interzone authors to join us on the stand so come and see us if you are there.

Eastercon is an annual four-day science fiction convention run by volunteers in a different location each year. Many branches of fandom are represented, including science fiction and fantasy literature, movies, TV, games, costumes, art, filk, and fanzines.

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This story, from Interzone issue 209, has been shortlisted for the 2007 BSFA Award

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The Sledge-maker’s Daughter
by Alastair Reynolds

She stopped in sight of Twenty Arch Bridge, laying down her bags to rest her hands from the weight of two hogs‚Äô heads and forty pence worth of beeswax candles. While she paused, Kathrin adjusted the drawstring on her hat, tilting the brim to shade her forehead from the sun. Though the air was still cool, there was a fierce new quality to the light that brought out her freckles. (more…)

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Interzone discovery Gareth L Powell is celebrating as his story ���The Last Reef��� (IZ 202) was serialised by WRFR FM radio the fm radio station serving the City of Rockland, Maine, and surrounding towns in the USA.

It was broadcast over two weeks in the station���s Saturday afternoon science and science fiction show, ‘Beam Me Up’.
Part one was broadcast on Saturday 1st Dec, and the concluding part on Saturday 7th December. The episodes are available as podcasts.

Gareth’s feat impressed his local paper, the Portished Times.

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RUNEMARKS by JOANNE HARRIS
Doubleday hardback, 500pp, £14.99

Reviewed by Iain Emsley

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Joanne Harris’s d?©but children’s novel is a fantastic romp which is eminently readable. Her adult fiction flirts with the fantastic, delivering it gently, while Runemarks is a retelling of Norse myths which also sets up a mythical - almost ‘asterisk fantastic’ ‚Äì world within which she finds some very human characters.

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Tags: book • Fantasy • fiction • INTERZONE • Joanne Harris • review • Runemarks • young adult

Charles Stross was guest of honour at Novacon 37 this year and on the first night, in the “Thank Cthulhu It’s Friday” party, members celebrated the 20^th anniversary of the first of Charles‚Äô published stories, ‚ÄòThe Boys‚Äô, which featured in IZ #22. (Winter 1987) It is one of eight by Charles that have appeared in Interzone, so far.

Pete Lyon’s cover for that issue was used to decorate the cake.

Photo: Helen Hall

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