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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
Continue ReadingChris 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 […]
Continue ReadingPerhaps 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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