Interzone #254 Sept: Oct 2014 - TTA Press

Interzone #254 Sept: Oct 2014

By TTA Press

  • Release Date: 2014-09-24
  • Genre: Sci-Fi Short Stories

Description

The September–October issue of the British Fantasy Award winning magazine con-tains new stories by Nina Allan, Jay O'Connell, S.L. Nickerson, T.R. Napper, Julie C. Day, Sam J. Miller. The cover art is by Wayne Haag, and interior colour illustrations are by Tara Bush, Richard Wagner, Daniel Bristow-Bailey. All the usual features are present: Ansible Link by David Langford (news and obits); Mutant Popcorn by Nick Lowe (film reviews); Laser Fodder by Tony Lee (DVD/Blu-ray reviews); Book Zone (book reviews) and Jonathan McCalmont's Future Interrupted column. This issue also sees the start of a new regular column: Time Pieces by Nina Allan.

So Interzone is essentially a fiction magazine containing short science fiction and fantasy stories. But it covers other aspects of the genre via com-ment, news, reviews of books, movies, DVDs and TV.

Fiction this issue
Marielena by Nina Allan
A Minute and a Half by Jay O'Connell
Bone Deep by S.L. Nickerson
Dark on a Darkling Earth by T.R. Napper
The Faces Between Us by Julie C. Day
Songs Like Freight Trains by Sam J. Miller

Artists this issue
Wayne Haag
Tara Bush
Daniel Bristow-Bailey
Richard Wagner

Books reviewed this issue
Book Zone, edited by Jim Steel, has Twember by Steve Rasnic Tem, The Race by Nina Allan, The Seventh Miss Hatfield by Anna Caltabiano, California by Edan Lepucki, The Unreal and the Real by Ursula K. Le Guin, Smiler's Fair by Rebecca Levene, Green Planets edited by Gerry Canavan & Kim Stanley Robinson, Call and Response by Paul Kincaid, The Very Best of Fantasy & Science Fiction Volume 2 edited by Gordon Van Gelder, Barricade by Jon Wallace, The House of the Four Winds by Mercedes Lackey & James Mallory, The Beauty by Aliya Whiteley, The Collapse of Western Civilization by Naomi Oreskes & Erik M. Conway, Company of Shadows by Paul Gerrard, The Cyberiad by Stanislaw Lem, A Kill in the Morning by Graeme Shimmin

Nick Lowe's Mutant Popcorn movie reviews this issue
Lucy, Transformers: Age of Extinction, The Purge: Anarchy, Dawn of the Planet of tghe Apes, How to Train Your Dragon 2, Guardians of the Galaxy, Hercules, Sin City: A Dame to Kill For, The Anomaly, Earth to Echo, Vampire Academy, The Rovder, The Congress, Mood Indigo

Tony Lee's Laser Fodder, TV/DVD, reviews this issue
After the Dark, The Zero Theorem, The Double, Divergent, Last Days on Mars, The Changes, The Boy From Space, Mindscape, Transcendence, Ashens and the Quest for the Gamechild, RPG – Real Playing Game, HK: Forbidden Superhero

Other non-fiction this issue
David Langford - Ansible Link
Nina Allan - Time Pieces column
Jonathan McCalmont - Future Interrupted column
Editorial - Jim Steel

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