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The Society of Time by John Brunner
The Original Trilogy and Other Stories, edited by Mike Ashley. British Library, 2020, 287 p. Reviewed for Interzone 290-291, Summer 2021. This British Library reprint, subtitled “The Original Trilogy...
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Wild Harbour by Ian Macpherson
British Library, 2019, 220 p, including a v p Introduction by Timothy C Baker, and Wild September a vi p article by MacPherson. First published in 1936. Reviewed for Interzone 290-291, Summer 2021. In...
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Hold up the Sky by Cixin Liu
Head of Zeus, 2020, 333 p. 撑起天空, variously translated from Chinese by John Chu, Carmen Yiling Yan, Joel Martinsen, and Adam Lamphier. Reviewed for Interzone 289, Nov-Dec 2020. In his foreword to this...
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Interzone 290-291, Summer 2021
TTA Press, 2021. After a longish break Interzone reappears with a double edition. The editorial is by Lavie Tidhar describing his early steps into being published (in Interzone natch,) and his quest to...
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Hope Island by Tim Major
Titan Books, 2020, 389 p. Published in Interzone 288, Jul-Aug 2020. Workaholic Nina Scaife has not taken a break from her job as a producer on a north of England TV news programme for five years. Now,...
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Interzone 290-291 Arrives
After a hiatus in publishing of the magazine the latest Interzone has now started to arrive on doormats. (At least it has on mine.) It’s a double issue 290-291 to make up for the time since issue 289....
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Echo Cycle by Patrick Edwards
Titan Books, 2020, 333p. Published in Interzone 287, May-Jun 2020. Just before Britain finally locked itself off from the continent, congratulating itself on escaping from incipient chaos, Winston Monk...
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The City We Became by N K Jemisin
Orbit, 2020, 443 p. Published in Interzone 287, May-Jun 2020. The central conceit of the first book in Jemisin’s latest trilogy explains its otherwise odd-sounding title. Here cities can achieve some...
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Sixteenth Watch by Myke Cole
Angry Robot, 2020, 336 p. Published in Interzone 286, Mar-Apr 2020. In a crowded field how do you attempt to make your military SF stand out from that crowd? Well, if you are Myke Cole you make your...
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This year’s BSFA Award winners have been announced. (They were livestreamed from Confusion – this year’s Eastercon – and on You Tube.) They are:- Best Novel: N.K. Jemisin, The City We Became (Orbit)...
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Re-Coil by J T Nicholas
Titan Books, 2020, 357 p. Published in Interzone 286, Mar-Apr 2020. When an author prefaces a novel with an epigraph from Shakespeare he (Nicholas in this case) is setting himself up for a fall. This...
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The Menace From Farside by Ian McDonald
Tor.com, 2019, 153 p. Published in Interzone 285, Jan-Feb 2020. This novella is set in the milieu of McDonald’s Luna series of books which might have been designed to illustrate the mantra that “Lady...
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Skein Island by Aliya Whiteley
Titan Books, 2019, p. Published in Interzone 285, Jan-Feb 2020. As readers of Interzone already know, Whitley writes impressively. Here she takes a modern domestic setting and gradually blends it with...
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Interzone 289
Nov-Dec, 2020, TTA Press Editorial duties are taken by artist Jim Burnsa where, in the light of Covid, he reflects his roads not taken are most likely now behind him. Andy Hedgecock’s Future...
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Incomplete Solutions by Wole Talabi
Luna Press, 2019, 270 p. Published in Interzone 284, Nov-Dec 2019. This collection’s title may allude to the proverb from its author’s Nigerian homeland, “Starting a thing is not as crucial as seeing...
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Automatic Eve by Rokurō Inui
Haikasoru, 2019, 315 p. £10.99. Translated from the Japanese Jidō ibu (自動イブ,) by Matt Treyvaud. Published in Interzone 284, Nov-Dec 2019. How necessary is it to suspend disbelief in order to...
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Latest Interzone – Issue 289
It’s that time again. The latest issue of Interzone – 289 of that ilk – landed on my doormat this morning. This one contains my review of Cixin Liu’s collection of short stories Hold Up the Sky which...
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Another Review Book
Hold Up the Sky by Cixin Liu is a collection of the Hugo Award winning author’s short stories. It’s my latest review book for Interzone and arrived this afternoon. It’s not usual for my mail to be so...
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Interzone 287, May-Jun 2020
Editorial duties fall to cover artist Warwick Fraser-Coombe where he outlines his influences and compares their apocalypses to today’s ongoing Covid crisis. In Future Interrupteda Andy Hedgecock...
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Interzone Issue 288
Interzone 288 is out now. (It arrived on my doorstep this morning.) This is the one which contains my review of Tim Major’s Hope Island. Along with many other goodies of course.
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