Interzone #255 Nov: Dec 2014

The November–December issue of Britain's longest running sf magazine magazine contains new stories by Malcolm Devlin, RM Graves, Thana Niveau, Tim Major, E. Catherine Tobler, Jennifer Dornan-Fish, Tom Greene. The cover art is by Wayne Haag, and interior colour illustrations are by Wayne Haag, Richard Wagner, Martin Hanford. 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); Jonathan McCalmont's Future Interrupted (comment) and Nina Allan's Time Pieces (comment). Paul Cockburn in-terviews Hannu Rajaniemi and Andy Hedgecock writes "A Chubster's Appreciation" of Graham Joyce.

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
Must Supply Own Work Boots by Malcolm Devlin
Bullman and the Wiredling Mutha by RM Graves
The Calling of Night's Ocean by Thana Niveau
Finding Waltzer-Three by Tim Major
Oubliette by E. Catherine Tobler
Mind the Gap by Jennifer Dornan-Fish

Artists this issue
Wayne Haag
Martin Hanford
Richard Wagner

Books reviewed this issue
Book Zone, edited by Jim Steel, has The Causal Angel by Hannu Rajaniemi (plus author interview); The Ghost in the Electric Blue Suit (UK title The Year of the Ladybird) by Graham Joyce; Graham Joyce (1954–2014): writer, teacher, socialist, greencoat and explorer of the liminal, a chubster's appreciation by Andy Hedgecock; My Real Children by Jo Walton; Tomorrow and Tomorrow by Thomas Sweterlitsch; Bête by Adam Roberts; Chain of Events by Fredrik T. Olsson; The Fourth Gwenevere by John James; The Relic Guild by Edward Cox; The Peripheral by William Gibson; Mind Seed edited by David Gullen & Gary Couzens; Black and Brown Planets edited by Isiah Lavender III; Scruffians by Hal Duncan; Rhapsody by Hal Duncan

Nick Lowe's Mutant Popcorn movie reviews this issue include Predestination, Radio Free Albemuth, I Origins, Life After Beth, The Book of Life, If I Stay, The Giver, The Maze Runner, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, Dracula Untold, The Boxtrolls, The Babadook, Extraterrestrial, The Signal

Tony Lee's Laser Fodder, TV/DVD, reviews this issue include Bones Season 9, Space Station 76, Kite, Red Shift, Filmed in Supermarionation, Godzilla, The Hundred-Year-Old Man Who Climbed Out the Window and Disappeared, Debug, The Day the Earth Caught Fire, Out of the Unknown

Other non-fiction this issue
David Langford - Ansible Link - News, Obituaries
Nina Allan - Time Pieces column
Jonathan McCalmont - Future Interrupted column
Editorial - Wayne Haag
Graham Joyce (1954–2014): writer, teacher, socialist, greencoat and explorer of the liminal, a chubster's appreciation by Andy Hedgecock
Paul Cockburn interviews Hannu Rajaniemi