The long dreaded double Nelson issue

[Roy1]

Stories from Sean McMullen, Kim Lakin Smith, Nina Allan, Alliete de Bodard, Tim Pratt and the issue's newcomer; Sarah L Edwards. Feminists can't complain about that line up, can they?

New subscribers also receive a FREE Black Static issue 10 with a subscription received before the end of May. Existing subscribers can have one as well, if they renew now/early and request a sample copy of Black Static 10.

Cover art by Adam Tredowski

 

[Patrick Mahon]

Roy,

When is IZ 222 out then?

Looking forward to reading it.

 

[Roy1]

Probably May 14 Patrick.

 

[Roy1]

More on that impressive line up and the non fiction contents of IZ 222.

 

[dustinzgirl]

Roy as always your cover art is impressive!

 

[Patrick Mahon]

Roy,

I got a copy of IZ 222 from the Borders on Charing Cross Road on Tuesday this week, and have almost finished it already. I've really enjoyed it - some really good stories this month. Many thanks.

 

[Anthony G Williams]

Yet more short stories, from the British SFF magazine Interzone and the British Fantasy Society's Dark Horizons. For someone who prefers novels, I've been reading a lot of the shorter works recently.

Interzone has the usual six stories as well as news and reviews. The cover illustration, by Adam Tredowski, shows a strange, rather abstract spaceship blasting off from a planet.

Johnny and Emmy-Lou Get Married by Kim Lakin-Smith (illustrated by Warwick Fraser-Coombe): 1950s-style romance across the boundaries of futuristic US gangs, the Rocketeers and the Flies.

Unexpected Outcomes by Tim Pratt: is the Earth real – or just a simulation?

Lady of the White-Spired City by Sarah L Edwards (illustrated by Martin Bland): an imperial envoy revisits the backward planet from which she had fled centuries before.

Microcosmos by Nina Allen: a dystopian near-future Earth adapting to changed circumstances, and the personal costs of this.

Ys by Aliette De Bodard (illustrated by Mark Pexton): the magical drowned world of Ys emerges, figuratively and literally, into the life of a young woman.

Mother of Champions by Sean McMullen (illustrated by Anne Stone-Coyote): cheetahs are not at all what we think – they have evolved to perfection!

An entertaining and varied collection which I enjoyed. I'd have to award the medal to Sean McMullen for sheer originality, with a mention in dispatches for Tim Pratt's intriguing take on his theme.

(An extract from my SFF blog: Science Fiction & Fantasy)

 

[Ian Whates]

Still trying to find a store stocking IZ so that I can buy a copy of this one, but nowhere locally seems to, which is very frustrating. I've resorted to trying to order a copy!

 

[Roy1]

You should subscribe Ian. I'll be at F'con if you want to do it there otherwise go to TTA Press - Category Products

Borders is a good bet to find a retail copy, look in their film and media tie in magazines section, and WHSmug can get it for you if you ask but they won't stock it.