Pongo – IZ Digital
‘His beautiful brown eyes turned in on themselves, half-closed in anguish, and his head dipped to the cage floor as though his skull had been filled with lead.’ // ‘Pongo’, a story by Katie McIvor| IZ Digital
‘His beautiful brown eyes turned in on themselves, half-closed in anguish, and his head dipped to the cage floor as though his skull had been filled with lead.’ // ‘Pongo’, a story by Katie McIvor| IZ Digital
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‘I’d start anywhere. I’d show willing. I could be a glamorous woman. I’d clean out the pens. Perhaps I’d work my way up to ringmaster. They could fire me out of a cannon.’ // ‘Circus Skills’, a story by Seán Padraic Birnie| IZ Digital
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IZ Pod is the new show for INTERZONE, the magazine. Add IZ Pod to your RSS reader of choice, find the show on whichever podcast platform you prefer, and join the IZ Patreon for early access to new episodes.| IZ Digital
IZ Pod is the new show for INTERZONE, the magazine. Add IZ Pod to your RSS reader of choice, find the show on whichever podcast platform you prefer, and join the IZ Patreon for early access to new episodes.| IZ Digital
IZ Pod is the new show for INTERZONE, the magazine. Add IZ Pod to your RSS reader of choice, find the show on whichever podcast platform you prefer, and join the IZ Patreon for early access to new episodes.| IZ Digital
‘The tower block across the way from us was on fire, clouds of thick black smoke boiling out of it into the air. There were ranks of them, burning across the city, like a dozen Grenfells. It made me a bit upset, to be honest.’ // ‘Two Great Thinkers Discuss the Post-Apocalyptic Condition’, a story by David McGillveray with art by Martin Hanford| IZ Digital
‘ “Joy,” said Arthur. “We’re really going to leave.” ’ // ‘Little Boat’, a story by Dale Smith with art by Martin Hanford| IZ Digital
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‘Funny how quickly things could change. One day he was beating the shit out of gringos with his brass knuckles and hurrying to arrive in time to watch telenovelas with his mom, the next he was locked up in a prison cell with two sweaty dudes and a pack of cigarettes.’ // ‘There Is Love in São Paulo’, a story by H. Pueyo with art by Dante Luiz| IZ Digital
‘Meadow is lost. If you get this relay before my previous attempts, there was an attack, and it appears everything was destroyed.’ // ‘After Stasis’, a story by R.T. Ester with art by Carly A-F| IZ Digital
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‘We are too busy to eat! The streets are clear. The Green Wall is left unguarded. We are on the move. Follow and be enlightened. Worry not about your grumbling tummies.’ // ‘The Green Wall Plot’, a story by Nick Mamatas with art by Dante Luiz| IZ Digital
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IZ Pod is the new show for INTERZONE, the magazine. Add IZ Pod to your RSS reader of choice, find the show on whichever podcast platform you prefer, and join the IZ Patreon for early access to new episodes.| IZ Digital
‘There are no aliens or portals here; there is, perhaps, a time/space slippage, but the reality of that is up to each reader to decide. A speculative audience will hum along to the book’s eerie tune.’ // Val Nolan looks thirteen ways at Christopher Priest’s AIRSIDE| IZ Digital
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‘conservation is vital and without it our planet is doomed’ // Gary Couzens on JUPITER’S GHOST, a play written, directed and choreographed by Tani Gill| IZ Digital
‘The sea is our home.’ // ‘The Barricade’, a story by Joyce Ch'ng with art by Emma Howitt| IZ Digital
‘Clenching her teeth, Gogo drew her jiàn. “If you touch a single hair of this girl…I swear I—” ’ // ‘Amber Alert’, a story by Álex Souza with art by Martin Hanford| IZ Digital
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‘I am devotion laid to rest with deceit.’ // ‘Sleeping Arrangements’, a story by R.T. Ester with art by Dante Luiz| IZ Digital
‘You don’t need to be anything for anybody. Just you, you just need to be you.’ // ‘You Will Be You Again’, a story by Angela Liu with art by Dante Luiz| IZ Digital
‘ “And why, may we ask, has Mrs Pierce declined to favour the Caravan’s visit?” “I simply believe that those who are at rest should remain at rest.” ’ // ‘Lanterns’, a story by Manu Zolezzi with art by Emma Howitt| IZ Digital
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‘He started hyperventilating before he realised it wasn’t attacking, it was…embracing. Calming. Not his enemy; his friend. He didn’t know how he knew that, but he did.’ // ‘The Ghost on the Server’, a story by Gregory Neil Harris with art by Dante Luiz| IZ Digital
‘Sure, a golem. He says Morrie’s figured out how to create this man, this golem. He says that it’s very big, like maybe nine feet tall, and strong, and that nothing can stop it, not even bullets. And that it’ll do anything Morrie says.’ // ‘Howard and the Golem’, a story by Lisa Goldstein with art by Emma Howitt| IZ Digital
‘From the kitchen window, from what Suki could make out, all of the remaining Peripatetics, the close-knit clique of long-term Coldstream Close supper clubbers and culture wonks had gathered in front of The Compound, the house of Baxter Strang, the man without a face.’ // ‘End-of-the-World Lovesick Blues’, a story by Ashley Stokes with art by Carly A-F| IZ Digital
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‘[...] there are many clever and beautiful details. The visual representation of sound waves is perfect. In a clever throwaway gag, it is revealed that buskers are considered an urban myth. We learn that music is the fundamental building block of the universe (an idea reminiscent of the “Decreator” storyline in Grant Morrison’s run on Doom Patrol [...]’ // Alexander Glass on PETE TOWNSHEND’S LIFE HOUSE, an original graphic novel adaptation of an unproduced follow-up to The Who’s...| IZ Digital
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‘How can this be happening to you, Pre-eminent Scientist Qris? Who is this short, hard woman, nude inside her transparent spacesuit, erupting through the door of your laboratory?’ // ‘Saltier’, a story by Kate Orman with art by Juliana Pinho| IZ Digital
‘the world of ALIEN [has] always been about workers suffering under extreme capitalism’ // Kat Clay on ALIENS: BISHOP, a novel by T.R. Napper| IZ Digital
‘Russell draws on both, and on copious other sources, ranging from Aickman’s fiction itself to conversations with people who knew him. He can thus compensate for Aickman’s idiosyncrasies, odd omissions, and even odder inclusions; but Aickman’s life is peppered throughout with little unexplained details that would not have been out of place in his own eerie fiction, hinting – but only hinting – at some dark and sinister force operating just beyond the edge of perception.’ // Alex...| IZ Digital
‘[...] a fantastic book that marries minimalist prose, simple but wonderfully rhythmic, with a compelling Bildungsromanand and an uncanny atmosphere to create a moving tale of grief and assimilation.’ // Zachary Gillan on WE’RE SAFE WHEN WE’RE ALONE, a novella by Nghiem Tran| IZ Digital
‘That the name has been appropriated for the end point of the Anthropocene suggests that our species was wiped out in fire. And the story that this novel is really about, the substrate of this fictional future hinted at rather than told, is what happened beyond the burn line.’ // Paul Kincaid on BEYOND THE BURN LINE, a novel by Paul McAuley| IZ Digital
‘Have you read anything written today that could qualify as science fiction?’ // ‘The Last Science Fiction Writer: A Hallucination’, a story by Fábio Fernandes with art by Dante Luiz| IZ Digital
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‘[...] an often chewy, if still stimulating read.’ // Gary Couzens on CHILDREN OF THE NEW FLESH, a book about David Cronenberg edited by Chris Kelso & David Leo Rice| IZ Digital
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‘I had infinite worlds at my disposal, of course, but I wouldn’t give this one up for anything.’ // ‘You Can’t Repeat the Past’, a story by Tom Gammarino with art by Richard Wagner| IZ Digital
Ariel Marken Jack talked to Tiffany Morris about a poet’s-eye view, creative torture, and sharing your suffering.| IZ Digital
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‘[...] a searing indictment of capitalism and incisive questioning of development, in both urban and personal senses.’ // Zachary Gillan on THE DEVIL OF THE PROVINCES, a novel by Juan Cárdenas| IZ Digital
‘The speculative story is a story of concept. [...] It is often hard to pin down what makes a concept take off or linger in the mind, but the stories in KALEIDOTROPE Summer 2023 may give us a clearer idea.’ // Yee Heng Yeh on the Summer 2023 issue of KALEIDOTROPE| IZ Digital
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‘Origin Complex is a space opera with a heart; a brilliant, ballistic science fiction epic of dystopian corporations and enduring friendships […]’ // Gemma Church on ORIGIN COMPLEX, a new novel by Andrew Skinner| IZ Digital
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Kelly Jennings talked to Martha Wells about creating Murderbot, engendering empathy, and the after-effects of trauma…| IZ Digital
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‘The epigraph to Samuel R. Delany’s Dhalgren quotes poet George Stanley in conversation: “You have confused the true and the real.” It could stand at the head of the SFF fictions that form one of the core strands of the genre, from Philip K. Dick’s novels to the Matrix series of films and beyond.’ // Paul McAuley on OTHER MINDS, a pair of novellas by Eliane Boey| IZ Digital
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‘I have lost track of the number of books on how to write science fiction that are on my shelves. However many it is, it is a pitifully small percentage of the number of books of this type that are out there. Why is there a need for so many?’ // Paul Kincaid on WRITING THE FUTURE, a collection of essays edited by Dan Coxon & Richard V. Hirst| IZ Digital
‘It would probably be wrong to label this collection as horror, too simplistic, avoiding something of the weird beauty of the stories. But at the same time they are stories designed to discomfort, to unsettle our notions about who we are and what we might become.’ // Paul Kincaid on PROMISE, a short story collection by Christi Nogle| IZ Digital
‘Gibson has created a believable, sometimes terrifying story of society’s struggling relationship with technology, and a story that ends on a poignant, optimistic note.’ // Gemma Church on EUROPA DEEP, a new novel by Gary Gibson| IZ Digital
‘The long and short of it is this: this is a world of duality. Good and evil are the same save for the level of vibration.’ // Kasimma on new novels by Diane Marie Brown and Veronica G. Henry| IZ Digital
‘Lebbon, both honouring and twisting this theme, hints at a kind of Eden after we are gone – perhaps, at least partly, because we are gone.’ // Alexander Glass on THE LAST DAY AND THE FIRST, a novella by Tim Lebbon| IZ Digital
‘Though our slippery bodies dripped of post-coital sweat, my father dug her fingers in Osa’s jugular notch and flung him off me. She woozed him. The slap was so charged, so heavy, that it cracked Osa’s nose and sent an ounce of his blood, enough to fill a bottle seal, seeking refuge on my white bed sheet.’ // ‘There is Something to be Said About Wifeoma’, a story by Kasimma with art by Dante Luiz| IZ Digital
‘Ever since he’d been born, Frankie had seemed different. He had never cried. Hardly moved. Kelly’s sister had not reserved her judgement. She did not bite her lip – never had. Your kid is creepy, Kel, she said. Your kid is weird. The way he just watches you and that.’ // ‘Nubbins’, a story by Seán Padraic Birnie with art by Emma Howitt| IZ Digital
‘This issue strikes me not only as a collection of excellent stories but a lesson, for those who care to take it, in some of the finer points of curation – an art form in its own right.’ // Ariel Marken Jack on THREE-LOBED BURNING EYE #39| IZ Digital
‘I knew there were better worlds awaiting her. This one had given her next to nothing. Our mothers deserve so much more than what they were given. They are owed it. The world has a debt to pay back.’ // ‘Of Sweet Seas and Starlight’, a story by Zahra Mukhi with art by Sumit Roy| IZ Digital
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‘accessible, erudite, sometimes amusingly understated’ // Alexander Glass on the HISTORICAL DICTIONARY OF FANTASY LITERATURE, a new reference book edited by Allen Stroud| IZ Digital
An essay by Alexander Glass examining the many facets of Bryan Talbot’s ARKWRIGHT sequence| IZ Digital
Alexander Glass in conversation with Bryan Talbot| IZ Digital
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‘The fishing boats crowded the jetty, nets overflowing with dead things from across the cosmos. The fishery opened at dawn, its great maw ready and ever-hungry. The cranes were ready to drop the day’s load on the conveyor belts, food already, regardless of its origins. Their world rarely fussed anymore, as long as it could eat.’ // ‘The Fishery’, a story by Cécile Cristofari with art by Emma Howitt| IZ Digital
‘Besides common themes such as community and grief, what underlies each work is also a preoccupation with language – both how it fails us and how we fail it. Like paradoxical little puzzles, they explore the limits of linguistic systems’ // Yee Heng Yeh on KHŌRÉŌ 3.1| IZ Digital
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‘Her world is resonance, reverberations / Snatches of song hitting the right notes / In undertone without casting a spell / It’s lunchtime and here’s the buffet / But she only eats in metaphor / No mechanical detail / To fine-tune.’ // ‘The Alphabet of Pinaa: An AI Reinvents Zerself on an Inhabited Moon’, a story by Eugen Bacon with art by Juliana Pinho| IZ Digital
‘This is it. This is where I’ll become an adult. I want to stop here, turn the oxen about and get home as quick as I can. But the city pulls at me.’ // ‘Building’, a story by Marlee Jane Ward with art by Sumit Roy| IZ Digital
Ariel Marken Jack talked to E.G. Condé about the power of language, survival through art, and what it means to help found a new literary genre…| IZ Digital
‘When she is thousands of metres high, the air about her thin and cold, she will let go and fall to her death. It is the only way to truly escape the labyrinth. But as soon as this wish has formed in her mind, goose feathers begin to drift down from the sky, into the marble corridor. It should be a beautiful sight but it isn’t; she’s learnt that everything she’s ever invited into the labyrinth quickly turns strange, into something “other”. She begins to run.’ // ‘The November ...| IZ Digital
‘Most wanted to speak to their wives or girlfriends, having been mining the pale blue promethium salt in the Moon’s subsurface for months. Jorge wanted to talk to María, his little girl.’ // ‘The Rafting of Jorge Santa Cruz’, a story by Adelehin Ijasan with art by Sumit Roy| IZ Digital
‘[...] a city can be lifted from a novel, a Wikipedia entry, a child’s daydream. It can be a protest, a social media storm, an expanding darkness, a sentient land with its own tricks up its streets.’ // Yee Heng Yeh on EITA! #3, the latest issue of the English-language magazine of Brazilian SFF| IZ Digital
‘Nobody likes the world to change, and some of us have less choice – admit it, Sartre. But the world changes for everyone. Some just have the means to hang onto their preferred version of it for longer.’ // ‘Ghost Herds’, a story by Giselle Leeb with art by Carly A-F| IZ Digital
‘He wants so badly to go in, but he knows that if he does he won’t be able to restrain himself. And that will ruin everything.’ // ‘A Little Seasoning’, a story by Neil Williamson with art by Dante Luiz| IZ Digital
‘The author is the diviner of destiny, tasked with building an architecture of words, a sacred text for the reader. That or they’re a desiccated corpse. Or both.’ // Kat Clay on PEST, a novel by Michael Cisco| IZ Digital
‘The overwhelming pleasure to be found in FIFTY FORGOTTEN BOOKS lies not so much in anything Russell has to say about any of the titles he includes, as in the way his evocations of particular bookshops, their owners and clientele, as well as his descriptions of the habits and peculiar practices of book collectors in pursuit of long sought-after novels or collections, will resonate with a certain kind of reader.’ // Mike O’Driscoll on FIFTY FORGOTTEN BOOKS, a new book by R.B. Russell| IZ Digital
‘The fears of the post-nuclear era and the optimism of man in space are present in his earliest work [...] The astronaut becomes a symbol for the expansion of consciousness’ // Kat Clay on the COMPLETE POEMS of Michael Butterworth| IZ Digital
‘The blurb describes [CAGED OCEAN DUB] as “Nigerian Weird”, but to simply label these stories “Weird Fiction” feels like a taxonomic hatchet job. A sense of the uncanny runs through the warp and weft of the collection, but the fabric is woven together with elements of fantasy, of science fiction, of slipstream, and of the frankly unclassifiable [...]’ // Gautam Bhatia on CAGED OCEAN DUB, a new collection of stories by Dare Segun Falowo| IZ Digital
Alexander Glass in conversation with the legendary Michael Moorcock| IZ Digital
‘Speaking, [Michael Moorcock] is always engaging. His prose in this sequence captures his real voice: genial, erudite, aware of the world as it is and as it was; a born raconteur, but eternally curious and generous; his opinions deeply held but softly spoken.’ // Alexander Glass on THE WOODS OF ARCADY, a new novel by Michael Moorcock| IZ Digital
‘In his place, one hundred and thirty-two turtles down from World, Broadback the Turtle contemplated the universe.’ // ‘False Dichotomy’, a story by Mary Soon Lee with art by Sumit Roy| IZ Digital
‘After the first disaster the air was thick with dust.’ // ‘Some Pastel Morning’, a story by Andrew Hook with art by Sumit Roy| IZ Digital
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‘The drone said nothing as the man shouted over to his colleague. He’d found a small package nestled deep in the rucksack, a bundle that revealed itself to be the remains of an ancient baby blanket. The man with the handgun paid it barely any attention, holding aloft instead the bottles of antibiotics that had been carefully wrapped inside; to Joy it was the blanket she couldn’t take her eyes off, the only thing she had that hadn’t been stolen from a drone delivery. She felt the air h...| IZ Digital
Once upon a time, a woman shot a drone… // Towards the Fjords, a serial by Dale Smith with art by Martin Hanford| IZ Digital
Like, literally the apocalypse… // Two Great Thinkers, a serial by David McGillveray with art by Martin Hanford| IZ Digital
‘This is, like, literally the apocalypse. It’s Friday afternoon and the TV’s decided to go on the fritz and we won’t be able to get anyone over to fix it til at least Tuesday.’ // ‘Two Great Thinkers Discuss the End of the World’, a story by David McGillveray with art by Martin Hanford| IZ Digital
