I have been assiduously buying Interzone all year, and not finding the time to read it. It’s not a complete lie to say I bought the last couple of issues in part because I’m impressed that they finally got their act together on the cover art front, and I wanted a complete set. Still, now that I’ve got them, it seems silly to just have them sitting there. Since Interzone published just over thirty stories this year, I should be able to get through them in a month: time for a December reading project. Taking a leaf out of Martin’s book, I will be posting about each story individually. I’m unlikely to manage a strict regime of one a day — I forsee fallow periods during the week, and catch-up at the weekends — but we’ll see how it goes. And I’ll update this post with links to the posts on each story.
Interzone 220
- “Monetized” by Jason Stoddard
- “Sinner, Baker, Fabulist, Priest; Red Mask, Black Mask, Gentleman, Beast” by Eugie Foster
- “After Everything Woke Up” by Rudy Rucker
- “Spy vs Spy” by Neil Williamson
- “Miles to Isengard” by Leah Bobet
- “Memory Dust” by Gareth L. Powell
Interzone 221
- “A Clown Escapes from Circus Town” by Will McIntosh
- “Fishermen” by Al Robertson
- “Saving Diego” by Matthew Kressel
- “Far & Deep” by Alaya Dawn Johnson
- “Home Again” by Paul M Berger
- “Black Swan” by Bruce Sterling
Interzone 222
- “Johnny and Emmie-Lou get Married” by Kim Lakin-Smith
- “Unexpected Outcomes” by Tim Pratt
- “Lady of the White-Spired City” by Sarah L Edwards
- “Microcosmos” by Nina Allan
- “Ys” by Aliette de Bodard
- “Mother of Champions” by Sean McMullen
Interzone 223
- “Butterfly Bomb” by Dominic Green
- “Coat of Many Colours” by Dominic Green
- “Glister” by Dominic Green
- “The Transmigration of Aishwarya Desai” by Eric Gregory
- “Silence and Roses” by Suzanne Palmer
Interzone 224
- “Sublimation Angels” by Jason Sanford
- “No Longer You” by Katherine Sparrow and Rachel Swirsky
- “Shucked” by Adrian Joyce
- “The Godfall’s Chemsong” by Jeremiah Tolbert
- “The Festival of Tethselem” by Chris Butler
Interzone 225
- “Here We Are, Falling Through Shadows” by Jason Sanford
- “By Starlight” by Rebecca J Payne
- “The Killing Streets” by Colin Harvey
- “Funny Pages” by Lavie Tidhar
- “Bone Island” by Shannon Page and Jay Lake