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Interzone #238 Jan-Feb 2012

'Substantial' new stories by Ray Cluley, Carole Johnstone, E.J. Swift, and Tyler Keevil. Cover illustration by Ben Baldwin. Reviews to follow.

The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction. January/February 2012.

Stories by Felicity Shoulders, Ron Goulart, John G. McDaid, K.D. Wentworth, Albert E. Cowdrey, Ted Kosmatka, Alexander Jablokov, Ken Liu, Naomi Kritzer, Michael Alexander, Lewis Shiner.

Asimovs. January 2012.

Stories by Elizabeth Bear, Paul McAuley, Katherine Marzinsky, Jack McDevitt, Zachary Jernigan, C.W. Johnson, Eric Del Carlo.

Panverse Three. (ed Dario Ciriello, Panverse Publishing 2011).

Five original novellas, from Don D'Ammassa, Ken Liu, Tochi Onyebuchi, Gavin Stoddard, and Jason Stoddard.

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• [5th November 2011] Got my hands on Panverse Three - four novellas, rather than short stories, which I'm looking forward to getting into.
• [28th September 2011]The Kindle app on the iPad is providing dangerously easy to buy stuff. Latest is #3 of James Patrick Kelly's 'Strangeways' e-zine. More on this in a day or so.
• [27th July 2011] Horton's Year's Best just delivered by Amazon today - completing my collection of the 4x competing volumes for the year. Fortunately the Tour de France is over, so that's one less thing to distract me from reading. Got a window of minimal distraction opportunity before the British and American football seasons start....
• [7th July 2011] Just placed an order on Amazon for this year's Hartwell/Cramer, Dozois, Horton, and Nebula Awards Showcase. Almost 40GBP!! #holysemolians
• [20th May 2011] Hoping to get to the British Library's 'Out of This World' SF exhibition tomorrow! [link]

Waiting to be reviewed

Fables from the Fountain. (ed Ian Whates, NewCon Press, 2011.)

18 stories written as homages to Arthur C. Clarke's 'Tales from the White Hart'. Authors include Neil Gaiman, Stephen Baxter, Charles Stross, Eric Brown, Peter Crowther, David Langford, James Lovegrove, Adam Roberts, Ian Watson, Liz Williams. mmmm. nice.

From the Archives

Lavie Tidhar. The Spontaneous Knotting of an Agitated String. (The Year’s Best Science Fiction, 28th Annual Collection.)

A little morsel, perhaps an intra-course palate cleanser, between the meatier fayre betwixt it sits.