Interzone, Number 133, July 1998

Contents only

Stephen Baxter. The Barrier.

Susan Beetlestone. Wallpaper.

Michael Iwoleit. Takeover.

Jean-Claude Dunyach. Unravelling the Thread.

When reading this in Hartwell's #4, I wrote : "Short, deceptively sensitive story, in which the telling of the tale which lies in the weaving of a centuries old carpet is beautifully told."

Judi Moore. Thumbs.

Gary Couzens. Rachael.

Mary Soon Lee. The Day Before They Came.

Other Stuff

• David Langford's Ansible Link
• Dennis Etchison interviewed by David Mathew
• Wendy Bradley's 'Tube Corn' tv column interviews Jed Mercurio, producer of BBS Scotland's 'Invasion:Earth'
• Keith Brooke describes the genesis of InfinityPlus
• Brian Stableford's Creators of Science Fiction #11 : John W Campbell
• Paul J McAuley reviews Iain M Banks' 'Inversions', Robert Silverberg's 'The Alien Years', Ben Bova's 'Moonwar', Sean McMullen's 'The Centurion's 'Empire', Lisa Leroux's 'One Hand Clapping'
• Chris Gilmore reviews Michael Kanaly's 'Virus Clans', Jon Courtney Grimwood's 'Lucifer's Dragon', Tom Cool's 'Secret Realms', John Barnes' 'Earth Made of Glass'
• Brian Stableford reviews Stephen Baxter's 'Traces'
• David Mathew reviews John Updike's 'Toward the End of Time', Mona Clee's 'Overshoot, Katie Waitman's 'The Merro Tree', John Meaney's 'To Hold Infinity', Jack McDevitt's 'Eternity Road'
• Neil Jones reviews Terry Pratchett's 'The Last Continent', Lois McMaster Bujold's 'Memory', C J Cherryh's 'Lois and Clark : A Superman Novel' and some Babylon 5 books by J Michael Straczynski
• Ken Brown reviews Ken Macleod's 'The Cassini Division'
• David Pringle reviews Thomas M Disch's 'The Dreams Our Stuff is Made Of: How Science Fiction Conquered the World'