Interzone 255 Nov-Dec 2014

Interzone 255 cover

In Must Supply Own Work Boots by Malcolm Devlin1 a man whose augmentations are old-tech seeks work.
Bullman and the Wiredling Mutha by R M Graves is a tale of gang warfare and genetic manipulation told in a degenerate English.
Thana Niveau’s The Calling of Night’s Ocean describes a late 1960s experiment with dolphins, when the dolphins are injected with LSD.
Finding Waltzer-Three by Tim Major2 sees a group investigate a ghost spaceship, Marie-Celeste-like, except the bodies are still there.
E Catherine Tobbler’s Oubliette3 has a woman move through the levels of Aphelion Station, in time as well as space, in search of a locket, and peace.
Mind the Gap by Jennifer Dornan-Fish4 is narrated by an AI which is on the road to achieving genuine consciousness.
Tom Greene’s Monoculture is set well in the aftermath of a flu epidemic that has wiped out all of humanity except clones of Dave Williamson and a few “randoms”.

Pedant’s corner:-
1 “discrete” where “discreet” made more sense.
2 The captain, along with the bulk of the crew, are scheduled to sleep. (The captain are?) wigwam-like (as described it was more tepee-like.)
3 Written in USian; a slow exhale (exhalation?) to lay invisible (lie invisible,) lead to (led to,) lain bare (laid bare)
4 Written in USian: tick born disease (tick borne?)

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  1. Denis Cullinan

    QUOTE: “Bullman and the Wiredling Mutha by R M Graves is a tale of gang warfare and genetic manipulation told in a degenerate English.”

    The publisher must have farmed out the writing to this country.

  2. Handy

    I’d hope to reach the half-million mark at some point in early 2015. The Interzone team have revealed the illustration for my story, Finding Waltzer-Three , which appears in issue 255.

  3. jackdeighton

    Handy,
    This reads rather cryptically. Half-million mark?

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