Interzone 259 Jul-Aug 2015

Interzone 259 cover

Silencer – Head Like a Hole Remix1 by E Catherine Tobbler is about a group who are doomed to commit high-school massacres over and over.
The Deep of Winter2 by Chris Butler. Aluna has invented a system of communication involving “spores” which her government will not allow. She lets it loose into a parallel world.
Rush Down, Roar Gently3 by Sara Saab. A woman travels through a Beirut deluged by 102 days of rain to seek out her former friend with whom she lost contact many years before.
After His Kind4 by Richard W Strachan. The only survivor of a crash onto another planet finds his severed arm generating a new version of himself and his own regrowing.
Edited by Rich Larson is told in a slang idiom5 and relates the tale of what happens to the relationship between our (unnamed) male narrator’s rich boy-friend after the latter’s Editing, “Chemo plug for anti-anxiety. Some body language modulation. Bigger memory retention, better special reasoning.” Plus the shitty things. “I don’t feel bad remembering.”
James White Award Winner:- Midnight Funk Association6 by Mack Leonard. A signal has been ruining the beats of Detroit techno – a sound the colour of a black light.

1 “Glasser slides opposite of me” (opposite me) to not go (not to go.)
2 “It was a noble thing we did, us Guardians.” (the “we” is the verb’s subject, so it should be followed by “we Guardians.”)
3 the League of Nations (in 2007?) snuck (sneaked,) cul-de-sacs (culs-de-sac,) scramble onto low wall (a low wall,) off premises (off the premises.)
4 and not a name or a face (two negatives so: and not a name nor a face.)
5 me and him are used in the nominative case rather than the accusative
6 Written in USian; “queuing up a piece of music” (“cueing up” makes more sense,) “hocked it into the pool” (hawked.)

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