Interzone Science Fiction and Fantasy Magazine 28 - Interzone #257 (Mar - Apr 2015)

The March – April issue of Britain's longest running science fiction and fantasy magazine contains new stories by Alastair Reynolds, Tendai Huchu, Fadzlishah Johanabas, Rich Larson, and Aliya Whiteley. Cover art 'Rime' is Martin Hanford's work and interior artists are Richard Wagner, Vincent Sammy, Warwick Fraser-Coombe and Wayne Haag. All the usual features are present: David Langford's Ansible Link (news and obits); Nick Lowe's Mutant Popcorn (film reviews); Tony Lee's Laser Fodder (DVD/Blu-ray/VoD reviews); Book Zone (book reviews); Jonathan McCalmont's Future Inter-rupted (comment) and Nina Allan's Time Pieces (comment). Author inter-views: Andy Hedgecock with Helen Marshall and Peter Tennant with Aliya Whiteley. Interzone is essentially a fiction magazine containing short science fiction and fantasy stories. But it covers other aspects of the genre via comment, news, reviews of books, movies, DVDs and TV. Fiction this issue A Murmuration by Alastair Reynolds Songbird by Fadzlishah Johanabas Brainwhales Are Stoners, Too by Rich Larson The Worshipful Company of Milliners by Tendai Huchu Blossoms Falling Down by Aliya Whiteley Artists this issue Martin Hanford Wayne Haag Vincent Sammy Warwick Fraser-Coombe Richard Wagner Books reviewed this issue Book Zone, edited by Jim Steel, has Gifts for the One Who Comes After by Helen Marshall (plus author inter-view conducted by Andy Hedgecock), Tigerman by Nick Harkaway, The Final Testimony of Raphael Ignatius Phoenix by Paul Sussman, Hyperluminal by Jim Burns, Edge of Dark by Brenda Cooper, Revenger 1 by Warwick Fraser-Coombe, The Very Best of Kate Elliott, Beta-Life edited by Martin Amos & Ra Page, Tell No Lies by John Grant, The Glorious Angels by Justina Robson, Ditko's Shorts edited by Craig Yoe & Fester Faceplant Nick…