Interzone #272 (September-October 2017)

The September–October issue of Britain's longest running science fiction and fantasy magazine contains new long and short stories by Aliya Whiteley, Paul Jessup, T.R. Napper, and Erica L. Satifka. The cover artist for 2017 is Dave Senecal, and interior colour illustrations are by Richard Wagner, Martin Hanford, and Vincent Sammy. Features: Ansible Link by David Langford (news and obits); Mutant Popcorn by Nick Lowe (film reviews); Book Zone (book reviews, including interviews with Adam Roberts and Hal Duncan); Jonathan McCalmont's Future Interrupted (comment); Nina Allan's Time Pieces (comment); and a personal recollection of Brian W. Aldiss by Andy Hedgecock.

Cover art: 417h3r105 v5 by Dave Senecal

Fiction:

Blessings Erupt by Aliya Whiteley
illustrated by Richard Wagner

The Music of Ghosts by Paul Jessup
illustrated by Martin Hanford

Ghosts of a Neon God by T.R. Napper

The Goddess of the Highway by Erica L. Satifka
illustrated by Vincent Sammy

Features:

Brian W. Aldiss: Present Readership Excepted
A Personal Recollection by Andy Hedgecock

Future Interrupted: Use Your Allusion
Jonathan McCalmont

Time Pieces: Starting from the End: the Anatomy of Post-SF
Nina Allan

Ansible Link
David Langford

Reviews:

Book Zone

Books reviewed include The Real-Town Murders by Adam Roberts (plus in-depth interview with the author by Jo Lindsay Walton), Modern Masters of Science Fiction: Iain M. Banks by Paul Kincaid, The Delirium Brief by Charles Stross, Too Like the Lightning by Ada Palmer, Xeelee: Vengeance by Stephen Baxter, A Scruffian Survival Guide by Hal Duncan (plus author interview by Elaine Gallagher), A Man of Shadows by Jeff Noon
Mutant Popcorn
Nick Lowe

Films reviewed include The Dark Tower, War for the Planet of the Apes, Cars 3, Despicable Me 3, The Emoji Movie, Genocidal Organ, Shin Godzilla, Spider-Man: Homecoming, Captain Underpants, A Ghost Story, It Comes at Night, Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets, The Untamed