Science Fiction

Interzone is a bimonthly, award winning, science fiction and fantasy short story magazine. It contains original fiction and illustrations plus SFF/H related news and reviews of books, movies and DVDs. It is not celebrity oriented. This edition, #235 of July 2011, with stories from Mercurio D Rivera, Gareth Powell, Jon Wallace, Al Robertson & Matthew Cook has the text of the print edition but some of the graphics and advertisements are not present, current printed issue 237, Nov 2011. This issue ... more info>>

Interzone's movie reviewer Nick Lowe reflects on Conan 2011. "Seventy-five years ago this summer, a thirty-year-old Texan pulp writer wound up the windows and took a borrowed Colt .380 from the glovebox because he didn't want to outlive his mother. This is still regarded as quite a weird tale, and in 1996 they made an entire movie about it, The Whole Wide World with Vincent d'Onofrio as Robert E. Howard and Ren�e Zellwegger as Novalyne Price. It's no wonder that Hollywood is particularly creep... more info>>

Commodore John Grimes of the Rim Worlds Naval Reserve is the practical, hard-headed hero of galactic battles -- no the sort of man you'd expect to find chasing after ghosts. But when Commander Sonya Verrill proposes a ghost-hunting expedition on the Galactic Rim, Grimes steps... Into the Alternate Universe.

Earth is being invaded by the shetani--spirit creatures so small and stealthy that only one man knows about the increasing peril. The potential savior is an African elder named Olkeloki who is capable of fighting evil both in this world and the spirit one. But to be successful he must recruit the help of two others: government agent Joshua Oak and a feisty young woman named Merry Sharrow. Only the three of them can keep the shetani from destroying reality as we know it.

Ted Kennedy, advertising executive for the Ganymede Project, is made aware of a plan for genocide, for the murder of all the peaceful natives of Ganymede in furtherance of commerce...and it is his decision as to whether he collaborates with, facilitates this genocide or--by opposing it, by bringing the truth to the public--he risks not mere failure but utter destruction. Robert Silverberg's comment on his novel: ..."it involves a Madison Avenue hoax involving a nonexistent colony on Ganymede ... more info>>

The alien spaceship was unthinkably huge, enormously powerful, apparently irresistible. It came from the void and settled on Earth, striking awe into the hearts of all who saw it. Its mission, however, was not conquest--but a call for help! First contact was a job for the brilliant team of scientists, Arcot, Wade, and Morey. And what they received was an offer of an alliance against an invading foe so powerful that no known force could turn it back! John W. Campbell's INVADERS FROM THE INFINITE ... more info>>

They Wanted To Terraform ... The Earth? Once more, Nick Pollotta has unleashed a bakers dozen of his comedy short stories, this collection ranging from Science Fiction to Mystery, and each tale crowned with his hallmark twist endings. * After an exhausted wizard grants a young king a special favor, the history of the world is changed forever because of a snappy Broadway musical. * Battling the ultimate evil, the only hope for a desperate British lawman is a new, and innovative, use of condiments... more info>>

The human race had come to an end. That much was certain. Centuries of culture, ingenuity, and bloodshed were all gone. Erased. A mere fabrication of universal imagination. This was the final campaign for V'ry Captain M'Tal and his crew. A definitive conquering point to his celebrated career. What he didn't count on was the last stand from a band of beings left on a sloppy little planet called Earth. M'Tal hated humans. They should have been eradicated by the V'ry onslaught. He would make the... more info>>

Classic SF Stories that Spawned Classic SF Movies! Here are the original magazine stories, "The Cosmic Frame" and "Deadly City," both by famed science fiction writer-editor Paul W. Fairman, that became Invasion of the Saucer-Men and Target Earth when they were filmed in the 1950s. If you love classic exploitation SF films, then you have to read this pair stories that inspired two of the most memorable movies of their era. It's like a drive-in movie double feature in an eBook. Plus, just like a d... more info>>

Dazzling science fiction from Asimov's, Amazing Stories, etc. By j. D. Crayne. Hugo and Nebula winner Larry Niven calls J. D. Crayne's S-F, "Dark humor. Funny stuff." This long-awaited collection features all the Cheryl Harbottle stories. A printer gives Cheryl problems in "...and Settle Down With a Good Book." Her search through the internet for family genealogy goes awry in "Of Days Gone By." Cheryl moves to a new home--not on the range but on a Space Station in "No Homelike Place," where she ... more info>>

Six months ago, the forces of Thule swarmed across the country's borders, determined to recapture the glory of the Old Empire. Along they way, they are conquering the outlying territories which have been independent since it fell centuries ago. With airships and giant landcruisers, the Thule have quickly overwhelmed smaller nations, including the kingdom of Poziel. The people of Poziel's last line of defense is their only remaining armored train, Ironheart, a rolling fortress on the tracks. She... more info>>

The death of a pet fish signals an ominous threat of wordwide tragedy... Delta Company "plays" out a war light years away... A running back for the Cleveland Browns gives his all to relive a night from his past? In IRRATIONAL NUMBERS, as with much of his work, author George Alec Effinger straddles the line between allegorical fantasy and science fiction. It's a vein Effinger mines for a deep, meaningful understanding of human nature. Challenging and disquieting in the way only the best fiction... more info>>

by H. G. Wells Adrift in a dinghy, Edward Prendick, the single survivor from the good ship Lady Vain, is rescued by a vessel carrying an unusual cargo--a menagerie of savage animals. Nursed to recovery by their keeper Montgomery, who gives him dark medicine that tastes of blood, Prendick soon finds himself stranded upon an uncharted island in the Pacific with his rescuer and the beasts. There, he meets the sinister Dr. Moreau--a brilliant scientist whose notorious experiments in vivisection hav... more info>>

In the thrilling follow-up to "The Black Star Passes," John W. Campbell, Jr. again takes his team of young scientist-explorers on a voyage to the outer reaches of the universe--culminating in a space battle of epic proportions! Classic space opera, here is a tale from the Golden Age of Science Fiction!

Keith Laumer, well-known for his tales of adventure and action, shows us a different side of his talent in this original, exciting and thought-provoking exploration of the meaning of meaning. Originally published in Amazing Stories, January 1963.

Here is a major science-fiction novel in the tradition of Brave New World and 1984. Frank Belknap Long's long-lost science fiction masterpiece concerns a machine that computes men's futures ... and the one person who dared to tamper with its infallible system! Frank Belknap Long, one of the Lovecraft Circle, is best known for his contributions to "Weird Tales," "Thrilling Wonder Stories" and other pulp magazines. Long also wrote for radio and television.

Jack Commer, Supreme Commander of the United System Space Force, leads a peace mission in his flagship Typhoon II to end the war with the fascist Alpha Centauri Empire. After an engine explosion strands the ship four months from its destination, the Typhoon encounters a derelict spaceship, but its nine rescued refugees are insolent and uncooperative, and they proceed to brainwash most of the crew into worship of the Alpha Centaurian Emperor. A month and a half later, all but three of the crew ha... more info>>

The quest for Earth's domination remains the primary directive of an ancient, inhuman enemy. Challenging this alien bid for iron rule, an elite force led by former magistrates wages war against Earth's enslavers. These rebel commandos are resourceful, dedicated and possess the immutable human willpower to survive--by any means necessary.... The Original Tribe, technological shamans with their own agenda of domination, challenged Cerberus once before and lost. Now their greatest assassin, the Br... more info>>

Jean Lorrah's novels have a loyal following, but her many fans are unaware that she's also written short stories. Here are all her best tales collected in one volume. The author provides a lively introduction, telling how she became first a science fiction fan and then a writer. She provides hints for aspiring writers, and shows the pitfalls in a writer's life. The theme of these seven stories is the power of the word--a truly magical power that can be used for good or for evil. From outer space... more info>>

"Jeshurun" (a poetical name for Israel used some four times in the Bible and derived from the Hebrew word meaning "to be upright") is a young adult novel of biblical allegory. It tells the story of salvation history through the everyday sights and sounds of a contemporary high school student's world. This novel carries the reader from the dilemma of the Jewish nation at the close of Old Testament times, to the liberating gospel of Christ, all in the guise of a boys boarding school and the myster... more info>>

It is the year 2220 AD and Earth has undergone rebirth, at the center of this new order is Jet Warriors Corporation, the planet's number one security outfit, whose job is to maintain peace. Unknown to the Captain of Jet Warriors Corporation, Dare Bashorun, and his co-warriors, there is a century-old supernatural evil hibernating somewhere in the bowels of Earth, waiting to conquer the planet.

Genetic engineering. Corrupt corporations. Survivalists. A bankrupt government. Anonymous hackers and a computer-generated genome. All are pieces of the same fatal puzzle that can only be solved by the crew of the first manned mission to Mars. Hunted across America in a cat-and-mouse pursuit by faceless assassins, time is running out for the crew, who must solve the puzzle if the Earth is to be saved.

Jobo was picked upon and teased. Not like any other child in the deep woods of Tennessee. They called him a freak, but he was strong and could whoop anybody, if forced to do so. Unfortunately, he may be forced to do so. Meanwhile, John Tilletson was on an expedition of lifetime--to Easter Island! All to prove his unorthodox hypothesis that the giant head sculptures of Easter Island have an extraterrestrial origin. Soon Jobo and John Tilletson's worlds would collide.

Fleeing the disapproval of Earth's patrician families, Jason and Mish Kennerin have come to Aerie; distant, insular, inhabited by the enigmatic kasirene. Here they carve out a new life for themselves and their growing family, until the death of a nearby planetary system forces them to open their world, and their lives, to the chaos of change and the genesis of an empire they both crave and resist.

Fleeing the persecution of a rogue admiral, Captain James Hartwell must reluctantly embrace the life of a pirate if he and his crew are to survive on the Caribbean Sea. Unfortunately, England has just declared war on piracy. Regrettably, Hartwell has two crews on one ancient, rotten galleon, some of whom don't agree with his principles. Alarmingly, some of his crew are developing inexplicable powers after accidental exposure to advanced technology. Disastrously, a silver woman has fallen from th... more info>>