[Interzone 257] • Interzone 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 Lowe's Mutant Popcorn movie reviews this issue include Jupiter Ascending, Kingsman: The Secret Service, Ex Machina, Into the Woods, Big Hero 6, Project Almanac, Coherence

Tony Lee's Laser Fodder, TV/DVD, reviews this issue include Extant, The Haunting of Black Wood, Enemy, The Maze Runner, The Rendlesham UFO In-cident, Coherence, Dark Planet, Game of Thrones, Teenage Mutant Ninja Tur-tles, Continuum, Halo: Nightfall, The Device, The Signal

Other non-fiction this issue

David Langford - Ansible Link

Nina Allan - Time Pieces column

Jonathan McCalmont - Future Interrupted column

Readers' Poll - Vote for your favourite stories of 2014

Editorial - Have Awards for Genre Short Fiction Had Their Day? Ian Sales

Author interviews –

Helen Marshall by Andy Hedgecock

Aliya Whiteley by Peter Tennant with added questions from readers.