Uploaded March 6, 1997 -- Updated March 6, 1997
Here is the list of stories in this issue. If you have any comments or reviews, send them to jbailey@sff.net. Please indicate which issue and/or story you're referring to in the subject line, and try to keep comments for different stories separate in you letters so I can place them properly.
"The Rust Islands" by Storm Constantine
"Alice, Alfie, Ted and the Aliens" by Paul
di Filippo
"The Mind-Slice" by William Spencer
"No Hearts to be Broken" by Terry Dowling
"The Trauma Jockey" by David Hutchinson
Miscellaneous Comments (on the magazine as a whole, editorials, columns, etc.) [3/5/97]
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Rich Horton: 3/5/97
I haven't read the March short fiction yet, but I would like to mention an excellent article by Brian Stableford, part 8 of his "Creators of SF" series, which Interzone has been publishing. This concerns James Blish, a favorite writer of mine, and Stableford is very interesting on Blish's ambitions, and on his habit of reworking and expanding upon themes in early stories. His views of the process of writing The Seedling Stars, Cities in Flight, and the "After Such Knowledge" trilogy are very interesting. The general picture Stableford gives of how the conflict between Blish's literary ambitions, commercial necessities, and also publishing customs (then and now) shaped Blish's career is also interesting. I would have liked to see more discussion of some of the significant short work, as well as the interesting if flawed novel VOR, but no doubt space did not allow.
Rich Horton
http://www.sff.net/people/Richard.Horton/
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