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https://osrascunhos.com/2017/08/27/in...Este deve ter sido dos primeiros números da Interzone que tive a oportunidade de ler. Com uma boa secção de ficção, não dispensa o espaço para as críticas, seja a livros, seja a filmes. Ainda que tenha bons contos e seja um número bastante aconselhável, continuo a achar que a Lightspeed Magazine tem maior capacidade de me entreter.No primeiro conto, The rocket farmer de Julie C. Day, conhecemos uma família fascinada com foguetões ao longo de várias geraçõe...
This issue of Interzone, the science fiction and fantasy fiction magazine, contains new stories by six authors I've not heard of before getting this magazine. They are Julie C. Day, Eliot Fintushel, Andy Dudak, Chris Barnham, Tim Casson and Michael Reid. The stories vary in quality from poor to excellent.The weakest being Gods in the Blood (Of those who rise) by Tim Casson, which tries to subvert eugenics theories by hiding the children of gods among the working class. To me it just replaces one...
Listened to "The Rocket Farmer" by Julie C. Day; read by Lisa Hicks via PodCastle Episode 507
Vanessa Bell, mentioned in this story, was the sister of Virginia Woolf, and it is Woolf’s THE WAVES that I am already re-reading after some decades and real-time reviewing alongside this review! Seems significant.The detailed review of this book posted elsewhere under my name is too long or impractical to post here.Above is one of my observations at the time of the review.
An interesting set of stories featured in this issue. The 'superhero' story by Michael Reid, a dramatic survival story on Titan by Chris Barnham and a fascinating, biological change to women that terrifies societies by Andy Dudak are the stand-outs in this issue.- "The Rocket Farmer" by Julie C. Day: an story about an unusual family with an unusual occupation. Through an unknown process, the family can 'grow' rockets. But most of the rockets don't grow properly and fail, expect for one who appea...
Roy Gray takes the Editorial and describes a visit to the summer’s Barbican exhibition, Into the Unknown: A Journey Through Science Fiction. Jonathan McCalmont discusses China Miéville’s history of the Russian Revolution October, describing it as the book Miéville was born to write. Nina Allan again reflects on SF’s distinction or otherwise as a genre and the necessity to question and reinvent its tropes. Book Zone has appreciative reviews of Nina Allan’s The Rift and Emily B Cattaneo’s collecti...
Whoever selected the photos on pages 90 and 91 has a witty sense of humour