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Interzone 210 out nowInterzone 210 due out 11 May 07
Abiding With Sturgeon: Mistral in the Bijou. Harlan Ellison's, 10,000-word, revealing, funny and deeply moving tribute to Theodore Sturgeon centres on the episodes when Sturgeon stayed at Ellison's house.
In the SF community Theodore Sturgeon (1918 –1985) is famed for his short SF the first of which appeared in 1939. He is an American science fiction author who is considered a powerful and liberating influence in mid 20th Century US SF. His most famous, and award winning, novel 'More Than Human' (1953) was a 'fix up' of three shorter works. In the 60's he wrote TV scripts for Star Trek and later some of his stories were filmed or made into TV dramas.
Harlan Ellison (born 1934) is a controversial character in the USA and a multi award-winning writer of short stories, novellas, scripts, essays, and criticism. His most celebrated short fiction was published as genre SF. Whenever Ellison feels producers or studios have corrupted his creative work, he insists the pseudonymous 'Cordwainer Bird' takes the credit.
In Interzone 210 Ellison writes of his friendship with Sturgeon and their time together, "It was 1966, ’67, and at various times I think it was for a full year, at other times memory insists it was longer, but separate inputs staunchly declare it was only six, eight, ten months. I can’t recall precisely, now more than forty years later, but it seemed to go on forever."
They'd known each other well before then, since 1954, probably, and remained friends right up to Sturgeon's death. The essay in here is an extended eulogy that Ellison had promised Sturgeon he'd write, and a kind of apology to Sturgeon that the original eulogy, written immediately after Sturgeon's death, was so short. He ends by saying that he's kept his promise, in full. It's very touching. And is full of funny anecdotes but is still a very honest account of the man and the writer.
In the rest of this issue:
Original Fiction
The Final Voyage of La Riaza by Jayme Lynn Blaschke
Heartstrung by Rachel Swirsky
Tearing Down Tuesday by Steven Francis Murphy
Dr Abernathy's Dream Theatre by David Ira Cleary Preachers by Tim Lees
Toke by Tim Akers
Non Fiction
Guest editorial from author Geoff Ryman announcing Interzone's special 'Mundane SF' issue for 2008 and calling for story submissions.
David Langford's Ansible Link: news and gossip.
25 IZ: continuing the celebrations of Interzone's 25 years, with contributions from Bruce Sterling, Dominic Green, Ken MacLeod, Brian Stableford, Terry Pratchett, Paul McAuley, Adam Roberts, Edward Morris, Ellen Datlow, Sarah Ash, Mercurio D. Rivera (current readers' poll winner), Douglas Sirois.
25 Film: continuing the series looking at the last 25 years of other media, this time with IZ film reviewer Nick Lowe choosing his top ten SF and fantasy films.
Interviews; This is The Modern World: novelist Steph Swainston. Also Stephen Baxter talks about his Time's Tapestry series.
Book reviews include John Clute's regular 'Scores' column.
A new series, Podzone, with Rev-Up Review podcaster Paul S. Jenkins on short stories for your iPOD, SF & F podcasts.
Mutant Popcorn: Nick Lowe's regular film review column this time: Sunshine, The Science of Sleep, TMNT, Ghost Rider, Inland Empire.
Overall, 8 more pages than usual, at 72 plus cover.
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