Interzone #252 May: Jun 2014

The May–June issue of the 2013 British Fantasy Award winning magazine contains new stories by Neil Williamson, Katharine E.K. Duckett, Val Nolan, Oliver Buckram, Claire Humphrey, Bonnie Jo Stufflebeam. The cover art is by Wayne Haag, and interior colour illustrations are by Richard Wagner, Martin Hanford, Wayne Haag, Warwick Fraser-Coombe. All the usual features are present: Ansible Link by David Langford (news and obits); Mutant Popcorn by Nick Lowe (film reviews); Laser Fodder by Tony Lee (DVD/Blu-ray reviews); Book Zone: reviews of many latest releases plus Andy Hedgecock interviewing Neil Williamson and Jonathan McCalmont's Future Interrupted column. Martin McGrath delivers the results of the latest Interzone Readers' Poll and there are a few comments from readers.

Fiction this issue
The Posset Pot by Neil Williamson
The Mortuaries by Katharine E.K. Duckett
Diving Into The Wreck by Val Nolan
Two Truths And A Lie by Oliver Buckram
A Brief Light by Claire Humphrey
Sleepers by Bonnie Jo Stufflebeam

Artists this issue
Wayne Haag
Richard Wagner
Warwick Fraser-Coombe
Martin Hanford

Books reviewed this issue
Book Zone, edited by Jim Steel, has The Moon King by Neil Williamson (with author interview conducted by Andy Hedgecock), Annihilation by Jeff VanderMeer, The Burning Dark by Adam Christopher, Descent by Ken MacLeod, Tesseracts 17 edited by Colleen Anderson & Steve Vernon, The Three by Sarah Lotz, Lagoon by Nnedi Okorafor, The Boy with the Porcelain Blade by Den Patrick, Astra by Naomi Foyle, The First Fifteen Lives of Harry August by Claire North, Europe in Autumn by Dave Hutchinson, Son of the Morning by Mark Alder, Famadihana on Fomalhaut IV by Eric Brown, We Three Kids by Margo Lanagan.

Nick Lowe's Mutant Popcorn movie reviews this issue
The Amazing Spider-Man 2, Captain America: The Winter Soldier, The Legend of Hercules, Noah, Snowpiercer, Divergent, The Double, Under the Skin, The Last Days on Mars, The Machine, Escape from Planet Earth, The Zero Theorem

Tony Lee's Laser Fodder, TV/DVD, reviews this issue
Sparks, Scopers, The Last Keepers, Astronaut, Ice Soldiers, RoboCop

Other non-fiction this issue
David Langford - Ansible Link
Martin McGrath - Readers' Poll results
Jonathan McCalmont - Future Interrupted column