The September–October issue of Britain's longest running science fiction and fantasy magazine contains new long and short stories by Aliya Whiteley, Paul Jessup, T.R. Napper, and Erica L. Satifka. The cover artist for 2017 is Dave Senecal, and interior colour illustrations are by Richard Wagner, Martin Hanford, and Vincent Sammy. Features: Ansible Link by David Langford (news and obits); Mutant Popcorn by Nick Lowe (film reviews); Book Zone (book reviews, including interviews with Adam Roberts and Hal Duncan); Jonathan McCalmont's Future Interrupted (comment); Nina Allan's Time Pieces (comment); and a personal recollection of Brian W. Aldiss by Andy Hedgecock.
Cover art: 417h3r105 v5 by Dave Senecal
Fiction:
Blessings Erupt by Aliya Whiteley
illustrated by Richard Wagner
The Music of Ghosts by Paul Jessup
illustrated by Martin Hanford
Ghosts of a Neon God by T.R. Napper
The Goddess of the Highway by Erica L. Satifka
illustrated by Vincent Sammy
Features:
Brian W. Aldiss: Present Readership Excepted
A Personal Recollection by Andy Hedgecock
Future Interrupted: Use Your Allusion
Jonathan McCalmont
Time Pieces: Starting from the End: the Anatomy of Post-SF
Nina Allan
Ansible Link
David Langford
Reviews:
Book Zone
Books reviewed include The Real-Town Murders by Adam Roberts (plus in-depth interview with the author by Jo Lindsay Walton), Modern Masters of Science Fiction: Iain M. Banks by Paul Kincaid, The Delirium Brief by Charles Stross, Too Like the Lightning by Ada Palmer, Xeelee: Vengeance by Stephen Baxter, A Scruffian Survival Guide by Hal Duncan (plus author interview by Elaine Gallagher), A Man of Shadows by Jeff Noon
Mutant Popcorn
Nick Lowe
Films reviewed include The Dark Tower, War for the Planet of the Apes, Cars 3, Despicable Me 3, The Emoji Movie, Genocidal Organ, Shin Godzilla, Spider-Man: Homecoming, Captain Underpants, A Ghost Story, It Comes at Night, Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets, The Untamed
