‘Sweet, quiet boys find their voice, discover new interests. Yes, and sometimes make mistakes too. But that’s the point. They’ve been Tom’s mistakes to make. You can’t live another person’s life for them.

‘This is what he wanted.’

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‘The aliens changed all of that. You could hold a product in your hand and feel its history, feel people’s attitudes and emotions as they’d processed the materials.’

— Chana Porter, THE SEEP

In July, explore stories too numerous to list with Chana & me

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‘[...] technology is not neutral, composed of tools that can be used for good or evil depending on the user. [...] it comes with an inevitable logic, bearing the purposes and the values of the economic system that spawns it’

— Kirkpatrick Sale, REBELS AGAINST THE FUTURE

Alex and I have finalised our reading list for our IZ Story Socials and it is packed with stellar stories by Ai Jiang, Ray Bradbury, Indrapramit Das, Lindz McLeod, Shingai Njeri Kagunda, Jorge Luis Borges, Eugenia Triantafyllou, Tonya Liburd, & many others interzone.social/story-socials-…

‘She steps out of the June room still crying [...]. As soon as her tears hit the floor they turn into smooth chips of marble.’

— Teika Marija Smits, ‘The November Room or Leaving the Labyrinth’ (forthcoming, IZ 296)

In July, talk stories with me & Teika

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Now starting a month later, and a bit later in the day, the IZ Story Socials with Chana Porter, me, and guests incl. Brian Evenson, Kasimma, and both Ann and Jeff VanderMeer!

Chana and I love the reading list – at the 🔗 – and would love to see you there

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Unidad de Contacto del Secretario SSC CDMX C5 CDMX Omar Garcia Harfuch así que denunciamos una combi molestando con volumen de música excesivo y por usar la calle como lava autos ilegal y la patrulla viene se estaciona en frente y no hace nada, seguro todo esto es culpa del PAN no?

The legend that is Michael Moorcock was interviewed for IZ Digital this month!

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Want to sit down once a week with an INTERZONE writer and learn about the stories they love? Want to discuss how and why great stories work?

Starting in July, you can do just that with Alexander Glass, Alex Penland, Chana Porter, and Teika Marija Smits!

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I’m thrilled that these four great writers – Aliya Whiteley, Seanan McGuire, R.T. Ester, and Elizabeth Bear – will be popping in to IZ Story Socials with Teika Marija Smits and me to talk about their stories and answer any questions attendees have.

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‘Let my beloved come into his garden, and eat his pleasant fruits.’

A year ago today in IZ Digital

‘The Feast of Mulligan Lang’, a story by Stark Holborn with art by Alex Maniezo

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New today in IZD:

Kat Clay Kat Clay on PEST by Michael Cisco, and Michael Butterworth’s Complete Poems;

Mike O’Driscoll Mike O’Driscoll on FIFTY FORGOTTEN BOOKS by R.B. Russell;

& earlier this week: Gautam Bhatia Gautam Bhatia on a collection of stories by Dare Segun Falowo

‘He tried to talk to God but the best thing was to talk to his father and he did talk to him and he didnt forget.’

RIP Cormac McCarthy

New and free to read, ‘A Little Seasoning’, a story by Neil Williamson with art by Dante Luiz

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As Neil put it, —It’s a bit gruesome; and a love story, too…

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OceanGate Expeditions You gotta love these billionaire geniuses! They decide to go on a DIY submarine adventure to find the Titanic, and what do they end up doing? Getting lost like a bunch of stoned sailors on a wild treasure hunt! What were they smoking? I hope they at least found Nemo down there!

‘“There’s nothing in your bag but…” Hands and eyes. She couldn’t bring herself to say it. To herself she recited: “He created man from potter’s clay and the jinn from smokeless fire. Which of the Lord’s blessings would you both deny?”’

— Lyle Hopwood, ‘Nine Dioptres’

ICYMI…

I got a new story! Read it today for the price of a ko-fi.com/izd or get it for free tomorrow (though personally I don't know how anyone could wait that long)!

Rebecca Summerling Which did you go for?

Garak Obama The interzone yet more gay

A new story by me is up at IZ Digital today.
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I found it!

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Another London-born legend in IZ Digital last week: Mary Soon Lee

Read ‘False Dichotomy’ by Mary Soon Lee in

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It is now free for all to read and enjoy

IZD monthly supporters and IZ print subscribers also get an epub option

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Rebecca Summerling No well-exposed handout photos for drowned migrants, but we will still remember them, even in the dark

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