Uploaded March 6, 1997 -- Updated May 7, 1997
Here is the list of stories in this issue. If you have any comments or reviews, send them to jbailey@sff.net. Please indicate which issue and/or story you're referring to in the subject line, and try to keep comments for different stories separate in you letters so I can place them properly.
"Refugees from an Imaginary Country"
by Darrell Schweitzer
"Nights in the Gardens of the Kerhonson Prison for the Aged and Infirm"
by Thomas M. Disch
"The Psychomantium" by Molly Brown
"Project Timespan" by Jame Lynn Blaschke
"The Black Blood of the Dead" (Part 2 of 2)
by Brian Stableford [5/5/97]
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Rich Horton: 5/5/97
This long novella (about 37000 words, I think), published in two parts, is a sequel to an earlier Interzone two-parter, "The Hunger and Ecstasy of Vampires". The first story told of a certain Edward Copplestone, who had developed a means of projecting a "timeshadow" into the future: and who discovers that the future will be ruled by the descendants of the vampires who are hidden away in the present (for the purposes of the story, the present is the 1890s). Copplestone tells his story to a group including a mysterious "Count Lugard", a consulting detective (Sherrinford Holmes: the real model for the more famous fictional detective), Oscar Wilde, H. G. Wells, Nikola Tesla, and others. The new story picks a few years after the first story: Oscar Wilde narrates the story, near death in a Paris room. He tells of further meetings, in which Holmes recounts his story of having re-created the timeshadow formula, and his trips to futures even more distant than that depicted in "Hunger". Stableford uses these far future destinations to play with more than just the vampire vs. human issue: vampires vs. machine intelligences, and questions of the purpose and destiny of the universe, among other things, are raised, to interesting effect. The whole story is oddly, but successfully, filtered through Wilde's perceptions: we hear Holmes' narrative, but Wilde's reflections: and Wilde, dying, is depicted quite movingly. I enjoyed this very much.
Rich
Horton
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