Interzone Review of Future Bristol & Other Nice Surprises

Posted by Colin Harvey Jun 2, 2009

Nice review of Future Bristol in Interzone 222.

Andy Hedgecock cites: "three exceptionally good stories, four that are solidly entertyaining and two that didn't work for me at all."

The three are Liz Williams' 'Isambard's Kingdom,' and in common with earlier reviews, Joanne Hall's 'Pirates of the Cumberland Basin,' and Jim Mortimore's 'The Sun in the Bone House,' which Andy describes as "an astonishingly ambitious psycho-geographical cum archeological investigation of Bristol from the Anglo-Saxon era to the far future."

There are distinct trends to the reviews on the Hall and the Mortimore, all overwhelmingly positive, but each review has picked a different third outstanding story.

It's good to get such a positive review from such a demanding market.

And today the mailman bought a cheque from Denvention 3 refunding my membership fees for last year's Worldcon. With me finishing work in the BEH for five days, it's been a splendid Tuesday!