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"When Richard Matheson first saw REAL STEEL, distantly adapted from his 1956 F&SF novella 'Steel' by way of his 1963 Twilight Zone episode, he thought the boxing robots were stuntmen in suits. You can't blame him for being unduly influenced by the memory of the actual story, the entire point of which was that the punched-out human boxer has to don his robot's suit himself to fight (and lose) a crucial bout in the new world of posthuman contact sports. But Real Steel is a film from deep inside the new Hollywood, with Spielberg and Zemeckis producing, and has a rather different take on the displacement of humans by machines in the future of spectacle entertainment. Now Hugh Jackman's character is a commitment-phobic bot operator who finds himself saddled overnight with a ten-year-old Spielberg tyke, his son by a conveniently abandoned mom now peremptorily deceased, all ready to bond through a common love of punching the lights out of remote-controlled machine avatars, the only parenting skill a modern father needs... " Interzone's movie reviewer Nick Lowe reflects on Real Steel. Read the rest and more reviews plus stories from Lavie Tidhar, Douglas Lain, Caspian Gray & Jim Hawkins.
Interzone is a bimonthly, award winning, science fiction and fantasy short story magazine. It contains original fiction and illustrations plus SFF/H related news and reviews of books, movies and DVDs. It is not celebrity oriented.
Interzone was founded in 1982 by David Pringle, John Clute, Alan Dorey, Malcolm Edwards, Colin Greenland, Graham Jones, Roz Kaveney and Simon Ounsley.
Founding editor David Pringle stepped down in 2004 and the magazine has been published by TTA Press from issue 194 onwards. Interzone celebrated its 25th anniversary in 2007 and continues on a bimonthly schedule.
Illustrations are included here but some images were omitted. Interzone 240 was published in print and on Amazon this month. This is a back issue from 2011. Also please tell us if you notice any formatting or layout errors. Post comments on the TTA website forum or TTA's Facebook page (TTA Press) or Twitter. (TTApress) or E mail. - roy (at) ttapress (dot) com
The magazine is regularly shortlisted for prestigious awards, and is a winner of the Hugo and British Fantasy Awards. Many of its stories have also won awards and/or reprints in various Year's Best anthologies.
Interzone has helped launch the careers of many important science fiction and fantasy authors, and continues to publish some of the world's best known writers. Amongst those to have graced its pages are Brian Aldiss, Sarah Ash, Michael Moorcock, Bruce Sterling, William Gibson, M. John Harrison, Stephen Baxter, Iain M. Banks, J.G. Ballard, Kim Newman, Alastair Reynolds, Harlan Ellison, Greg Egan, Gwyneth Jones, Jonathan Lethem, Geoff Ryman, Rachel Pollack, Charles Stross, Jon Courtenay Grimwood, John Brunner, Paul McAuley, Ian R. MacLeod, Christopher Priest, Thomas M. Disch, Ian Watson, John Sladek, Paul Di Filippo, Rudy Rucker, Chelsea Quinn Yarbro, Eric Brown, Chris Beckett, Dominic Green, Jay Lake, Chris Roberson, Elizabeth Bear, Hal Duncan, Steve Rasnic Tem... We're still discovering more than our fair share of exciting new talents and publishing some of the brightest new stars around: Aliette de Bodard, Tim Akers, Will McIntosh, Jason Stoddard, Jason Sanford, Hannu Rajaniemi, Leah Bobet, Kim Lakin-Smith, Tim Lees, Karen Fishler, Nina Allan, Alaya Dawn Johnson, Gareth L. Powell, Mercurio D. Rivera, Jamie Barras, Suzanne Palmer, Carlos Hernandez, Daniel Kaysen, Grace Dugan, Rachel Swirsky, Benjamin Rosenbaum, M.K. Hobson, Gord Sellar, Al Robertson, Neil Williamson, Tim Pratt, Matthew Kressel, Sara King and many others.
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