The May-June issue of Britain's longest running science fiction and fantasy magazine contains new novelettes and stories by Tyler Keevil, Malcolm Devlin, James Van Pelt, Rich Larson, and Gwendolyn Kiste. The 2016 cover artist is Vincent Sammy, and interior colour illustrations are by Richard Wagner and Martin Hanford.

Features: Comment from Jonathan McCalmont, Future Interrupted; Nina Allan, Time Pieces; Editorial by Elaine Gallagher; Ansible Link by David Langford (news and obits); Mutant Popcorn by Nick Lowe (film reviews); Laser Fodder by Tony Lee (DVD/Blu-ray reviews); Book Zone (book reviews).

This issue 'High Rise', the film of JG Ballard's novel, gets a welcome from Nina Allan and in Nick's film reviews. In the book reviews Duncan Lu-nan looks at The Medusa Chronicles wherein two Interzone stars, Stephen Baxter and Alastair Reynolds, collaborate on a kind of sequel to Arthur C Clarke's 'A Meeting with Medusa'

Fiction this issue:
Breadcrumbs by Malcolm Devlin
Starlings by Tyler Keevil
Mars, Aphids, and Your Cheating Heart by James Van Pelt
Lifeboat by Rich Larson
The Tower Princesses by Gwendolyn Kiste

Artists this issue:
My Name To You No More by 2016 cover artist Vincent Sammy
Richard Wagner
Martin Hanford

Other non-fiction this issue:
Elaine Gallagher - Editorial
Nina Allan - Time Pieces column - Rising High, or Most Prophets Are Madmen, Too
Jonathan McCalmont - Future Interrupted column - Settling, Settled, Settlement
David Langford - Ansible Link - News and obituaries
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Books reviewed this issue include:
Science Fiction Rebels: The Story of the Science-Fiction Magazines From 1981 to 1990 by Mike Ashley, The Paper Menagerie and Other Stories by Ken Liu, Central Station by Lavie Tidhar, Dreamsnake by Vonda N. McIntyre, The Caped Crusade: Batman and the Rise of Nerd Culture by Glen Weldon, Reality by Other Means by James Morrow, City of Blades by Robert Jackson Bennett, The Ship by Antonia Honeywell, The Medusa Chronicles by Stephen Baxter & Alastair Reynolds
Reviewers: John Howard, Jack Deighton, Jonathan McCalmont, Peter Loftus, Stephen Theaker, Ian Hunter, Maureen Kincaid Speller, Duncan Lunan

Movies reviewed this issue include:
Batman vs Superman: Dawn of Justice, Midnight Special, 10 Cloverfield Lane, The Huntsman: Winter's War, The Divergent Series: Allegiant, Zootropolis, Kung Fu Panda 3, Criminal, Hardcore Henry, Evolution, The Witch, High-Rise

DVD/BD reviews this issue include:
Haven Season Five Volume Two, The Ninth Configurartion

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