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Category: Science Fiction/Fantasy British Fantasy Award Winner, Hugo Award Winner, Hugo Award Nominee, British Science Fiction Award Nominee
Description: Interzone's movie reviewer Nick Lowe reflects on Conan 2011. "Seventy-five years ago this summer, a thirty-year-old Texan pulp writer wound up the windows and took a borrowed Colt .380 from the glovebox because he didn't want to outlive his mother. This is still regarded as quite a weird tale, and in 1996 they made an entire movie about it, The Whole Wide World with Vincent d'Onofrio as Robert E. Howard and Ren�e Zellwegger as Novalyne Price. It's no wonder that Hollywood is particularly creeped-out by the idea that one of America's key narratologists of manhood might love his mom to death, engaged as it is in its own genocidal war against maternity. Call it the Nemo test: how many of this summer's films killed off the hero's mother? Win one clownfish for dispatching her casually in backstory, two for an actual flashback, three for executing her in the very first scene, and multiply them together if the film manages to kill the heroine's mother as well. Better dress for a busy little bloodbath, because of the eleven films canvassed below, only four score zero on the Nemo scale; and two of those are about machines, while one is a Miyazaki number anyway and consequently pumped full of antibodies to Hollywood infection. In the Nemo stakes, if sadly not much else, the 2011 version of CONAN THE BARBARIAN crushes its enemies and hears the lamentations of their women.." Read the rest and much else for $4.99 Interzone is a bimonthly, award winning, science fiction and fantasy short story magazine in its 29th year of publication. It contains original fiction and illustrations plus SFF/H related news and reviews of books, movies and DVDs. It is not celebrity oriented. This edition, #236 of Sept 2011, with stories from Mercurio D. Rivera, Jason Sanford (art from Jim Burns) and others, has the text of the print edition but some of the graphics and advertisements are not present, next printed issue 239 due March. The magazine continues to publish some of the world's finest writers and most talented newcomers. Authors who have graced its pages include 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, Liz Williams, Geoff Ryman, Charles Stross, Aliette de Bodard, Paul McAuley, Ian R. MacLeod, Christopher Priest.
eBook Publisher: TTA Press, 2011 1982
eBookwise Release Date: February 2012

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