IZ Story Socials with Alexander Glass
IZ Story Socials are a new way to read the stories we love. Find out more about them here.
Explore and discuss 24 fantastic stories with author Alexander Glass and Interzone and IZ Digital editor Gareth Jelley.
Alexander Glass has stories published and forthcoming in The Third Alternative, Black Static, Asimov’s Science Fiction and The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction. His story ‘Sfumato’ will be published in Interzone #296.
Alexander’s first series of IZ Story Socials will begin in July 2023 and run for 12 weeks (with some breaks) on Mondays from 20:00 to 22:00 UTC+1 (BST).
- 12 weeks
- 2 hours each week
- Mondays from 20:00 to 22:00 UTC+1 (BST)
- ~12 places still available
- dates and reading list below
€220
Reading List
Here are the stories for each IZ Story Social with Alexander Glass, along with links to places to find them. Bookshop links are to paperback editions wherever possible, and in most cases ebooks are available (sometimes directly from the publisher, or wherever you usually buy your ebooks…).
Week 1 // 3 July 2023
- ‘All the Hues of Hell’ by Gene Wolfe | in the collection Endangered Species (Orb, 2013) and in the anthology The Big Book of Science Fiction (Vintage, 2016)
- ‘The Screwfly Solution’ by James Tiptree, Jr | in the collection Her Smoke Rose Up Forever (Gateway, 2014), in the anthology Sisters of the Revolution: A Feminist Speculative Fiction Anthology (PM Press, 2015) and in Pseudopod #400 (audio)
Week 2 // 10 July 2023
- ‘Chivalry’ by Neil Gaiman | in the collection Smoke and Mirrors (Headline Review, 2005), in The Neil Gaiman Reader: Selected Fiction (HarperLuxe, 2020) and in LeVar Burton Reads, #7 (audio)
- ‘The Last Defender of Camelot’ by Roger Zelazny | in The Last Defender of Camelot (Amber, 2019)
Week 3 // 17 July 2023
Guest writer: Priya Sharma
- Pomegranates by Priya Sharma | ebook and hardcover (PS Publishing, 2022)
- ‘The Engine at Heartspring’s Centre’ by Roger Zelazny | in The Last Defender of Camelot and in Lightspeed #104
Week 4 // 24 July 2023
Guest writer: Elizabeth Bear
- ‘Immersion’ by Aliette de Bodard | in Clarkesworld #69, in the collection Of Wars, and Memories, and Starlight (Subterranean Press, 2019) and in Escape Pod #745 (audio)
- ‘The Deeps of the Sky’ by Elizabeth Bear | in Clarkesworld #141, in the collection The Best of Elizabeth Bear (Subterranean Press, 2020), and in the anthology The Final Frontier Stories of Exploring Space, Colonizing the Universe, and First Contact (Night Shade Books, 2018)
Week 5 // 31 July 2023
- ‘Omphalos’ by Ted Chiang | in the collection Exhalation (Picador, 2020)
- ‘The Specialist’s Hat’ by Kelly Link | in the collection Stranger Things Happen (Small Beer Press, 2001) (ebooks from Weightless Books), in the anthology The Weird: A Compendium of Strange and Dark Stories (Tor Books, 2012), and in PodCastle #357 (audio)
Week 6 // 14 August 2023
- ‘Direction of the Road’ by Ursula K. Le Guin | in the collection The Wind’s Twelve Quarters and the Compass Rose
- ‘The Girl-Thing Who Went Out for Sushi’ by Pat Cadigan | in Clarkeworld #137 and in the anthology The Very Best of the Best 35 Years of the Year’s Best Science Fiction (St. Martin’s Griffin, 2019)
Week 7 // 21 August 2023
- ‘Dead Centre’ by Judith Merril | in the anthology Moonrise: The Golden Age of Lunar Adventures (British Library Publishing, 2018)
- ‘The Dark Land’ by Michael Marshall Smith | in The Best of Michael Marshall Smith (Subterranean Press, 2020)
Week 8 // 28 August 2023
- ‘Galápagos’ by Caitlín R. Kiernan | in the collection Beneath an Oil-Dark Sea (Subterranean Press, 2015), in The Very Best of Caitlín R. Kiernan (Tachyon Publications, 2019), and StarShipSofa #176 (audio)
- ‘The Fog Horn’ by Ray Bradbury | in the collections Stories Volume 1 (Harper Voyager 2008) and R is for Rocket / S is for Space (PS Publishing, 2018) and at Internet Archive (audio)
Week 9 // 4 September 2023
- ‘Fire Watch’ by Connie Willis | in the collections Time Is the Fire: The Best of Connie Willis (Gateway, 2013) and The Winds of Marble Arch and Other Stories (Subterranean Press, 2013)
- ‘The Last Article’ by Harry Turtledove | in the collection Kaleidoscope (Gateway, 2013) and The Best of Harry Turtledove (Subterranean Press, 2021)
Week 10 // 11 September 2023
- ‘Beyond the Aquila Rift’ by Alastair Reynolds | in Beyond the Aquila Rift The Best of Alastair Reynolds (Gollancz, 2017) and in Love, Death and Robots The Official Anthology (Vol 1) (Cohesion Press, 2021)
- ‘Fortunato’ by Premee Mohamed | in the collection No One Will Come Back for Us (Undertow Publications, 2023) and in the anthology Ride the Star Wind: Cthulhu, Space Opera, and the Cosmic Weird (Broken Eye Books, 2017)
Week 11 // 18 September 2023
- ‘Amnesty’ by Octavia E. Butler | in Bloodchild (Seven Stories Press, 2005)
- ‘All the Time in the World’ by Arthur C. Clarke | in The Collected Stories (Gollancz, 2001)
Week 12 // 25 September/October 2023
- ‘Light of Other Days’ by Bob Shaw | in Sci Fiction (archived) and in the anthology Alpha 6 (2022)
- ‘The Flame Is Roses’ by Gwyneth Jones | in the collection Big Cat and Other Stories (NewCon Press, 2019)
If you have any questions, or any problems finding the stories above, please email socials [at] interzone [dot] press as early as possible, thank you.
— Gareth Jelley, Editor & Publisher of Interzone & IZ Digital
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