Glass Cases and Junkyards

I really enjoy writing my odd almost-non-fiction essays for Interzone, and issue 301 is now available, containing a mix of great stories, articles and reviews, including an article about Ursula Le Guin by the wonderful Una McCormack.

The cover art is Orange Slab by Emma Howitt.

My piece in 301 is about weird fiction and how it plays a role in our perception of the contemporary world, with that perception changing over time, so there are thoughts about stories by William Hope Hodgson and M John Harrison in there too. It’s called ‘I Think I Remember That Tongue-Filled Junkyard’.

Calque Press has collected some of my IZ pieces that deal with time and how we perceive it to create a pamphlet that will be published in April. It’s called ‘Glass Case Futures’ and it’s available to preorder now. Here’s a bit of information about it:

We spend most of our lives trapped in time: it is easy to believe that our conception of a world divided into minutes and seconds is in some way absolute, the right way of thinking about existence. In these four brief, brilliant essays, Aliya Whiteley unravels this idea with patience and good humour, allowing us to see other times: environments that at first sight might seem to be beyond the realms of human experience, but which Whiteley reveals to be as valid a set of ways of viewing the world as any life dictated by the second hand of a wristwatch. From the ancient artifacts of the Louvre to the wild coasts of Utopia, Whiteley offers us new ways of seeing.