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Interzone Loses Founder
20/04/2004 . Source: Jessica Martin 
What would Microsoft be without Bill Gates. Where would Virgin be without Branson? And what will Interzone magazine be without David Pringle? Well, it's the end of an era. After over twenty two years pacing the bridge of the good ship 'Interzone' - the UK's rock of stability in the SFF short story world - the Skipper, El Pringle, is with a heavy heart casting his seaman's sack ashore.
Interzone isn't folding though, as Editor-Publisher-Founder David Pringle is letting Andy Cox (best known for the slipstream mag and home of the 'new weird', The Third Alternative) steer Interzone into new waters.
Issue 194 is when David Pringle is stepping off the bridge.
Interzone has proved an excellent bootcamp for many of the names you currently see gracing the shelves of the UK's SFF section in bookshops, and its tastes have remained firmly literary and highbrow compared to the more hard SF and pulpy fare of US SFF magazines (Realms of Fantasy anyone?).
It's probably fair to say that Interzone is the only professional UK market for short science fiction held in any sort of regard by book publishers, writers and fans. That's down to one man's vision. And readers, he's just left the building.
It'll be interesting to see if Andy Cox resists the temptation to walk Interzone's content even further up the dark alley of art and avant garde than it has already meandered.
That's our way of saying that here at the ''Nest we prefer the pulp school of science fiction, and most slipstream leaves us cold. Pray for the soul of Interzone, people.
And David ... cheerio.
You will be missed.
:sad:
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