The March–April issue of Britain's longest running science fiction and fantasy magazine contains new long and short stories by James Sallis, Antony Johnston, Julie C. Day, Alexandra Renwick, T.R. Napper, Michael Reid, and Eliot Fintushel. The cover artist for 2018 is Vince Haig (on the theme of abductees), and interior colour illustrations are by Richard Wagner, Martin Hanford, and Warwick Fraser-Coombe. Features: Ansible Link by David Langford (news and obits); Mutant Popcorn by Nick Lowe (film reviews); Book Zone (book reviews, plus an interview with Sam J. Miller); Jonathan McCalmont's Future Interrupted (comment); Nina Allan's Time Pieces (comment); and a guest editorial by Antony Johnston.

Cover art: Abductees 1 by 2018 cover artist Vince Haig

Fiction:

Beautiful Quiet of the Roaring Freeway by James Sallis

Soul Music by Antony Johnston
illustrated by Warwick Fraser-Coombe

Schrödinger's by Julie C. Day
illustrated by Richard Wagner

Never the Twain by Michael Reid
illustrated by Richard Wagner

Opium for Ezra by T.R. Napper
illustrated by Martin Hanford

baleen, baleen by Alexandra Renwick

Zen by Eliot Fintushel

Features:

Guest Editorial
Antony Johnston

Future Interrupted: Infinite Diversity in Repressive Combinations
Jonathan McCalmont

Time Pieces: The Gernsback Conundrum
Nina Allan

Ansible Link: News, obituaries
David Langford

Reviews:

Book Zone

Books reviewed include Blackfish City by Sam J. Miller (plus interview conducted by Maureen Kincaid Speller), Mad Hatters and March Hares edited by Ellen Datlow, Science Fiction: A Literary History edited by Roger Luckhurst, The Queen of All Crows by Rod Duncan, Embers of War by Gareth L. Powell, Paris Adrift by E.J. Swift, Dark State by Charles Stross, Blood Binds the Pack by Alex Wells, The Smoke by Simon Ings, Improbable Botany edited by Gary Dalkin

Mutant Popcorn
Nick Lowe

Films reviewed include The Shape of Water, Black Panther, Coco, Maze Runner: The Death Cure, Attraction, Jupiter's Moon, Downsizing