HANDSHAKE #38, A4, 2pp, free for SAE from J.F. Haines, 5 Cross Farm, Station Road, Padgate, Warrington WA2 0QG. Market information and news of SF-poetry-related events, plus poetry from Phil Nicholls, Peter Day, Steve Sneyd, Giovanni Malito, Geoff Stevens, and Bruce Boston.
LETHOLOGICA #1, A4, 48pp, enquire to Ben Lybarger, 710 Arch Street, Salem, OH 44460, USA (e-mail: lethicon@juno.com; http://www.geocities.com/SunsetStrip/Festival/4222/home.html). A promising new magazine of fiction, poetry, articles and music reviews featuring writers from postmodern and avant-pop circles such as Lance Olsen, Doug Rice and Raymond Federman.
NEW YORK REVIEW OF SCIENCE FICTION #136, A4, 24pp, $3:50 (12/$32; Canada 12/$37; r.o.w. 12/$45) from Dragon Press, P.O. Box 78, Pleasantville, NY 10570, USA (e-mail: info@nyrsf.com; http://www.nyrsf.com). Essays, reviews and topical comment for the SF field from an eleven-time Hugo award nominee. In this issue, Wayne Daniels and David Swanger discuss hard character SF, and David Bratman evaluates Frank Peretti's debt to C.S. Lewis.
NOESIS #5, A4, 40pp, £2:75 (4/£10:50; r.o.w. 4/£12) from Noesis, 61 Pengarth Rise, Falmouth, Cornwall TR11 2RR (e-mail: lesleymiln@aol.com; http://www.noesis-sf.co.uk). Lively magazine of science fiction and science fact, which sees extrapolations of the universe as we know it as the basis for its SF. This issue's fiction is provided by Chris Wood, Russell Chambers, Callum Dunlop, Rowella Sharp, Guy Martland, Peter Rushton, and Simon Morden.
SACKCLOTH & ASHES #6, A5, 76pp p/b, £3 (4/£11; USA 4/$25) from Andrew Busby, 8 Woodgreen Close, Hindley, Wigan, Lancs WN2 3JW (e-mail: busby.sackcloth@virgin.net; http://freespace.virgin.net/busby.sackcloth). A fine example of the new wave of British horror magazines, Sackcloth & Ashes sports a no-nonsense but quality presentation combined with computer-enhanced photo illustrations. Fiction is provided by Brian Keene, Paul Joyce, John Saxton, Mark West, Hugh Cook, jon g, Ash Miller, Peter Tennant, and D.F. Lewis.
SCAVENGER'S NEWSLETTER #190, A5, 24pp, $2:50 (12/$22; Canada 12/$21; r.o.w. air 12/$27; r.o.w. surface 12/$18) from Janet Fox, 833 Main, Osage City, KS 66523-1241, USA (e-mail: foxscav1@jc.net; http://www.cza.com/scav/index.html). Monthly newsletter for SF/F/H/mystery writers and artists with an interest in the small press. Market news, letters and reviews from USA, UK and elsewhere, plus fiction by Octavio Ramos Jr and Bob Liddil on getting the most from your print shop.
TALEBONES #17, A5, 84pp, $4:50 (4/$16; Canada 4/$20; r.o.w. 4/$24) from Talebones Magazine, 5203 Quincy Ave SE, Auburn, WA 98092, USA (e-mail: talebones@nventure.com; http://www.fairwoodpress.com). SF and dark fantasy in a smart digest format with full colour cover, and winner of the Genre Writers Association Award. This issue's fiction comes from Beverly Suarez-Beard, M. Christian, Carrie Vaughn, Vera Searles, Gene Stewart, Bruce Holland Rogers, and Karen Z. Perry, plus an interview with Vonda N. McIntyre.
THE THIRD ALTERNATIVE #22, A4, 68pp, £3 (4/£11; Europe 4/£13; USA 4/$22; r.o.w. 4/£15) from TTA Press, 5 Martins Lane, Witcham, Ely, Cambs CB6 2LB (e-mail: ttapress@aol.com; http://www.tta-press.freewire.co.uk). "Extraordinary new fiction" from Alexander Glass, Sten Westgard, Tony Ballantyne, Rosanne Rabinowitz, Jason Gould, and Douglas Smith, plus an interview with William Gibson, and Desmond Knight on the films of Ed Wood.
ZENE #21, A5, 36pp, 6/£12 (Europe 6/£15; USA 6/$24; r.o.w. 6/£18) from TTA Press, 5 Martins Lane, Witcham, Ely, Cambs CB6 2LB (e-mail: ttapress@aol.com; http://www.tta-press.freewire.co.uk). A comprehensive listings magazine for prospective contributors to the independent press. This issue features guidelines from the UK, Ireland, Germany, Canada, the USA, and Australia, plus poetry, book and small press news and reviews, Paul Williams on the importance of researching your material, and Rhys Hughes on zombies.
THE ZONE #8, A4, 72pp, £3:25 (4/£12; Europe 4/£18; r.o.w. 4/£22) from Tony Lee, Pigasus Press, 13 Hazely Combe, Arreton, Isle of Wight PO30 3AJ (e-mail: pigasus.press@virgin.net). Well-rounded magazine of SF fiction, poetry, essays and reviews, this issue featuring stories by Bruce Boston, Stepan Chapman, Robert Earl, Phil Emery, Simon Kewin, John Travis & D.F. Lewis, Steve Sneyd, and David Underwood, plus interviews with Louise Cooper, Charles De Lint, Jon Courtenay Grimwood, and Mickey Zucker Reichert, and features on Wonder Woman and Quatermass.
DREAMS OF LOVECRAFTIAN HORROR by W.H. Pugmire, ISBN 0-9659433-4-8, A5, 90pp p/b, $13:95 from Mythos Books, 218 Hickory Meadow Lane, Poplar Bluff, MO 63901-2160, USA (e-mail: dwynn@LDD.net; http://www.abebooks.com/home/mythosbooks/). A collection of 14 Lovecraftian tales which seeks to evoke similar strains of cosmic dread, terror and isolation, whether set in the urban decay and horror of the world we know, in Lovecraft's Arkham, or Pugmire's own Sesqua Valley.
MY OWN PRIVATE SPECTRES by Jean Ray, 247pp ltd edn h/b (1 of 350 copies), $44 from Midnight House, 4128 Woodland Park Ave N., Seattle, WA 98103, USA (e-mail: jpelan@cnw.com). The first English-language collection for over 30 years of the horror fiction of Jean Ray, a writer often described as "the Belgian Poe". It includes his classic tale "The Mainz Psalter", and many others hitherto unavailable to readers in the English-speaking world.
ANCIENT EXHUMATIONS by Stanley C. Sargeant, ISBN 0-9659433-5-6, A5, 123pp p/b, $16:95 from Mythos Books, 218 Hickory Meadow Lane, Poplar Bluff, MO 63901-2160, USA (e-mail: dwynn@LDD.net; http://www.abebooks.com/home/mythosbooks/). Seven tales by an author who brings a fresh and innovative approach to the Cthulhu Mythos while matching Lovecraft for scrupulous research and meticulous attention to detail.
FLYING CUPS AND SAUCERS edited by Debbie Notkin, ISBN 0-9629066-8-9, 394pp p/b, $18 from Edgewood Press, P.O. Box 380264, Cambridge, MA 02238, USA. Thirteen stories that have either won or been short-listed for the James Tiptree Jr Memorial Award, which is presented for works of SF that explore and expand gender roles. Contributors include Ursula K. LeGuin, Ian McDonald, Peter Hamilton & Graham Joyce, James Patrick Kelly, and Ian MacLeod.
COLD TONNAGE BOOKS December 1999, A5, 44pp, enquire to Cold Tonnage Books, Andy Richards, 22 Kings Lane, Windlesham, Surrey GU20 6JQ (tel: 01276 475388; fax: 0870 0548510; e-mail: andy@coldtonnage.demon.co.uk). Extensive selection of SF/F/H signed, hardback and limited editions, and many collectable paperbacks.
