NEWS

The 1999 BSFA AWARDS shortlist has been announced:
   BEST NOVEL: ThigMOO by Eugene Byrne; Silver Screen by Justina Robson; Children of God by Mary Doria Russell; Headlong by Simon Ings; and The Sky Road by Ken MacLeod.
   BEST SHORT FICTION: "Gorillagram" by Tony Ballantyne (from Interzone #139); "Hunting the Slarque" by Eric Brown (from Interzone #141); "Malignos" by Richard Calder (from Interzone #144); "The Lady MacBeth Blues" by Stephen Dedman (from Interzone #148); and "White Dog" by Maya Kaathryn Bohnhoff (from Interzone #142).
   BEST ARTWORK: "The Dream Archipelago" by Jim Burns (cover of The Dream Archipelago by Christopher Priest); "Darwinia" by Jim Burns (cover of Darwinia by Robert Charles Wilson); "The Sky-Green Blues" by Dominic Harman (cover of Interzone #142); "Silver Screen" by Steve Stone (cover of Silver Screen by Justina Robson); "Dreaming Down Under" by Nick Stathopoulos (cover of Interzone #146).
   The BSFA Awards have been presented annually since the 1960s. The shortlist is determined by the membership of the British Science Fiction Association, and voted on by the BSFA and the membership of Eastercon (the annual British National Science Fiction convention). This year's awards will be presented on the evening of Sunday 23rd April at the Central Hotel in Glasgow. For further information, please contact Chris Hill, BSFA Awards Administrator, The Bungalow, 27 Lower Evingar Road, Whitchurch, Hants RG28 7EY (e-mail: awards@sandman.enterprise-plc.com).

CARPE NOCTEM #16, A4, 92pp, $5 (6/$20; Canada/Mexico 6/$30; r.o.w. 6/$34) from Carpe Noctem, 2514 Jamacha Rd. #502-147, El Cajon, CA 92019, USA (e-mail: submit@carpenoctem.com; http://www.carpenoctem.com). A slickly-produced exploration of dark culture, including interviews with Jack Ketchum, Chelsea Quinn Yarbro, illustrator Countess Von Buhler, and musicians Angels of Venice, fiction by Andrew Vachss, Mehobitel Wilson, Caitlin R. Kiernan, and Scott Nicholson, art by Clive Barker, David Ho, Eric Dinyer, Tara Greer, and Michael Cohen, plus plenty of reviews, and adverts for gothic/necro/S&M-inspired clothing, jewellery, artwork, music and other accessories and esoterica.

CHAOTIC ORDER #3, A5, 32pp, £1:50 (6/£7:50) from Chaotic Order, 15 Digby Close, Doddington Park, Lincoln LN6 3PZ (e-mail: bob@chaoticorder.freeserve.co.uk). Underground and fringe culture magazine which profiles filmmaker Nick Zedd and talks to cartoonist Sophie Cossette, with fiction by Bob Smith.

COLD PRINT (no issue number), A4, 44pp side-stapled, £1:75 from J. Ratcliffe, 2 Salmon Cottages, Tideford Road, Landrake, Cornwall PL12 5DR (e-mail: cprintmail@aol.com; http://members.aol.com/cprintmail/contents.html). This issue of the horror magazine sports interviews with Iain Banks, Jeff Noon, Neil Gaiman and Michael Moorcock, fiction by Derek M. Fox, Rhys Hughes, Robert Joyce, and David Logan, plus features on Writers of the Future, Lovecraft and the cinema, and Radio 1 film critic Mark Kermode on the merits of Hammer films.

ENIGMATIC TALES #7 Winter 1999, A5, 152pp p/b, £3 (4/£10; USA 4/$20) from M. Sims, 117 Birchanger Lane, Birchanger, Hertfordshire, CM23 5QF (e-mail: michael@micksims.force9.co.uk; http://www.epress.force9.co.uk). Supernatural ghost and horror stories by new and established authors, plus reprints of rare tales from the past. This issue features fiction by J.A.C. Shire, Colin Mackay, Steve Redwood, R.J. Krijnen-Kemp, Derek M. Fox & John B. Ford, Steven Lockley, Rhys Hughes, Ash Miller, Christopher Hivner, John Light, Richard Reeve, Joe Rattigan, Philip Murray, Mark Nicholls, Jack Fisher, Paul Kane, Simon Logan, and A.M. Burrage.

HEADPRESS #19, ISBN 1-900486-08-3, B5, 164pp p/b, £8:50 (US $14:50) from Headpress, 40 Rossall Avenue, Radcliffe, Manchester M26 1JD (e-mail: david.headpress@zen.co.uk; http://www.headpress.com/). Faced with a "World Without End", this issue looks at evangelical mind control and the abuse of altered states, talks to Joel M. Reed about bloodsucking freaks, explores the world of El Monje Loco, Uruguay's Mad Monk, discovers serial killing Down Under, and sees Adam Ant as sex and perversion for teenyboppers.

INSECTS ARE PEOPLE TOO #3, A4, 108pp, £6 (outside USA $10) from H.R. Felgenhauer, P.O. Box 146486, Chicago, IL 60614, USA. A colossal collection of poetry on all aspects of insect existence, be it from the point of view of humans, bees, roaches, flies, ants, or spiders. Big names include Bruce Boston, Steve Sneyd, Paul Weinman and Lyn Lifshin.

MASQUE NOIR #4, A4, 56pp, Aus$5 (US $5; UK £5) from Rod Marsden, P.O. Box 19, Spit Junction, NSW 2088, Australia. A "new wave avant-garde publication", Masque Noir embraces high adventure, the glory days of the pulps, mystery, suspense, gumshoe action, horror and SF. Fiction comes from Clinton Green, Rod Marsden, Don Boyd, Mark McLaughlin, Lyn McConchie, Jens H. Altmann, Geoff Jackson, Barbara A. Custer, plus an appreciation of Russian fantasy artist Anatole Kudryavtzev and a glimpse at the possibilities of nanotechnology.

NAPARTHEID #27, A4, 52pp, 300 pesetas from Napartheid (Kukuxumusu), Marcelo Zelaieta Karrika, 75.AA1 aretoa, 31014 Iruñea, Spain (e-mail: zumalakarregi@yahoo.com). Pro-quality magazine of wry and anarchic comics and features in the Basque language.

NASTY PIECE OF WORK #14, A5, 84pp, £1:50 from David A. Green, 20 Drum Mead, Petersfield, Hants GU32 3AQ. The well-presented magazine of horror fiction and poetry sadly closes with this issue. Giving it a resounding send-off are Tim Lebbon, Ben Wilensky, Teri A. Jacobs, Tony Mileman, Monica J. O'Rourke, Ian Hunter, Mark Astley, Michael McCarty, Rhys Hughes, jon g, Tim Lavier, Jane Fell, Suzannah Baker, Rain Graves, Michael Ratcliffe, Steve Conway, Brian Maycock, Chad Hensley, and Ross Campbell.

NEW YORK REVIEW OF SCIENCE FICTION #137, 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, Brian Stableford admires James White, Jack Williamson remembers Edmond Hamilton, and Alice Turner looks at the Little Big roots of Crowley.

PANDA #1, A5, 72pp, £3 (4/£10; USA 4/$15) from Esmond Jones, 46 First Avenue, Clase, Swansea SA6 7LL (e-mail: esmond.jones@cableol.co.uk; http://ESMONDJ1.tripod.com/index-17.html). A new quarterly magazine of poetry and prose which promises 'to deliver fresh, modern, unbiased material ... ignoring the critics who are stuck in a time warp'.

PARAKEET #7, A4, 2pp, available by editorial whim from Claire Brialey, 26 Northampton Road, Croydon, Surrey CR0 7HA (e-mail: banana@tragic.demon.co.uk), or Mark Plummer, 14 Northway Road, Croydon, Surrey CR0 6JE. The Banana Wings editors supplement their output with a Novacon report in their characteristic laconic style.

SCAVENGER'S NEWSLETTER #191, A5, 28pp, $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 four editors with more than 10 issues' experience give their perspective about the small press in a veteran editor forum.

RUNCIBLE TALES by Neal Asher, ISBN 1-902628-24-1, A5, 68pp, enquire to Pipers' Ash Ltd, Church Road, Christian Malford, Chippenham, Wiltshire SN15 4BW (e-mail: pipersash@supamasu.demon.co.uk; http://www.supamasu.demon.co.uk). Five science fiction tales of the far, far distant future from a stalwart of the small press.

THE CAGE by Roy Athlone, ISBN 0-646-38302-7, A5, 323pp p/b, enquire to Esoteric Cogitations, 71 Edinburgh Drive, Gold Coast, Queensland 4205, Australia. Two short stories and a novella about Pandora Froggmarch, a dynamic British biologist with a strong interest in the paranormal and no little psychic ability herself, on study leave in Australia.

CONDITIONS OF SENTIENT LIFE by Bruce Boston, ISBN 0-913045-05-5, A5, 52pp, $6, and COLD TOMORROWS, ISBN 0-913045-07-1, A5, 40pp, $6, from Gary Crawford, Gothic Press, 4998 Perkins Road, Baton Rouge, LA 70808-3043, USA. Original and previously uncollected poems and prose poems by the writer whom Fantasy Commentator described as having 'single-handedly revolutionized the form [of SF poetry]'.

POEMS OF THE DIVIDED SELF, ISBN 0-910151-04-0, A5, 20pp, $3, and IN SHADOW LANDS by Gary William Crawford, ISBN 0-910151-05-9, A5, 36pp, $6, from Nashville House, P.O. Box 111864, Nashville, TN 37222, USA. Horror poetry from a writer who's published widely in the small press, including Star*Line and Fantasy Tales.

THE FUEL OF TENDER YEARS by Joey Froehlich, ISBN 0-913045-06-3, A5, 56pp, $6 from Gary Crawford, Gothic Press, 4998 Perkins Road, Baton Rouge, LA 70808-3043, USA. Illustrated by Rodger Gerberding and introduced by Stephen King, this is the first collection of horror poetry by a renowned writer with 25 years experience in both the commercial and small press.

SHADOWS BEFORE THE MAIMING by Scott C. Halstad, ISBN 0-913045-08-X, A5, 56pp, $7 from Gary Crawford, Gothic Press, 4998 Perkins Road, Baton Rouge, LA 70808-3043, USA. Holstad's a poet who's garnered a reputation for shaking free of the 'literary stodge' and putting the fun back into poetry, picking up comparisons to Whitman and Ferlinghetti along the way. This volume brings together previously uncollected poems both reprinted and previously unpublished.

"SURELY TO GOD, AYE": FROM DOWN TO DONEGAL by Sam and June Martin, ISBN 0-9522079-0-7, A5, 134pp p/b, IR£4:95 from Roshine Press, 3 Roshine, Dunfanaghy, Letterkenny, Co. Donegal, Ireland. A mixture of fact, fiction and anecdotal memories of caravanning the length and breadth of Ulster during the late 60s and 70s, which capture the beauty of the region along with the growing tensions and agony of the troubles.

ZOM BEE MOO VEE by Mark McLaughlin, ISBN 0-9668184-1-5, 132mm x 181mm, 64pp, $5:99 (Canada $6:99) from Fairwood Press, 5203 Quincy Ave SE, Auburn, WA 98092, USA (e-mail: talebones@nventure.com; http://www.fairwoodpress.com). A collection of twisted but delightful stories about movies and TV programmes that you won't have seen until now, including the foreign movie "Oh, But You Will", the Christmas special "Santa's Elves Meet Painsettia Plont", and the horror film that gives this perky little chapbook its name.

ICARUS DESCENDING by Steve Savile (Enigmatic Variations #2), ISBN 0-9537476-0-3, A5, 84pp p/b, £5 from M. Sims, 117 Birchanger Lane, Birchanger, Hertfordshire, CM23 5QF (e-mail: michael@micksims.force9.co.uk; http://www.epress.force9.co.uk). Two extreme and powerful short stories, one dealing with an excess of love, the other with a surplus of hate, by an author widely praised by the likes of Peter Crowther, Charles de Lint, and Ed Gorman.

NASTY SNIPS edited by Christopher C. Teague, ISBN 0-9536833-0-3, A5, 162pp p/b, £5:99 (USA $11:99) from MT Enterprises, P.O. Box 12, Maesteg, Mid Glamorgan, South Wales CF34 0XG (e-mail: admin@mt-enterprises.co.uk; http://www.mt-enterprises.co.uk). Thirty short (but nasty) horror tales by Darren Floyd, D.F. Lewis, Stuart Hughes, Steve Lockley, Tim Lebbon, Trevor Mendham, Cathy Buburuz, Gerard Daniel Houarner, Paul Lockey, Simon Clark, Mark McLaughlin and others.

FANXINOTEKA KATALOGOA, 159mm x 297mm, 92pp p/b, enquire to Napartheid (Kukuxumusu), Marcelo Zelaieta Karrika, 75.AA1 aretoa, 31014 Iruñea, Spain (e-mail: zumalakarregi@yahoo.com). As part of its remit the Basque Napartheid collective has put together a huge touring library of comics, music fanzines, catalogues and small press magazines dealing with alternative artforms and counterinformation from all over the world. This directory of their collection contains some 1400 entries giving name, address, size and pagecount, together with a pictorial key to subject matter which means it's not a problem if you don't speak or read Basque. The overall feel is like a Factsheet Five for continental Europe.

LIGHT'S LIST 2000, A5, 64pp, £2 (US surface $6; US air $7) from John Light, The Light House, 37 The Meadows, Berwick-upon-Tweed, Northumberland TD15 1NY. Seminal listing (now in its 15th year of publication) of names, addresses and a brief note of interests of over 1300 UK and overseas small press magazines publishing fiction, poetry, artwork, articles, reviews, cartoons, market news, etc.

COLD TONNAGE BOOKS January 2000, A5, 36pp, 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; http://www.coldtonnage.demon.co.uk). Extensive selection of SF/F/H signed, hardback and limited editions, and many collectable paperbacks.

PHOTON PRESS 2000, A5, 8pp, enquire to John Light, The Light House, 37 The Meadows, Berwick-upon-Tweed, Northumberland TD15 1NY. Catalogue of John's collected output of SF novels and poetry, original postcards and artwork, and children's stories, from publishers including the University of Salzburg as well as his own Photon Press.

PIPER'S ASH 2000, A5, 12pp, enquire to Pipers' Ash Ltd, Church Road, Christian Malford, Chippenham, Wiltshire SN15 4BW (e-mail: pipersash@supamasu.demon.co.uk; http://www.supamasu.demon.co.uk). Books, chapbooks and internet publishing in the fields of contemporary short fiction, SF and poetry, real-life stories, children's stories, biography, philosophy, and reprints of classical literature.