The BBR Directory: March 2000

NEWS

The first TTA LITERARY PRIZES have been announced, with a total of £2,000 in prizes for short stories in the categories of Science Fiction, Horror, Fantasy, Slipstream and Cross-Genre fiction. Entries must be original and previously unpublished work, no longer than 6,000 words in length, and accompanied by an entry fee of £5/US$8. They should be sent to the Prize Administrator at 9 Henry Cross Close, Shipdham, Thetford, Norfolk IP25 7LQ, Great Britain, and must be received by the closing date of 31 December 2000. Details of the winning entries will be announced in the March 2001 issue of The Third Alternative magazine, and published on the TTA website. For further information, contact TTA Press at 5 Martins Lane, Witcham, Ely, Cambs CB6 2LB, Great Britain (e-mail: ttapress@aol.com; http://www.tta-press.freewire.co.uk).

CHANGES OF ADDRESS

The SCAVENGER'S NEWSLETTER website can now be found at http://www.jlgiftsshop.com/scav/index.html.

DEAD THINGS has changed its e-mail to letters@deadthings.co.uk, with its website now at http://www.deadthings.co.uk.

DEAD THINGS #3, A4, 50pp, £2:50 (4/£9; USA 4/$18) from D. Cowdall, 12 Grace Avenue, Orford, Warrington, Cheshire WA2 8BT (e-mail: letters@deadthings.co.uk; http://www.deadthings.co.uk). A magazine of humorous horror fiction, covering both the traditional and modern styles of the genre. As well as an interview with Guy N. Smith and a look at horror on the web, there are stories by Ray Clark, Paul Bradshaw, David Price, D.J. Tyrer, Lee A. Howard, Pamela Stuart, John Halladay, Cathy Buburuz, S.R. Friend, and Steve Redwood.

THE DREAM ZONE #5, A4, 52pp, £3 (2/£5:50; USA 2/$11 cash) from Paul Bradshaw, 44 Knowles View, Holmewood Estate, Bradford BD4 9AH (e-mail: paulbradshaw@currantbun.com; http://www.dreamzone.co.uk). A horror and dark fantasy magazine devoted to "stories into which the reader can immerse themselves completely, as if in a dream – or perhaps a nightmare!". Sending you scurrying under the covers in this special nightmare edition are Paul Kane, L.H. Maynard & M.P.N. Sims, Paul Finch, Ash Miller, Peter Tennant, Eoin Henderson, Paul Lockey, Simon Bleaken, John Saxton, and John B. Ford & Gary Greenwood.

EYE #26, A4, 96pp, $4:99 (6/$19:95; Canada 6/$25:95; r.o.w. 6/$39:95) from EYE, 301 S. Elm Street, Suite 405, Greensboro, NC 27401-2636, USA (e-mail: lisa@eyemag.com; http://www.eyemag.com). Articles and underground research on pop culture, music, technology, TV and film, fringe culture, and bizarre science, this time looking at the growing number of young women taking up adult film work as an occupation – and the price they're paying for it; going inside the O.T.O. religion once headed by Aleister Crowley; and seeing what happens to cats and dogs in animal shelters.

THE GILA QUEEN'S GUIDE TO MARKETS #102, A4, 32pp, $8 (10/$45; Canada 10/$49; r.o.w. 10/$60) from Kathryn Ptacek, P.O. Box 97, Newton, NJ 07860-0097, USA (e-mail: gilaqueen@worldnet.att.net; http://www.gilaqueen.com/). Six-weekly writer's and artist's market magazine covering fiction, non-fiction, poetry, comics, magazines, trade journals, book publishers, small press, greetings cards and many other markets, with an emphasis on those that pay. This issue looks in depth at Romance markets, with special updates for erotica and SF/F/H.

HANDSHAKE 2000, A4, 5pp corner-stapled, free for SAE from J.F. Haines, 5 Cross Farm, Station Road, Padgate, Warrington WA2 0QG. Special millennium issue of the SF poetry newsletter, with topical contributions from Jacqueline Jones, Steve Sneyd, John Light, Bryn Fortey, Neil K. Henderson, Giovanni Malito, Andrew Darlington and others.

NEW YORK REVIEW OF SCIENCE FICTION #138, 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 special Gene Wolfe issue, Robert Borski examines the theme of paternity in Book of the New Sun, Paul Witcover retraces Wolfe's strange travels, and his On Blue's Waters and The Island of Doctor Death... are reviewed by Joan Gordon and Jenny Blackford.

NOVA EXPRESS Vol.5 #2, A4, 48pp, $4 (4/$12; Canada/Mexico 4/$16; r.o.w. 4/$22) from Lawrence Person, P.O. Box 27231, Austin, Texas 78755-2231, USA (e-mail: lawrence@bga.com; http://www.delphi.com/sflit/novaexpress/). Hard-hitting critical zine with an emphasis on post-cyberpunk and slipstream works. This issue contains interviews with Sean Stewart and Steve Erickson, plus Neal Stephenson's Cryptonomicon decrypted, slipstream revisited, and the controversy surrounding The MUP Encyclopaedia of Australian Science Fiction.

REDSINE #1, A5, 80pp, Aus$5:50 (4/Aus$20; UK 4/£11; USA 4/$17) from Garry J. Nurrish, 15 Morshead St, North Ryde, NSW 2113, Australia (e-mail: editor@redsine.com; http://www.redsine.com). This new magazine of horror, SF, dark fantasy and slipstream fiction kicks off with stories by Hertzan Chimera, James Speelman, Simon Logan, Henrik Johnsson, D.F. Lewis, Andrew Busby, Lawrence Dyer, Brian Keene, Geoffrey Maloney, J. Clare, Michelle Scalise, Greg F. Gifune, and Paul Joyce.

ROADWORKS #7, A5, 116pp p/b, £3 (4/£10; USA 4/$20; r.o.w. 4/£15) from Trevor Denyer, 7 Mountview, Church Lane West, Aldershot, Hampshire GU11 3LN (e-mail: tdenyer@aol.com; http://www.roadworksweb.free-online.co.uk). Now repackaged in a digest format, the latest issue of this "imaginative fiction" magazine has Ceri Jordan as featured writer, plus stories from Rhys Hughes, Stephen Baxter, Paul Finch, Robert D. Richards, Richard Reeve, Ray Clark, Andrew Hook, Allen Ashley, Clinton Wastling, Mark McLaughlin, Paul Pinn, and Lauren Halkon.

SCAVENGER'S NEWSLETTER #192, 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.jlgiftsshop.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 Jeanne Cavelos previews the Odyssey Summer Writing Workshop.

SCAVENGER'S SCRAPBOOK January 2000, A5, 28pp, $4 (2/$7; outside USA 2/$8) from Janet Fox, 519 Ellinwood, Osage City, KS 66523-1329, USA (e-mail: foxscav1@jc.net; http://www.jlgiftsshop.com/scav/index.html). Twice-a-year round-up of market information in the genres of SF, fantasy, horror and mystery from Scavenger's Newsletter, with capsule listings providing an overview of the field and making this a useful small press directory.

SCI-FRIGHT #6, A5, 152pp p/b, £4 (2/£8; Europe 2/£12; USA 2/$20 cash) from Springbeach Press, 11 Vernon Close, Eastbourne, East Sussex BN23 6AN (e-mail: sian@springbeachpress.freeserve.co.uk; http://www.springbeachpress.freeserve.co.uk). This issue of the SF/F/H/dark humour magazine is a chunky trade paperback packed with stories by Simon Logan, Steve Redwood, Mark West, Roger Perrin, Richard J. Thompson, Paul Jameson, Neal Asher, Steve Dean, Peter Tennant, Andrew Darlington, Robert Rowntree, Stuart Young, Barbara A. Custer, Mark Cantrell, Paul Marshall, David Price, Ceri Jordan, Paul Finch, D.F. Lewis & Jeff Holland, Catherine J. Gardner, Sean Russell Friend, and Paul Kane.

SPECTRUM #1, 160pp B-format paperback, £3:99 (UK and worldwide surface 4/£14; worldwide air 4/£17) from Spectrum Publishing, PO Box 10308, Aberdeen, AB11 6ZR (e-mail: mail@spectrumpublishing.com; http://www.spectrumpublishing.com). New science fiction from Keith Roberts, Charles Stross, Alastair Reynolds, Keith Brooke & Eric Brown, and Garry Kilworth.

UNHINGED #4, A5, 68pp, £2:25 (4/£8; outside UK 4/£12) from P.J. Lockey, 9 South View Terrace, Silsden, Keighley, West Yorks BD20 0AS. A quarterly adults-only magazine that likes to explore the darker side of humanity. Like many of the new wave of British horror magazines, it sports a minimalist black and white digest format, and the fiction in this issue is provided by Antony Mann, Mark Leon Collins, Richard Reeve, Simon Logan, Mark West, Jane Fell, Charles Marshall, Paul Finch, David Williamson, Jason Conway, Paul Williams, and David Canada.

WRITERS' BREW PRESS NEWSLETTER Vol.3 #1, A5, 16pp, enquire to Writers Brew Press, P.O. Box 241, Oakengates, Shropshire TF2 9XZ (e-mail: spell@writers.brew.clara.net). News, chat, and lots of adverts for magazines and competitions of all genres, plus Writers' Brew Press's own publications and services.

BULLER'S TRAVELS by Charles D'Arcy, ISBN 0-9532401-0-X, A5, 166pp p/b, £5 from Boox (Plymouth), P.O. Box 20, Torpoint, Cornwall PL10 1YR. In the 1720s, John Buller – a ship's cook – rests after one of his voyages and reads the newly-published Gulliver's Travels only to discover that Gulliver has stolen his stories and used them to discredit the poiliticians and institutions of Great Britain. So, with the assistance of Mr Charles D'Arcy, Buller sets out his own true adventures including a despotic female captain who sells off all the ship's cargo and fittings, educators who teach poor only children half the alphabet, and being the first Briton to fly in a "Golfier".

MILLENNIUM MACABRE by William Meikle with Graeme Hurry (Enigmatic Novellas #6), A5, 72pp, £4 from M. Sims, 117 Birchanger Lane, Birchanger, Hertfordshire, CM23 5QF (e-mail: michael@micksims.force9.co.uk; http://www.epress.force9.co.uk). Three stories from a Scotland that will not be familar from the tourist-enticing brochures. Three supernatural stories to make you glad of the warm comfort of your chair by the fire. Is that a shadow moving in the corner?

DEATH OF A VALKYRIE by Peter Tennant (Haunted Dreams #1), A5, 48pp, £3:25 (USA $6 cash) from Paul Bradshaw, 44 Knowles View, Holmewood Estate, Bradford BD4 9AH (e-mail: paulbradshaw@currantbun.com; http://www.dreamzone.co.uk). In the first of these two long stories, it's the future, and aliens have landed. If you think you've seen it all before read "Death of a Valkyrie", a tale of martyrdom, treachery and torture. In the second piece, an ageing prostitute gets together with a rich wolfman, but why is the Alien observing from his space craft?