NEWS

The results of the 1999 BRITISH SCIENCE FICTION ASSOCIATION AWARDS were announced on Sunday 23rd April at the Central Hotel, Glasgow. The results were as follows: BEST NOVEL: The Sky Road by Ken MacLeod; BEST SHORT FICTION: "Hunting the Slarque" by Eric Brown (Interzone 141); and BEST ARTWORK: "Darwinia" by Jim Burns (cover of Darwinia by Robert Charles Wilson). For further information, please contact Chris Hill, BSFA Awards Administrator, e-mail: awards@sandman.enterprise-plc.com.

A literary competition in honour of the late science fiction writer James White has been announced. The JAMES WHITE AWARD will be given for the best science fiction short story selected by an international panel of judges which includes Morgan Llwellyn, Michael Scott, Michael Carroll, David Pringle and David Langford. The winning story will be published in Interzone and the author will receive a trophy. The closing date for entries is 23 August 2000 and the winner will be announced before the end of this year. The competition is open to any non-professional writer anywhere in the world. Each writer may submit a maximum of three stories, none of which have been published before. Stories must be in English and between 2,000 and 4,000 words in length. There will be an administration fee of £3/$4 per story entered. Full rules and writers' guidelines are available from the Award Administrator, James Bacon at 211 Blackhorse Avenue, Dublin 7, Ireland (e-mail: info@jameswhiteaward.com), or from the Award's website at http://www.jameswhiteaward.com.

BOMB is a new magazine which promises "cover to cover hard edged urban sleaze" from the likes of Simon Skinner, Matthew Firth, Pauol Sedazzari, and Paul Ward. Issue #1 is due in June 2000, priced £3 post paid (4/£10) from D. Williamson, P.O. Box 2383, Hove, East Sussex, BN3 1XJ.

CHANGES OF ADDRESS

Noel Hannan's BAD TO THE BONE and ANKH websites have been combined at a new location, http://www.nhannan.freeserve.co.uk, with his e-mail changing to noel@nhannan.freeserve.co.uk.

CLOSED OR MISSING

CRIMEWAVE #3: BURNING DOWN THE HOUSE, B5, 132pp p/b, £5:99 (2/£11; Europe 2/£13; USA 2/$22; r.o.w. 2/£15) from TTA Press, 5 Martins Lane, Witcham, Ely, Cambs CB6 2LB (e-mail: ttapress@aol.com; http://www.tta-press.freewire.co.uk). 100% pure crime fiction from across the full spectrum of the genre, with stories by Chaz Brenchley, John Moralee, Lev Raphael, Patricia Tyrrell, James Lovegrove, Ceri Jordan, Peter Crowther, Paul Marshall, Garrett Russell, Martin Simpson, Tom Piccirilli, Antony Mann, and Sten Westgard.

DATA DUMP #46, A5, 4pp, 70p/$2 (USA orders in cash or stamps of 50¢ or less) from Steve Sneyd, Hilltop Press, 4 Nowell Place, Almondbury, Huddersfield HD5 8PB. Continuing Steve's series of factsheets on genre poetry with a general summary of recent anthologies, articles and news, plus continuing updates on the influence of genre ideas on opera and rock music which first started in #12.

DREAMS AND NIGHTMARES #55 and #56, A5, 24pp, $3 each (6/$12; outside USA 6/$15) from David C. Kopaska-Merkel, 1300 Kicker Road, Tuscaloosa, AL 35404, USA (e-mail: dragontea@earthlink.net; http://home.earthlink.net/~dragontea/index.html). A poetry magazine that specialises in experimental forms and content, and fantastic horror in particular. #55 features poetry from Ian Watson, Wendy Rathbone, Robert D. Blaney, E.R. Carlin, and Brandon Totman & Bruce Boston, with #56 presenting work by Nancy Bennett, Rick Taylor, Kendall Evans, Chad Hensley, Andrew Darlington, Karen Sweeney, Ann K. Schwader, and D.F. Lewis.

ENIGMATIC TALES #8 Spring 2000, A5, 156pp 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 Tim Lebbon, Nigel Brown, Peter Tennant, Walt Jarvis, Lauren Halkon, Jesse F. Knight, Kay Fletcher, Quentin S. Crisp, James Doig, Larry Blazek, Kevin L. Donihe, Alec Worley, Matthew Banks, Alan Austin, Paul Marshall, Peter J. Wilson, Mark West, Adrian Brown, and J. Dyott Matthews, plus a free 28pp chapbook containing "A Letter to Lovecraft" by Peter Tennant, winner of the Enigmatic Story of the Year 1998/99.

KIMOTA #12, A5, 76pp p/b, £2:50 (4/£9) from Graeme Hurry, 52 Cadley Causeway, Preston, Lancs PR2 3RX (e-mail: editor@kimota.co.uk; http://www.kimota.co.uk). Well-rounded selection of SF/F/H from Martin Owton, Paul Finch, Simon Kewin, Paul McAvoy, J.P. Taylor, John Travis, Joe Rattigan, Geoffrey Warburton, Dee Delamere, Stuart Young, Mark Gale, and Peter Tennant.

THE LAYABOUT #2, A4, 32pp, £2 (4/£7:75; Europe 4/£12; USA 4/$20; r.o.w. 4/£16) from Ramsager, 139 St Bedes Crescent, Cambridge CB1 3UA (e-mail: rams.ager@virgin.net). A magazine of humour and jolly japes, with an exposure of industrial espionage by rival magazine The Slacker, the constipatory wrath of the baron, and the search for the missing Layabout payroll money, plus stories by Geoff Jackson and Henry Ramsager.

NEW YORK REVIEW OF SCIENCE FICTION #139 and #140, A4, 24pp, $3:50 each (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 #139, David Hartwell examines the Nowness of SF, Walter Minkel discusses Harry Potter mania, Henry Wessells explores the evolution of Don Webb's writings, and Richard Cohen musically reinvents 2001, while in #140 L. Timmel Duchamp plays with alternate history in Karen Joy Fowler's "Game Night at the Fox and Goose", and Sylvia Kelso traces the return of the repressed through Marx, Hegel, Dumas, and modern fantasy.

PENNY DREADFUL #10, A5, 144pp p/b, $5 (3/$12) from Michael Pendragon, P.O. Box 719, New York, NY 10101-0719, USA. Literary poetry and short fiction in the tradition of Poe, M.R. James, Shelley and LeFanu, by the likes of Scott Thomas, Nancy Bennett, Douglas M. Stokes, John Grey, John T. Kirkpatrick, Sean Russell Friend, Daniel Harr, John B. Ford, and D.F. Lewis.

PSYCHOTROPE #8, A5, 56pp, £2:10 (4/£7:50; USA 4/$20) from Psychotrope, Mark Beech, Flat 6, 10 Ombersley Road, Worcester WR3 7ET. Further tales of mad love, surrealism and psychological horror from Hugh Cook, Rhys Hughes, Helen Kitson, David Williamson, Mark Astley, Mark McLaughlin, Peter Tennant, Steve Burt, Matthew Firth, Giovanni Malito, and D.F. Lewis, Keith Brooke & Lawrence Dyer.

SACKCLOTH & ASHES #7, 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). The respected British horror magazine bows out with fiction by Lee Jones, Paul Finch, Michael Oliveri, Simon Logan, Mark West, Steve Redwood, jon g, Ray Clark, and Gerte Lieber, plus poetry by Sean Russell Friend, and Lloyd Michael Lohr.

SCAVENGER'S NEWSLETTER #194, 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 interviews artists Cathy Buburuz and Sandy De Luca.

SCHEHERAZADE #19, A5, 40pp, £2:50 (4/£8:50; outside UK 4/£10:50) from Scheherazade, 14 Queens Park Rise, Brighton BN2 2ZF (e-mail: shez@mistral.co.uk). A magazine of fantasy and science fiction incorporating the gothic, the magical and the mythological, with fiction from Neil Williamson, Marilyn Mattie Brahan, Simon Forward, Cherry Wilder, and R.J. Frost, plus an interview with Christopher Priest.

SHOTS Vol.2 #7, A4, 60pp, £3:50 (4/£12; Europe 4/£16; r.o.w. 4/£20) from Shots, 56 Alfred Street, Ripley DE5 3LD (e-mail: sdf@globalnet.co.uk); editorial address: Shots, 189 Snakes Lane East, Woodford Green, Essex IG8 7JH (e-mail: michael@mjstotter.demon.co.uk). Glossy crime and mystery magazine featuring fiction by Molly Brown, and Ken Marcus, interviews with Michael Kimball, Michael Connelly, Nicholas Blincoe, Michelle Spring, and Lisa Scottoline, plus news, gossip and reviews.

SPECTRUM #2, 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, Eric Brown, Jack Deighton, Stephen Baxter & Eric Brown, Keith Brooke, Stephen Palmer, and Barrington J. Bayley.

THE THIRD ALTERNATIVE #23, A4, 68pp, £3:25 (6/£18; Europe 6/£21; USA 6/$36; r.o.w. 6/£24) 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 M. John Harrison, Charles M. Saplak, Graham Joyce, Jessica Reisman, Brian Howell, and Mark Morris, plus an interview with Peter Straub and an appreciation of Dennis Potter.

GOTHIC FEVERS by Gary William Crawford, ISBN 0-910151-06-7, A5, 52pp, $8 from Nashville House, P.O. Box 111864, Nashville, TN 37222-1864, USA. Six short stories collected from magazines including Fantasy Tales, Dark Horizons and Fantasy Macabre.

CANNABIS 6: MILLENNIUM, I WAS THERE TOO by Gary G. Graham, ISBN 1-873189-35-4, A5, 52pp, £5 from Gary G. Graham, Crushed Anna Books, 34 Rupert Street, Glasgow G4 9AR. Another instalment in Gary's stream-of-consciousness narrative that continues his deployment of humour and wordplay in the pursuit of food, late-night TV and his 'tomato plants'.

ANOTHER BOOK TO BURN: THE STATE OF SCOTLAND edited by J.N. Reilly, ISBN 0-9534280-0-1, A5, 203pp p/b, £9:99 from Bootleg Editions, 44 Knightsbridge Street, Glasgow G13 2YN. A damning exploration of how New Labour appears to have betrayed the people of Scotland, with the "pernicious legacy of Thatcherism" as evident today as it was when Tony Blair first took office. Some of the country's finest poets, essayists, authors and artists give voice to the joys, fears, hopes and desires of their compatriots, in a book that claims to sound "the death knell of New Labour in Scotland".

COLD TONNAGE BOOKS April 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.