INDIGENOUS FICTION #6, A5, 80pp, $6 (3/$15) from I.F. Publishing, P.O. Box 2078, Redmond, WA 98073-2078, USA. A magazine of weird and offbeat fiction that's already garnered something of a cult reputation. This issue's stories come from Antony Mann, Elina Gertsman, Ryan Miller, Ceri Jordan, Kathryn Roach, Scott Standridge, Patricia Russo, and Geary Danihy, with poetry by Jeff Gilkison, Noah M. Tysick, Paul D. McGlynn, David Huntsperger, and Virgil Suarez.
THE LAYABOUT #3, A4, 40pp, £2.65 from Ramsager, 139 St Bedes Crescent, Cambridge CB1 3UA (e-mail: rams.ager@virgin.net). A magazine of humour and jolly japes, with the public engagement of leading actress Lavinia Brodelo, a new case for scientific detective Barrington Smythe, and fiction by Geoff Jackson.
LEGEND #1, A4, 60pp, £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). A new magazine of fiction, non-fiction, graphic stories, interviews and illustrations which will appeal to anyone who has an interest in Arthurian Fantasy, Romantic Fantasy, Alternate History, Alternate Worlds, Myth and Magic. This first issue brings fiction by Hugh Cook, David Gullen, Marni Scofidio Griffin, Nicola Caines, Margaret Walker, R.J. Krijnen-Kemp, Andrew Brown, Alec Worley, and Trevor Denyer, plus an interview with Hugh Cook.
LETHOLOGICA #2, A4, 48pp, $5 from Lethologica, PO Box 3055, Kent, OH 44240, USA (e-mail: lethicon@juno.com; http://www.geocities.com/lethicon). A magazine of postmodern and avant-pop fiction, poetry, articles and music reviews, featuring work by Hertzan Chimera, Carlton Mellick III, Brian Staker, Raymond Federman, Trevor Dodge, Brendan Connell, Karen R. Porter, Craig Sernotti, Thomas Zimmerman, M.R. Astley, D.F. Lewis & Simon Woodward, Bob Riedel, D. Harlan Wilson, Kevin L. Donihe, Rob Hardin, and John Grey, plus an interview with Lance Olsen.
MORE THAN WE SEEM #2, B5, 28pp, £1:75 from Deva Comics, 2 Mill Lane, Holmes Chapel, Crewe CW4 8AT (http://www.devacomics.com). Continuing the two stories introduced in issue #1: 'Trojan', which chronicles the impact of a genetic lifeboat from prehistory on the people of today, and 'Out of Time', a more straightforward WWII story of ordinary people for whom violent death is an everyday reality.
PAPERBACK PARADE #54, A5, 112pp, $8 (5/$35, overseas surface 5/$45) from Gryphon Publications, P.O. Box 209, Brooklyn, NY 11228-0209, USA (http://www.gryphonbooks.com). Aimed at paperback readers and collectors world-wide, Paperback Parade is packed with features, articles, bibliographies and interviews. This H.P. Lovecraft special issue carries a comprehensive guide to collecting HPL in paperback, a US paperback checklist, and HPL adaptations in comics, as well as an interview with Stanley Meltzoff plus checklist, and all the usual news, letters and adverts.
SCAVENGER'S NEWSLETTER #200, 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 fiction by Duncan Lloyd and the perspectives of six e-zine editors about publishing on the internet.
EUROSHIMA MON AMOUR by Andrew Darlington, ISBN 0-905262-27-1, A5, 60pp, £3:99/$8 (USA orders in cash or stamps of 50¢ or less) from Steve Sneyd, Hilltop Press, 4 Nowell Place, Almondbury, Huddersfield HD5 8PB. Brought together in this collection for the first time, Andrew Darlington's "Poems from the Inner Mind to the Outer Limits" reflect his unique ability to intersect the contemporary urban world of his native Yorkshire, and the worlds beyond in the future with all their wonders, explorations, and jewelled catastrophes.
FREAKNEST by Lance Olsen, ISBN 1-877655-35-X, A5, 258pp p/b, $12 from Wordcraft of Oregon, P.O. Box 3235, La Grande, OR 97850, USA (e-mail: wordcraft@oregontrail.net; http://www.oregontrail.net/~wordcraft). Feral children, illicit nano-drugs, false memories, televisual consciousness and a Dickensian 2023 London in extremis figure highly in this new novel from the acclaimed author of Tonguing The Zeitgeist.
WELCOME TO HELL: A WORKING GUIDE FOR THE BEGINNING WRITER by Tom Piccirilli, ISBN 0-9668184-2-3, A5, 48pp p/b, $6:99 from Fairwood Press, 5203 Quincy Ave SE, Auburn, WA 98092, USA (e-mail: talebones@nventure.com; http://www.fairwoodpress.com). Based on his own experience, Tom Piccirilli offers an outline of the struggles and achievements a new writer can reasonably expect through the course of learning their art, and along the way provides some elementary truths about the craft and business of writing.
THE DAY BEFORE THE METEOR CAME by Paul Reece, ISBN 0-903610-26-4, A5, 36pp, £3.75 (outside UK £5 or 12 IRCs) from G. England, New Hope International, 20 Werneth Avenue, Gee Cross, Hyde, Cheshire SK14 5NL (e-mail: newhope@iname.com; http://www.nhi.clara.net/reece2.htm). Paul Reece's second collection of poetry from NHI, following the success of Barbed Wire Rainbow.
SMALL PRESS GUIDE 2001, ISBN 1-902713-08-7, 325pp p/b, £9:99 from Writers' Bookshop, Remus House, Coltsfoot Drive, Woodston, Peterborough PE2 9JX. Revised sixth edition featuring the guidelines and requirements of over 300 UK small press magazines, with an authoritative introduction by Peter Finch.
