NEWS
The 2000 BSFA AWARDS shortlist has been announced:
BEST NOVEL: Perdido Street Station by China Miéville; redRobe by Jon Courtenay Grimwood; Paradox by John Meaney; Revelation Space by Alistair Reynolds; and Ash: A Secret History by Mary Gentle.
BEST SHORT FICTION: "Destiny on Tartarus" by Eric Brown (from Spectrum SF #2); "La Vampiresse" by Tanith Lee (from Interzone #154); "Adventures in the Ghost Trade" by Liz Williams (from Interzone #154); "Singing Each to Each" by Paul di Filippo (from Interzone #155); and "The Suspect Genome" by Peter F. Hamilton (from Interzone #156).
BEST ARTWORK: "Physiognomies of Flight" by China Miéville (cover of Vector #213); "Hideaway" by Dominic Harman (cover of Interzone #157); and "Afetere's Eyes" by Gerald Gaubert (from Scheherazade #19).
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 15th April at the Hanover International Hotel, Leicestershire, England, the venue for Paragon, the 2001 Eastercon. 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).
 
DEAD THINGS #5, A4, 52pp, £3 (4/£11; USA 4/$22) from Karen Weedall, 3 Formartine Road, Tillydrone, Aberdeen AB24 2QX (e-mail: dtaccounts@deadthings.co.uk), payable to "Mr D. Cowdall"; editorial address: David Cowdall, 15 Glazebrook Street, Warrington, Cheshire, WA1 3AT (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 Simon Clark, there are stories by Paul Kane, Pamela Jorgensen, Lisa Negus, Dan & Rose Vrabel, David Price, D.J. Tyrer, Margaret Walker, and Robert D. Rowntree.
DREAMS AND NIGHTMARES #58, A5, 24pp, $3 (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. This issue features poetry from D.F. Lewis, Nancy Bennett, Joe Pulver, Tim Jones, Lawrence Harding, Bruce Boston, Christina Sng, Scott C. Virtes, Richard Gavin, Marge Simon, Mark E. Rudolph, Deborah P. Kolodji, Jane Gwaltney, David C. Kopaska-Merkel, Gary Every, Gloundian Smorpian, and G.O. Clark, plus short prose work by Bruce Boston, and Lorraine Schein.
THE DREAM ZONE #8, A4, 80pp p/b, £3 (2/£5:50; USA 2/$13 cash) from Paul Bradshaw, 44 Knowles View, Holmewood Estate, Bradford BD4 9AH (e-mail: thedreamzone@btinternet.com; http://www.thedreamzone.btinternet.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 edition are D.F. Lewis, D. Harlan Wilson, Paul Lockey, Antony Mann, Paul Finch, Simon Logan, Clifford Thurlow, Paul Kane, Frances Hardinge, Paul Lee, Ken Goldman, Carlton Mellick III, J. Paul Dyson, Peter Tennant, Patricia Tyrrell, John B. Ford, and Eddie M. Angerhuber.
NAPARTHEID #30, A4, 60pp, 300 pesetas from Napartheid (Kukuxumusu), Martzelo Zelaieta Karrika, 75.AA1 aretoa, 31014 Iruñea, Spain (e-mail: zumalakarregi@yahoo.com; http://www.napartheid.org). Pro-quality magazine of wry and anarchic comics and features in the Basque language.
NEW YORK REVIEW OF SCIENCE FICTION #149, 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. This issue brings Michael Andre-Driussi on dying earths, Brian Stableford on Sir Humphrey Davy's cosmic travels, an interview with Guy Gavriel Kay, and reviews of new work by Jack L. Chalker, Iain M. Banks, Jamil Nasir, Nancy Kress and others.
NOVA EXPRESS Vol.5 #4, A4, 40pp, $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: lawrenceperson@jump.net). Hard-hitting critical zine with an emphasis on post-cyberpunk and slipstream works. This issue continues the interview with Neil Gaiman, while Paul T. Riddell watches the comics market implode, David Davidson sees Rudy Rucker surf the Transreal, and Nick Gevers looks into Brian Stableford's future history series.
SCAVENGER'S NEWSLETTER #203, 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.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 an interview with Brian Keene and fiction by Stephen Jarrell Williams.
SHOTS Vol.2 #8, A4, 44pp, £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: mstotter@lineone.net). Glossy crime and mystery magazine featuring interviews with Martyn Waites, Peter Robinson and Joyce Holms, a profile of Edgar Wallace, and fiction by Barry Baldwin, plus news and reviews.
SPACE AND TIME #93, A4, 52pp, $6:50 (2/$10; outside USA 2/$11) from Space and Time, 138 W. 70th Street (4B), New York, NY 10023-4468, USA (http://www.cith.org/space&time.html). A rich mixture of fiction and poetry covering all aspects of the fantasy genre – science fiction, supernatural horror, swords and sorcery, and the unclassifiable – from Brian E. Drake, Heidi Cyr, Cathy Buburuz, John G. Bentley, Denise Lopes Heald, Mary Soon Lee, Jack Fisher, J.A. Pollard, and Darrell Schweitzer, plus an interview with Ursula K. Le Guin.
BY THE GAS FLAME FLICKERING by Paul Finch, A5, 76pp p/b, £4 from B.J.M. Press, 95 Compass Crescent, Old Whittington, Chesterfield, S41 9LX. A collection of new atmospheric stories from the past by one of the best small press authors currently working in the UK.
ALONE (IN THE DARK) by Paul Kane, A5, 98pp p/b, £4 from B.J.M. Press, 95 Compass Crescent, Old Whittington, Chesterfield, S41 9LX. Monsters, witches, demons and psychopaths all feature in this collection of twelve stories from the vivid imagination of prize-winning writer Paul Kane.
NASTY TALES: SEX, DRUGS ROCK'N'ROLL AND VIOLENCE IN THE BRITISH UNDERGROUND by David Huxley, ISBN 1-900486-13-X, B5, 191pp p/b, £13:95 (US $19:95) from Headpress, 40 Rossall Avenue, Radcliffe, Manchester M26 1JD (e-mail: david.headpress@zen.co.uk; http://www.headpress.com/). Tracing the history of the British Comics Underground from its roots in the 1960s through to the emergence of Viz two decades later, David Huxley uncovers the turbulent history of these comics, the cultural instability from which they emerged, and their anarchic and often sexually unrestrained content which often found their publishers facing obscenity charges in court.
LIGHT'S LIST 2001, ISBN 1-897968-09-4, A5, 68pp, £2 (US surface $6; US air $7) from John Light, The Light House, 37 The Meadows, Berwick-upon-Tweed, Northumberland TD15 1NY (e-mail: photon.press@cwcom.net). Seminal listing (now in its 16th year of publication) of names, addresses and a brief note of interests of over 1400 UK and overseas small press magazines publishing creative writing and artwork in English.
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