March 2001

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THE LAYABOUT has moved to 17 Alwyn Close, St Ives, PE27 3HL.


MagazinesReceived

BLUE FOOD #3, A4, 52pp, $3:95 (4/$15) from Blue Food, 1529 W. Lynwood Street, Phoenix, AZ 85007, USA (http://www.bluefood.cc). Rather than being shameful and furtive about it, this literary magazine aims to show carnality as something smart, humorous and positive. The result is a sometimes heady mixture of fiction, articles, poetry, photography, comics and art, featuring stories by the likes of M. Christian, Carlton Mellick III, and Davina Joy, as well as a profile of professional dominatrix Mistress Diana Savage.

CHAOTIC ORDER Spring 2001, A5, 48pp, £2:50 (4/£7:50; outside UK 4/£10 or 4/US$15 cash) from Chaotic Order, 15 Digby Close, Doddington Park, Lincoln LN6 3PZ (e-mail: bob@chaoticorder.freeserve.co.uk; http://www.insound.com/zinestand/co). Underground and fringe culture magazine which interviews photographer Katrina Del Mar, noise outfit Residual Orchestra, and performance artist Ron Athey, explores reality in film, and drools over the Druuna comics of Paulo Serpieri.

COLD PRINT (no issue number), A4, 48pp side-stapled, £2 from J. Ratcliffe, 2 Salmon Cottages, Tideford Road, Landrake, Cornwall PL12 5DR (e-mail: editor@cold-print.freeserve.co.uk; http://www.cold-print.freeserve.co.uk). This issue of the horror magazine sports interviews with Darrell Schweitzer and David Toop, plus fiction by Corvius, A.C. Evans, Rhys Hughes, Darrell Schweitzer, and Don Webb.

DATA DUMP #52, 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 further updates on the influence of genre ideas on opera and rock music.

HEADPRESS #21, ISBN 1-900486-11-3, B5, 180pp p/b, £8:99 (US $14:50) from Headpress, 40 Rossall Avenue, Radcliffe, Manchester M26 1JD (e-mail: david.headpress@zen.co.uk; http://www.headpress.com/). "Unreal is Real" is the theme of this issue, featuring interviews with Jerry Sadowitz, porn director Jim Powers, fly-on-the-wall filmmaker Frederick Wiseman, rock critic Greil Marcus, and Warhol collaborator Mary Woronov, plus Charles Manson and the Family Franchise, Brian Jones in Tangiers, Psychedelic Nazis, and much, much more!

LEGEND #2, A4, 60pp, £3 (4/£15; USA 4/$30; r.o.w. 4/£20) from Trevor Denyer, 7 Mountview, Church Lane West, Aldershot, Hampshire GU11 3LN (e-mail: tdenyer@ntlworld.com; http://www.roadworksweb.free-online.co.uk). A 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 issue brings fiction by Paul Finch, David Gullen, Ceri Jordan, Wayne Stamford, Nicola Caines, and Martin Owton.

NEW YORK REVIEW OF SCIENCE FICTION #150, 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, Zoran Zivkovic explores first contact in Arthur C. Clarke's "A Meeting with Medusa", Mario Milosevic shares his fascination with 2-D universes, and Henry Wessells takes two science-fiction approaches to bicycles.

SCAVENGER'S NEWSLETTER #204, A5, 28pp, $2:50 (12/$24; Canada 12/$23; r.o.w. air 12/$29; r.o.w. surface 12/$20) 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 Cathy Buburuz about art collaborations, and fiction by Diana R. Jenkins.

STAR*LINE Vol.24 #2 (Mar/Apr 2001), A5, 20pp, $3 (6/$15; Can/Mex 6/$21; r.o.w. 6/$21) from SFPA, 6075 Bellevue Dr., North Olmsted, OH 44070, USA (e-mail: bejay@worldnet.att.net; http://www.dm.net/~bejay/sfpa.htm); editorial address: David C. Kopaska-Merkel, 1300 Kicker Road, Tuscaloosa, AL 35404, USA (e-mail: dragontea@earthlink.net). Journal of the Science Fiction Poetry Association, Star*Line is one of the longest-running continuously published SF, fantasy and horror poetry magazines around. This issue contains work by Mike Allen, Stuart Arotsky, Elizabeth Barrette, Nancy Bennett, Bruce Boston & Marge Simon, Denise Dumars, John Grey, Mark Rudolph, Steve Sneyd, W. Gregory Stewart, and Carl Thompson Jr, plus reviews of recent SF poetry publications.

TALEBONES #20, A5, 92pp p/b, $5:00 (4/$18; Canada 4/$22; r.o.w. 4/$28) from Talebones Magazine, 5203 Quincy Ave SE, Auburn, WA 98092, USA (e-mail: talebones@nventure.com; http://www.fairwoodpress.com). SF and dark fantasy in a smart digest format with full colour cover, and winner of the Genre Writers Association Award. This issue's fiction comes from Steve Beai, Eric Del Carlo, Carrie Vaughn, M. Christian, Christopher East, Catherine MacLeod, and Brian Scott Hiebert, plus poetry and verse from G.O. Clark, J.W. Donnelly, Jessica K.S. Gillece, Bruce Boston, Robert Colburn, and Mark McLaughlin, and an interview with Amy Thomson.

THE THIRD ALTERNATIVE #26, 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 Danith McPherson, Antony Mann, James Lovegrove, Glen Dennis, Simon Ings, and Alexander Glass, interviews with James Lovegrove, Michel Faber, Jon Courtenay Grimwood and Paul McAuley, and a profile of filmmaker Michael Powell.

THE WHIZZBANGER GUIDE TO ZINE DISTRIBUTORS #5, A4, 28pp side stapled, $3 in US cash only from Shannon Colebank, P.O. Box 5591, Portland, OR 97228, USA. Over 120 magazine distributors from 26 countries describe their activities and interests. The emphasis is on punk- and indie music-related material, with additional entries for zine archives, libraries and stores.


Author CollectionsReceived

THE STAR-SEER'S AERIAL VOYAGE by William Dearden/SPIN by R.I. Barycz, ISBN 0-905262-27-1, A5, 20pp, £2:49/$5:50 (USA orders in cash or stamps of 50¢ or less) from Steve Sneyd, Hilltop Press, 4 Nowell Place, Almondbury, Huddersfield HD5 8PB. Two cosmic voyages which both, in different ways, as well as being powerful poems in their own right, fascinatingly illustrate how wonder and the expectation of disillusionment have become almost inextricably entwined.

THE BEAST IN THE BAG by Thomas McColl, ISBN 1-903031-00-9, A5, 24pp, £2 from Poetry Monthly Press, 39 Cavendish Road, Long Eaton, Nottingham NG10 4HY. A collection of 16 poems drawn from magazines as diverse as Purple Patch, Lateral Moves and Big Wide Words. McColl is at once poignant and pithy, with his "Warning to all EC Pedestrians" particularly acerbic.

SHOGGOTH CACCIATORE AND OTHER ELDRITCH ENTREES by Mark McLaughlin, ISBN 1-929653-11-5, A5, 80pp, $5 from Delirium Books, P.O. Box 338, North Webster, IN 46555, USA (e-mail: deliriumbooks@kconline.com; http://www.deliriumbooks.com). Ten stories by the master of bizarre fantasy which bring Lovecraft's cosmogony of ancient creatures down to earth with a bump in the real world – complete with tricky personal relationships and office politics! Only in McLaughlin's sure hands can such an outrageous juxtaposition become a successful platform for witty, surreal narratives that touch universal truths.

OTHER VOICES, OTHER DOORS by Patrick O'Leary, ISBN 0-9668184-3-1, 6x9, 200pp p/b, $17:99 from Fairwood Press, 5203 Quincy Ave SE, Auburn, WA 98092, USA (e-mail: talebones@nventure.com; http://www.fairwoodpress.com). The best stories, poems and nonfiction of the last 20 years by the acclaimed author of Door Number Three and The Gift.

SHOWING LIGHT A GOOD TIME by Dan Raphael, ISBN 1-877655-36-8, 6x9, 100pp p/b, $11 from Wordcraft of Oregon, P.O. Box 3235, La Grande, OR 97850, USA (e-mail: wordcraft@oregontrail.net; http://www.oregontrail.net/~wordcraft). This eighth book in Wordcraft's Jazz Police Speculative Poetry Series features a writer with 13 books of poetry already to his name, together with appearances in over 200 magazines, and a reputation throughout the Pacific Northwest for his high-energy readings and performances.

A WORD IN YOUR EYE: AN INTRODUCTION TO THE GRAPHIC POEM by Steve Sneyd (aka DATA DUMP #47/#48), ISBN 0-905262-24-7, A5, 40pp, £3:75/$8 (USA orders in cash or stamps of 50¢ or less) from Steve Sneyd, Hilltop Press, 4 Nowell Place, Almondbury, Huddersfield HD5 8PB. Take a poem. Add pictures. Turn it into a comic strip. Always one to document emerging trends, Steve Sneyd explores what's happening in a growing cross-over that critics have done their best to ignore.

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