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BLACK GATE Vol.1 #1, B5, 244pp p/b, $8 (4/$25:95; Canada 4/$29:95; r.o.w. 4/$33:95) from New Epoch Press, 815 Oak Street, St Charles, IL 60174, USA (e-mail: john@blackgate.com; http://www.blackgate.com). A brand new magazine devoted to preserving the spirit of fantasy, both in factual coverage and in literary spirit. With a conscious nod to the classic pulps of the past, there's a classic reprint of Karl Edward Wagner's 'The Dark Muse', while this massive inaugural issue has more than enough room for new stories by Richard Parks, Charles de Lint and Jeffrey Ford, an exclusive except from Michael Moorcock's latest novel, plus reviews and opinion.

BLACK ROSE #6, A4, 68pp, Ir£3 (Ireland/UK 3/£8; USA/Canada 3/$28) from David P. Dunning, Black Rose Publications, 10 Saint Malachy's Drive, Greenhills, Dublin 12, Ireland (e-mail: dunningd@gofree.indigo.ie). Horror and supernatural fiction by Phil Locascio, John Urbanick, Michael Bracken, Kymm Royal, Tim Curran, Geoffrey Borwick, David Fingerman, Jack Fisher, David Kendall, Simon Logan, Frank Roger, Steve Mosby, Kevin L. Donihe, and Marguerite Phillips.

BLUE FOOD #4, A4, 60pp, $3:95 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 Lawrence M. Schoen, Rick Reed, and Renee Carter Hall, as well as a profile of photographer Jim Kearns.

DATA DUMP #53, A5, 4pp, 70p/$2 (USA orders in cash or stamps of 10¢ or 50¢) 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.

HANDSHAKE #44, A4, 2pp, free for SAE from J.F. Haines, 5 Cross Farm, Station Road, Padgate, Warrington WA2 0QG. Market information and news of SF-poetry-related events, plus poetry from Richard Lung, A.C. Evans, Giovanni Malito, Elaine Day, Kama Garcha, and Neil K. Henderson.

KIMOTA #14, A5, 72pp p/b, £2:50 (4/£9) from G. 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 Catherine J. Gardner, Sean Russell Friend, Peter Tennant, Chris Bauer, Mark Howard Jones, Craig Jones, Stuart Carter, Joel Lane, Hugh Cook, David Hudson, and Steve Dean.

NEW YORK REVIEW OF SCIENCE FICTION #152, 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 a twelve-time Hugo award nominee. This issue features Josh Lukin on Philip K. Dick's success in Oakland, Lee Weinstein searches for Cordwainer Smith's 50-minute hour, two views of Ellen Datlow's Vanishing Acts, Candas Jane Dorsey on Brian Evenson, David Soyka on Strange Attractions, and Greg Johnson on Paul McAuley.

NOT ONE OF US #25, A5, 52pp, $5:50 (3/$13:50) from John Benson, 12 Curtis Road, Natick, MA 01760, USA. Horror and dark fantasy exploring the concept of 'otherness' from every fictional angle with stories by Loren Rhoads, Steve Eller, Patricia Russo, Sherry Decker, Ron J. Cruz, Tom Condarcure, Jack Fisher, Ken Goldman, and Stefano Donati.

ON SPEC #44: Spring 2001, A5, 116pp p/b, Can$5:95 (4/Can$22; USA 4/US$22; r.o.w. 4/US$27) from On Spec, Box 4727, Edmonton, AB T6E 5G6, Canada (e-mail: onspec@earthling.net; http://www.icomm.ca/onspec). Award-winning SF and fantasy magazine, with fiction by L.E. Modesitt Jr, James Van Pelt, Chris Turner, John Aegard, Mark Anthony Brennan, E.L. Chen, Kate Riedel, Hugh A.D. Spencer, Steve Mohn, and Catherine MacLeod.

ROADWORKS #11, A5, 120pp p/b, £3 (4/£10; 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). The latest issue of this "imaginative fiction" magazine has Nicholas Royle as featured writer, plus stories from Joel Lane, Paul Pinn, Hertzan Chimera, Paul Finch, Michael Cobley, Jane Fell, Peter Tennant, Michelle Scalise, Allen Ashley, and Ralph Robert Moore.

SCAVENGER'S NEWSLETTER #206, 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@hotmail.com; 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 John Pelan and fiction by Patricia Russo.

SCHEHERAZADE #21, A5, 44pp, £2:80 (4/£9; outside UK 4/£11:50) from Scheherazade, 14 Queens Park Rise, Brighton BN2 2ZF (e-mail: liz@shez.fsnet.co.uk; http://www.shez.fsnet.co.uk). A magazine of fantasy and science fiction incorporating the gothic, the magical and the mythological, with fiction from Alexander Glass, Trevor Denyer, Catherine Munro, Cherith Baldry, Jason Frowley, and Ivor Randle, plus an interview with Philip Pullman.

NEOLITHON by Steve Sneyd & John Light, ISBN 0-907759-18-1, 60pp p/b, £5:50 (£8 outside UK) from K.T. Publications, 16 Fane Close, Stamford, Lincolnshire PE9 1HG. Both widely published individually, Sneyd and Light collaborate for the first time with a collection of poems and drawings that look not to the future, but to their mutual interest in the cultures of the past of which only stones and myths remain.