NEW YORK REVIEW OF SCIENCE FICTION #153, 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 Judith Berman on SF settings today, Michael Swanwick on SF in nature, Brian Stableford on Hal Clement's stories, Arthur D. Hlavaty on Eric Frank Russell's stories, Terry Weyna on Jane Yolen's stories, Leslie What on Howard Waldrop's circus, and John D. Squires on M.P. Shiel's centennial.

PAPERBACK PARADE #55, A5, 108pp, $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 issue carries an interview with A.S. 'Sid' Fleischman, plus Fleischman paperback checklist, getting classic British westerns back into print, twenty-five all-time SF greats, in conversation with Swedish pulp cover artist Bertil Hegland, and an appreciation of publishers Holloway House.

PSYCHOTROPE #9, A5, 56pp, £2:10 from Psychotrope, Mark Beech, Flat 6, 10 Ombersley Road, Worcester WR3 7ET. The closing selection of tales of mad love, surrealism and psychological horror from Heidi Williamson, Rhys Hughes & D.F. Lewis, Hugh Cook, M. Reynolds, Martin Taulbut, Dawn Andrews, Allen Ashley, Donna Taylor Burgess, Kay Fletcher, and Jonathan Jones.

SCAVENGER'S NEWSLETTER #207, A5, 24pp, $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 the USA, UK and elsewhere, plus Joyce Frohn on how best to handle anachronisms, and fiction by Donald J. Levitt.

WHIZZBANGER NEWSLETTER #1 and #2, A4, 2pp, $1 ($2 outside USA) in US cash only from Shannon Colebank, P.O. Box 5591, Portland, OR 97228, USA. Following a crippling hike in US postal charges, Shannon's set up this interim newsletter to keep in touch with everyone between issues of Flashpoint and The Whizzbanger Guide to Zine Distributors. Each issue updates other interested publishers on Shannon's trawl through postal handbooks for loopholes in the regulations, together with short polemic on such issues as the injustic of female gender verification at the Olympics, and a call-to-arms for a new Feminist Pirate Radio Network.

THE EXCHANGE by Jeff VanderMeer and Eric Schaller, A6, 36pp, $6:99 ($7:99 outside USA) from Hoegbotton & Sons, P.O. Box 4248, Tallahassee, Florida 32315, USA (e-mail: vanderworld@hotmail.com; http://www.vandermeer.redsine.com). Copiously illustrated by Eric Schaller, The Exchange is a VanderMeer short story set in, and packaged as a commemorative booklet for, the Festival of the Freshwater Squid held each year in the fantastical city of Ambergris. Fans of VanderMeer's creation will be delighted at this ideosyncratic extension of his Ambergris universe; others may find $7 rather expensive for a single short story!