July 2001

Update

CHANGE OF ADDRESS

TTA Press – publishers of The Third Alternative, Crimewave, Crimewave Specials and The Fix – has a brand new website at a brand new address: http://www.ttapress.com.


MagazinesReceived

DATA DUMP #54, 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.

DREAMS AND NIGHTMARES #59, 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 Wendy Rathbone, John Grey, R. Monk Habjan, Marina Lee Sable, Sean Reagan, E.R. Carlin, Richard William Pearce, Hillary Lyon, Kendall Evans, Robert Donald Blaney, and Mario Milosevic, plus short prose work by Chris Bauer & Candra K. Gill.

THE DREAM ZONE #9, A4, 72pp 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 Quentin S. Crisp, Ken Goldman, R. Shirt, Sean Russell Friend, Simon Logan, Harry Walker, Eddie M. Angerhuber, Simon Bestwick, Steve Mosby, Henrik Johnsson, D. Harlan Wilson, Ian Watson, Eve Rings, Andrew Humphrey, Mark McLaughlin, James McConnon, and Allen Ashley.

HANDSHAKE #45, 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 Sean Russell Friend, Giovanni Malito, Steve Sneyd, and Geoff Stevens.

LEGEND #3, A4, 60pp, £4 (4/£15; USA 4/$30; r.o.w. 4/£22) 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 Terry Gates-Grimwood, Hugh Cook, Lauren Halkon, Michael Lohr, Frances Gow, David Gullen, Sean Russell Friend, and Anthony Lewing, plus an interview with Michael Lohr.

NEW YORK REVIEW OF SCIENCE FICTION #154, 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 Alejandro Jodorowsky's film version of Dune, Brian Attebery on myth and history in Molly Gloss's Wild Life and Alan Garner's Strandloper, Dan'l Danehy-Oakes on Nora Roberts, and Brian Stableford on Kristine Kathryn Rusch's Stories for an Enchanted Afternoon.

NORTHERN LIGHTZ #1, A4, 36pp, #3, A4, 40pp, and #4, A4, 36pp, £2:75 each from Northern Lightz Publishing, P.O. Box 25059, Glasgow G3 6WE (e-mail: nlightz@hotmail.com; http://www.northernlightz.com). Lots of adult humour and reefer madness from the Electric Soup posse, who can count among their number Alan Grant of Batman and Judge Dredd fame and 2000AD's Frank Quitely. With over a dozen strips per issue in a whole range of styles, no pop culture icon is safe from the drug humour treatment – Spliffy the Bush Kangaroo, The Three Skunketeers and Tokémon should give you the idea – with an excellent Buck Rogers parody and the awesome Ganjaman riding high in the popularity stakes. If you like dope humour and you're over 18, then Northern Lightz should be right up your street.

PEEP SHOW #1, A5, 68pp p/b, £4:50 (2/£8:50; USA 2/$15; Europe 2/£9:50; r.o.w. 2/£10.50) from Paul Fry, 15 North Roundhay, Stechford, Birmingham B33 9PE (e-mail: editor@peepshowmagazine.co.uk; http://www.peepshowmagazine.co.uk). A new magazine of quality erotic horror, with stories by Sheri White, Daniel Harr, Michael O'Connor, Alex Severin, Glen Hamilton, and Kobe Nihilis.

SCAVENGER'S NEWSLETTER #208, 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 H.P. Werner on why patience should prevail before deciding to withdraw your submission, plus fiction by G.N. Dybing.

SHOTS #9, A4, 48pp, £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 Ian Rankin, John Connolly, and Peter Guttridge, a profile of Jim Thompson, articles by Mike Ripley, Caroline Carver, and Hilary Bonner, fiction by Cath Staincliffe, plus news and reviews.


Author CollectionsReceived

ALL ABOUT EVIL by Philip Davenport, ISBN 0-9539367-0-8, 176pp trade paperback, £7:99 from Apple Pie Productions, P.O. Box 93, Manchester M21 8HB (e-mail: publishers@apple-pie.fsnet.co.uk). A modern Arabian Nights in which a young girl dying of frostbite is offered a deal by the Devil: tell him a story that will horrify him and he'll give her back her soul. The 13 contemporary fairytales she recounts include a psychotic wasp woman, a fur coat with murderous intentions, an thumb-sized radioactive boy, and a shoplifting angel – in fact, as the title suggests, Evil in countless shapes and sizes.

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