The BBR Directory: September 2001

NEWS

The 2001 Inkzilla Zine Festival is taking place in Mesa (Phoenix), Arizona on 10 November 2001. Featuring literary zines and magazines from across the country, plus readings by writers published in some of them, the festival will provide readers an opportunity to sample the tremendous variety of literary endeavors that are published each year. For publishers not able to attend, Inkzilla also offers an opportunity for zines to sell at the festival without having to be there in person. For further information, visit http://www.anthologymagazine.com/Zine_Festival/Zine_Festival_Home.html, or sign up to the official Inkzilla e-mail newsletter for Inkzilla at http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Inkzilla.

CLOSED

Gerald England reports that, as a result of unacceptable levels of spam, and of inappropriate submissions despite clear guidelines for submissions, the e-zine Aabye's Baby (http://www.aabyesbaby.ukpoets.net/) will no longer be maintained. Existing pages will be archived for the foreseeable future, but no mail addressed to aabyesbaby@ukpoets.net will be answered – for further information, visit http://www.nhi.clara.net/baby.htm. In the meantime, Gerald wishes to thank all those who have contributed to and supported Aabye's Baby over its lifetime.

Jean Currie reports: "Due to ill health Jane Adams and Gary Murning regret to announce that the magazine 13 has ceased publication."

ALBEDO 1 #23, A4, 44pp, Ir£2:95 (4/Ir£12; UK 4/Ir£12; Europe 4/Ir£18/$27; r.o.w. 4/Ir£22/$34) from Albedo 1, 2 Post Road, Lusk, Co. Dublin, Ireland (e-mail: brendan@yellowbrickroad.ie; http://www.yellowbrickroad.ie/albedo). The award-winning Irish SF/F/H magazine serves up fiction by Mike O'Driscoll, David Murphy, John W. Sexton, Nicola Caines, Hugh Cook, and Jason Gould & Allen Ashley, plus an interview with Michael Moorcock.

BEDLAM #3, A4, 40pp, £2 from John Gallagher, Chimera Arts, 13 Foliage Crescent, Brinnington, Stockport SK5 8AP. A comics magazine with a distinct horror/dark fantasy feel, and consistently good work from a range of different artists. This issue sees the continuation of 'Radical Boredom', and the reincarnation after 30 years of the cult horror comic 'Lady Satan'.

BETELGUISE #2, A4, 4pp corner-stapled, £0:30 from Wortham, Kneesworth House, Bassingbourne, Royston, SG8 5JP. Book and music reviews from across the spectrum of Satanic art and literature, plus news, polemic and classified ads.

BLACK GATE Vol.1 #2, B5, 228pp p/b, $10 (4/$29:95; Canada 4/$49; r.o.w. 4/$45) from New Epoch Press, 815 Oak Street, St Charles, IL 60174, USA (e-mail: john@blackgate.com; http://www.blackgate.com). A magazine devoted to preserving the spirit of fantasy, both in factual coverage and in literary spirit. This issue features a classic reprint of Edmond Hamilton's 'The Monster-God of Mamurth', plus new stories by Harry James Connolly, Steve Carper, F. Brett Cox, Devon Monk, Amy Sterling Casil, Leslie What, Jeff Verona, Richard Bowes, and Julia Blackshear, plus reviews and opinion.

COLD PRINT (no issue number), A4, 48pp side-stapled, enquire to 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 Jon Courtenay Grimwood, Stephen Palmer, and Nicholas Royle, plus fiction by Robert Garlitz and Rupert Loydell, David Murphy, Stephen Palmer, S.J. Redwood, and Ian Robertson.

ICARUS ASCENDING #2, A5, 32pp, $4:50 (2/$8) from Artifact Press, 1701 Stanley Road, Cazenovia, New York 13035, USA (e-mail: artifactpress@aol.com). A classy-looking magazine of poetry and short-short prose by Charlee Jacob, Ann K. Schwader, Marge B. Simon, Denise Dumars, David C. Kopaska-Merkel, Bruce S. Larson and others.

MAELSTROM #10, A5, 72pp, £2:40 (2/£4:50; US: 2/$10) from Sol Publications, 24 Fowler Close, Southchurch, Southend-on-Sea, Essex SS1 2RD (e-mail: maelstrom@solpubs.freeserve.co.uk; http://www.solpubs.freeserve.co.uk). A magazine of science fiction, fantasy and horror where the emphasis is on entertaining stories. Inside David Andrew Young's full-colour cover there are new stories by Andrew Humphrey, Elizabeth Stott, Edward Jewasinski, Simon Whitechapel, Kay Dee, Roderick S. MacDonald, and Lyn McConchie.

MORBID CURIOSITY #5, A4, 116pp p/b, $6 from Automatism Press, P.O. Box 12308, San Francisco, CA 94112-0308, USA (e-mail: morbid@charnel.com; http://www.charnel.com/morbidcuriosity). True, first-person accounts of unusual experiences and the strange things that people get up to, which in this issue includes casting a curse, cruising, drunk driving, funeral homes, homophobia, imprisonment, Kali, LSD, messages from beyond, multiple sclerosis, nursing the dying, occult studies, rhinoplasty, sleeping in a casket, spinal injections, and starring in porn.

NEW YORK REVIEW OF SCIENCE FICTION #155, 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 thirteen-time Hugo award nominee. In this issue, David Langford goes in search of John T. Sladek, Arinn Dembo gives tribute to Klarkash-Ton, Robert Borski hunts Wolf(e)s, Jeff VanderMeer anatomizes Jeffrey Ford, and Paul Kincaid goes to extremes with Kathe Koja.

NOVA EXPRESS Vol.6 #1, A4, 44pp, $5 (4/$15; Canada/Mexico 4/$20; r.o.w. 4/$30) 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 leads with an interview with Tim Powers and reviews of his latest work by Fiona Kelleghan and Hank Wagner, plus Ken McLeod on why he wrote the Fall Revolution books, Justina Robson gets down and dirty in China Mieville's industrial despair, and Brian Stableford looks into Gardner Dozois's far future.

ONGAKU OTAKU #4, A4, 132pp p/b, $5:95 from Automatism Press, P.O. Box 12308, San Francisco, CA 94112-0308, USA (e-mail: ongaku@charnel.com; http://www.charnel.com/ongaku). The only English-language publication devoted exclusively to all styles of independent Japanese music, this time bringing you interviews with Null, DemiSemiQuaver, Ningen Isu, Little Fujiko, Jack or Jive, Billy?, Kazumoto Endo, and Depth, plus Japanese dolls, a Tokyo club and store guide, tour diary, manga, and tons of record reviews.

ON SPEC #45: Summer 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 Vera Nazarian, Elizabeth Westbrook, David J. Schwartz, Lena DeTar, Jarret Keene, Catherine MacLeod, Douglas Smith, Allan Weiss, Matthew Johnson, E.L. Chen, and Gary Archambault.

SCAVENGER'S NEWSLETTER #210, A5, 28pp, $2:50 (12/$24; Canada 12/$23; r.o.w. 12/$29) 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 Klaus Bung on how to make the most of dictation and speech recognition software, and fiction by Kiel Stuart.

SPECTRUM SF #6, 164pp B-format paperback, £3:99 (UK, Europe air and worldwide surface 4/£14; worldwide air 4/£17) from Spectrum Publishing, 53 Waverley Park, Kirkintilloch, Glasgow, G66 2BL (e-mail: pf@spectrumsf.co.uk; http://www.spectrumsf.co.uk). New science fiction from John Christopher, Stephen Baxter & Simon Bradshaw, Michael Coney, Mary Soon Lee, David Redd, and Eric Brown.

USHER #1, A4, 40pp, £2 from John Gallagher, Chimera Arts, 13 Foliage Crescent, Brinnington, Stockport SK5 8AP. A new horror/dark fantasy comic from the same stable as Bedlam, featuring a gun-toting, big-breasted lesbian vampire in black PVC who wouldn't be out of place in Hog, and 'The Slashed Menagerie', a chilling tale of marrying into money scripted by Simon Bestwick.

OMEGATROPIC by Stephen Baxter, ISBN 0-9549788-0-2, A5, 160pp p/b, £8 (hardback edition, ISBN 0-9549788-1-0, £20) from the British Science Fiction Association, 1 Long Row Close, Everdon, Daventry NN11 3BE (e-mail: bsfa@enterprise.net; http://www.bsfa.co.uk). A collection of Baxter's nonfiction and fiction, some of it appearing for the first time, including insights into his collaboration with Arthur C. Clarke, his research into the Moon and Titan, essays on the great figures and themes in SF, and advice on how to write successful SF.

THE NIGHTMARE EXHIBITION by Quentin S. Crisp, A5, 144pp p/b, £4 from B.J.M. Press, 95 Compass Crescent, Old Whittington, Chesterfield, S41 9LX. Debut collection of Lovecraftian short fiction by a new UK author attracting much attention from both sides of the Atlantic.

STRANGE AEONS: A TRIBUTE TO H.P. LOVECRAFT & THE CTHULU MYTHOS, double audio CD, Rainfall Records CLOUD 004, £12 (US $18 cash) from Clive Jones, Rainfall Records, 9 Lydiard Road, Chippenham, Wilts SN14 0NZ (e-mail: clivej@bigfoot.com; http://www.bigfoot.com/~stormclouds). An exquisite combination of music and poetry inspired by the works of H.P. Lovecraft and the Cthulu Mythos. The two CDs feature songs by psychedelic bands from the UK, Europe and the USA including Stormclouds, Childe Roland, Rod Goodway, The Petals, Astral Weeks, Fireaxe, and Spawn of Chaos. Interleaved with this, top Lovecraftian authors and poets from the UK and USA read their own (and others') work to eerie background sound effects, including performances by Brian Lumley, Ramsey Campbell, Simon Clark, Robert M. Price, Michael Cisco, Thomas Ligotti, John B. Ford, Tim Lebbon, and Joel Lane. Think Hawkwind's Warrior On The Edge Of Time for horror fans and you'll know exactly what I mean!