ALBEDO 1 #24, A4, 48pp, Eur4.50 (4/Eur18; UK 4/Eur18; Europe 4/Eur23; r.o.w. 4/$23) 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 Nigel Quinlan, James Michael White, James Viscosi, Lauren Halkon, and Mike O'Driscoll, plus an interview with Simon Clark.

AUREALIS #27/28, A5, 268pp p/b, Aus$19:50 (4/Aus$38:50; outside Australia 4/Aus$44 surface, 4/Aus$50 air) from Chimaera Publications, P.O. Box 2164, Mt Waverley, Victoria 3149, Australia (e-mail: keith.stevenson@optusnet.com.au; http://www.sf.org.au/aurealis). Double issue of the professional magazine of Australian speculative fiction, with stories by Scott Robinson, John Higgins, Michael Pryor, Dirk Strasser, Cory Daniels, Adam Browne, Keith Stevenson, L.A. Aspey, Miles Parently, Kurt von Trojan, Mike Morgan, Nathan Burrage, Robert Hood, Robert Bee, and Kaaron Warren, plus articles, book reviews, and The Australian SF Writers' News.

DATA DUMP #57, A5, 4pp, 70p/$2 (USA orders in cash or stamps) 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 #61, 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 Bruce Boston, Portia Brockway, John Francis Haines, Mario Milosevic, Jennifer Crow, Donna Taylor Burgess, R. Monk Habjan, G.O. Clark, Timons Esaias, Gary Every, Marina Lee Sable, Kurt Newton, Roger Dutcher, K.S. Hardy, and Darrell Schweitzer.

NEW GENRE #2, A5, 132pp p/b, $8:50 (2/$16) from New Genre, 25 Cutter Avenue, Somerville, MA 02144, USA (e-mail: golaski@juno.com; http://www.ngenre.com). A new magazine of science fiction and horror that aims to break genre stereotypes by modelling itself on literary journals, New Genre certainly looks the part with its clean, sparse layout and top-flight production quality. The two editors Adam Golaski and Jeff Paris concentrate on horror and SF respectively, and between them have brought together stories by Barth Anderson, M.J. Murphy, Jon-Michael Emory, Jan Wildt and Zohar A. Goodman for this impressive second issue.

NEW YORK REVIEW OF SCIENCE FICTION #160 and #161, A4, 24pp, $3:50 each (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. Issue #160 features Greg Beatty on reason, sexuality and the self in libertarian SF novels, Michael Swanwick on how he wrote Stations of the Tide, Eugene J. Surowitz revisits Jules Verne, and David Mead on Alastair Reynolds's Revelation Space, while #161 brings Graham Sleight on SF sell-by dates, Andy Patton on Guy Gavriel Kay and the New Sanctuary Mosaicist, Sondra Ford Swift on John Crowley's Daemonomania, Bud Webster on Frederik Pohl, and Paul Kincaid on Russell Hoban.

NOT PERFECT / HAIRY ISSUE, A5, 12pp each, free for SAE from Andy Floyd, PEFProductions, 196 High Road, London N22 8HH. Glossy collage booklets featuring poetry by Page 84, David Hill, Peggy Fussel, Jesse Glass and others, plus found images and original artwork.

SCAVENGER'S NEWSLETTER #215, A5, 24pp, $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.argentmoon.net/scavengers/index.htm). 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 fiction by Bruce Boston.

THE THIRD ALTERNATIVE #29, A4, 72pp, £3:75 (6/£21; Europe 6/£24/Eur38; r.o.w. 6/£27) from TTA Press, 5 Martins Lane, Witcham, Ely, Cambs CB6 2LB (e-mail: ttapress@aol.com; http://www.ttapress.com); USA $6 (6/$33) from TTA Press, P.O. Box 219, Olyphant, PA 18447, USA (e-mail: we21011@earthlink.net). "Extraordinary new fiction" from Andrew Humphrey, Barry Fishler, Leslie What, Tim Lees, Tony Richards, Charlie Williams, Jay Lake, and S.D. Tullis, plus interviews with Steve Aylett and M. John Harrison, and a profile of filmmakers the Brothers Quay.

UR-VOX #1, ISBN 0-938075-81-0, B5, 100pp p/b, $10 from Ocean View Books, P.O. Box 9249, Denver, CO 80209, USA (http://www.probook.net/urvox.html). A new journal of the limbic or underlying voice (the UR), which embraces all phases of surrealism early and late, experiments in broken and erotic grammars, works of ecstatic religion or unreligion, and heady documents of the machine age (the VOX). This inaugural issues includes work by Brian Lucas, Philip Lamantia, Ivan Arguelles, Garrett Caples, Elizabeth Robinson, John Olson, Spencer Selby, Steve Carll, Jason Lynn, Geoffrey O'Brien, John Noto, Richard Anders, Andrew Joron, Joe Donahue, John Yau, Kristin Prevallet, Will Alexander, Richard Kostelanetz, Charles Borkhuis, Tod Thilleman, Leonard Schwartz, Paola Lopez, and John M. Bennett.

DARK WHISPERS by Peter Ebsworth, ISBN 1-903932-18-1, A5, 154pp, £11:99 (outside UK $20) from David Searle, Searle Publishing, 36 Wolfe Road, Norwich NR1 4HT (e-mail: david.searle@care4free.net; http://www.searlepublishing.co.uk/). The debut title from this new publishing house, Dark Whispers is an eerie collection of short stories based around the themes of communication with hidden realms, and the darker side of science and technology.

STIGMATA: AN ANTHOLOGY OF WRITING AND ART, ISBN 0-9712051-0-8, A4, 336pp h/b, $150 from Jerad Walters, Cocytus Press, 3316 West 32nd Avenue #1, Denver, Colorado 80211, USA (e-mail: jerad@cocytuspress.com; http://www.cocytuspress.com). This lavishly produced large-format anthology has been published in a limited edition of 300 copies and features fiction and poetry by Robert Coover, Louise Bogan, John Collier, Cynthia Asquith, G. Sutton Breiding, Donald Barthelme, Thomas Wiloch, and Patricia Highsmith, essays by Lane Roth, Robin Wood, Henry Miller, James Baldwin, and Susan Sontag, and art portfolios by Denis Tiani, Harry O. Morris, and Lynd Ward.

THE SMALL PRESS GUIDE 2002, ISBN 1-902713-11-7, A5, 358pp p/b, £9:99 from Forward Press Ltd, Writers Bookshop, Remus House, Coltsfoot Drive, Woodston, Peterborough PE2 9JX. Revised seventh edition featuring the guidelines and requirements of over 300 UK small press magazines and e-zines, with an introduction by freelance journalist Francis Anderson.

DREAMBERRY WINE Jan-Feb 2002, A4, 16pp, enquire to Mike Don, Dreamberry Wine, 233 Maine Road, Manchester M14 7WG. Comprehensive second-hand SF/F/H catalogue that also combines reviews, letters and publishing news.