AFTERMATH, A4, 28pp spiral bound, $5 ($8 outside USA) in US cash only from Shannon Colebank, P.O. Box 5591, Portland, OR 97228, USA. A personal response to the cultural aftermath of the 11 September attacks, combining diary entries, found articles and Shannon's own poetry in an exploration of US social and governmental hypocrisy towards terrorism and international relations.

AUREALIS #29, A5, 132pp p/b, Aus$12:50 (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). Professional magazine of Australian speculative fiction with stories from Richard Harland, Lee Battersby, Shane M. Brown, Cory Daniells, Chuck McKenzie, and Robert N. Stephenson, plus interviews with Lucy Sussex and Sean Williams.

BANANA WINGS #17, A4, 52pp, available for 'the usual' from Claire Brialey, 26 Northampton Road, Croydon, Surrey CR0 7HA (e-mail: banana@fishlifter.demon.co.uk), or Mark Plummer, 14 Northway Road, Croydon, Surrey CR0 6JE. More musings in and around SF fandom from Claire and Mark, presented as ever with their unique knack for dramatizing the moment. In addition to the customary plethora of letters, this issue features a round-up of recent SF conventions, part two of Fred Smith's appraisal of the classic pulps Unknown and Unknown World, and Tony Keen on "big dumb war movies".

CHAOTIC ORDER #13, A5, 44pp, £2/Eur3/$4 from Chaotic Order, 15 Digby Close, Doddington Park, Lincoln LN6 3PZ (e-mail: bob@chaoticorder.freeserve.co.uk). Underground and fringe culture magazine which interviews filmmaker Andreas Troeger, relives the glory of Zodiac Mindwarp, has an anatomy lesson in a cadaver lab, and re-examines the fall of of the Enron Corporation.

LEGEND #5, A4, 60pp p/b, £4 (4/£15; USA 4/$30; r.o.w. 4/£22) from T. 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 Jack Caynon, Jenny Robson, David Gullen, Martin Owton, Simon Bestwick, Lauren Halkon, Rachel Kendall, Dominic McDonagh, and Stuart Young, plus an interview with Mike Chinn.

MINESHAFT #7, A5, 44pp, $4, and #8, A5, 48pp, $4:75 ($3/$12; outside US 3/$18) from Mineshaft, 16 Johnson Pasture Dr., Guildford, Vermont 06501, USA. Poetry and short prose by the likes of Christopher Sawyer-Laucanno, Mark Terrill, Bryn Fortey, and Tommy Trantino, with illustrations by R. Crumb, Ronnie Burk and others.

NEW YORK REVIEW OF SCIENCE FICTION #165, A4, 24pp, $3:50 (12/$32; Canada 12/$37; r.o.w. 12/$48) 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 fourteen-time Hugo award nominee. In this issue, Darrell Schweitzer returns to Tolkien, Alan C. Elms psychoanalyses Cordwainer Smith, and Russell Blackford attends the 'Science Fiction & Biotechnology' conference in Greece.

SCAVENGER'S NEWSLETTER #220, A5, 24pp, $2 from Janet Fox, 833 Main, Osage City, KS 66523-1241, USA (e-mail: foxscav1@hotmail.com; http://66.39.35.131/scavengers/). 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 Kristine Coblitz on understanding point of view in fiction, and fiction by John M. Floyd.

SCHEHERAZADE #23, 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 Jacey Bedford, Tony Richards, Paul Beardsley, Darrell Schweitzer, and Alexander Glass, plus an interview with Cherry Wilder.

THE WHIZZBANGER GUIDE TO ZINE DISTRIBUTORS #6, A4, 36pp spiral bound, $5 ($8 outside USA) in US cash only from Shannon Colebank, P.O. Box 5591, Portland, OR 97228, USA. Over 80 magazine distributors from 18 countries describe their activities and interests. The emphasis is on punk- and indie music-related material, with additional entries for zine archives, libraries and stores.

WHIZZBANGER NEWSLETTER #5 and #6, A4, 2pp, $1 ($2 outside USA) each in US cash only from Shannon Colebank, P.O. Box 5591, Portland, OR 97228, USA. Polemic personal zine covering such issues as genital mutilation, and the corporate media's ongoing collusion with the FBI in the suppression of anti-George W. sentiment.

MAN FALLING BACKWARDS DOWN STAIRS by Daniel Joshua Nagelberg, ISBN 0-9712132-1-6, 126pp trade paperback, $12 from SevenTen Bishop, 710 N. Bishop, Chicago, IL 60622, USA (e-mail: mail@seventenbishop.com; http://www.seventenbishop.com). New poems from an author who, dissatisfied with urban life, has the "ills of the world in his crosshairs".

SAY IT WITH SILENCE by Zebulum, ISBN 0-9712132-0-8, 116pp trade paperback, $12 from SevenTen Bishop, 710 N. Bishop, Chicago, IL 60622, USA (e-mail: mail@seventenbishop.com; http://www.seventenbishop.com). Collection of short poetry, most of them less than 10 lines, that "questions and confronts the banality of standardized living" in the author's "quest to incinerate the average".

DREAMBERRY WINE June-July 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.