DATA DUMP #60, 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.
THE FIX #4, B5, 32pp, £2:50 (6/£15; Europe 6/£18; r.o.w. 6/£21) from TTA Press, 5 Martins Lane, Witcham, Ely, Cambs CB6 2LB (e-mail: ttapress@aol.com; http://www.ttapress.com); USA $5 (6/$28) from TTA Press, P.O. Box 219, Olyphant, PA 18447, USA (e-mail: we21011@earthlink.net). A magazine for everyone interested in short fiction, in other words readers, not just aspiring writers. There's Ed Gorman's top ten stories, Peter Tennant on the death of horror, and plenty of reviews of magazines, anthologies, novellas and collections.
HORROR GARAGE #5, A4, 52pp, $6.66 (2/$10) from Under the Volcano Inc., P.O. Box 53, Nesconset, NY 11767, USA (e-mail: horrorgarage@aol.com; http://www.horrorgarage.com). A high quality horror magazine that manages to combine top-rate writers with a fascination for psychotronic B-movie excess. This issue's fiction comes from David J. Schow, Richard Kadrey, Charlee Jacob, Edward Lee, Greg Kihn, and Rudy Rucker, plus an interview with Clive Barker.
SCAVENGER'S NEWSLETTER #222, 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 Judith F. Bullock on the writer as fool, and fiction by Lyn McConchie.
SPACE AND TIME #96, A4, 52pp, $6:50 (2/$10; outside USA 2/$12) from Space and Time, 138 W. 70th Street (4B), New York, NY 10023-4468, USA (http://www.cith.org/space&time.html). A rich mixture of fiction and poetry covering all aspects of the fantasy genre – science fiction, supernatural horror, swords and sorcery, and the unclassifiable – from Brian A. Hopkins & Brett Alexander Savory, S.C. Lofton, Kendall Evans, Raul Allen Kennedy, Shikhar Dixit, Charlee Jacob, Trey Barker, and Michael T. Huyck Jr.
TALEBONES #24, A5, 96pp p/b, $6:00 (4/$20; Canada 4/$26; r.o.w. 4/$32) from Talebones Magazine, 5203 Quincy Ave SE, Auburn, WA 98092, USA (e-mail: talebones@nventure.com; http://www.fairwoodpress.com). SF and dark fantasy in a smart digest format with full colour cover, and winner of the Genre Writers Association Award. This issue's fiction comes from William Barton, Nina Kiriki Hoffman, James Van Pelt, James Sallis, Alexandra Arruin, Kenneth Brady, Ilsa J. Bick, and Jack Slay Jr, plus an interview with Harry Turtledove.
THE THIRD ALTERNATIVE #31, A4, 68pp, £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 $7 (6/$33) from TTA Press, P.O. Box 219, Olyphant, PA 18447, USA (e-mail: we21011@earthlink.net). "Extraordinary new fiction" from Gala Blau, Conrad Williams, John Aegard, Christopher Fowler, Mat Coward, and Steve Mohn, plus interviews with Michael Marshall Smith, Alan Moore and Jeffrey Ford, and an appreciation of the films of Peter Weir.
THE CANNABIS OCTET by Gary G. Graham, ISBN 1-873189-55-9, A5, 354pp p/b, £10 from Gary G. Graham, Crushed Anna Books, 360 North Woodside Road, Glasgow G20 6LW. The full collection of Gary's 'Cannabis' octet published between 1997 and 2001. The eight books are reproduced in their entirety, and chronicle the author's life, television viewing and multiple sclerosis as he seeks a total and systematic derangement of his senses, ranging from the rational to the obscure with an undercurrent of wry humour and delightful wordplay.
DREAMBERRY WINE September-October 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.
