THE NOT SO SELFISH ISSUE, A5, 12pp, free for SAE from Andy Floyd, PEFProductions, 196 High Road, London N22 8HH. Glossy collage booklet featuring poetry by Colin Cross, Page 84, John Hirst, Christopher Barnes and others, plus found images and original artwork.
NOVA EXPRESS Vol.6 #2, A4, 48pp, $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: lawrence@io.com; http://www.io.com/~lawrence/nova.html). Hard-hitting critical zine with an emphasis on post-cyberpunk and slipstream works. This issue leads with an interview with Paul Di Filippo and Chris Nakashima-Brown and Fiona Kelleghan on his work, plus Bruce Gillespie on Avram Davidson's short stories, Bruce Sterling on Zoran Zivkovic, and a whole pile of reviews by the likes of David Langford, Howard V. Hendrix, Stephen Dedman, Jeff VanderMeer, and Cynthia Ward.
ON SPEC #49: Summer 2002, 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: mail@onspec.ca; http://www.onspec.ca). Award-winning SF and fantasy magazine, with fiction by Holly Phillips, Barth Anderson, S.A. Bolich, Ann Marston, Harry Connolly, Randy D. Ashburn, Jean-Claude Dunyach, Charles Coleman Finlay, and Steve Mohn.
SCAVENGER'S NEWSLETTER #223, 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 fiction by Kiel Stuart and part 4 of Thomas Deja's series of articles on how to make an editor want to buy your story.
SEARCHING FOR THE REINCARNATED by Kay Fletcher, CD-ROM containing novel in off-line website format, £6 from Kay Fletcher, The jenny Haniver, PO Box 3191, Tipton, West Midlands DY4 7ZX (e-mail: thejennyhaniver@btinternet.com; http://www.thejennyhaniver.com). Shifting through time from past to present, this debut novel tells the stories of the inhabitants of the fictional Black Country town of Sadmere and of the tragedies which alter their lives forever.
NO SPACE IN TIME by John Light, ISBN 1-897968-18-3, A5, 112pp p/b, £4 (US surface $10; US air $11) from John Light, Photon Press, 37 The Meadows, Berwick-upon-Tweed, Northumberland TD15 1NY (e-mail: photon.press@virgin.net). When an ancient mage brings a baby princess to the childless rulers of a happy empire, no-one can predict the sequence of events that will shatter the fabric of time itself. The desperate struggle that ensues to undo these disasters will become a legend to the people of the Universe's final epoch.
MY WORK IS NOT YET DONE by Thomas Ligotti, ISBN 0-9659433-7-2, A5, 200pp h/b, $35 (Canada $40; r.o.w. $45) from Mythos Books LLC, 351 Lake Ridge Road, Poplar Bluff, MO 63901-2177, USA (e-mail: dwynn@LDD.net; http://www.mythosbooks.com). With a full-color dust jacket and interior artwork by Harry O. Morris, this limited edition hardback contains the stories 'I Have A Special Plan For This World' and 'The Nightmare Network', plus the previously unpublished novella 'My Work Is Not Yet Done'.
DARKWOR(L)DS by Julie Travis, A5, 60pp, £3 from J. Haynes, 3 Chilecito Villas, Fore Street, Lelant, St Ives TR26 3EN (e-mail: travisjulie@hotmail.com). Six short stories 'about the shadows that don't go away when you turn on the light' from an author widely published in the British SF and horror/slipstream small press.
THE PENNINE TRIANGLE by Steve Sneyd, J.C. Hartley and J.F. Haines, ISBN 0-9521806-2-6, A5, 44pp, £2:50 (US $7 cash) from J.C. Hartley, Othername Press, 14 Rosebank, Rawtenstall, Rossendale, BB4 7RD (e-mail: othernamepress@tiscali.co.uk). In their individual work, each of these poets has dealt with the offbeat and the other-worldly, writing horror and SF and all the speculative genres around and between. While it is their geographical conjunction which conveniently forms the figure of the title, it is more their shared observation of the real and imagined landscape around them that brings them together in this collection of predominantly new work.
