MEDUSAS by Lee Ballentine / PSALLAT ECCLESIA MATER ILLIBATA by Notker Balbulus, ISBN 0-905262-30-1, A5, 16pp, £1:65/$3 (USA orders in cash or stamps of 50¢ or less) from Steve Sneyd, Hilltop Press, 4 Nowell Place, Almondbury, Huddersfield HD5 8PB. In "Ace Double" format, a speculative/experimental SF poem by Lee Ballentine (editor of the seminal poetry anthology POLY) with (in original Latin and new translation) probably the first-ever free verse proto-SF poem by the monk who invented the form in the late ninth century.
HEARTFELT AFFECTATIONS by Gabriel S. de Anda, ISBN 1-4010-3590-6, A5, 328pp p/b, enquire to Xlibris Corporation (e-mail: orders@xlibris.com; http://www.xlibris.com). Twenty-three-year-old Christian Verdugo is living through a most interesting time. His girlfriend has left him; his attorney employer is on the run, having stolen from the wrong person; his best friend has come out of the closet and declared his passion; a Mexican mafia assassin is shadowing him with a most unusual proposition; and a beautiful art teacher 14 years his senior is offering to tutor him in the pleasures of the flesh. With SF/fantasy stories having previously appeared in BBR and Space & Time, this coming-of-age novel sees de Anda moving in a more literary/mainstream direction.
SCIENCE FRICTION edited by Paul Rance, ISBN 1-899620-07-9, A5, 80pp p/b, £10:50 (USA $21 cash) from Peace & Freedom Press, 17 Farrow Road, Whaplode Drove, Spalding, Lincs PE12 0TS. A collection of poetry, prose and art from the likes of Steve Sneyd, John Francis Haines, Andrew Savage, Andy Darlington, Cardinal Cox, and David C. Kopaska-Merkel.
DREAMBERRY WINE November 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.