ALBEDO 1 #26, A4, 48pp, Eur4.50 (4/Eur18; UK 4/£12; Europe 4/Eur23; r.o.w. 4/$23) from Albedo 1, 2 Post Road, Lusk, Co. Dublin, Ireland (e-mail: bobn@yellowbrickroad.ie; http://www.yellowbrickroad.ie/albedo). The award-winning Irish SF/F/H magazine serves up fiction by Martin Taulbut, Cathy Freeze, Mark A. Mellon, John Kenny, and H. Turnip Smith, plus an interview with China Mieville.

BANANA WINGS #18, A4, 48pp, 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 Andy Sawyer's academic perspective on fandom through fan fiction, Mark Plummer on books and community, and Ron Bennett's experiences with public libraries.

CHAOTIC ORDER #14, A5, 56pp, £2/Eur3/$4 (2/£3:50; Europe 2/Eur5; USA 2/$7) 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 filmmakers Mitch Davis and Mark Hejnar, as well as musicians John Latartara and Mark 'Zodiac Mindwarp' Manning, has another anatomy lesson in a cadaver lab, and revisits the 1930s carnival sideshow.

THE DREAM ZONE #13, B5, 88pp p/b, £3 from Paul Bradshaw, 44 Knowles View, Holmewood Estate, Bradford BD4 9AH (e-mail: thedreamzone@btinternet.com; http://www.thedreamzone.btinternet.co.uk). A horror and dark fantasy magazine devoted to "stories into which the reader can immerse themselves completely, as if in a dream – or perhaps a nightmare!". Sending you scurrying under the covers in this final edition are Brendan Connell, Glen Krisch, Max Strange, Richard Gavin, Cory Harding, Steve Redwood, Tim Groome, Abel Diaz, Paul Pinn, Polycarp Kusch, Simon Logan, Mike Russell, A.D. Dawson, Natsume Soseki, Steve Goldsmith, and Rhys Hughes.

NEW YORK REVIEW OF SCIENCE FICTION #170, A4, 24pp, $3:50 (12/$36; Canada 12/$38; 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. This issue sees Robert J. Sawyer on images of artificial intelligence in SF, Donald Kingsbury and Graham Sleight exchange views on psychohistory, Kathryn Cramer on Carter Scholtz's Radiance, and Jo Walton on John Barnes and the future.

ROADWORKS #14, A5, 124pp p/b, £5 (2/£9:50; Europe 2/£11:50/Eur19; USA 2/$15; r.o.w. 2/£12:50) from Trevor Denyer, 7 Mountview, Church Lane West, Aldershot, Hampshire GU11 3LN (e-mail: mail@roadworks-legend.co.uk; http://www.roadworks-legend.co.uk). The latest issue of this "imaginative fiction" magazine has stories from Nina Allan, Brad Evans, Matt Smith, Andrew Humphrey, Sara-Jayne Townsend, Tim Groome, Gene-Michael Higney, Paul Finch, Nancy Bennett, Weston Ochse, Shaun Donnelly, Jay Lake, Kim Padgett-Clarke, Peter Tennant, and Vincent Lynch.

SCAVENGER'S NEWSLETTER #225, 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 Tamara Wilhite, and R. David Fulcher on moving beyond the short story.

THE THIRD ALTERNATIVE #32, A4, 68pp, £3:75 (6/£21; Europe 6/£24/Eur36; 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/$36) from TTA Press, 360 W. 76th Ave #H, Anchorage, AK 99518, USA (e-mail: we21011@earthlink.net). "Extraordinary new fiction" from John Grant, Brian Hodge, Joel Lane, Tony Richards, and Graham Joyce, plus interviews with Mark Chadbourne and Neil Gaiman, and an appreciation of the films of Guy Maddin.

UR-VOX #2, ISBN 0-938075-85-3, B5, 148pp 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 issues includes work by Will Alexander, Michael & Lee Ballentine, Michael Basinski, John M. Bennett, Charles Borkhuis, Roniie Burk, Garrett Caples, Ryan Christoff, Adam Cornford, Maria Damon, Chris Daniels, Mark Ducharme, Marcella Durand, Clayton Eshleman, Liviu Georgescu, Anselm Hollo, Dale Jensen, Andrew Joron, W.B. Keckler, Robert Kelly, Louise Landes Levi, Gherasim Luca, Brian Lucas, Chris McCreary, Edward Mycue, Joseph Noble, Geoffrey O'Brien, John Olson, Roberto Piva, Kristin Prevallet, Mark Scroggins, Spencer Selby, Julian Semillian, Brian Strang, Cole Swenson, Richard Tagett, Delia Tramontina, Luke Trent, and Matt Turner.

THE HAND THAT TAKES by Paul Harland, ISBN 0-9534784-2-4, 264pp p/b, £8:95 (Europe Eur13:95; USA $14:95) from Aeon Press, PO Box 5861, Fairview, Dublin 3, Ireland. As Jeremy Rose searches for his mysteriously lost lover Shikegi, he follows a trail of missing artists: their bodies, their paintings ... and their hands. This near-future thriller introduces one of Holland's foremost visionary authors to an international audience.

THE VIRTUAL MENAGERIE AND OTHER STORIES by Andrew Hook, ISBN 0-9543747-0-3, A5, 162pp p/b, £5 from Elastic Press, 85 Gertrude Road, Norwich, Norfolk NR3 4SG (e-mail: elasticpress@elasticpress.com; http://www.elasticpress.com). A new independent publishing house created to showcase popular independent press writers in a series of single-author short story anthologies, Elastic Press sets out its stall with this collection of 19 stories by an author whose work has previously appeared in The Third Alternative, Roadworks, The Dream Zone and Not One of Us.

THIS WAY UP by Nigel Quinlan & Dermot Ryan, ISBN 0-9534784-1-6, 176pp p/b, £7:99 from Aeon Press, PO Box 5861, Fairview, Dublin 3, Ireland. Two Irish authors 'brimming over with attitude' in one new collection, presented in an upside-down-and-back-to-back format.

LEVIATHAN 3 edited by Jeff VanderMeer and Forrest Aguirre, ISBN 1-894815-42-4, A5, 476pp p/b, $21:95 from The Ministry of Whimsy, P.O. Box 4248, Tallahassee, FL 32315, USA (e-mail: ministryofwhimsy@yahoo.com; http://www.ministryofwhimsy.com). The latest volume in the acclaimed cross-genre short fiction anthology series features new stories by Zoran Zivkovic, James Bassett, Jeffrey Thomas, Stepan Chapman, James Sallis, Brendan Connell, Michael Moorcock, Remy de Gourmont, Jeffrey Ford, Scott Thomas, Brian Evenson, Brian Stableford, Lance Olsen, Michael Cisco, Theophile Gautier, L. Timmel Duchamp, Carol Emshwiller, and Rikki Ducornet.