May 2003


MagazinesReceived

THE CELEBRITIES' TOILET ROLL ISSUE / THE WHETHER OR NOT ISSUE, A5, 12pp each, free for SAE from Andy Floyd, PEFProductions, 196 High Road, London N22 8HH (http://www.page84.4t.com). Glossy collage booklets featuring poetry by Page 84, Geoff Stevens, Chris Hardy, Susanna Fulton, Dylan Harris and others, plus found images and original artwork.

DATA DUMP #65, 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 #6, B5, 32pp, £2:50 (6/£15; Europe 6/Eur29; 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 6/$29 from Wayne Edwards, TTA Press, 360 W. 76th Ave #H, Anchorage, AK 99518, USA (e-mail: we21011@earthlink.net). A magazine for everyone interested in short fiction, in other words readers, not just aspiring writers. There's an interview with Elastic Press front man Andrew Hook, and James Van Pelt on the life of a story writer.

FLASHPOINT #4, A4, 56pp spiral bound, $8 in US cash only from Shannon Colebank, P.O. Box 5591, Portland, OR 97228, USA. Aimed at exploding the myths of modern society, previous issues of this hard-hitting magazine have explored the abuse of power by corrupt religions, and the stupidity of gender stereotypes. Up for Shannon's inspection/dissection this time is the issue of ethics, including who determines what's 'right' and 'wrong', scientology ethics, attitudes to and of the Navajo, pacifism, ethics and political theory, and sense of duty.

HANDSHAKE #51, A4, 2pp, free for SAE from J.F. Haines, 5 Cross Farm, Station Road, Padgate, Warrington WA2 0QG. Market information and news of SF-poetry-related events, plus poetry from Andrew Darlington, Steve Sneyd, Richard Lung, Bobbi Sinha-Morey, Brian Maycock, Neil K. Henderson, and Cardinal Cox.

MORBID CURIOSITY #6, A4, 116pp p/b, $6 from Loren Rhoads, P.O. Box 12308, San Francisco, CA 94112-0308, USA (e-mail: morbid@charnel.com; http://www.charnel.com/automatism/index.html). True, first-person accounts of unusual experiences and the strange things that people get up to, which in this issue includes hallucinating naturally, medical experiments, suicidal boyfriends, anarchists in Paris, channeling spirits, Genoa protesters, getting mugged, ghost hunters, buying a gun, night terrors, NYC subways, occult shops, Big Brother, ghosts, LSD, and police brutality.

NEW YORK REVIEW OF SCIENCE FICTION #175, A4, 24pp, $4 (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 Paul Kincaid on New Wave Fabulism, Greg Beatty on Steven Barnes's Lion's Blood, Gregory Benford on Stephen Baxter's Riding the Rock, Andrew Weiner on Walter Tevis's legacy, Darrell Schweitzer on the uses of fantasy, Graham Sleight on Poul Anderson's Going for Infinity, and John Clute on Pete Hamill's Forever.

NOT ONE OF US #29, A5, 52pp, $5:50 (3/$13:50) from John Benson, 12 Curtis Road, Natick, MA 01760, USA. Horror and dark fantasy exploring the concept of 'otherness' from every fictional angle with stories by Patricia Russo, Daniel Arnold, Sonya Taaffe, Sara Joan Berniker, Woody O. Carsky-Wilson, and Barbara Rosen.

WHIZZBANGER NEWSLETTER #7, A4, 2pp, free for SAE ($1 cash outside USA) from Shannon Colebank, P.O. Box 5591, Portland, OR 97228, USA. Polemic personal zine covering such issues as the decline in home births seen as an attempt by male doctors to take control away from women, and the misguided wisdom of America's new gun control legislation.

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