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.