FARMING UNCLE #90, A5, 24pp, $2 cash from Farming Uncle, Box 427, Bronx, NY 10458, USA. Newsletter magazine with a rural, anti-establishment feel, packed full of networking adverts, factoids and how-to articles "for you to make it easier in your farmette/homestead, etc.".
JUPITER #1, A5, 36pp, £2:50 (4/£9) from Ian Redman, 23 College Green, Yeovil, Somerset BA21 4JR (e-mail: editor@jupitersf.co.uk; http://www.jupitersf.co.uk). A new magazine set up to provide a forum for new SF writers by publishing stories based on their quality rather than the reputation of the author. This inaugural issue brings fiction by John B. Rosenman, Lavie Tidhar, Davin ireland, Tom kerry, and Tom Smith, with poetry by Lee Clarke Zumpe.
MORBID CURIOSITY #7, 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 body fluids, car accidents, childbirth, congenital abnormalities, dead witches, hitchhiking in Oklahoma, invasive medicine, office voodoo, nicotine dreams, nursing, rabies, shamans, serial killers, terminal cancer, testicular injury, and torture instruments.
NEW YORK REVIEW OF SCIENCE FICTION #179, 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 Anna Sunshine Ison on fantasies of wrestling, Alice K. Turner and Walter Minkel approach Diana Wynne Jones with enthusiasm, Darrell Schweitzer's funereal adventures, Jeeny Blackford on Gene Wolfe's Return to the Whorl, Eugene Reynolds on Jeffrey Ford's The Fantasy Writer's Assistant and Other Stories, Damien Broderick on Cory Doctorow's Down and Out in the Magic Kingdom, and Faren Miller on K.J. Bishop's The Etched City.
A SEVENTIES ODYSSEY by Peter Mackie, A4, 22pp slide-bound, enquire to Tetrahedron Books, 30 Birch Crescent, Blairgowrie, Perthshire PH10 6TS (free download from http://www.woservices.com). An account of the author's travels around Europe in search of casual labour.
UNKNOWN PLEASURES by Jeffrey Thomas & Mark Howard Jones, A5, 48pp, $6 ($7:50 outside USA) from John Lawson, 5103, 72nd Place, Hyattsville, Maryland 20784, USA (http://www.dreampeople.org). Three short stories recounting darkly erotic encounters with alien species on distant worlds.
