ALBEDO 1 #27, A4, 48pp, Eur4.75 (4/Eur19; UK 4/£15; Europe 4/Eur23; r.o.w. 4/$25) 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 James Michael White, Idious Buguise, Ian Watson & Mike Allen, Fred Johnston, Simon Kewin, Laird Long, and Andrea Horlick, plus an interview with Ian Watson.

GOBSHITE QUARTERLY #3, A4, 68pp, $5 (4/$18; outside US 4/$33) from Gobshite Quarterly, P.O. Box 11346, Portland, OR 97211-0346, USA (e-mail: subscriptions@gobshitequarterly.com; http://gobshitequarterly.com). A new forum for the neglected promise of a global village, featuring international and regional voices in both English and their native languages. This issue contains fiction by Hanan Al-Shaykh, Ivan Klíma, and Dean Kiley; poetry by Marie Etienne, Jan Herschel, and Les Murray; plus an interview with Nick Cave and essays, memoirs and rants by Ursula K. Le Guin, David Biespiel, and Paul Krassner.

HANDSHAKE #53, 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 Steve Sneyd, Richard Lung, Bobbi Sinha-Morey, Neil K. Henderson, Bryn Fortey, Giovanni Malito, Brian Maycock, and John Light.

NEW YORK REVIEW OF SCIENCE FICTION #180 and #181, A4, 24pp, $4 each (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. In #180, Candas Jane Dorsey says farewell to the literature of ideas, Mark Tiedemann revisits the "SF as Literature" argument, Gregory Frost sees which way the winds blow, Greg Beatty views the return of the dead, and Michael Bishop checks out Suzy McKee Charnas's dad, while #181 sees Russell Blackford scrutinize Patterson & Thornton's book on Heinlein, John Squires remember William B. Seabrook, John Clute on Charles Platt's criticism, Greg Beatty on the first book on Thomas Ligotti, and Damien Broderick on John Barnes's Duke.

ROADWORKS #16, A5, 124pp p/b, £5 (2/£9:50; Europe 2/£13:50/Eur22; USA 2/$19; r.o.w. 2/£14:50) from T. Denyer, 7 Mountview, Church Lane West, Aldershot, Hampshire GU11 3LN (e-mail: tdenyer@ntlworld.com; http://homepage.ntlworld.com/tdenyer). The latest issue of this "imaginative fiction" magazine has stories from Marion Arnott, Gary Couzens, Simon Woodward & D.F. Lewis, Tony Richards, Jay Lake, Colin Mackay, Charlie Williams, Robert Bagnall, Michael O'Connor, Ken Goldman, and Ralph Robert Moore, plus an interview with Marion Arnott.

SAND #1, A5, 204pp p/b, £5 from Sand, P.O. Box 1091, Sunderland, Tyne and Wear, SR2 8WD (e-mail: sandpoems@aol.com; http://www.sandwriting.co.uk). A new poetry magazine bridging the gap between grassroots and established writers, combining poets, songwriters and prose-writers working in- and outside their regular genres. Contributors to this issue include Barry MacSweeney, W.N. Herbert, Andy Croft, M.R. Peacock, S.J. Litherland, Keith Armstrong, David Crystal, Jo Colley, Joanna Piesse, Andy Willoughby, and Kath Kenny.

TALEBONES #26, A5, 92pp p/b, $6:00 (4/$20; Canada 4/$26; r.o.w. 4/$38) from Talebones Magazine, 5203 Quincy Ave SE, Auburn, WA 98092, USA (e-mail: talebones@fairwoodpress.com; http://www.fairwoodpress.com). SF and dark fantasy in a smart digest format with full colour cover, and winner of the Genre Writers Association Award. This issue's fiction comes from James Van Pelt, Mark Rich, Jennifer Rachel Baumer, William Mingin, Patricia Russo, Adam Browne, and Kameron Hurley, plus an interview with Joe Haldeman.