November 2003


MagazinesReceived

NOT ONE OF US #30, 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, Sonya Taaffe, Brenda Cannon Kalt, Tolga Bilgen, Bruce Carlson, Terry Black, and Toiya Kristen Finley.

CRASH July 2003, A5, 32pp, and October 2003, A5, 40pp, $2 each from Shay, PO Box 20455, Newark, NJ 07101, USA (e-mail: crashzine@hotmail.com; http://www.crashzineonline.net).Social awareness and gender issues feature highly, with articles on the pinking of peace politics, how to be a feminist and still pose for Playboy, testing hemp-based food, and censorship in broadcasting, and interviews with all-girl bands like The Kitty Kill and Cookies Downtown, female role models such as the founders of Bigmouth TV and Toys in babeland.

RIVERWURST COMICS #3, 255mm x 205mm, 40pp, $3 cash from Tea Krulos, PO Box 511553, Milwaukee, WI 53203, USA (e-mail: teakrulos@hotmail.com). Halloween issue of the adult comic featuring Milwaukee area artists, with strips by Duane Black, Chris Miller, Tea Krulos, Jim Mitchell and Heather Shinn and others.

SCHEHERAZADE #25, A4, 40pp, £3:50 (3/£9; outside UK 3/£11:50) from Scheherazade, 14 Queens Park Rise, Brighton BN2 2ZF (e-mail: editor@schez.co.uk; http://www.schez.co.uk). A magazine of fantasy and science fiction incorporating the gothic, the magical and the mythological, with fiction from Chris Paul, Anna Brock, Karen Travis, Marilyn Mattie Brahen, Chris Amies, and Ian Creasey.


Author CollectionsReceived

SLEEPWALKERS by Marion Arnott, ISBN 0-9543747-3-8, A5, 202pp p/b, £6 from Elastic Press, 85 Gertrude Road, Norwich, Norfolk NR3 4SG (e-mail: elasticpress@elasticpress.com; http://www.elasticpress.com). Award-winning author Marion Arnott fuses crime with passion, hope with despair, in 11 slow-burning tales which dig deep into the human psyche.

SECOND CONTACT by Gary Couzens, ISBN 0-9543747-2-X, A5, 282pp p/b, £8 from Elastic Press, 85 Gertrude Road, Norwich, Norfolk NR3 4SG (e-mail: elasticpress@elasticpress.com; http://www.elasticpress.com). Exploring the twin themes of time and identity Gary Couzens manipulates our sensibilities in a major collection of 19 powerful stories, drawing on the fascinations that dwell within the hearts of us all.

MILO & I by Antony Mann, ISBN 0-9543747-4-6, A5, 115pp p/b, £5 from Elastic Press, 85 Gertrude Road, Norwich, Norfolk NR3 4SG (e-mail: elasticpress@elasticpress.com; http://www.elasticpress.com). Welcome to a world where an assassination is broadcast on live TV, where a detective's sidekick is 13 months old, where chess has been solved, and where gambling for a pound of flesh takes on new meaning.

WALKING WITH CRAZY HORSE by Con McCloskey, ISBN 0-9540837-1-7, A5, 147pp p/b, £5 from Dog Day Books, PO Box 4, Hounslow, TW3 1DX. Following a bizarre visit from Crazy Horse, the famous Indian leader, a homeless youth sets out in a romantic, freakish, savage and surreal journey out of the inner city to set in motion a spiritual renaissance that will rejuvenate the earth.

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