NEWS

The 10th annual IAN ST JAMES AWARDS are open to anyone over 18, from any country, who has not had a novel or novella previously published by a mainstream publisher, with a top prize of £2,000 to be awarded for the best original short story in any genre (stories for children excepted). Entry fee is £5 per story; closing date 30 April 1998. For entry forms and further information, contact The Ian St James Awards, P.O. Box 60, Cranbrook, Kent TN17 2ZR.

NAPARTHEID, a comics magazine founded in 1988 in the Basque Country, seeks contributions to a new touring fanzine library that they hope will encourage ideas and collaboration around the world. Donations of work, money, advice or just general networking should be sent to Napartheid, 127 postakutxa, Trintxerpe-Pasaia, Gipuzkoa 20110, The Basque Country, Spain.

CHANGES OF ADDRESS

LIGHT'S LIST, John Light and PHOTON PRESS have all moved to The Light House, 37 The Meadows, Berwick-upon-Tweed, Northumberland TD15 1NY.

CLOSED OR MISSING

ALBEDO 1 #15, A4, 48pp, Ir£2:50 (4/Ir£10; Europe 4/Ir£16/$24; r.o.w. 4/Ir£20/$30) from Albedo 1, 2 Post Road, Lusk, Co. Dublin, Ireland (e-mail: bhry@iol.ie; http://www.iol.ie/~bobn). SF/F/H magazine with fiction by Jeff VanderMeer, Ceri Jordan, Tiernan Ivory, Alan Casey, Nigel Quinlan, and Norman Spinrad, plus an interview with Terry Brooks.

BLOODSONGS #9, A4, 64pp, $4:95 (4/$14) from Implosion Publishing, 777 28th Street, Orlando, FL 32805, USA (e-mail: bloodsongs@implosion-mag.com; http://www.horrornet.com/bloodsongs.htm). Fiction, art, culture and music of the macabre, with stories by Charlie Jacob, Sean Williams, Dana Evans, Waif Wander, and Jasmine Sailing; interviews/features with Charlie Jacob, Jhonen Vasquez, Type O Negative, and Cradle of Filth; and artist profiles of Jimmie Arroyo Guzman, and Ward Boult.

DRAGON'S BREATH #44-#45, A4, 2pp each, available for one SAE per issue (12/£2:50; EC 12/£3:50; rest of Europe 12/£4; r.o.w. 12/£5:50) from Tony Lee, Pigasus Press, 13 Hazely Combe, Arreton, Isle of Wight PO30 3AJ. Capsule reviews of SF/F/H small press and media-related publications from all over the world.

HANDSHAKE #27, 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 Geoff Stevens, Sian Ross, Richard Lung and Giovanni Malito.

INSTANT CONTACT Nov 97, A4, 4pp, free for SAE from Bob Neilson, 8 Commons Road, Loughlinstown, Co. Dublin, Ireland (e-mail: bobn@iol.ie). Special issue of Bob's First Contact fanzine edited by Lynne Ann Morse, rounding up reactions and impressions of the Dublin Octocon/Eurocon convention. Apparently Margaret Móran found my Small Press GoH speech "earnest, didactic and dull" – oh well...

KIMOTA #7, A5, 76pp p/b, £2:50 (4/£9) from Graeme Hurry, 52 Cadley Causeway, Preston, Lancs PR2 3RX. Well-rounded selection of SF/F/H from Conrad Williams, Steve Lockley, Keith Marsland, Paul Finch, Katherine Roberts, Peter Tennant, Peter Smith, Anthony Barker, Paul Pinn, Caroline Dunford, and Nicholas Royle.

NIGHT DREAMS #8, A4, 44pp p/b, £2:80 (4/£10:50) from K.S. King, 60 Brand Road, Honiton, Devon EX14 8FD. Horror fiction from Mark Chadbourn, Derek M. Fox, Simon Williams, William Meikle, P.C. Attaway, and Neal L. Asher, plus an interview with Mark Chadbourn.

NOTES FROM OBLIVION #30, A4, 10pp, and #31, A4, 8pp corner stapled, free for SAE or audiotape correspondence from Jay Harber, 626 Paddock Lane, Libertyville, IL 60048, USA. Further stream of consciousness musings and updates on Jay's battle with the medical authorities for his debilitating combination of neurological disorder and environmental illness to be taken seriously.

SCAR TISSUE #12, A5, 4pp, available for one SAE per issue from Tony Lee, Pigasus Press, 13 Hazely Combe, Arreton, Isle of Wight PO30 3AJ. Lively flysheet of poetry, fiction, artwork, reviews and small press adverts – in fact anything goes so long as you can say it in less than 500 words.

SCAVENGER'S NEWSLETTER #166, A5, 28pp, $2:50 (12/$17; Canada 12/$20; r.o.w. air 12/$26; r.o.w. surface 12/$17) from Janet Fox, 519 Ellinwood, Osage City, KS 66523-1329, USA (e-mail: foxscav1@jc.net; http://www.cza.com/scav/index.htm). Monthly newsletter for SF/F/H/mystery writers and artists with an interest in the small press. Market news, letters and reviews from USA, UK and elsewhere, plus part one of an interview with J.N. Williamson.

SF EYE #15, A4, 132pp p/b, $5 (3/$12:50; overseas 3/$20) from SF Eye, P.O. Box 18539, Asheville, NC 28814, USA (e-mail: eyebrown@interpath.com; http://www.empathy.com/eyeball/sfeye.htm). Tenth anniversary issue with an interview with Jack Womack, plus articles by Michael Bishop, Richard Calder, Paul Di Filippo, William Gibson, Nicola Griffith, Gwyneth Jones, Eugene Mosburg, Bruce Sterling, Lucy Sussex, Takayuki Tatsumi, Don Webb, and Julia Witwer.

SIERRA HEAVEN #4, A4, 52pp, £3:75 (4/£15; Europe 4/£22; USA 4/$40) from Alex Bardy, 29 Harrier Way, Evelyn Mews, Beckton, London E6 4YP. Entertaining SF/F/H from Kim Padgett-Clarke, Neil Asher, Michael O'Connor, Heather Douglass, and Paul Birkett, plus Andy Darlington on the revival of Hammer Horror, and Steve Sneyd on the life and works of Lilith Lorraine.

SQUANE'S JOURNAL #2-#3, A5, 52pp each, and #4, A5, 60pp, £2:50 each from Simon Wady, 35 Duchess of Kent Drive, Lordswood, Chatham, Kent ME5 8DG (e-mail: squanes@cableinet.co.uk). Horror magazine with fiction, interviews and articles. #2 has a profile of and interview with Mark Morris, plus stories by Simon Clark and Peter James, #3 has fiction by Mark Chadbourn, John Pritchard and Simon Kerr, and articles by Simon Clark, Steve Harris and Mark Chadbourn, while #4, subtitled 'Ramsey's Journal', is a tribute issue to Mr Campbell with contributions by Stephen Jones, Stephen Laws, Jenny Campbell, Poppy Z. Brite, Graham Joyce, Peter Crowther, Mark Morris, J.K. Potter and numerous other horror luminaries.

THE THIRD ALTERNATIVE #14, A4, 60pp, £2:75 (4/£11; Europe 4/£13; USA 4/$24; r.o.w. 4/£15) from TTA Press, 5 Martins Lane, Witcham, Ely, Cambs CB6 2LB. "Extraordinary new fiction" from Mark Morris, Paul Meloy, David Langford, and Jeff VanderMeer, plus an interview with Nicholas Royle, and features on Christopher Priest and Kim Stanley Robinson.

TOUCHPAPER #5, A4, 4pp, 5/£1:50 (non-UK: one IRC per issue) from Tony Lee, Pigasus Press, 13 Hazely Combe, Arreton, Isle of Wight PO30 3AJ. Peter Tennant on forbidden knowledge in horror, David Ratcliffe on the human element in SF, plus polemic, comment and reviews.

ZENE #13, A5, 36pp, 4/£8 (Europe 4/£10; USA 4/$16; r.o.w. 4/£12) from TTA Press, 5 Martins Lane, Witcham, Ely, Cambs CB6 2LB. Small press writers' magazine with articles on cross-gender narration, plus guidelines from the UK, Ireland, USA and Canada, and poetry, book and small press news and reviews.

THE WORKYRIE by Wilson Bruce, ISBN 1-84039-003-4, 139pp p/b, £6:95 from Marionette Books, 1 Hutton Close, South Church, Bishop Auckland, Co. Durham DL14 6XB. Fantasy novel in which the protagonist is removed from his humdrum existence into an eldritch world where the good Faeires, Humans and Dwarves battle the evil Duke Lansiorous.

CENTAURUS TRIANGLE by Lionel Butcher, ISBN 1-84039-006-9, 255pp p/b, £8:95 from Marionette Books, 1 Hutton Close, South Church, Bishop Auckland, Co. Durham DL14 6XB. The discovery of a mysterious alien capsule in the South Atlantic not only precipitates astonishing technological breakthroughs, but also geopolitical instability and terrorist sabotage, in the midst of which this novel's characters struggle to maintain their individual autonomy and freedom of action.

THE HANGING MAN by S. Darnbrook Colson, ISBN 1-886988-03-X, 63pp p/b, $5 from Jasmine Sailing, Cyber-Psycho's A.O.D., P.O. Box 581, Denver, Colorado 80201, USA (e-mail: jsailing@netone.netonecom.net; http://www.netonecom.net/~jsailing). In a world that becomes steadily more desensitized, a mutilated – and thoroughly helpless – man brings only the emotions of rage and homicidal desire to the more friendly minds.

SPACE OPERA by A.C. Evans, ISBN 1-900152-00-2, 38pp p/b, £4:99 from Stride Publications, 11 Sylvan Road, Exeter, Devon EX4 6EW. A sequence of linked poetic texts recording the first, last and only voyage of the starship Grim Reaper as its crew attempt to explore the massive mysterious planet NeoGaea. First published in Stride's The Seredipity Caper in 1986, this special republication features related illustrations by the author, and an interview conducted by Steve Sneyd.

THE UNCERTAINTY PRINCIPLE by Steven J. Frank, ISBN 1-882633-26-1, 230pp p/b, $15 (outside USA surface $17; outside USA air $20) from Cambrian Publications, P.O. Box 112170, Campbell, CA 95011-2170, USA (e-mail: orders@cambrianpubs.com; http://www.cambrianpubs.com/permeable/permeable.htm). Will we ever unlock the secrets of the weather? What about those of the heart? Does the key to one open the door to the other? These are the questions pondered by Paul Bustamante in this novel as he negotiates the limits of understanding, the lure of the dollar, and the lessons of love at MIT.

FLYING SAUCERS OVER HENNEPIN by Peter Gelman, ISBN 1-882633-24-5, 148pp p/b, $14 (outside USA surface $16; outside USA air $19) from Cambrian Publications, P.O. Box 112170, Campbell, CA 95011-2170, USA (e-mail: orders@cambrianpubs.com; http://www.cambrianpubs.com/permeable/permeable.htm). Written by an X-Gen zarathustra with X-ray deflecting glasses, Gelman crushes the false idols in this corrosively funny, sadly romantic, and ultimately eye-opening novel of our consumptive fin de siècle times.

THE BRIGHTSIDE AND MONGER WAR by Noel Hannan, A5, 24pp, £1:50 from Noel K. Hannan, Bad to the Bone, 18 Lansdowne Road, Sydney, Crewe, Cheshire CW1 5JY (http://ourworld.compuserve.com/homepages/BAD2BONE). Far-future wartime romance short story, illustrated by Nigel Dobbyn.

THE HALLELUJAH MAN by Noel Hannan, A5, 44pp, £1:50 from Noel K. Hannan, Bad to the Bone, 18 Lansdowne Road, Sydney, Crewe, Cheshire CW1 5JY (http://ourworld.compuserve.com/homepages/BAD2BONE). A short story from the Weird West, a hybrid wild-west/near-future-disaster scenario created by Noel with Rik Rawling, and illustrated by Stephen Meryk Colgan. Presented in an upside-down-and-back-to-back format with 'Pony Boy', a 10-page comic strip written by Noel Hannan and illustrated by Ralph Horsley.

CHALLENGING THE WOLF by Steve Harris, ISBN 0-9531097-0-4, 62pp p/b, £5 from Simon Wady, 35 Duchess of Kent Drive, Lordswood, Chatham, Kent ME5 8DG (e-mail: squanes@cableinet.co.uk). Horror novella that foreshadows Harris's novels AdventureLand and Wulf, plus the first chapter of The Switch, a novel deemed "too nasty to publish".

MINSTRELS by Michael Hemmingson, ISBN 1-882633-23-7, 148pp p/b, $13 (outside USA surface $15; outside USA air $18) from Cambrian Publications, P.O. Box 112170, Campbell, CA 95011-2170, USA (e-mail: orders@cambrianpubs.com; http://www.cambrianpubs.com/permeable/permeable.htm). An American in Paris, Albert finds himself in deep merde after he commits a crime in self-defence and is blackmailed by EuroTV into spying on his friends, his lover – and a ruthless bunch of computer-hacking, bomb-planting terrorists.

SNUFF FLIQUE by Michael Hemmingson, ISBN 1-886988-04-8, 101pp p/b, $5 from Jasmine Sailing, Cyber-Psycho's A.O.D., P.O. Box 581, Denver, Colorado 80201, USA (e-mail: jsailing@netone.netonecom.net; http://www.netonecom.net/~jsailing). Embrace the Jellyfish and witness what you've been missing in these final days – a round of short stories too true to believe.

WITHOUT HONOUR by Robert Neilson, A5, 88pp, Ir£4 from Albedo 1, 2 Post Road, Lusk, Co. Dublin, Ireland (e-mail: bhry@iol.ie; http://www.iol.ie/~bobn). Selection of SF and speculative short stories from a widely published writer.

SCATTERED REMAINS by Paul Pinn, ISBN 1-901530-05-1, 209pp p/b, £6:99 from Tanjen Ltd, 52 Denman Lane, Huncote, Leicester LE9 3BS. Collection of short horror fiction on the theme of mental illness to celebrate the 750th anniversary of the Royal Bethlem Mental Hospital, the origin of the word bedlam.

STIGMA: AFTERWORLD by Jeffrey A. Stadt, ISBN 1-886988-02-1, 66pp p/b, $5 from Jasmine Sailing, Cyber-Psycho's A.O.D., P.O. Box 581, Denver, Colorado 80201, USA (e-mail: jsailing@netone.netonecom.net; http://www.netonecom.net/~jsailing). Schizophrenic novella dealing with the interacting lives of residents of a half-way house (from a mental institution). Friendship, love, desire, rage and insanity in alternate dimensions in which manifesting ogres and cartoons rage.

STEALING MY RULES by Don Webb, ISBN 1-886988-05-6, 71pp p/b, $5 from Jasmine Sailing, Cyber-Psycho's A.O.D., P.O. Box 581, Denver, Colorado 80201, USA (e-mail: jsailing@netone.netonecom.net; http://www.netonecom.net/~jsailing). Another short story excursion into the beyond, through the medium of Don Webb's twisted mirror.

INTENSE DEVICE: A JOURNEY THROUGH LUST, MURDER AND THE FIRES OF HELL by Simon Whitechapel, ISBN 0-9523288-9-5, B5, 192pp p/b, £12:50 from Headpress, 40 Rossall Avenue, Radcliffe, Manchester M26 1JD. Dildos through the ages, the life and crimes of the Marquis de Sade, Anti-Darwinism and denial of the holocaust, and H.P. Lovecraft and noise are just some of the sights to be seen in Whitechapel's tour of a wholly unique hell, in this collection of essays where sexual excess, murder, absurdity and chaos reign supreme.

MONSTERS FROM MEMPHIS edited by Beecher Smith, ISBN 1-880964-21-X, 345pp p/b, $14:45 from Hot Biscuit Productions, 44 North Second St #1000, Memphis, TN 38103-2220, USA (e-mail: beecherhbp@aol.com; http://members.aol.com/beecherhbp/mfm1.htm). Thirty-one spine-tingling tales of Modern Southern Horror from authors including Tom Piccirilli, Don Webb, Cynthia Ward, and Charlee Jacob.

RAZORBLADES edited by Darren Floyd, ISBN 0-9531468-0-4, 146pp p/b, £3:99 from Darren Floyd, RazorBlade Press, 186 Railway Street, Splott, Cardiff CF2 2NH (e-mail: darren.floyd@virgin.net; http://freespace.virgin.net/ana.k/rawsite.htm). Selection of fiction from the first seven issues of horror magazine Raw Nerve, with contributions from Tim Lebbon, Rhys Hughes, D.F. Lewis & Stuart Hughes, Brian Willis and others.

CREATIVE ARTS COURSES 1998, A5, 20pp, enquire to Creative Arts Courses, The Indian King Arts Centre, Fore Street, Camelford, Cornwall PL32 9PG (tel: 01840 212111; e-mail: indiking@btinternet.com). Latest catalogue of residential courses sees a number of courses in the visual and performing arts added to those for writers of all levels and persuasions; the SF/F/H session is run by horror novellist Ben Leech. Both weekend and full-week courses are available, with groups strictly limited to eight people to ensure full participation and individual attention.