March 1998

Update

CHANGES OF ADDRESS

Implosion Publishing, the people behind the magazines IMPLOSION and BLOODSONGS, have moved to Implosion Publishing, 777 28th Street, Orlando, FL 32805, USA (website [unchanged]: http://www.implosion-mag.com).

NIGHT DREAMS and Kirk S. King have moved to 60 Brand Road, Honiton, Devon EX14 8FD.

PSYCHOTROPE and Mark Beech have moved to Flat 6, 10 Ombersley Road, Worcester WR3 7ET.


MagazinesReceived

GLOBAL MAIL #17, A4, 32pp, $3 or 5 IRCs (3/$9; r.ow. 3/$12) from Global Mail, Grove City Factory Stores, P.O. Box 1309, Grove City, PA 16127, USA (e-mail: simpub@hotmail.ocm; http://www.geocities.com/SoHo/cafe/2550). A cross-cultural, cross-media, listing of all kinds of art projects, exchanges, collaborations, and mail art events, packed with details and deadlines for over 600 projects and publications.

HARDBOILED #23, A5, 106pp, $7 (6/$35, overseas surface 6/$42) from Gryphon Publications, P.O. Box 209, Brooklyn, NY 11228-0209, USA. Streetwise detective and mystery fiction of the 'hardboiled' variety gives this quarterly digest its name. Hard-hitting fiction and non-fiction in this issue comes from Mickey Spillane, Richard Lupoff, Stephen Solomita, Don Sontup, and Steve Rasnic Tem.

LIGHT'S LIST 1998, A5, 56pp, £1:50 (US surface $4; US air $5) from John Light, The Light House, 37 The Meadows, Berwick-upon-Tweed, Northumberland TD15 1NY. Seminal listing, now in its 13th year of publication, of names, addresses and a brief note of interests of over 1200 UK and overseas small press magazines publishing fiction, poetry, artwork, articles, reviews, cartoons, market news, etc.

NEW YORK REVIEW OF SCIENCE FICTION #113 and #114, A4, 24pp, $3:50 each (12/$31; Canada 12/$36; r.o.w. 12/$44) from Dragon Press, P.O. Box 78, Pleasantville, NY 10570, USA (http://ebbs.english.vt.edu/olp/nyrsf/nyrsf.html). Essays, reviews and topical comment for the SF field from a nine-time Hugo award nominee. In #113, Michael Andre-Driussi explores the future history of Jack Vance and Rudy Rucker draws parallels between the Beat and Cyberpunk generations; in #114, Grania Davies discovers Avram Davidson's view of his own literary life and Robert T. Eldridge investigates 1897's Other Vampire Novel.

ON SPEC #31: Winter 1997, A5, 100pp p/b, Can$4:95 (4/Can$19:95; USA 4/US$18; r.o.w. 4/US$25) from On Spec, Box 4727, Edmonton, AB T6E 5G6, Canada (http://www.icomm.ca/onspec). Award-winning SF and fantasy magazine with fiction by William Southey, Robert Boyczuk, Aaron V. Humphrey, Elizabeth Westbrook, Cory Doctorow, David Chato, Laurie Channer, Wesley Herbert, and Catherine MacLeod.

PAPERBACK PARADE #49, A5, 106pp, $7 (6/$35, overseas surface 6/$42) from Gryphon Publications, P.O. Box 209, Brooklyn, NY 11228-0209, USA. Aimed at paperback readers and collectors world-wide, Paperback Parade is packed with features, articles, bibliographies and interviews. This issue features articles on adult-oriented gay and lesbian paperbacks of the 40s-60s, 0008 and Clyde Allison, plus an interview with Barclay Shaw, an appreciation of John Garbarino, and plenty of news, letters and adverts.

PEEPING TOM #29, A5, 52pp, £2:25 (4/£8) from Peeping Tom, 15 Nottingham Road, Ashby-de-la-Zouch, Leics LE65 1DJ. Horror fiction by Stephen Gallagher, D.F. Lewis, James A. Tucker, P.C. Attaway, Dave Ellis, Harry Crossley, and Elle Ludkin.

SCAVENGER'S NEWSLETTER #168, 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 a discussion on whether illustrations should be stripped from fiction magazines.

SCAVENGER'S SCRAPBOOK January 1998, A5, 28pp, $4 (4/$13; Canada 4/$13; r.o.w. 4/$16) from Janet Fox, 519 Ellinwood, Osage City, KS 66523-1329, USA (e-mail: foxscav1@jc.net; http://www.cza.com/scav/index.htm). Twice-a-year round-up of market information in the genres of SF, fantasy, horror and mystery from Scavenger's Newsletter, with capsule listings providing an overview of the field and making this a useful small press directory.

THE URBANITE #9: Strange Places, A4, 56pp, $5 (3/$13:50) from Urban Legend Press, P.O. Box 4737, Davenport, Iowa 52808, USA. Surreal, lively and bizarre fiction by Pamela Briggs, Hertzan Chimera, Dan Clore, Charles M. Saplak, Lois H. Gresh, Nancy Kilpatrick, Hugh B. Cave, Jeffrey Thomas, Thomas Wiloch, Marni Scofidio Griffin, Wilum H. Pugmire, and Basil Copper, plus poetry by Donna Taylor Burgess.


Author CollectionsReceived

LAYING SIEGE TO TOMORROW: POETRY IN UK SFANZINES FROM THE 1930S TO 1950S (aka DATA DUMP #23/#24) by Steve Sneyd, ISBN 0-905262-16-6, A5, 20pp, £2:50/$6 (USA orders in cash or stamps of 50¢ or less) from Steve Sneyd, Hilltop Press, 4 Nowell Place, Almondbury, Huddersfield HD5 8PB. Revised and updated version of an article which first appeared in Critical Wave #16 in 1990, exploring how even during the difficult times of WWII, austerity and the Cold War, fanzine editors enriched their pages with poems that explored a testing, often terrifying Present, the astounding possibilities of the Future, and the misty magics of the Otherworldly, and revealing a remarkable era in genre poetry's history.


CataloguesReceived

PHOTON PRESS 1997, A5, 8pp, enquire to John Light, The Light House, 37 The Meadows, Berwick-upon-Tweed, Northumberland TD15 1NY. Catalogue of John's collected output of SF novels and poetry, original postcards and artwork, and children's stories, from publishers including the University of Salzburg as well as his own Photon Press.

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