METALUNA #2, A5, 16pp, free for SAE from Metaluna, 5 Rhyber Avenue, Lanark, South Lanarkshire, Scotland. Lively pop situationist fanzine including articles on consumer processes, The Green Hornet, telepathy, and the 1996 Sex Pistols tour.
ODYSSEY #3, A4, 72pp, £3 (5/£15; Europe 5/£20; r.o.w. 5/£22:50) from Caliver Books, 816-818 London Road, Leigh-on-Sea, Essex SS9 3NH (e-mail: liz@gila.demon.co.uk; http://www.jeapes.ndirect.co.uk/odyssey) (USA 5/$35 from On Military Matters, 55 Taylor Terrace, Hopewell, NJ 08525). Glossy pro SF/F magazine going head-to-head with Interzone in the newsstand arena, with fiction by Ben Jeapes, Sten Westgard, Chris Paul, Roz Kaveney, Alex Stewart, Jason Tanner, Chris Amies, Kurt Roth, and Steve Rushbrook & Alex Stewart, plus interviews with Gabriel King and Tim Powers.
SCAVENGER'S NEWSLETTER #170, 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 Lisa Jean Bothell on self-promotion.
TALEBONES #10, A5, 72pp, $4:50 (4/$16; Canada 4/$20; r.o.w. 4/$24)) from Talebones Magazine, 10531 SE 250th Place #104, Kent, WA 98031, USA (e-mail: talebones@nventure.com; http://www.nventure.com/talebones). SF and dark fantasy in a smart digest format with full colour cover, and winner of the Genre Writers Association Award. Fiction in this issue comes from Stefano Donati, Trey R. Barker, David W. Hill, Uncle River, and Rhonda Eikamp, with Spider Robinson interviewed by Ken Rand.
ZENE #14, 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 (e-mail: ttapress@aol.com). Small press writers' magazine with guidelines from the UK, Japan, Australia, and the USA, plus poetry, book and small press news and reviews, and an interview with Tanjen's Anthony Barker.
NOR NONE OF THIS WOE BE TRULY WASTED by Steve Sneyd, A4, 8pp side stapled, 70p from Ink Pot Press, 20 Radburn Road, Rossington, Doncaster, S. Yorks DN11 0RE. Slim publication containing one of Steve's darker SF/F verses.
THE CROXTON WITCH by Len Tate, ISBN 1-84039-010-7, 190pp p/b, £7:95 from Marionette Books, Belasis Hall, Coxwold Way, Billingham, Cleveland TS23 4EA. The profound and nebulous workings of a 450-year-old curse, spat out by a young woman burned at the stake for witchcraft, come increasingly to the fore as the scions of two of the families who conspired her death fall victim to the inexorable forces of Time, History and Nemesis.