NEWS

The 1998 BSFA AWARDS shortlist has been announced:
   BEST NOVEL: To Hold Infinity by John Meaney; The Cassini Division by Ken MacLeod; The Extremes by Christopher Priest; Inversions by Iain M. Banks; and Queen City Jazz by Kathleen Ann Goonan.
   BEST SHORT FICTION: "The First Annual Performance Arts Festival at the Slaughter Rock Battlefield" by Thomas M. Disch (from Interzone #131); "La Cenerentola" by Gwyneth Jones (from Interzone #136); "Shift Change" by Timons Esaias (from Interzone #137); "The Day Before They Came" by Mary Soon Lee (from Interzone #133); and "Vulpheous" by Eric Brown (from Interzone #129).
   BEST ARTWORK: "The Gardens of Saturn" by Dominic Harman (cover of Interzone #137); Front Cover of Focus #34 by Colin Odell; Back Cover of Focus #34 by Colin Odell; "Jedella Ghost" by Dominic Harman (cover of Interzone #135); and "Lord Prestimion" by Jim Burns (cover of Interzone #138).
   The BSFA Awards have been presented annually since the 1960s. The shortlist is determined by the membership of the British Science Fiction Association, and voted on by the BSFA and the membership of Eastercon (the annual British National Science Fiction convention). This year's awards will be presented on the evening of Sunday 4th April at the Adelphi Hotel in Liverpool. For further information, please contact Chris Hill, BSFA Awards Administrator, The Bungalow, 27 Lower Evingar Road, Whitchurch, Hants RG28 7EY (e-mail: cphill@enterprise.net).

After years of cataloging, Phoebe Adams Gaughan, widow of famed SF artist JACK GAUGHAN, is now offering selected works of Jack's for sale. Both B&W illos and full-colour cover illustrations are available. For more information contact Phoebe Adams Gaughan, 93 Fair Street, Kingston, NY 12401, USA. Phoebe Gaughan will also be attending this year's Boskone with a selection of Jack's work.

The SF Site has launched FictionHome.com, a new website dedicated to the best in SF and fantasy magazines and short fiction. FictionHome's marquee list includes the official websites for Asimov's Science Fiction, Analog Science Fiction and Fact, The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, Absolute Magnitude, and Weird Tales, and most recently Tangent Online and Science Fiction Chronicle. FictionHome celebrates the finest short fiction and genre writing on the market, with information, timely reviews, and comprehensive coverage of the newest magazines, anthologies, and short story collections. Complementing its extensive coverage of print media, FictionHome also reflects the explosive growth in quality fiction online, hosting Lucy Snyder's Dark Planet, one of the first and most respected professional e-zines, and serving as a portal to the best e-zine and magazine sites on the Web.

Mark McLaughlin has announced an internet presence for THE URBANITE at http://members.tripod.com/theurbanite/, with a new story scheduled to appear in the Fiction Showcase every couple of months; Fiction Showcase authors receive $25 payment.

Submissions are invited for THE ART OF HAIKU 2000, a revised new edition of New Hope International's popular The Art of Haiku, first published in 1992 and now out of print. As well as covering different aspects of haiku, the scope of the new book will be extended to include writings about tanka, renga and haibun. The deadline for articles is 31 July 1999, while submissions of original haiku, senryu, tanka, renga and haibun will be considered between 1 May and 30 August 1999. For further information contact The Art of Haiku 2000, New Hope International, 20 Werneth Avenue, Hyde SK14 5NL, UK (e-mail: england@spunge.org or newhope@iname.com).

Richard Burman tells us: "MONOMYTH is still around, although running a little late. 80p per issue + A4 SSAE or £8:50 for two years' subscription (10 issues + Yearbook). Subscribers and contributors required for the New Year: SF/F/H fiction, non-fiction, poetry and Doctor Who fiction. Special anthologies available soon, including the Dr Who short story collection 'A Universal Tapestry'. Send all enquiries to Richard T. Burman, c/o Monomyth, 99 Sandringham Road, Southend-on-Sea, Essex SS1 2UG."

CHANGES OF ADDRESS

BLANKSPACE Jan 99, A4, 8pp, enquire to David Stewart, 43 Eglinton Road, Dublin 4, Ireland (e-mail: dstewart@iol.ie). The newsletter of Science Fiction Ireland, with reviews, news and developments with a particular emphasis on film- and TV-related SF.

CRIMEWAVE #1, B5, 60pp, £3 (4/£11; Europe 4/£13; USA 4/$22; r.o.w. 4/£15) from TTA Press, 5 Martins Lane, Witcham, Ely, Cambs CB6 2LB (e-mail: ttapress@aol.com; http://purl.oclc.org/NET/TTAonline/index.html). New magazine of 100% pure crime fiction, featuring short stories from across the full spectrum of the genre. Contributors to this inaugural issue include Julian Rathbone, Ian Rankin, Jerry Sykes, O'Neil De Noux, Maureen O'Brien, John Moralee, and Martin Simpson.

CYBER-PSYCHOS AOD #8, A4, 140pp p/b, $5 (2/$8; outside USA 2/$12) from Jasmine Sailing, Cyber-Psycho's A.O.D., P.O. Box 581, Denver, Colorado 80201, USA (e-mail: jsailing@netone.netonecom.net; http://cyberpsychos.netonecom.net). The apocalyptic aspects of horror, cyberpunk and surrealism, with a steady overtone of mental aberrations, are explored through the diverse arts of literature, music, film, art, comics and technology. This issue contains fiction/poetry by Mark McLaughlin, Uncle River, Geoff Jackson, Christopher Morris, Kerry Knudsen, Kurt Newton, Doug Rice, D.F. Lewis, Scott H. Urban, Wayne Allen Sallee, Tom Hamill, Paul Weinman, Bruce Boston, Deborah Hunt, Jeffrey Thomas, Scott C. Holstad, Bo Vilmos Widerberg, and Erik Rush; interviews/features with Mason Jones of Charnel Music, Michael Moynihan, Andi Olsen, the artists' cooperative Hector, and Misha; and articles on the Death Equinox convention, sex and the silver screen, W.S. Burroughs, and Doug Rice's Mugwump.

DREAMS AND NIGHTMARES #52, A5, 24pp, $3 (6/$12; outside USA 6/$15) from David C. Kopaska-Merkel, 1300 Kicker Road, Tuscaloosa, AL 35404, USA (e-mail: dragontea@earthlink.net; http://home.earthlink.net/~dragontea/index.htm). A poetry magazine that specialises in experimental forms and content, and fantastic horror in particular. This issue features poetry from Melissa A. Haas, W. Gregory Stewart, Edward Mycue, Wendy Rathbone, John Grey, Bruce Boston, Cindy Main and others, plus short prose work from D.F. Lewis and Ginger Strivelli.

EYE #19, A4, 64pp, $3:95 (6/$14; Canada 6/$20; r.o.w. 6/$36) from EYE, 301 S. Elm Street, Suite 405, Greensboro, NC 27401-2636, USA (e-mail: lisa@eyemag.com; http://www.eyemag.com). Articles and underground research on pop culture, music, technology, TV and film, fringe culture, and bizarre science, this time looking at Daemon Records, life in a dwarf bar, radical '60s theatre, millennium hysteria, Unabomber fans, and B-movie master Sidney Pink.

THE GILA QUEEN'S GUIDE TO MARKETS #98, A4, 28pp, $6 (12/$34; Canada 12/$38; r.o.w. 12/$50) from Kathryn Ptacek, P.O. Box 97, Newton, NJ 07860, USA (e-mail: gilaqueen@worldnet.att.net; http://www.geocities.com/Athens/Aegean/7844/gila/index.html). Six-weekly writer's and artist's market magazine covering fiction, non-fiction, poetry, comics, magazines, trade journals, book publishers, small press, greetings cards and many other markets, with an emphasis on those that pay.

NAPARTHEID #24, A4, 52pp, 300 pesetas from Napartheid (Kukuxumusu), Marcelo Zelaieta Karrika, 75.AA1 aretoa, 31014 Iruñea, Spain (e-mail: info@kukuxumusu.com). Pro-quality magazine of wry and anarchic comics and features in the Basque language.

NASTY PIECE OF WORK #10, A5, 88pp, £1:50 (4/£5:50; USA 4/$15) from David A. Green, 20 Drum Mead, Petersfield, Hants GU32 3AQ. A magazine of horror fiction and poetry with work from Peter Tennant, Simon Bestwick, Jim DeWitt, Joel Lane, Steve Conway, Helen Kitson, P.C. Attaway, Nancy Bennett, John Pelan, Giovanni Malito, Tim Lebbon, Carol Anne Davis, Mark McLaughlin & Marni Griffin, Ian Hunter, R.J. Krijnen-Kemp, Paul Finch, Rhys Hughes, Ralph Greco Jr, Jane Fell, Stuart Christopher, Dorothy Davies, Jon G., and Jason Gould. Black and white throughout, the presentation is slick and evocative of quality US digests such as Grue.

NEW YORK REVIEW OF SCIENCE FICTION #125, A4, 24pp, $3:50 (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 ten-time Hugo award nominee. This issue includes Michael Andre-Driussi on the ecology of wild cars, Henry Wessells on Port of Call, Damien Broderick on Three in Space, Brian Stableford on Deepdrive, and Russell Blackford on The Nano Flower.

NOESIS #1, A4, 28pp, £2:75 (4/£10:50; r.o.w. 4/£14) from Noesis, 61 Pengarth Rise, Falmouth, Cornwall TR11 2RR (e-mail: lesleymiln@aol.com; http://www.ndirect.co.uk/~rwaddling/Noesis/index.html). A promising new magazine of science fiction and science fact, which sees extrapolations of the universe as we know it as the basis for its SF. Its opening selection of fiction is provided by Alan Parfitt, Pamela Stuart, Rob Butler, Guy Martland, and Rowella Sharp.

NOVA EXPRESS Vol.5 #1, A4, 44pp, $4 (4/$12; Canada/Mexico 4/$16; r.o.w. 4/$22) from Lawrence Person, P.O. Box 27231, Austin, Texas 78755-2231, USA (e-mail: lawrence@bga.com; http://www.delphi.com/sflit/novaexpress/). Hard-hitting critical zine with an emphasis on post-cyberpunk and slipstream works. This issue contains an interview with Gene Wolfe, plus Nick Gevers on The Book of the Long Sun, Justina Robson on Peter F. Hamilton's Night's Dawn, Bill Sheehan on Dan Simmons' Hyperion, Howard Hendrix on Greg Egan's Diaspora, and John Clute on The MUP Encyclopaedia of Australian SF.

SCAVENGER'S NEWSLETTER #179, 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 an article on how good networking can help build a career in writing.

TERROR TALES #3, A5, 92pp p/b, £3 from John B. Ford, B.J.M. Press, 95 Compass Crescent, Old Whittington, Chesterfield, S41 9LX. Horror fiction of a more traditional style from Marie Farrimond, Peter Smith, L.H. Maynard & M.P.N. Sims, David Price, Sue Phillips, Paul Finch, Muriel Smith, Anna Franklin, Paul Bradshaw, Joe Rattigan, Andrew Richardson, Simon Bestwick, Michael Pendragon, David Cowdall, and Peter Wykes.

THE THIRD ALTERNATIVE #18, A4, 60pp, £3 (4/£11; Europe 4/£13; USA 4/$22; r.o.w. 4/£15) from TTA Press, 5 Martins Lane, Witcham, Ely, Cambs CB6 2LB (e-mail: ttapress@aol.com; http://purl.oclc.org/NET/TTAonline/index.html). "Extraordinary new fiction" from Sten Westgard, Antony Mann, Paul Leonard, Tom Piccirilli, Ron Butlin, and Alexander Glass, plus an interview with Joyce Carol Oates and a feature on Greg Egan.

CONFESSIONS OF A BODY THIEF by Bruce Boston, ISBN 1-938075-75-6, A3 broadsheet folded to A5 in card cover, signed and in a limited edition of 100 copies, $4 from Talisman, Box 565572, Miami, FL 33256, USA. One of Boston's characteristic pieces of short-short fiction, presented in an innovative – if pricey – fold-out format.

LEGISLATION CONCERNING DREAMS by J.C. Hartley, ISBN 0-9521806-0-X, 36pp, £2 ($5) from Othername Press, 14 Rosebank, Rawtenstall, Rossendale BB4 7RD. The smart photomontage cover proclaims "Leisure Verse for the Light Age", and the SF poetry within is drawn in part from the author's contributions to The Third Alternative, Star*Line, Premonitions, Ammonite and elsewhere.

A GOOD CUNTBOY IS HARD TO FIND by Doug Rice, ISBN 1-886988-08-0, 76pp p/b, $6:50 (outside USA $7:50) from Jasmine Sailing, Cyber-Psycho's A.O.D., P.O. Box 581, Denver, Colorado 80201, USA (e-mail: jsailing@netone.netonecom.net; http://cyberpsychos.netonecom.net). A new collection of narrative from Doug Rice, whose previous Blood of Mugwump (Black Ice Books, 1996) outraged Senator Jesse Helms for such an 'obscene' book to have been published with public funding. This slim volume continues Rice's obsession with dislocation from gender and the roles of society, related in the same complex and unique fictive style.

HERMAPHRODITE BRIG edited by Marni Scofidio Griffin, A5, 88pp, £4 from Marni Griffin, HippoGriff Press, 6 Scawen Road, London SE8 5AG (e-mail: marni_g@hotmail.com). This anthology of fantastic fiction launches the new small press HippoGriff imprint with an impressive line up. Topped and tailed by a pair of Rhys Hughes tales, it also boasts work by D.F. Lewis and Griffin herself, while Jeff VanderMeer checks in with an extract from the Rough Guide to his fictionalised city of Ambergris, setting of his highly-praised novella Dradin, In Love.

STAR ANTHOLOGY (December 1998) edited by James B. Baker, A4, 178pp spiral-bound, $12 from Promart Publishing, P.O. Box 1094, Carmichael, CA 95609, USA (e-mail: promartian@earthlink.net; http://www.arrowweb.com/promimart). Another packed SF anthology with fiction by Cathy Buburuz, James A. Hartley, Alyson Cresswell Moorcock and many others.

TESSERACTS 7 edited by Paula Johanson and Jean-Louis Trudel, 283pp, Can$9:95 (paperback), Can$23:95 (hardback) from Tesseract Books, 214-21 10405 Jasper Avenue, Edmonton, Alberta T5J 3S2, Canada (e-mail: tesseract@istream.com; http://www.istream.com/tesseract). The seminal anthology of Canadian speculative writing returns with an all-star cast from both the anglophone and francophone traditions, including Candas Jane Dorsey, Teresa Plowright, Yves Meynard, Elisabeth Vonarburg, Andrew Weiner, and Cory Doctorow.

LIGHT'S LIST 1999, 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 14th year of publication) of names, addresses and a brief note of interests of over 1300 UK and overseas small press magazines publishing fiction, poetry, artwork, articles, reviews, cartoons, market news, etc.

COLD TONNAGE BOOKS Jan/Feb 99, A5, 36pp, enquire to Cold Tonnage Books, Andy Richards, 22 Kings Lane, Windlesham, Surrey GU20 6JQ (fax: 0870 0548510; e-mail: andy@coldtonnage.demon.co.uk). Extensive selection of SF/F/H signed, hardback and limited editions, and many collectable paperbacks.

SONGS OF INNOCENCE
Songs of Innocence, c/o M. Pendragon, 407 West 50th St #16, Hell's Kitchen, NY 10019, USA. Projected length 40pp, 8.5" x 5.5", with a 500 copy print run. Triannual publication (Spring, Midsummer, Fall/Wynter). Publishes poetry, short stories, essays, and b/w artwork which celebrate the nobler aspects of mankind and the human experience. Poems should not exceed 3 pages (rhymed, metered, lyrical verse preferred – but we're open to all styles), short stories and essays should be between 500 and 2,500 words. We're seeking literary verse/writings in the tradition of Blake, Wordsworth, Emerson, Thoreau, Twain and Whitman. The overall tone of Songs of Innocence will most likely be a bit darker than the title leads one to believe: more along the lines of Blake's Songs of Experience. Stories and poems may have a modern setting, but those set in the 19th century will have preference. Avoid references to 20th century personages/events, graphic sex, strong language.