June 1999

Update

NEWS

Rod Marsden, editor of MASQUE NOIR, writes from Australia: "Sadly, I must report the passing away of my publishing partner and friend, Don Boyd. His funeral was held on 27 May 1999. Don fought hard against cancer and gave us the impression that he had just about got it on the ropes. His passing away thus came as somewhat a surprise. He wrote widely for the small press and has had stories published as far afield as Russia.
   "Don co-produced Masque Noir and lived long enough to see it into its second issue. I think he was pleased with the way the magazine was progressing. Anyway, issue #3 will be dedicated to Don with letters from everywhere from the people who knew him. If any of your readers wish to mention something about Don or simply say farewell then I invite them to do so in Masque Noir #3. All they need to do send the letter to Rod Marsden, P.O. Box 19, Spit Junction, NSW 2088, Australia.
   "Masque Noir will definitely continue though I will definitely miss Don's advice and support. Not to continue would be against Don's wishes."

ARKTOS is "a literary crusade to turn words into wildfire". They publish magazines, flyers and newsletters; submissions are welcomed and networking actively encouraged. For some free samples send an SAE or 2 IRCs to Maxine, P.O. Box 471, Bromley, Kent BR2 0WU – the flyers we received contained poetry by Tim McMana-Smith, D. Michael McNamara, and Simon Brown, plus promos for collaborators.

RED LAMP, a small press journal featuring realist, socialist and humanitarian poetry, is now online at: http://www.geocities.com/SoHo/Bistro/1031. Submissions are currently being accepted for #5, with a deadline of early July – for further information see the website or contact Brad Evans, 61 Glenmere Close, Cherry Hinton, Cambs CB1 8EF (e-mail: evans_baj@hotmail.com).

YORK POETRY FESTIVAL 1999 runs from 7 October (National Poetry Day) to 10 October 1999 (World Mental Health Day) – already booked to attend are Michael Donaghy, Sophie Hannah, Ian Duhig and Antony Dunn, all of whom will offer workshops. The Festival's book fair takes place from 10am to 4pm on Saturday 9 October 1999 in the Ballroom of the De Grey Rooms, opposite the City Art Gallery in St Leonard's Square. During the fair there'll be a lunchtime open mike session from poets, plus workshops, music, and exhibitions. For further details or to book a stall, please contact Jennifer Brice, York Arts Arena, 2 Lambert Court, York YO1 6HN (tel: 01904 627392 (24-hour answerphone), e-mail: j.brice@ucrysj.ac.uk).

David Pringle, the editor of INTERZONE, has been given a special Committee Award by the British Science Fiction Association. Presented on 19 May 1999 by Stephen Baxter at the Arthur C. Clarke Award Ceremony in London, the award was made in recognition of "David's exceptional contribution to British Science Fiction" through his dedication to Interzone over the years.

To promote its 2000 edition VISIBLE INK, the anthology of RMIT's Professional Writing and Editing students, is launching its first ever short story competition. The competition is open to all, with a prize for the winning entry of Aus$250 plus publication in Visible Ink; entry costs Aus$4 and the deadline is 31 August 1999. The thematic parameters are rites of passage, end of an era, sexual anxiety, spiritual tension, techno-fear, techno-fetish, border crossings, chrysalis, and evolution/devolution, and are open to any interpretation. For further information or an entry form, send an SAE/2 IRCs to Visible Ink Short Story Competition, RMIT Prof. Writing & Editing, Creative Media - Bld 94, GPO Box 2476V, Melbourne 3001, Australia (e-mail: visible_ink@iname.com).


CHANGES OF ADDRESS

TALEBONES magazine and Fairwood Press have moved to 5203 Quincy Ave SE, Auburn, WA 98092, USA (e-mail [unchanged]: talebones@nventure.com; website [unchanged]: http://www.nventure.com/talebones).

MOTHER BIRD BOOKS, publisher of Moongate De Homo Sentiens and numerous poetry chapbooks, has moved its website to http://www.motherbird.com, where you can find new writings by Uncle River and T.H. Keyes.


CLOSED OR MISSING

Alex Bardy has announced that, despite recent attempts to get the magazine back on course, SIERRA HEAVEN (13 Stanley Road, Bulphan, Essex RM14 3RX) has folded. All submitted work and outstanding subscriptions will be returned "in due course".


MagazinesReceived

BANANA WINGS #13, A4, 64pp, available for 'the usual' from Claire Brialey, 26 Northampton Road, Croydon, Surrey CR0 7HA (e-mail: banana@tragic.demon.co.uk), or Mark Plummer, 14 Northway Road, Croydon, Surrey CR0 6JE. More musings in and around SF fandom from Claire and Mark and their regular columnists, presented as ever with their unique knack for dramatizing the moment. In addition to the customary plethora of letters, this issue features Maureen Kincaid Speller on Californian SF, a history of pioneering Australian specialist SF publisher Norstrilia Press and, to tie in with the 50th Eastercon, a contemporary report of the first convention, the 1948 Whitcon, by the late Vin¢ Clarke.

CASHIERS DU CINEMART #9, A4, 68pp, $2:50 (5/$10) from Mike White, P.O. Box 2401, Riverview, MI 48192, USA (e-mail: uberlord@impossiblefunky.com; http://www.impossiblefunky.com). This bumper issue topically celebrates Star Wars – the lost scenes, web movies, parodies, porn movies, and Turkish rip-offs – as well as speculating on the possibilty of a fourth Indiana Jones movie, and reporting from Baltimore's Microcinefest 98. It's well-designed and laid out and, as you'd expect from a magazine that celebrates cinema in all its trashy glory, there's lots of reviews and comment. In a welcome break from magazines that deliberately seek out the most obscure and oddball films, however, you're more likely to find those reviewed here in a dusty corner of your local video shop, or in the late night TV listings.

DRAGON'S BREATH #58, A4, 6pp corner stapled, available for one SAE per issue (12/£2:50; Europe 12/£4; r.o.w. 12/£5:50) from Tony Lee, Pigasus Press, 13 Hazely Combe, Arreton, Isle of Wight PO30 3AJ. Justifiably celebrating ten years of publishing from Pigasus Press (formerly S.A. Publishing), this issue pushes the boat out with a full-page cover and a candid interview with bookseller/publisher Mark V. Ziesing, as well as the usual spread of capsule reviews of SF/F/H small press and media-related publications from all over the world.

DREAMS AND NIGHTMARES #53, 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.html). A poetry magazine that specialises in experimental forms and content, and fantastic horror in particular. This issue features poetry from Holly Day, David C. Kopaska-Merkel, Scott E. Green, K.S. Hardy, Nancy Bennett, Steve Sneyd, Dwight E. Humphries, Kurt Newton, W. Gregory Stewart, John Grey, Darrell Schweitzer, and Charlee Jacob, plus short prose work from William John Watkins, Natalie Johnson, and Chapin Shaw Tucker.

THE DREAM ZONE #2, A5, 80pp, £2:50 (2/£4; USA 2/$8 cash) from Paul Bradshaw, 44 Knowles View, Holmewood Estate, Bradford BD4 9AH. Another of the digest-format new horror and dark fantasy magazines that seem to be springing up all over the UK, The Dream Zone devotes itself to what editor Paul Bradshaw describes as "stories into which the reader can immerse themselves completely, as if in a dream – or perhaps a nightmare!". Sending you scurrying under the covers in this issue are Rhys Hughes, Paul Kane, Sean Russell Friend, Paul Pinn, Steve Lockley, John B. Ford, P.C. Attaway, Roger Jackson, Paul Finch, Kenneth H. Wood, Sari Pauloma, David Price, David Cowdall, and Michael Pendragon.

EYE #21, 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 Italian pornstar-turned-politician La Cicciolina, the return of 1960s proto-punk band The Monks, and a Thai woman who adopts abused elephants, as well as reminiscing with teen film revivalist John Hughes and investigating a legal alternative to the Federal Reserve note.

THE GILA QUEEN'S GUIDE TO MARKETS Special Issue #2: Erotica, A4, 40pp, $7 (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://members.xoom.com/GilaQueen). Over 180 fiction and non-fiction markets around the world are listed in this special issue, but be warned – many of the publishers' guidelines are fairly explicit. Nonetheless, erotica is just as valid a form of writing as any other, and writers of all genres would do well to heed the basic do's-and-don'ts provided by the contributing editors and publishers.

MINDMARES MAGAZINE Vol.1 #6, A5, 80pp, $3:25 (4/$11:95; outside USA 4/$16:50) from Tracy Martin, 18503 NE 158th St., Brush Prairie, WA 98606, USA (e-mail: mindmares@prodigy.net; http://pages.prodigy.net/mindmares). Digest format horror/dark fantasy/dark SF magazine packed with fiction by Michael Kelly, Lester Thees, James Viscosi, Michael Ford, Jeffrey Thomas, Edward Feser, Charlee Jacob, Anthony Armstrong, Mark McLaughlin, Martin Patterson, Paul Wilson, and Robert D. Richards.

NAPARTHEID #25, A4, 60pp, 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.

NEW YORK REVIEW OF SCIENCE FICTION #129, 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. In this issue Damien Broderick looks at Philip K. Dick and transrealism, and Ariel Haméon discusses whether success has spoiled K.W. Jeter, plus reviews of Haruki Murakami's The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle, Nancy Kress's Stinger, Wil McCarthy's Bloom, and Christopher Stasheff's The Warlock in Spite of Himself.

PROHIBITED MATTER #10, A4, 56pp, Aus$5:00 from Rod Marsden, P.O. Box 19, Spit Junction, NSW 2088, Australia. A short story magazine dedicated to crime, SF and horror, with fiction by Richard Reeve, Don Boyd, Ceri Jordan, Pauline Scarf, Geoff Jackson, Russell T. Kinkade, Lisa Tate, Keith Rex, S. Carter, and T. Johnathon Brook, plus an article on political correctness by Lyn McConchie.

PSYCHOTROPE #7, A5, 56pp, £2:10 (4/£7:50; USA 4/$20) from Psychotrope, Mark Beech, Flat 6, 10 Ombersley Road, Worcester WR3 7ET. Further tales of mad love, surrealism and psychological horror from Rhys Hughes, Andrew Parker, Giovanni Malito, Helen Kirson, D.F. Lewis, Ceri Jordan, Clifford Thurlow, Clinton Wastling, and Matthew Firth.

ROADWORKS #4, A4, 60pp, £2:50 (4/£9:50; USA 4/$18; r.o.w. 4/£12:50) from Trevor Denyer, 7 Mountview, Church Lane West, Aldershot, Hampshire GU11 3LN (e-mail: roadworks@net.ntl.com; http://www.roadworksweb.free-online.co.uk). The latest issue of this "imaginative fiction" magazine has Paul Finch as featured writer, plus stories from Karen Bucker, Ken Goldman, jon g, Brenda Rubin, D.F. Lewis & Stuart Hughes, Phillip Gething, Paul Lockey, Mark McLaughlin, Peter Tennant, Lauren Halkon, Nicola Morrison, Nigel Johnson, Dan Coxon, Pamela Stuart, Stuart Young, Jason Conway, Michelle Scalise, and Richard Reeve.

SCAVENGER'S NEWSLETTER #183, 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.html). 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 fiction by Angela Lam and an interview with Logan's Run author William F. Nolan.

SHOTS Vol.2 #5, A4, 72pp, £3:50 (4/£12; outside UK 4/£20) from Shots, 56 Alfred Street, Ripley DE5 3LD (e-mail: sdf@globalnet.co.uk); editorial address: Shots, 189 Snakes Lane East, Woodford Green, Essex IG8 7JH (e-mail: michael@mjstotter.demon.co.uk). Glossy crime and mystery magazine with fiction by Paul Doherty, Mark Timlin, Mat Coward, and Sandra Savage, interviews with James Sallis, Harlan Coben, Priscilla Masters, Frances Fyfield, Carol Anne Davis, and Paul Johnston, plus news, gossip and reviews.

TOUCHPAPER #11, A4, 2pp, 6/£2 (Europe: 6/£2:65; r.o.w.: 6/£3:35) from Tony Lee, Pigasus Press, 13 Hazely Combe, Arreton, Isle of Wight PO30 3AJ. Steven Hampton sounds off about bestseller writers' base attempts at writing SF, plus polemic, comment and reviews.


Author CollectionsReceived

CORRELATED CONTENTS by James Ambuehl, ISBN 0-9659433-2-1, A5, 96pp p/b, $11:95 from Mythos Books, 218 Hickory Meadow Lane, Poplar Bluff, MO 63901-2160, USA (e-mail: dwynn@LDD.net; http://www.abebooks.com/home/mythosbooks/). Six tales of the Cthulhu Mythos featuring the author's own Lu-Kthu Mythos inaugurate a new series of books concentrating on the Fan Mythos – the vast body of fan fiction – inspired by Lovecraft's creations.

CANDLELIGHT GHOST STORIES by Anthony Morris (Enigmatic Novellas #3), A5, 60pp, £4 from M. Sims, 1 Gibbs Field, Bishops Stortford, Herts CM23 4EY (e-mail: michael@micksims.force9.co.uk; http://www.epress.force9.co.uk). Originally written to be read aloud to family and friends at Christmas, these two novellas embody the tradition of ghost story telling. "The Squire's Walk" is a Regency ghost story concerning a family secret that should have remained hidden, while "In the Chair" presents a man who prides himself on precision and order, until he meets the occupant of the garden chair that is!

MISSING PIECES: A CORONER'S COMPANION by Kathryn Rantala, ISBN 0-938075-28-4, A5, 103pp p/b, £10:95 from Ocean View Books, P.O. Box 102650, Denver, CO 80250, USA (e-mail: probook@csn.net). An extremely dark collection of poems by this well-known speculative poet, illustrated with forensic photographs from the 1920s-40s found in the files of the Seattle medical examiner.

IN SPACE'S BELLY: POETRY IN UK SFANZINES & LITTLE MAGAZINES – THE 1970s by Steve Sneyd (aka DATA DUMP #38/#39), ISBN 0-905262-22-0, A5, 24pp, £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. Continuing Steve's series of historical factsheets on genre poetry with this overview of poetry in British SF fanzines of the 1970s, which follows on from his previous work in Laying Siege to Tomorrow, Entropies and Alignments, and Flights from the Iron Moon.

POETRY COLLECTION by Steve Sneyd & Anya Moskon, 125mm x 125mm, 24pp, US$1 + IRC from You & Me Press, Poljska 29, 40315 M.Sredisee, Croatia. A shared chapbook of poetry by Steve Sneyd, who "grapples with the accelerating rush of change that turns life into science fiction", and Anya Moskon, a young Slovenian poet trying to reconcile the provincial restrictions of her home town with the alternative lifestyle and freedom of the individual she grew to love as a student in Ljubljana.


CataloguesReceived

COLD TONNAGE BOOKS May 1999, A5, 36pp, enquire to Cold Tonnage Books, Andy Richards, 22 Kings Lane, Windlesham, Surrey GU20 6JQ (tel: 01276 475388; 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. In addition to the regular fiction listings, this issue offers an extensive range of reference/non-fiction, art and illustrated editions.

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