NEWS

CHANGES OF ADDRESS

The BRITISH FANTASY SOCIETY website has moved to http://www.herebedragons.co.uk/bfs.

MATRIARCH'S WAY JOURNAL is now online at http://members.aol.com/mwjournal2/index.html. The website includes information on submissions and their writers contest.

DARK REGIONS AND HORROR MAGAZINE #12, A4, 84pp, $6:20 (4/$15; outside USA 4/$25) from Dark Regions Press, P.O. Box 6301, Concord, CA 94524, USA. A long-running participant in the US small press scene, Dark Regions/Horror is a pro-quality '2-in-1' magazine of horror, fantasy, dark fantasy, and SF. About a third of the magazine – the Horror portion – is devoted to non-fiction, which in this issue comprises interviews with Forrest J. Ackerman and Robert Jordan and a host of film, video and book reviews. In the Dark Regions portion, meanwhile, you'll find stories by Dave Smeds, Ken Wisman, Charlene Brusso, Bruce Boston, James Dorr, Ardath Mayhar, Roselyn Silverman, and Shikhar Dixit, plus poetry by Charlee Jacob, J.W. Donelly, Nancy Etchemendy, and Bruce Boston.

DEAD THINGS #1, A4, 44pp, £2:50 (4/£9; USA 4/$18) from D. Cowdall, 12 Grace Avenue, Orford, Warrington, Cheshire WA2 8BT (e-mail: letters@deadthings.free-online.co.uk; http://welcome.to/deadthings). A brand new magazine of humorous horror fiction, covering both the traditional and modern styles of the genre. As well as an interview with Carol Anne Davis and a look at horror on the web, there's stories by Paul Kane, L.H. Maynard & M.P.N. Sims, John B. Ford & Paul Bradshaw, David Price, Kenneth H. Wood, R.J. Thompson, Simon Logan, Richard Reeve, Kenneth C. Goldman, and D.F. Lewis.

EYE #22, 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 interviewing B-movie queen Julie Strain, revealing the outsider art of Henry Darger, and telling the story of the Scopitone – a 1960s forerunner of the video jukebox, as well as looking back over ten years of the Mystery Science Theatre 3000, and investigating whether the Oklahoma City bombing investigation has been a whitewash.

FOCUS #35, A4, 16pp, free to BSFA members, from the British Science Fiction Association, 60 Bournemouth Road, Folkestone, Kent CT19 5AZ (http://members.aol.com/tamaranth/), see website for membership rates. Focus is the BSFA's bi-annual writers' magazine, and in this issue (which is sadly the last with Carol Ann Kerry-Green and Julie Venner at the helm) the spotlight falls on the small press. Chris Amies, Neal Asher and Pamela Stuart recount their experiences from a writer's point of view, Steve Jeffery, Lesley Milner and Fay Symes provide an insight into life at the editor/publisher's desk, and Chris Reed gives the scene a different spin with his perspective as a small press distributor.

HANDSHAKE #36, 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 Jacqueline Jones, D. Forward, Dave Wynne-Jones, and Kama Garcha.

NEW YORK REVIEW OF SCIENCE FICTION #131, A4, 24pp, $3:50 (12/$32; Canada 12/$37; r.o.w. 12/$45) 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 an eleven-time Hugo award nominee. In this issue John Clute casts a cold eye over 33 years of Nebula Awards, Paul Witcover remarks upon Samuel R. Delany's The Einstein Intersection, Susan Palwick remembers a pulp artist, and Robert Borski considers the Mandragora in Wolfe's Citadel.

ROADWORKS #5, A4, 64pp, £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 Andrew Hook as featured writer, plus stories from Dan Coxon, Lyn McConchie, Lauren Halkon, Leo Keary, Sean Logan, David Ratcliffe, Gary Couzens, Stuart Young, Anthea Holland & D.F. Lewis, D.F. Lewis & Hertzan Chimera, Michael Malefica Pendragon, Andres Vaccari, Gary McMahon, jon g, Allen Ashley, and Alan Frackelton.

SCAVENGER'S NEWSLETTER #185, A5, 24pp, $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 Lynne Kinghorn and an interview with Tracy Martin of Mindmares magazine.

SCAVENGER'S SCRAPBOOK June 1999, A5, 28pp, $4 (2/$7; outside USA 2/$8) from Janet Fox, 519 Ellinwood, Osage City, KS 66523-1329, USA (e-mail: foxscav1@jc.net; http://www.cza.com/scav/index.html). 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.

SPACE AND TIME #90, A4, 52pp, $6:50 (2/$10; outside USA 2/$11) from Space and Time, 138 W. 70th Street (4B), New York, NY 10023-4468, USA (http://www.bway.net/~natalia/space&time.html). A rich mixture of fiction and poetry covering all aspects of the fantasy genre – science fiction, supernatural horror, swords and sorcery, and the unclassifiable – from Joe Murphy, Doug Russell, Wade Tarzia, Wayne Edwards, Trey R. Barker, T. Borregard, Robin Lochlann Spriggs, M. Solod, and Stephen Antczak.

TALES OF THE GROTESQUE AND ARABESQUE #5, A4, 50pp spiral bound, £1:50 from David Price, 11 Graig Wen, Morganstown, Cardiff CF4 8LH. The gothic horror magazine comes to the end of its planned five-issue run with stories by Derek M. Fox, Vic Rees, Simon Bestwick, Paul Bradshaw, John Travis, Ash Miller, Barbara J. Watts, Mark Howard Jones, Joe Rattigan, Paul Edwards, Chris Bull, Gwyneth Hughes, and Peter Tennant.

THE CRIES OF A SPONTANEOUS CONVERT by Reno Nevada, ISBN 0-646-330-365, A5, 132pp p/b, Aus$12:95 from Saturn Press, P.O. Box 2258, Carlingford Court, NSW 2118, Australia (e-mail: saturn_press@hotmail.com; http://saturnpress.hypermart.net). A collection of short stories which "take place at the intersection of the fantastic and the mundane", featuring a cast list of "cross-eyed typists, disgruntled bookshop workers, suburban terrorists and horny elderly pensioners".

FATES AND DESTINIES: TRANSLATIONS FROM THE MEGALITHIC by Charles T. Scribner, ISBN 0-905262-19-0, A5, 36pp, £1:50/$4 (USA orders in cash or stamps of 50¢ or less) from Steve Sneyd, Hilltop Press, 4 Nowell Place, Almondbury, Huddersfield HD5 8PB. Fascinating treatise which avoids the complicated maths of today's predictive astronomers to calculate forthcoming eclipses of the sun and the moon. Instead the author uses the time between conjunctions and how long it takes for a heavenly body to return to the same part of the sky, a technique which the author contends was that employed by the builders of Stonehenge and other prehistoric stone circles.

IN THE MIRROR by Sarah Singleton (Enigmatic Novellas #4), A5, 68pp, £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). "A modern story set in a world we may recognise but revealing emotions we must pray we do not encounter" that will "feel the need to reflect upon their life to ensure the balance and order they are familiar with is sufficient to sustain them." Illustrated by Gerald Gaubert.