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ALBEDO 1 #20, A4, 44pp, Ir£2:95 (4/Ir£12; UK 4/£12; Europe 4/Ir£18/$27; r.o.w. 4/Ir£22/$34) from Albedo 1, 2 Post Road, Lusk, Co. Dublin, Ireland (e-mail: bhry@iol.ie; http://homepages.iol.ie/~bobn). The award-winning Irish SF/F/H magazine serves up fiction by Liz Williams, F. Gwynplaine MacIntyre, Patricia Anthony, Ceri Jordan, and Noel K. Hannan, plus an interview with Patricia Anthony.

AUREALIS #23, A5, 144pp p/b, and #24, A5, 148pp p/b, Aus$9:95 each (4/Aus$30; r.o.w. air 4/Aus$46; r.o.w. surface 4/Aus$38) from Chimaera Publications, P.O. Box 2164, Mt Waverley, Victoria 3149, Australia (http://www.aurealis.hl.net). Issue #23 of this professional magazine of Australian speculative fiction is a Worldcon special issue published to coincide with September's World Science Fiction Convention in Melbourne, with stories from Robert Hood, Cameron Fade Gurr, Rjurik Davidson, Alistair Ong, Anthony Fordham, Helen Sargeant, and Trudi Canavan, an interview with Michael Pryor, and The Australian SF Writers' News. A special subscriber-only bonus fiction issue, #24 features work by John Ezzy, Gitte Christensen, Kyla Ward, Kirsten Bishop, R.G. McCartney, Danielle Ellis, Robert Cox, Andrew Chapman, A. John Wallace, and Rick Kennett & Bryce Stevens.

EYE #24, A4, 80pp, $4:99 (6/$19:95; Canada 6/$25:95; r.o.w. 6/$39:95) 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 investigating the life of pulp novellist David Goodis, hearing the darkest voices of the environmental movement, seeing bedroom DJs as the new breed of garage band, and talking to Front Line Assembly's Bill Leeb.

THE GILA QUEEN'S GUIDE TO MARKETS #101, A4, 24pp, $6 (10/$45; Canada 10/$49; r.o.w. 10/$60) from Kathryn Ptacek, P.O. Box 97, Newton, NJ 07860-0097, USA (e-mail: gilaqueen@worldnet.att.net; http://www.gilaqueen.com/). 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. This issue also has special updates for erotica, mystery/suspense, and SF/F/H.

THE HELL'S HALF-ACRE HERALD #3, A4, 4pp, enquire to The Healing Power of Obnoxiousness, PMB 140, 5930 E. Royal Lane, Dallas, Texas 75230, USA (http://www.hpoo.com). The Hell's Half-Acre Herald is the site newsletter for The Healing Power of Obnoxiousness, the web archive dedicated to the essays and articles of Paul T. Riddell. This time round Paul offers would-be writers some typically sarcastic advice on dealing with editors.

HOG #4 A4, 40pp, £2:50, from Rik Rawling, 94 Emet Grove, Emersons Green, Bristol BS16 7EG (e-mail: richard.rawling@virgin.net). HOG may have discarded the 'cutting edge journalism' of previous issues to concentrate on strips, but its glorious excess of babes, guns and gratuitous sex and violence still oozes with attitude. Central to this issue is hitman Rats Bastard (a survivor of secret CIA cancer experiments who sells his semen and blood as psychedelic drugs to the rich and famous) and his sidekick nymphettes Suzi Suzuki and Wanda Wolfen, with other strips depicting Stephen Hawking as a demented scientist seeking world domination, and taking a wry look at a day in the life of Picasso. As with previous issues there's no doubt whatsoever that Rik's having great fun putting this magazine together, and wants you to have great fun reading it too. But be warned – PC it certainly ain't!

THE INFORMATION year 2000 issue, A5, 36pp, £1:50/$3 from Dream Power Pictures, P.O. Box 521, Hove, East Sussex BN3 6HY (e-mail: dream.power@pipemedia.co.uk). A paranormal/ecology magazine that picks up on the issues and arguments not mentioned (or conveniently forgotten) by governments and corporations. This issue looks at British Illuminati, the social phenomenon of millennium hype, conspiracy books, the Apollo moon landings, and Big Brother in the classroom. Conspiracy theories abound, but they're described not evangelised, leaving readers to make up their own mind.

NEW YORK REVIEW OF SCIENCE FICTION #135, 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 (e-mail: info@nyrsf.com; http://www.nyrsf.com). Essays, reviews and topical comment for the SF field from an eleven-time Hugo award nominee. In this issue, Steve Mohn exposes the Blair Witch forgery, Ian Watson reports from the London premiere of Eyes Wide Shut, and A. Iwanow appraises Kubrick's body of work.

ON SPEC #38: Fall 1999, A5, 116pp p/b, Can$4:95 (4/Can$18; USA 4/US$18; r.o.w. 4/US$25) from On Spec, Box 4727, Edmonton, AB T6E 5G6, Canada (e-mail: onspec@earthling.net; http://www.icomm.ca/onspec). Award-winning SF and fantasy magazine with fiction by Steven Mills, Derryl Murphy, Mary Jane Maffini, James A. Hartley, James Van Pelt, Stephen J. Berringer, C. Earl Hanks, Scott Mackay, Wes Smiderle, and Doug Topper.

SCAVENGER'S NEWSLETTER #189, A5, 28pp, $2:50 (12/$22; Canada 12/$21; r.o.w. air 12/$27; r.o.w. surface 12/$18) from Janet Fox, 833 Main, Osage City, KS 66523-1241, 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 Patricia Russo.

THE URBANITE #11, A4, 60pp, $5 (3/$13:50) from Urban Legend Press, P.O. Box 4737, Davenport, Iowa 52808, USA. Surreal, lively and bizarre fiction by Jeffrey Osier, Alexa deMonterice, Marni Scofidio Griffin, Charlee Jacob, Pamela Briggs, Alexandra Elizabeth Honigsberg, John Travis, and John Pelan, plus poetry by Michael McCarty, Rain Graves, and Jo Fletcher.

OMEGA LIGHTNING by A.C. Evans, 210mm x 97mm side stapled, enquire to The Trombone Press, 23 Grosvenor Avenue, East Sheen, London SW14 8BT. Collection of eight short SF prose poems presented as a homemade booklet in a landscape format.

CANNABIS 5: MORE NEWS FROM THE HOME, CUNT? by Gary G. Graham, ISBN 1-873189-30-3, A5, 52pp, £5 from Gary G. Graham, Crushed Anna Books, 34 Rupert Street, Glasgow G4 9AR. A further volume in Gary's stream-of-consciousness narrative that continues his deployment of humour and wordplay in the pursuit of food, late-night TV and his 'tomato plants'.

SKIP TRACE ROCKS by Peter Layton, ISBN 0-905262-25-5, A5, 32pp, £2:70 (USA $6 in cash or stamps of 50¢ or less) from Steve Sneyd, Hilltop Press, 4 Nowell Place, Almondbury, Huddersfield HD5 8PB. Science fiction poetry by a prolific writer who goes right inside the heads of the blue-collar workers of the future, as they reshape Mars for human settlement. As the boss becomes a bigger enemy than Outer Space, and the daily wonders and terrors become routine, Layton depicts our future in space as it will be, not how it ought to be.

SMALL PRESS GUIDE 2000, ISBN 1-902713-00-1, 375pp p/b, £9:99 from Writers' Bookshop, Remus House, Coltsfoot Drive, Woodston, Peterborough PE2 9JX. Revised fifth edition featuring the guidelines and requirements of over 350 UK small press magazines, with an authoritative introduction by Peter Finch.

SONTARANS: SILENT WARRIOR by Peter Grehan, 60min audio CD, enquire to BBV Distribution, 3 Douglas Crescent, Bitterne, Southampton SO19 5JP (e-mail: billbaggs@hotmail.com; http://www.bbv1.demon.co.uk). A former editor of the Welsh speculative fiction magazine Beyond the Boundaries, Peter Grehan seems to have found another niche in script writing. In this story Sylvia Tanner, a cargo ship operator on the edges of Human space, lets her ship to the Sontarans for 'a bit of honest corruption', but soon finds she's bitten off more than she can chew. The stakes are suddenly raised higher with the unexpected arrival of an investigator called Alex, and soon Sylvia can't tell her friends from her enemies. As any fan of Dr Who will know, where there's a Sontaran then violence and warfare can't be far behind, and Peter Grehan keeps the plot twisting and turning for the full hour of the story. With good characterisation by the actors (Alex sounds deliciously camp!), atmospheric music and exciting sound effects, this is an excellent way to relieve a long car journey or spend a lazy evening in front of the fire.