CRIMEWAVE #6: BREAKING POINT, B5, 132pp p/b, £5.99 (4/£22; Europe 4/Eur40; r.o.w. 4/£30) from TTA Press, 5 Martins Lane, Witcham, Ely, Cambs CB6 2LB (e-mail: ttapress@aol.com; http://www.ttapress.com); USA $12 (4/$40) from TTA Press, P.O. Box 219, Olyphant, PA 18447, USA (e-mail: we21011@earthlink.net). 100% pure crime fiction from across the full spectrum of the genre, with stories by Marion Arnott, Ryan van Cleve, Mat Coward, Shelley Costa, Martin Edwards, Gary Couzens, Simon Avery, Tim Lees, Steve Rasnic Tem, Conrad Williams, and Barry Fishler.

KIMOTA #16, A5, 80pp p/b, £2:99 from G. Hurry, 52 Cadley Causeway, Preston, Lancs PR2 3RX (e-mail: editor@kimota.co.uk; http://www.kimota.co.uk). Well-rounded selection of SF/F/H from Julie Travis, Christopher Harman, Trevor Mendham, Steve Mosby, Paul Edwards, Christopher Mennell, Jill McGroarty, Joel Lane, Stuart Carter, and Stuart Young.

NEW YORK REVIEW OF SCIENCE FICTION #164, A4, 24pp, $3:50 (12/$32; Canada 12/$37; r.o.w. 12/$48) 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 a thirteen-time Hugo award nominee. This issue features Michael A. Arnzen on childhood and media literacy in Stephen King's The Girl Who Loved Tom Gorden, Tavis Allsion on art and music in John Barnes, John Clute on Patrick O'Leary's The Impossible Bird, Bruce Gillespie on Brian Aldiss's Supertoys,, and Donald M. Hassler on Allen Steele's Chronospace.

ON SPEC #48: Spring 2002, A5, 116pp p/b, Can$5:95 (4/Can$22; USA 4/US$22; r.o.w. 4/US$27) from On Spec, Box 4727, Edmonton, AB T6E 5G6, Canada (e-mail: mail@onspec.ca; http://www.onspec.ca). Award-winning SF and fantasy magazine, with fiction by Ian Creasey, James Van Pelt, David Barr Kirtley, Natalka Roshak, Paul E. Martens, Julia Helen Watts, Karen Traviss, and James Allison.

PAPERBACK PARADE #57, A5, 112pp, $8 (5/$35, overseas surface 5/$55) from Gryphon Publications, P.O. Box 209, Brooklyn, NY 11228-0209, USA (http://www.gryphonbooks.com). Aimed at paperback readers and collectors world-wide, Paperback Parade is packed with features, articles, bibliographies and interviews. This issue carries an interview with veteran pulp writer Bruce Cassiday, plus Cassiday paperback checklist, an appreciation of '60s sleaze' publisher Nightstand Books, how abortion was portrayed in 1950s and 1960s paperbacks, interview with beat author Charles Plymell, and a tribute to Victor Joseph Hanson.

SCAVENGER'S NEWSLETTER #219, A5, 24pp, $2:50 from Janet Fox, 833 Main, Osage City, KS 66523-1241, USA (e-mail: foxscav1@hotmail.com; http://66.39.35.131/scavengers/). Monthly newsletter for SF/F/H/mystery writers and artists with an interest in the small press. Market news, letters and reviews from the USA, UK and elsewhere, plus Jonathan Torres on the metaphysical writer, and fiction by A.R. Morlan.

SPECTRUM SF #8, 192pp B-format paperback, £3:99 (UK, Europe air and worldwide surface 4/£14; worldwide air 4/£17) from Spectrum Publishing, 53 Waverley Park, Kirkintilloch, Glasgow, G66 2BL (e-mail: pf@spectrumsf.co.uk; http://www.spectrumsf.co.uk). New science fiction from Charles Stross, Neal Asher, Michael Coney & Eric Brown, Colin P. Davies, and Josh Lacey.

THE THIRD ALTERNATIVE #30, A4, 68pp, £3:75 (6/£21; Europe 6/£24/Eur38; r.o.w. 6/£27) from TTA Press, 5 Martins Lane, Witcham, Ely, Cambs CB6 2LB (e-mail: ttapress@aol.com; http://www.ttapress.com); USA $7 (6/$33) from TTA Press, P.O. Box 219, Olyphant, PA 18447, USA (e-mail: we21011@earthlink.net). "Extraordinary new fiction" from Neil Williamson, Douglas Lain, Ian Watson, Robert Wexler, Paul Meloy, and Christopher Kenworthy, plus interviews with Mark Morris and Alan Moore, and an appreciation of the cult movies of the Coen Brothers.

I-O by Simon Logan, ISBN 1-894815-05-X, A5, 110pp p/b, $12 from Prime, P.O. Box 36503, Canton, OH 44735, USA (http://www.primebooks.net). The first collection of industrial fiction from Simon Logan, featuring eight previously unpublished constructions of dead TVs, static Gods, renegade scientists, decadent viral princesses and scuttering pylon-creatures.

A SMALL COLLECTION OF MEDIOCRE SHORT STORIES by Simon Logan, ISBN 0-9540877-1-2, A5, 96pp p/b, £10 from B.J.M. Press, 95 Compass Crescent, Old Whittington, Chesterfield, S41 9LX. Hot on the heels of I-O comes Logan's second collection, this time from British publisher Rainfall Books, with a further twelve sharp and uncompromising pieces gathered from his recent appearances in Enigmatic Tales, Nasty Piece of Work and The Dream Zone.

GREEN MUSIC by Ursula Pflug, ISBN 1-895836-75-1, 232pp trade paperback, Can$16:95 from Tesseract Books, 214-21, 10405 Jasper Avenue, Edmonton, Alberta T5J 3S2, Canada (e-mail: tesseract@bookscollective.com; http://www.bookscollective.com). A delightfully surreal novel which glides effortlessly between magic realism and fantasy with humour and insight.