DATA DUMP #64, A5, 4pp, 70p/$2 (USA orders in cash or stamps) from Steve Sneyd, Hilltop Press, 4 Nowell Place, Almondbury, Huddersfield HD5 8PB. Continuing Steve's series of factsheets on genre poetry with a general summary of recent anthologies, articles and news, plus further updates on the influence of genre ideas on opera and rock music.
DREAMS AND NIGHTMARES #64, A5, 20pp, $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 Darrell Schweitzer, Mario Milosevic, Tim Jones, s.c. virtes, Mike Allen, Steve Sneyd, Deborah P. Kolodji, Sonya Taaffe, April Lott, Joey Froehlich, Bruce Boston, Lucy A.E. Ward, and Marcie Lynn Tentchoff.
GREEN ANARCHY #10, A3, 28pp, $3 (5/$12; Canada 5/$15; Europe 5/$20) from Green Anarchy, P.O. Box 11331, Eugene, OR 97440, USA (e-mail: greenanarchy@tao.ca). A quarterly anti-civilisation newspaper featuring articles on organised revolt, repression of the Greek november 17 movement, anti-colonial action, indigenous resistance, and the Taking Children Seriously approach to parenting, plus an interview with Direct Action's Ann Hansen, political prisoner news, book and magazine reviews, and a round-up of recent anti-GM, anti-capitalist, anti-globalisation and anti-imperialist activity from around the world.
HADROSAUR TALES #14, ISBN 1-885093-27-6, A5, 111pp p/b and #15, ISBN 1-885093-28-4, A5, 103pp p/b, $5:95 each (3/$16:50) from Hadrosaur productions, PO Box 8468, Las Cruces, NM 88006-8468, USA (e-mail: hadrosaur@zianet.com; http://www.zianet.com/hadrosaur). Entertaining and imaginative science fiction from the likes of Cliff Pliml, Rhys Hughes, Bent Lorenzon, Mark Fewell, Matthew Tolbert, Christian Westerlund, and G.L. Berkin (#14), and Daniel J. Lesco, M.L. Archer, Donald Sullivan, Gary Every, David B. Riley, Justin R. Lawfer, Ken Goldman, Mark Anthony Brennan, and Nina Munteanu (#15).
NEW YORK REVIEW OF SCIENCE FICTION #172 and #173, A4, 24pp, $4 each (12/$36; Canada 12/$38; 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 fourteen-time Hugo award nominee. #172 sees Michael Bishop talking about writing, John Clute on James White's fiction, Paul Kincaid on the stories of Greg Bear and Vernor Vinge, Kate Bonin on gay sex and death in the SF of Orson Scott Card, Damien Broderick on John Clute's Appleseed, and Ariel Hameon on Maureen McHugh's Nekropolis, while #173 features Anne Sydenham on Edward Whittemore, Arthur D. Hlavaty measures Robert Sheckley, Henry Wessells on Tom LaFarge's novels, John Clute on Jeff Noon, Gwyneth Jones on Carol Emshwiller, Russell Blackford on Ken McLeod, and Graham Sleight on Alastair Reynolds.
TALEBONES #25, A5, 100pp p/b, $6:00 (4/$20; Canada 4/$26; r.o.w. 4/$32) from Talebones Magazine, 5203 Quincy Ave SE, Auburn, WA 98092, USA (e-mail: talebones@nventure.com; http://www.fairwoodpress.com). SF and dark fantasy in a smart digest format with full colour cover, and winner of the Genre Writers Association Award. This issue's fiction comes from Alan DeNiro, Beverly Suarez-Beard, Jerry Oltion, Jay Lake, Sean Klein, and Julie McGalliard, plus an interview with James P. Hogan.
THE THIRD ALTERNATIVE #33, A4, 68pp, £3:95 (6/£21; Europe 6/£24/Eur36; 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/$36) from Wayne Edwards, TTA Press, 360 W. 76th Ave #H, Anchorage, AK 99518, USA (e-mail: we21011@earthlink.net). "Extraordinary new fiction" from Brian Aldiss, Brian Hodge, Mary Soon Lee, Lynda E. Rucker, John Aegard, Simon Avery, and Sarah Singleton, plus an interview with Brian Aldiss, and an appreciation of the films of Brian de Palma.
THROUGH THE WOODS #1 and #2, A4, 36pp, £3 each from J.M. Wood, BM Spellbound, London WC1N 3XX. New weird fiction, literary obscurity and general off-beatness by Tymon Syonites, Jeremy Crenshaw, and Michael Dembinski (#1), and Tymon Syonites, Barry Cronin, Basil Thompson, and Chad Bickersley.
OPEN THE BOX AND OTHER STORIES by Andrew Humphrey, ISBN 0-9543747-1-1, A5, 163pp p/b, £5 from Elastic Press, 85 Gertrude Road, Norwich, Norfolk NR3 4SG (e-mail: elasticpress@elasticpress.com; http://www.elasticpress.com). Thirteen short stories examining the complex links between relationships and abandonment, repulsion and need, and which blur the lines between realist and fantastic fiction. Earlier versions of some of the stories have previously appeared in The Third Alternative, Crimewave, Hidden Corners and Roadworks.
LIGHT'S LIST 2003, ISBN 1-897968-19-1, A5, 84pp, £3 (US surface $7; US air $8) from John Light, Photon Press, 37 The Meadows, Berwick-upon-Tweed, Northumberland TD15 1NY (e-mail: photon.press@virgin.net). Seminal listing (now in its 18th year of publication) of names, addresses and a brief note of interests of over 1,400 UK, US, Canadian, Australasian, European, African and Asian small press magazines publishing creative writing and artwork in English.
