If so; lucky you as TTA Press publications are available for E readers and E books from Fictionwise.

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Interzones 211 to 219 are now posted at Fictionwise as are Black Statics 1 to 6 with #7 due soon.

Crimewaves 9 & 10 are also there and TTA’s first published novel Alison by Andrew Humphrey (a horror novel set in East Anglia) is ready to download.

Coming soon on Fictionwise Paul Meloy’s first collection Islington Crocodiles.

You can subscribe to electronic editions of Interzone and Black Static on Fictionwise or download, and pay for, them individually.

If you don’t have an E reader no worry as you can subscribe to the print edition of Black Static and get a free copy of issue #8 to start your subscription be it 6 or 12 issues, or a combination with Interzone, while stocks of BS 8 last. To take up that offer start here. Read the rest of this entry »

Tags: Andrew Humphrey • E Books • E readers • Fictionwise • Paul Meloy

We end 2008 with two adverts and our thanks to everyone who has advertised in Black Static this year. Ads are important to our success and we hope they help our advertisers in return.

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Tags: Abaddon • Anno_Mortis • Pigasus • Premonitions Magazine • Tomes of the Dead

The printer sent us many more copies of Black Static 8 than we needed, so we’ve decided to offer a FREE COPY to every new subscriber between now and the publication in February of issue 9 or until we run out of issue 8, whichever comes first. (I’m sure subscribers who’ve already paid for a copy will understand.)

To take advantage of this offer click here to enter the shop. Follow the simple instructions, and make sure you write BS8 Offer in the Shopper’s Reference field. That bit’s very important, without it you won’t receive the extra free copy.

The offer applies to all subscriptions to Black Static: both six-issue and twelve-issue subscriptions and both dual subscription offers with Interzone.

The shop can accept any credit/debit card and paypal.

Please feel free to post this offer to your blog or website, on forums, or pass it on by email or word of mouth. Naturally the more people take it up the happier we’ll be!

If you have any questions please email me or leave a comment on the forum (comments don’t work on this website and they’re staying unfixed as we’ll have a brand new site online soon).

Black Static 8: cover and interior art by David Gentry; stories by Patrick Samphire, Lynda Rucker, Gary Fry, James Cooper, Steven Pirie, Steve Rasnic Tem; book reviews; Simon Clark interview; DVD reviews; competitions; comment columns… Highly original stuff!

Tags: Black Static • free

The first Interzone of 2009 has now gone to press for an early January release.

Cover art is by Adam Tredowski, and we fiddled with the template a bit to better match his spectacular art.

Stories:

Monetized by Jason Stoddard
illustrated by Paul Drummond

Sinner, Baker, Fabulist, Priest; Red Mask, Black Mask, Gentleman, Beast by Eugie Foster
illustrated by Geoffrey Grisso

After Everything Woke Up by Rudy Rucker
illustrated by Rudy Rucker

Spy vs Spy by Neil Williamson

Miles to Isengard by Leah Bobet
illustrated by Warwick Fraser-Coombe

Memory Dust by Gareth L. Powell
illiustrated by Daniel Bristow-Bailey

Features:

Ansible Link by David Langford
news, obituaries

Readers’ Poll
vote for your favourite stories of 2008

Book Zone
book reviews from Jim Steel and the team, including Jeffrey Ford interviewed by Rick Kleffel

Laser Fodder by Tony Lee
DVD reviews

Mutant Popcorn by Nick Lowe
film reviews

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Tags: Adam Tredowski • Ansible • books • Daniel Bristow-Bailey • David Langford • DVDs • Eugie Foster • films • Gareth Powell • Geoffrey Grisso • INTERZONE • Jason Stoddard • Leah Bobet • Neil Williamson • Paul Drummond • Rudy Rucker • Warwick Fraser-Coombe

If all goes to plan and we receive the printed magazine on time, all subscriber and contributor copies of Black Static will be in the post by the end of the week, maybe Monday at the latest. If you think your subscription might have expired please check and renew quickly as we’d like to send your copy in the main mailing if possible.

As usual, all original art and cover is by David Gentry. Have a nice bunch of flowers.

Stories are by Patrick Samphire, Lynda E. Rucker, Steve Rasnic Tem, James Cooper, Steven Pirie and Gary Fry.

All the usual features, including columns by Christopher Fowler, Stephen Volk and Mike O’Driscoll; DVD reviews (and competitions) by Tony Lee; book reviews (and interview with Simon Clark) by Peter Tennant; news; stunning graphics…

“Britain’s finest magazine of Dark Fantasy” Suite 101

“A must-read for those who like their fiction contemporary and uncensored” Ed Gorman

“A wicked beauty” Simon Clark

“The premier source for a regular and opinionated overview of the horror, dark and weird genres in the UK” Bookgeeks

“The most disturbing images I’ve encountered this year or any other. For a different outlook and some quality writing, you should be subscribing” SF Revu

“Black Static creeps into the same house as Cemetery Dance and Subterranean as a member of the elite horror publications” Horror World

“Not worth the wait” Stephen Jones

Subscribe now using credit/debit card or paypal.

Tags: Black Static • books • Christopher Fowler • competitions • David Gentry • DVDs • Gary Fry • Horror • James Cooper • Lynda Rucker • Mike O'Driscoll • Patrick Samphire • Peter Tennant • reviews • Simon Clark • Stephen Volk • Steve Rasnic Tem • Steven Pirie • Tony Lee

The January Dancer . . . . . . . . . . . Michael Flynn Tor, 350pp, $24.95 hb

Peter Loftus’ review from Interzone 219 follows this brief ‘ad’.

The devalued £ makes this the time for overseas readers to subscribe. Within Europe Interzone is only Euro 28.79 for 6 issues and beyond Europe US$ 41.21 or E 32.39 at this moment. (13:52hrs UK 8/12/08) So why not subscribe? UK readers: subscriptions make great Christmas gifts.

Forced to stop for repairs in an unnamed backwater system, Captain Amos January and his misfit crew set out to investigate the nearest planet for materials with which to construct spare parts. They find more than they bargained for when they stumble upon a cache of alien artefacts of which the ‘dancer’ is the trophy; an innocuous looking red brick that changes shape continuously. While nobody can figure out exactly what it is, or what it does, pretty soon every major player in the galaxy wants to get their hands on it.
From the blurb, one could easily believe we are in for a traditional space opera. The January Dancer is far from conventional however. The far-future setting provides a mongrel mosaic of cultures, all twisted and deformed like the mysterious artefact of the title. Characters change their names, identities and allegiance as often as their underwear in a future fusion universe as exotic as it is familiar. Read the rest of this entry »

Tags: Interzone 219 • January Dancer • Michael Flynn

Subscriber and contributor copies should be on their way by 12th December.

As usual, cover and all interior art is by David Gentry.

Stories:

At the Gates by Patrick Samphire

These Things We Have Always Known by Lynda E. Rucker

Noppero-bo by Steve Rasnic Tem

There’s Something Wrong With Pappy by James Cooper

The Book of Ruth by Steven Pirie

Taking On Life by Gary Fry

Features:

White Noise
news

Interference by Christopher Fowler
editorial

Electric Darkness by Stephen Volk
editorial

Night’s Plutonian Shore by Mike O’Driscoll
editorial

Case Notes by Peter Tennant
books: reviews of novellas, vampire novels, Simon Clark feature and interview

Blood Spectrum by Tony Lee
DVD reviews and competitions

Subscribe now!

Tags: Black Static • books • Christopher Fowler • David Gentry • DVDs • Gary Fry • James Cooper • Lynda Rucker • Mike O'Driscoll • Patrick Samphire • Peter Tennant • Stephen Volk • Steve Rasnic Tem • Steven Pirie • Tony Lee

Four Ads this issue so the economy must be in prime condition.

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Below are the links from advertisements in Interzone 219 ready to click and well in time for your seasonal splurge of expenditure.

Abaddon Books
Twilight of Kerberos: The Light of Heaven by David A. McIntee

Prison by Paul Western. Read an excerpt and/or buy it here.

Morpheus Tales see issue 2 of this new quarterly Magazine of Horror, Science Fiction and Fantasy also on Myspace

Swimming Kangaroo Books
Silk Palace by Colin Harvey. Read the rest of this entry »

Tags: Abaddon • Colin Harvey • Morpheus Tales • Paul Western • Prison • Silk Palace • Twilight of Kerberos

We have now completely sold out of Paul Meloy’s collection Islington Crocodiles. However, our colleagues at Bad Moon Books in the States will have some copies on sale shortly, so if you’re interested please order a copy from them quickly, before they too sell out.

Meanwhile, here’s the kind of review that authors and publishers dream about, courtesy of Douglas Hoffman at The Fix.

Tags: Islington Crocodiles • Paul Meloy

Continued from Part 1

The Reality continues…

Thursday; time for drastic action. Witchcraft was called for and a passing practitioner, Valerie Frankel author of the VYA Henry Potty series came to the rescue. Unfortunately Valerie’s witches’ wimple collapsed as she cast her spell and her efforts only raised second day sales to $443, still selling single issues at $8. Read the rest of this entry »

Tags: Conventions • Denvention 3