AUGURIES 9 – 1988

First issue with ISSN number – 0954-1918. Also first issue where payment (£2 per story!) is offered.
Cover – Nik Morton, illustrating the lead story. First Time Theme issue.
Interior cartoon by Tim Nickels.
(A5, stapled, 64pp, 80p)

Contents
Roman Remains – Cleveland W Gibson
The last door – Michael Noonan
Wanderlust – Graham Andrews (illo above)
Strolling with the Timeline (poem) – Steve Sneyd
Shake away the Earth, Laddie (poem) – JPV Stewart
After the rain (poem) – Shane Doheny
Half-a-day’s work – Geoff Watson
The ragged boy – Chris Naylor
She’ll always be waiting for me – D F Lewis
Morning has broken – Arabella Wood
Redevelopment site – Dave W Hughes
The good old days – Steve Bowkett

AUGURIES 11–1989

Cover – Nik Morton. This also featured the box: ‘An Ad lib magazine’; the plan was to amalgamate with another local short story magazine, Ad Lib, the brainchild of Portsmouth journalist Bob Jenkins; unfortunately, it died a death due to distribution problems. The little ‘Ad lib’ box didn’t appear again. The ‘South Hants’ label was dropped and it became the ‘Science Fiction & Fantasy Quarterly Magazine’ for two issues!
Interior illustrations by Kelvin Cox, Colin P Davies, John Light and Nik Morton.
(A5, stapled, 52pp, £1.20p)

Contents
Forever England – Dorothy Davies
Ghostbringer – David Vickery
The Librarian (poem) – JPV Stewart
The driver – Nick Daws
Decision at Delphi (poem) – Margaret Giacomini
Curfew watcher – D F Lewis
Life cycle – John Light
The lie-in – Andy Smith
Seal island (poem) – Bridget Brady
Pop’s babies – Colin P Davies
Changes – Dave W Hughes
The shapes of death – Graham Andrews
Works wonders – Nik Morton. (This vignette contained characters from a co-written fantasy quest novel and a version of this short short story appears in the novel Wings of the Overlord which had a publisher but sadly that deal folded.).

AUGURIES 12–1990

First issue to feature book and magazine reviews. First appearance of apt quotations at the end of each story. This was the pre-internet age and finding the most appropriate quote sometimes took a while.
Cover – Nik Morton, illustrating the story by Hilary Robinson; I committed a cardinal sin and gave the creature wings when he had none in the story!
Interior illustrations by John McCreen, John Light and Nik Morton.
(A5, stapled, 52pp, £1.20p)

Contents
Circus! – Dorothy Davies
Past and present (poem) – John Francis Haines
Eggs – Arabella Wood
April showers and green-eyed girls – Andy Smith
Not in Summer (poem) – Jim England
The sentient cloak – Hilary Robinson
Oasis – Dave Parsons
The lap of the gods – Nick Daws
Find the mage – Sydney J Bounds (illo above)
Do not adjust your head – Matthew Dickens
A presence in Spring – Graham Andrews