I found out I was writing fanfic when I met early 'Blake's Seven' fandom.
I've never been closely involved with 'Voyage' fandom, though I know some British fans. ('Blake's Seven' and 'Professionals' fandom, yes, because my mates were running them in the early days.) For my sins I even helped run a fanzine review zine (confusingly called 'Critical Mass') back in the early 80s. My mate Jean (aka Ina McAllan, aka Oriole Alma Throckmorton) and I published 'Blake's Seven', 'The Professionals' and most recently 'Garrison's Gorillas' fiction fanzines over a 20 year period. However, stuff we didn't publish mainly went into multi-fandom zines - and that was where I published some 'Voyage' (comic stuff from 2nd,3rd and 4th season) and 'UFO' and 'Captain Scarlet' and even, lord help me, 'V'. Some of it was straight and some of it was slash. (We set what was probably a precedent by publishing 'Gorilla Warfare' - a Garrison's Gorillas fanzine in a long slash version and a shorter straight one.) I'm afraid we were and are terribly picky about fanfic - demanding decent English, a plot, and characterisation that does not do too much damage to the originals...
Mission Statement
Reading, writing, plant photography, and the small details of my life, with digressions into science and computing.
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Date: 2006-03-02 09:46 am (UTC)I've never been closely involved with 'Voyage' fandom, though I know some British fans. ('Blake's Seven' and 'Professionals' fandom, yes, because my mates were running them in the early days.) For my sins I even helped run a fanzine review zine (confusingly called 'Critical Mass') back in the early 80s. My mate Jean (aka Ina McAllan, aka Oriole Alma Throckmorton) and I published 'Blake's Seven', 'The Professionals' and most recently 'Garrison's Gorillas' fiction fanzines over a 20 year period. However, stuff we didn't publish mainly went into multi-fandom zines - and that was where I published some 'Voyage' (comic stuff from 2nd,3rd and 4th season) and 'UFO' and 'Captain Scarlet' and even, lord help me, 'V'. Some of it was straight and some of it was slash. (We set what was probably a precedent by publishing 'Gorilla Warfare' - a Garrison's Gorillas fanzine in a long slash version and a shorter straight one.) I'm afraid we were and are terribly picky about fanfic - demanding decent English, a plot, and characterisation that does not do too much damage to the originals...