Contact Christmas
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| Title: | Contact Christmas | |
| Publisher: | Harmony Press | |
| Editor(s): | Bev Volker, Nancy Kippax | |
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| Genre: | gen | |
| Fandom: | Star Trek: TOS | |
| Language: | English | |
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Contact Christmas is a sister zine to Contact. It is a gen anthology of fiction and art. There were two issues.
Sample art has been included on Fanlore with the permission of the publisher's heirs.
Issue 1
Contact Christmas 1 was published in December 1979 and contains 94 pages. The cover art is by Russ Volker.
From the title page: "This issue is dedicated to the spirit of Christmas and the spirt of Star Trek -- in so many ways, one and the same. And to The Man who makes everything possible."
From the editorial:Three years ago, [April] had a bright idea. She wrote a Kirk/Spock Christmas story to share with her friends for the holiday. It was so enthusiastically received that the following year, we wrote a Kirk/Spock Christmas story to share with our friends. We thought it would end there. Musing on these two unpublished stories one day, we began to consider the prospect of putting together a special holiday edition of 'Contact.'... It's hard to believe we're going through this insanity again, only two months later, at a time of year when most people are combing the department stories for just-right gifts, baking cookies, and decking their private halls with boughs of holly, mistletoe, and plastic Santas. Believe it or not, we're doing all that, too -- while pasting numbers on pages, typing until 2 a. m., rushing to the printers and recording orders. But we feel the Christmas spirit as much in these latter endeavors as in the former. Love of Star Trek, the joy of the Kirk/Spock relationship, symbolize the true spirit of Christmas just as much as the tradition sentiments. Christmas is brotherhood, a hope for the future of mankind, good will, and family closeness -- and so is Star Trek.
Stories:
- A Gift of Gold - Beverly Volker & Nancy Kippax (p. 1-14)
- A Miracle of Christmas Past - April Valentine (p. 18-26)
- The Christmas Tree - Ginna LaCroix (also in Trek Encore 2) (p. 28-34)
- Something Special - Crystal Ann Taylor (p. 36-54)
- Star of the Lost - Terri Sylvester (p. 59-64)
- Festival of Lights - Linda White (p. 69-83)
- Home for Christmas - April Valentine (p. 87-94)
Poetry and Art:
- Believing - April Valentine (p. 15)
- Reasons Enough - Crystal Ann Taylor (p. 16)
- Giving Season - April Valentine (p. 35)
- Medley of Christmas Songs - Bev Volker (p. 55-57)
- The Beacon - Bev Volker (p. 65)
- T'was the Night Before Christmas - Theresa Wright (p. 66-67)
- Crisis - Bev Volker (p. 68)
- It Had to Happen - Crystal Ann Taylor (p. 84)
- The Present - Bev Volker (p. 86)
- Art: Merle Decker, Sonia Gingras, Laurie Huff, Evallou Richardson, Russ Volker (front cover), Linda White, Dyann Whitson
Interior art for issue #1 by Merle Decker for "The Christmas Tree"
interior art from issue #1, Sonia Gringas
interior art from issue #1, Evallou Richardson
interior art from issue #1, Dyann Whitson
interior art from issue #1, Linda White
interior art from issue #1, Merle Decker
Issue 2
Contact Christmas 2 was published in November 1987 (reprinted March 1988) and contains 242 pages.. The cover art is by Merle Decker.
- Editor's Page (i)
- Traditions, story by Jan Davies, art by Maggie Manlove (1)
- Earth Child, poetry by Bev Volker (21)
- A Star to Guide Me, story by Lynn Syck & Laurel Ridener, art by Cheryl M. Carter (23)
- Song of the Season, vignette by Suzanne Elmore (36)
- The Christmas Tree, story by Mimi English, art by Jan Davies (39)
- The Fight, poem by Ginna LaCroix (67)
- And to All a Good Night, story by Maggie Manlove, art by Jacqueline Zoost (69)
- Only the Humans, poem by Beverly Volker (123)
- Infinite Combinations, story by Gina Godwin, art by C. Sibbett (125)
- Christmas Songbook (144)
- Two Flames, story by Ellen Morris, art by JES (147)
- What Shepherds Saw, poem by Bev Voker (155)
- The Turning Point, story by April Valentine, art by Maggie Manlove (157)
- Personal Log, poem by Ginna LaCroix (178)
- To Share the Stars, poem by Marion McChesney (179)
- A Christmas Carol, story by Beverly Volker, art by Steve Wilson (181)
- A Snowy Morn, poem by Ginna LaCroix (199)
- The Gifts of the Wise Men, story by Nancy Kippax, art by Pat Cash (201)
- Renewal, poem by Ginna LaCroix (213)
- A Time to Receive, story by Debbie Cummins, art by Andrea Kunz
- Moment, vignette by Bev Volker (230)
- Memories, story by Ginna LaCroix, art by Jan Davies (233)
C. Sibbett
Cheryl M. Carter
Jan Davies
Andrea Kunz
Jackie Zoost
C. Sibbett
Maggie Manlove
Jan Davies
Reactions and Reviews: Issue 2
Another zine I would like to mention is CONTACT CHRISTMAS II, editor Bev Volker. Anyone familiar with the CONTACT series would love it. I, being new to fandom, missed out on CONTACT, but Bev's Christmas book was fun to read. It is full of Christmas and seasonal activities on and off the ENTERPRISE, focusing on the Kirk and Spock friendship. One excellent story about them visiting Amanda on Vulcan for Christmas was written by Gina Godwin, who was recently murdered here in the Wilmington area. Another one of my favorites was by Bev Volker herself based on Charles Dickens' "A Christmas Carol." Guess who Scrooge is. [1]
