Elegy for Amanda

Zine
Title:	Elegy for Amanda
Publisher:
Editor:
Author(s):	Gamin Davis
Cover Artist(s):	Chris Soto for first edition, Gamin Davis for second edition
Illustrator(s):	Fiona Graves for the first edition, Gamin Davis for the second
Date(s):	May 1988, 1996
Medium:	print
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Fandom:	Star Trek: TOS
Language:	English
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Elegy for Amanda is a gen Star Trek: TOS novel written and illustrated by Gamin Davis.

Vault of Tomorrow Special Editions

• Whisper of the Wind
• The Addonian Affair
• Elegy for Amanda
• The Reality Barrier

Two Editions

There were two editions.

First Edition

The first was in 1988 and that zine contains 89 pages. The cover was by Chris Soto and the three full-page interior illos are by Fiona Graves.

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  1988 edition - cover by Chris Soto

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  1988 edition - art by Fiona Graves

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  1988 edition - art by Fiona Graves

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  1988 edition - art by Fiona Graves

Second Edition

The second edition was in 1996. That zine contains 60 pages and has a cover by Gamin Davis. The interior art is by Davis.

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  cover of the 1996 edition, Gamin Davis

Reprint Permissions

After Peg Kennedy took over Bill Hupe fanzine distribution business, Marion McChesney allowed the new company to distribute the zine. That ended in June 1997 when the reprint rights for all of Marion's zines were withdrawn from New Leaf Productions.

Summary

Presented in a new and more readable format, this is the Surak Award-nominated story of friendship and forgiveness in the face of family loss and conflict. Six months after Star Trek: TMP, Ambassador Sarek requests diversion of the Enterprise to Vulcan and medical aid from Dr. McCoy for his seriously ill wife; Kirk, Spock and McCoy arrive only to find Amanda within days of death. Kirk must help Spock cope with his mother's loss -- and somehow keep it from tearing Spock and Sarek apart before they, bereft of their only real unifying force, tear each other apart...