Anji Valenza
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| Name: | Anji Valenza |
| Alias(es): | Fa Shimbo |
| Type: | fanzine publisher and writer |
| Fandoms: | Star Trek: TOS, Klysadel, Darkover, original fiction |
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Anji Valenza was a Star Trek: TOS writer, zine publisher, and artist. Valenza also illustrated some Darkover zines. Valenza (later Fa Shimbo) also published a series of written and drawn stories set in her Klysadel universe.
Shimbo also operated Special Rates To Fen Press.
In 1977, she submitted the following bio to Who's Who in Star Trek Fandom.
Anji Valenza aka "You," 'Fang' and "The Tall One,"...Anji entered SF fandom in 1972 and got into STrekdom in 1974 through various friends and conventions and through working on Germaine Best's zine. She is a member of The Alien Inquisition, the NYFed, and the National Fantasy Fan Federation.
Anji has published "Monkey of the Inkpot" and "Universes in SF Vol. 1." She is currently writing and doing illos for several fanzines including Probe, Mindsifter and some N3F publications. Anji's other interests include astronomy, horseback, riding, and lab rats. Her motto is: "Oh, if it were only as simple as that in real life," said by Groucho Marx.
Star Trek Was Simply a Hook; The Author Makes a 1978 Statement
In the zine, Snow on the Moon, the author explains her connection to Star Trek fandom and how it was a planned hook to get readers for her Klysadel Universe:
All the stuff which I wrote when I was tirading against the "Prime Directive" and those who "fought to uphold it" — that is, the ST related stuff I'd written, was out.
I no longer want even to remember that I once inserted ST characters into my universe, even though doing this was what made my stuff "salable" to the only people who seemed interested in it at the time, the trekfolk. Not that I'm not grateful that they published it at all; no sir, for unless they did I'd have no reason to be writing this now, for there'd be no anthology; sf fandom does not have an outlet for a new writer who writes long stories. But unfortunately, many people now think I'm an ST writer— PLEEEZ, this is not the case. I was trying to get your attention, folks, and now that I have, he he he, well, welcone to the world of sf for some of you out there, and I have accomplished that which I set out to do.
Zines to Which Valenza Contributed
- Fuhura
- It Takes All Kinds
- Interphase
- Menagerie
- Mindsifter
- Monkey of the Inkpot (editor)
- The Ninth Quadrant
- Obsc'zine
- Probe
- Snow on the Moon (collects the Klysadel Universe stories)
- Sol Plus
- Tetrumbriant
- The Universes in Science Fiction
- Warped Space
Gallery
interior art Warped Space #38
inside art Warped Space #28
interior drawing from Warped Space #29/30
cover of Snow on the Moon
front cover of Jumeaux #1
front cover of Jumeaux#2,
back cover of Jumeaux #2
front cover of Jumeaux #3, also used with Contes di Cottman IV #10
back cover of Jumeaux #3
front cover of Jumeaux #4
the top half of the back cover of Jumeaux #4
front cover of the revised Probe #5
back cover of the revised Probe #5
inside art from Probe #5
back cover of Probe issue #9,
inside art from Probe #9, Anji Valanza
inside art from Probe #10, Anji Valenza
inside art from Probe #10, Anji Valenza
inside art from Probe #10, Anji Valenza
back cover of Contes di Cottman IV #10
