Having a Wonderful Leap... Wish You Were Here!

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Zine
Title: Having a Wonderful Leap... Wish You Were Here!
Publisher: Having a Wonderful Leap Press
Editor(s): Lori Grenci
Date(s): March 1996
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Medium: print
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Fandom: Quantum Leap
Language: English
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Having a Wonderful Leap... Wish You Were Here! is a het erotic 190-page Quantum Leap anthology. It is digest-sized and contains four stories, one of them an X-Files crossover. On the cover, " A Quantum Leap Zine for the Delectation of Discriminating Readers."

  • Heaven Help Us: Sam's No Angel (3)
  • Hot Water by S.K. Gray (6)
  • Strange Bedfellows by Janet Coleman Sides (60)
  • Sonnet from the Evil Leaper: 1 by Janet Colman Sides (83)
  • Quantum Quickies by S.K. Gray (84)
  • Trust No Leap by Lori Grenci (89) (crossover with The X-Files)
  • Going Home by S.K. Gray (140)
  • Leapin' Limericks (185)
  • Leap that Tune: Leapin' Lizards (186)
  • Behind the Pen (187)
  • Blue Ribbon Campaign (189)
  • Don't Sue Us Department (190)
  • Gratuitous Butt Shot (back cover)

  • front cover

  • frontispiece, "Oh, boy!"

Reactions and Reviews

Like many adult-themed zines mentioned on Usenet at the time, the reception was mixed.

When its publication was announced, a fan remarked:

God, what a sad state of affairs, that someone must resort to this to make money! Quantum Leap was a family show, with righteous,]] God fearing characters (even if Al was a bit of a lecherous idiot sometimes). Now someone has to make an erotic (pornographic in truth) story? Give me a break! [1]

A fan replied to her or him:

You may have a break, Skipster. Don't order the zine. It's plenty hot without you. As if we're the first to write fanfic smut. We ought to dedicate a special Slash Issue to you. "To Skipster, with love, from three lecherous idiots." QL has sexual situations in it practically every other episode. Sam is so adorable precisely because he's so hard to corrupt. But not impossible. ;P" [2]

And the zine's creator wrote:

Skipster, dahlink - I think you are a bit misguided. No one is making money off of anything. That would be illegal. The zine is free, we are only asking for shipping and printing reimbursement. The truth is, we are losing money on this project but we do it because we love to write QL stories. And as for Quantum Leap being a family show with righteous, God fearing characters, what has that to do with the price of beans? Fanfic stories come in all shapes and sizes. Ours carry a parental advisory and plenty of warning so nothing will wind up accidentally in the lap of a minor that shouldn't be there. Is someone twisting your arm to order our zine? Relax and take two deep breaths, honey, it's 1996. [3]

References

  1. ^ brochures still available for new erotic QL zine!, February 11, 1996, accessed October 2016
  2. ^ brochures still available for new erotic QL zine!, February 11, 1996, accessed October 2016
  3. ^ brochures still available for new erotic QL zine!, February 11, 1996, accessed October 2016
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