Neil Faulkner
| Fan | |
|---|---|
| Name: | Neil Faulkner |
| Alias(es): | Ellen A Rufkin, Dirk Thrust, N O'Treally |
| Type: | author, publisher |
| Fandoms: | Blake's 7 |
| Communities: | Lysator |
| Other: | |
| URL: | website |
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Neil Faulkner (b.1963) is a British author and fanzine publisher in the Blake's 7 fandom. He was a prominent member of the Lysator mailing list. He is no longer active in Blake's 7 fandom. A photo of Neil at Judith Proctor's site.
Fanfiction
Neil's writing was known for its originality and rejection of common fandom tropes. He specialised in writing plausible action stories and was one of the first writers to introduce elements of cyberpunk into Blake's 7 fan fiction. Russ Massey describes 'A Casting of Swords' as being as close to Gibsonesque cyberpunk as B7 gets.[1]
His first Blake's 7 story to appear in print was All The President's Men in Horizon 18 (1994). Some of his fanfiction is archived online at Hermit. Well-known stories include:
- Kriegspielen in Star One (1994)
- Hunter in Star Two (1994)
- The Wit and Wisdom of the Dead in Star Three (1996)
- A Candle In The Dark in Deadlier Than the Male (1997)
- Things That Never Get Said in Forbidden Star 2 (1997)
- A Casting of Swords in Stadler Link - a unique take on Gan (Sarah Thompson)[1] (1998)
- How To Be Topp On The Liberator in Star Four (2000)
Nonfiction and Meta
- Sevencyclopaedia, a Blake's 7 encyclopedia
- Sorry, but I've been pondering -- thoughts on the "New Wave" of Blake's 7 fanfiction (2011)
Neil has also written numerous articles and essays; some of these are reprinted online here:
- Blake's 7 recast as birds (illustrated)
- Who's in control - Neil Faulkner (from AltaZine)
- Destroy the Old Order (from AltaZine)
- The Art of Falling Apart (from AltaZine)
- The Crucial Element? (from AltaZine)
- Slash - for and against ("You Expect Me to Let Her Have the Last Word?") by Judith Proctor and Neil Faulkner (from AltaZine) (1996)
- Oh No Not Tarrant!... (from AltaZine)
- A hard-wired seven? (from AltaZine)
- Poem? (from AltaZine)
- How Many Ways Back? -- a categorisation of fanfiction (from AltaZine)
- Let's Hear It for Dayna -- on the neglected character Dayna (from AltaZine)
- Spacials -- an attempt to resolve how long the spacial is (from AltaZine)
- On the Episode 'Power' - Judith Proctor, with editorial comments by Neil Faulkner (from AltaZine)
- What is the Liberator like inside? - Judith Proctor, with editorial comments by Neil Faulkner (from AltaZine)
Fanzines
Neil edited and published three predominantly gen fiction zines:
- Stadler Link (1998)
- Pressure Point (1999)
- Trooper Orac's Fantastic Plastic Army (tofpa) (2001)
He also edited AltaZine, a letterzine, as well as some issues of the Horizon Letterzine.