Xenofilkia

Filk Songbook
Title:	Xenofilkia
Publisher:
Editor(s):	Lee Gold
Date(s):	October 1988-present
Medium:	print
Language:	English
External Links:	online here
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Xenofilkia is a gen multifandom bi-monthly filk fanzine. "Xenofilkia comes out every even month (February, April, June, August, October and December). Each Xenofilkia has about twenty pages of filksongs and weighs about 3 ounces. The first issue was October of 1988, and issues have been appearing punctually ever since."

Issue 16

Xenofilkia 16

• "Like Comyn to the Slaughter," by Harold Feld (Darkover song TTTO "Like a Lamb to the Slaughter," retelling the events of The Horse-Tamer's Daughter)
• other unknown content

Issue 19

• Beward of the Vogonese Poets by Susan Macdonald ( Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, by the late, great Douglas Adams, has been a radio show, a TV show, a book, and a movie. In theory this should fit any of the variations, but if push comes to shove, it's based on the radio show. Originally published in Xenofilkia #19, October 1991. To be sung to the tune of "Beware of the Sentient Chili," by Chris Weber.)
• other unknown content

Issue 25

Xenofilkia 25

• The A-Team Filksong by Susan Macdonald (To be sung to the tune of "Signy Mallory" (words by Mercedes Lackey, music by Leslie Fish.)
• other unknown content

Issue 34

Xenofilkia 34

• Blake's 7 poetry/filk
• other unknown content

Some filks from unknown issues

• The Beagle Has Landed by Michele Eatough (about Snoopy's adventures as a WWI Flying Ace)
• A Pilot's Song by Susan Macdonald (Airwolf)
• Bertholdt Brecht Does Shakespeare by Jane Mailander (MacBeth, to Mack the Knife)
• Harvester by Leslie Fish (about a peasant turned soldier)
• Acts of Parody by Bob Kanefsky (A parody of Acts of Creation, about how filkers steal tunes and ideas to create parodies)
• Home Again by Raoul I. Benefiche (about Gilligan's Island, but to The Mary Ellen Carter)
• Sirius Song by Lee Gold (A calypso song about the Dog Star (to Dayo))
• P G P by Lee Gold (About Phil Zimmerman's Pretty Good Privacy)
• possibly Where Have You Been Miles O'Brien by Susan Macdonald (Star Trek: TNG)