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A Handful of Sand
| Fanfiction | |
|---|---|
| Title: | A Handful of Sand |
| Author(s): | Alexis Rogers |
| Date(s): | 1981 or before |
| Length: | |
| Genre(s): | slash |
| Fandom(s): | Starsky & Hutch |
| Relationship(s): | |
| External Links: | A Handful of Sand |
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A Handful of Sand is a very early Starsky/Hutch story by Alexis Rogers.
It is likely the second single-slash story printed in the fandom. It was also likely a pass-around, underground fic.
This is missing scene from the episode "The Deadly Impostor."
S/H Fanfiction History
The novel, Forever Autumn, was the first S/H zine published. It was issued in the UK in March 1980.
Next, a single slash story was published in February 1981 in the second issue of Ten-Thirteen.
A single slash story, "A Handful of Sand," was printed in September 1981 in Daily Reports #2.
It is commonly understood that the first two strictly S/H zines published in the U.S. were Code 7 in summer 1981, and Trace Elements in March 1982. Which one of these two zines was "first" includes a bit of semantics.
In December 1982, a fan wrote:
This [Trace Elements] was the first American S/H zine to come out from the catacombs, and for that reason alone the editors, [Billie Phillips] and Pam Rose, deserve a commendation. If there has been a lightening of the atmosphere surrounding the sub-fandom of S/H, it is due in large part to their taking the first public step.[1]
These contradictions regarding which was the first zine "published" may be due to the fact that the editors of Code 7 issued an announcement that the Code 7 had been canceled in S and H #22 (June 1981) while secretly publishing the zine without identifying information and distributing it to a select group of people.
Because Code 7 #1 was an underground publication (see Code 7 vs. Trace Elements), some fans consider Trace Elements as the first "published" US S/H zine.
A fan in early 1982 gives a wink to fellow fen regarding "Code 7": "I haven't seen that much S/H to date -- just one excellent zine (that doesn't exist, of course)." [2]
Print Places
- Daily Reports #2 (1981)
- Hanky Panky #7 (1983)
- The Collected Starsky and Hutch Stories of Alexis Rogers (1996)
References
- ^ from S and H #37
- ^ from Hanky Panky #1 (January or February 1982)