Alicia McKenzie
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| Fan | |
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| Name: | Alicia McKenzie |
| Alias(es): | ajm1 |
| Type: | Fanwriter, Archivist |
| Fandoms: | X-Men, X-Force |
| Communities: | OTL, CFAN, X-Project, Shadowlands |
| Other: | |
| URL: | Argent Miscellany - Alicia McKenzie's Fan Fiction |
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Alicia McKenzie was active in the X-Men fandom during the 1990s/early 2000s. She was especially interested in Cable.
She owned The Dayspring Archive, which is a Cable archive.
Alicia passed away on April 22, 2022 after a short illness[1].
Comments by Other Fans
"This woman is the goddess of Summer fanfic! She writes a lot of Nathan fic, many of which concentrate on his strained relationship with Scott. Her fic is all archived at the Dayspring Archive, which is an archive just dedicated to Nathan, and Fanfiction.net. Some of my personal favourites are Take Me Out To The Ballgame, Summer Rain, Aftermath and Letters From the Edge"[2]
Alicia is the Cable writer in X-Men. She's almost single-handedly responsible for generating an whole subgenre of Cable fic, and she writes well.[3]
Look around at comics fandom *now*, and you will see the impact of Alicia McKenzie. Cable fandom did not exist in 1998; Cable was treated as a joke or an annoyance, sometimes even as a villain. Today Cable and Cablefamily fics outnumber any other X-Men comicverse type on Outside the Lines; Cable fandom is so strong it's spawned spinoff subfandoms, Domino fandom and Stryfe fandom. Alicia's writing was (and is) prolific and excellent, and she has continued to offer encouragement to Cable fans, as well as opening the first Cable-centric archive. Alicia also invented the subgenre Shadowlands, which has drawn in many authors and has produced a wider variety of styles and themes than the other major "shared universe" subgenre, Darqstar's X-S. Finally, Alicia has done her best to nurture nascent Stormwatch/Authority fandom with an archive, fic of her own, and feedback.[4]
Notable Works
Awards
- 1998
- Best Drama - Promise
- Best of the Prosh Awards - Reader's Pick - Friendly Fire
- 1999
- Best Adventure - Raven Skies
- Best Comedy - Make A Wish
- Best Romance - Surfacing
- Best Subreality Cafe - The Pros and Cons of Unrepentant Sadism
- Best of the Prosh Awards - Best Story - Broken
- Hall of Fame - Alicia, having won 7 awards
- 1999
- Ultraviolet - Burning Bridges
- Ultraviolet - Preludes
Reviews and Recommendations
- Outside The Lines/Monthly Features
- February 1999 - "Only Candlelight"
- July 1999 - "Soul Of The City
Archives/Zines/Collections/Communities
Archives
As Archivist
- Argent Miscellany - personal fanfic archive
- The Dayspring Archive
- Alternate Timelines (X-Force Archive)
- Partners (X-Men archive)
- Strange Luck (X-Men archive)
- Property Damage
- The Itty Bitty Archives
- Comicfic.net
As Contributor
- Alara.net
- The Common People Warehouse
- Fonts of Wisdom
- Phoenix, Jean Grey: The First X-woman
- RedShades
- Shifting Sands
- The Storm Archive
References
- ^ Alicia McKenzie Obituary - Logan Evans Funeral Home
- ^ Kim M. at Sinister Interventions (2004, Wayback)
- ^ "Novel-Length Recs". Archived from the original on 2011-07-25.
- ^ Never let it be said... Posted 24 Oct 2002. Accessed 28 Feb 2020.