All Your Dreams Fulfilled...
| Zine | |
|---|---|
| Title: | All Your Dreams Fulfilled... |
| Publisher: | Plastic Cow Productions |
| Editor(s): | Vincent M. Tenerezza (a play on the name Vinnie Terranova) |
| Date(s): | Sept/Oct 1993 |
| Series?: | |
| Medium: | |
| Genre: | male same sex |
| Fandom: | original fiction but lifted from Wiseguy |
| Language: | English |
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All Your Dreams Fulfilled... is a set of two anthologies of gay fiction.
The contents of both volumes were originally Wiseguy stories from The Terranova Situation, a long-running story serial that had many fans, as well as detractors.
They were not plagiarized as some fans speculated early on, as they were published and written by the original author/s.
Disclaimer and Age Statement
This zine required an age statement to purchase.
The publisher of ALL YOUR DREAMS FULFILLED... strongly encourages safe and sane sexual behavior. The stories contained herein are to be considered fantasies, and thus do not necessarily contain sex acts which are considered safe. We cannot accept any responsibility for injury to anyone that results from application of information gathered or ideas generated from the material printed within.
All characters featured herein are over the age of consent.
Any similarity between the characters mentioned in the material printed in ALL YOUR DREAMS FULFILLED... and any real persons is strictly coincidental [1]
An Ad
From a September 1993 ad in GAZ: "Plastic Cow Productions has branched out! In addition to our adzine, we are now publishing mainstream gay erotica! SASE for details on purchasing or writing for our new anthology 'All Your Dreams Fulfilled'."
Fan Speculation
In February 1995, a fan asked others:
I recently lent my two zines of generic gay fan fiction "All Your Dreams Fulfilled" #1 and #2 (which I had found announced in the Media Monitor [2]) to a friend who's into Wiseguy.She called me to tell me that some of the stories in those zines seem to be more or less identical with parts of the Wiseguy zine The Terranova Situation. The names of the characters are changed, and references to certain situations removed. But many sentences are identical. The author names sound partly male, and partly like unidentifiable pseuds.
It looks as if the sex scenes from some slash zines were taken to be published as generic homoerotic fantasies.
Any ideas what happened here? [3]
A reply:
I can't say anything about "All Your Dreams Fulfilled #2"--I haven't read it, but just about every single scene in the first appeared somewhere in Terranova Situation. Word for word. Sometimes, they don't even bother changing the names. I was kinda ticked about the whole thing. [4]
A reply:
This looks like either a case of authorial republication, or of plagiarism. In case of the latter, it would be appropriate to inform the authors/publishers of THE TERRANOVA SITUATION, giving them all the details and contact information for ALL YOUR DREAMS FULFILLED, in case they want to pursue the question. Even if there are no official rules in fandom, plagiarism (which has happened before) is rude and tasteless in the extreme. Since "all your dreams fulfilled" is a quotation from a Wiseguy episode, however (one of the Profitt eps), it may be simply a case of the authors republishing in another format. How rude or tasteless this is depends on how much they ought to expect that the same audience would buy both zines. This is a continuum; fans would, I think, be really pissed if a publisher reprinted a story from SMUT #1 in SMUT #2, but generally cheer when a story from a zine is republished professionally. (I still remember the thrill of recognition when I borrowed a book of women's erotica from a friend and the best story in it was one of Gayle's K/S stories with the names (and Spock's sex) changed.) [5]
Confirmation:
Actually, the publishers (and subsequently, the writer) of TERRANOVA SITUATION know about "All Your Dreams Fulfilled"--they're the ones putting it out. That's what ticked me off: They were selling it side by side with TS. In their defense, they had intended to sell it in bookstores, but seems to me they should have somehow warned fen who had read TS that most of the material in AYDF were reprints from TS. [6]
All Your Dreams Fulfilled... 1
- Three's Not Always a Crowd by Travis (3)
- Rub Your Troubles Away by Mark (6)
- Fun in the California Sun by Vinnie Tenerezza (11)
- Late One Night by R.L. (18)
- Not So Straight and Definitely Not Narrow by C.J. (22)
- Bound for Pleasure by Rusty (30)
from issue #1
from issue #1
from issue #1
from issue #1
All Your Dreams Fulfilled... 2
- Steamy Sex by Mark (3)
- Act Two by Kirk Brothers (8)
- Triple Header by R.L. (13)
- Frontier Justice by Jim Horn (34)
- Neighbor by Rashamon (40)
- The Birthday Surprise by Vinne Tenerezza (45)
- Touch, poem by Steve Rider (51)
- The Fag, poem by Steve Rider (52)
from issue #2
from issue #2
from issue #2
from issue #2
References
- ^ Guess that doesn't mean Vinnie Terranova and Frank McPike and Roger Lococco!
- ^ Media Monitor was published by the same fans who created The Terranova Situation.
- ^ from Virgule-L, quoted anonymously (February 25, 1995)
- ^ Michelle Christian, from Virgule-L, quoted with permission (February 25, 1995)
- ^ from Virgule-L, quoted anonymously with permission (February 26, 1995)
- ^ Michelle Christian, from Virgule-L, quoted with permission (February 26, 1995)