Amy Falkowitz

Fan
Name:	Amy Falkowitz
Alias(es):	signed her art "ARF"
Type:	fanwriter, zine publisher, filker, costumer and fan artist
Fandoms:	Star Trek: TOS, Kraith, dragons, Star Wars, Darkover
Communities:
Other:
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	Contents 1 Meta; 2 Convention Guest of Honor; 3 Sample Fiction and Songs; 4 Zine Contributions; 5 Some of Amy's Art 5.1 1975; 5.2 1976; 5.3 1977; 5.4 1978; 5.5 1979; 5.6 1981; 5.7 1982; 5.8 1986; 5.9 1987; ;

Amy Falkowitz is a gen Star Trek fan fic writer, fanzine publisher, filker, song writer, and fan artist.

from The Other Side of Paradise #2, a self-portrait

Falkowitz also participated in convention costume contests.

She was one of the early contributors to K/S fandom.

Falkowitz was the editor of The Other Side of Paradise and The Time of Surak.

Her fan art often has a focus of dragons.

Convention Guest of Honor

SaltCon (1977)

Sample Fiction and Songs

from The Other Side of Paradise #1, song by Falkowitz, illo by Signe Landon

Flame Time (Spock Get-'em. Alternate "Amok Time." Spock defeats Stonn and claims T'Pring, only to fall into the dread Linger Death when his anger at her severs their bond. T'Pau releases Spock into death.) (from Berengaria #8) (1976)
Death is Only a Parting (from Contact #2 (1976)
songs in The Middle-earth Songbook (1976)
Unicorn Horn (1977)
Home Leave in R & R #6/7 (1978)
It's Boring, a Sahaj song in Omicron Ceti Three and Friends (1979)
songs in The Westerfilk Collection (1980)

Zine Contributions

from Falcon's Flight #2 -- Ellen Blair, the editor of the zine, wrote in it: "Amy Falkowitz's magnificent title page illo for "The Sky Warriors" was sent to me as a sort of loan before she was asked to illustrate "Warriors, " ergo, the light sabres in the hands of the Skreels who do not use them in the story,.. and thereby hangs a tale. Completely independent of each other. Amy and I each imagined and wrote about a race of alien beings who are uncannily similar. Amy's bird-people are much more intelligent than my Skreels, but the name of her hero character is "Kreel. " Interesting, no? In actual fact. Amy's illo shows her creatures, not mine. But her creatures were so exactly like what I had imagined mine to be, minus the light sabres, that I asked her if I could use her work as a title page. Obviously she said "yes" and as a result, you are being treated to the evidence of a rare coincidence: two writers who did not collaborate and yet managed to create almost exactly the same thing."

Some of Amy's Art

1975

"The Kaytaytikh lifts the KRAITH." from Mind-Meld v.2 no.6
from Interphase #1
from Rigel #1, from what appears to be a self-insertion story, "Rift Crossing: An Obligation Between Universes" ^[1]

1976

from One Trek Mind #5
original art, "Infinite Diversity In Infinite Combinations," printed in Grup #5 (1976)
from The Other Side of Paradise #1
from "And Zarabeth Killed a Snowbear" from Probe #7
from Probe #8
from Showcase #3
from Sol Plus #3

1977

from Sehlat's Roar #5
from Nourishment
from The Other Side of Paradise #2
from Alpha Continuum #2
from Berengaria #8
from Berengaria #9 (from a silkscreen design by Mary G. Busar)
from Galactic Discourse #1

1978

from Starstone #2: "It is Ill Done to Keep a Dragon Chained for Roasting Your Meat" (Darkover)
from Pern Portfolio
from Time Warp #2, "Grooming the Steed" -- from the editor of "Time Warp": "Oh yes. My bacover. THAT, my dears, is the illo that spawned a fanzine of its own. Seems Amy Falkowitz believed me when I said I liked dragons and wanted an illo of one. I saw this, and wrote back, "Why not do me a whole portfolio of dragon illos?" So she did. THEN I said... anywho, the end result was PERN PORTFOLIO, a McCaffrey zine."
from 1001 Trek Tales (Lord of the Rings)
from Guardian (multimedia zine) #1
from Time Warp #1

1979

from The Time of Surak
from The Time of Surak
from The Time of Surak
from the The Other Side of Paradise #4
from The Other Side of Paradise #4
from Masiform D #9
from Falcon's Flight #4 -- a fan in issue #5 said in a letter of comment: "The illo that wins the Blechh Award is on page 66. Must they illo injuries like this? I'll call this one the Han Andreas Fault."

1981

1982

from the art portfolio in The Princess Tapes #2, Amy Falkowitz envisions The Other: "Luke's mother, Jaylahna Skywalker, has been in hiding for many loing years. After the triumph and horrendous revelation of Darth Vader to Luke, Yoda summons her out of hiding, to bring about the beginnings of the revival of the Jedi. She is the the unknown Other: Darth had believed her dead, and is not ready for her return. She is the Phoenix Arisen, summoned out of flame and ash and darkness; she comes with other Jedi of many species to challenge the Dark Lord and redeem herself (for she had indeed yielded to Darth cunning seduction: Luke is the son of the Phoenix and the Black Dragon.) The Phoenix Rises, Returns, and the Light is Reborn."

1986

from Maine(ly) Trek #4

1987

from The Other Side of Paradise #7

^ Falkowitz commented on this story in 1979 in Southern Star #5: "By many definitions, ECHOES is a Mary Sue. Now, I don't mean that as a put-down; heaven knows, I've written one myself, and ECHOES is in general better than my ghod-awful "Rift Crossing"."

[1] Falkowitz commented on this story in 1979 in Southern Star #5: "By many definitions, ECHOES is a Mary Sue. Now, I don't mean that as a put-down; heaven knows, I've written one myself, and ECHOES is in general better than my ghod-awful "Rift Crossing"."

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Fan
Name:	Amy Falkowitz
Alias(es):	signed her art "ARF"
Type:	fanwriter, zine publisher, filker, costumer and fan artist
Fandoms:	Star Trek: TOS, Kraith, dragons, Star Wars, Darkover
Communities:
Other:
URL:
Click here for related articles on Fanlore.
Contents 1 Meta 2 Convention Guest of Honor 3 Sample Fiction and Songs 4 Zine Contributions 5 Some of Amy's Art 5.1 1975 5.2 1976 5.3 1977 5.4 1978 5.5 1979 5.6 1981 5.7 1982 5.8 1986 5.9 1987