Bi-Lliam

Zine
Title:	Bi-Lliam
Publisher:	by the same fans who published Starship Excalibur/Star Trek Mail Association
Editor(s):	Shirley Lambard and Jackie A. Clarke
Date(s):	late 1970s to early 1980s
Series?:
Medium:	print
Size:
Genre:	gen and het
Fandom:	Star Trek: TOS
Language:	English
External Links:	cited here
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Bi-Lliam is a Star Trek: TOS zine by Shirley Lambard and Jackie A. Clarke.

The second issue is a novel that is a direct response to the pro novels The Price of the Phoenix and The Fate of the Phoenix.

The title of the zine series is a play on words for "William (Shatner)."

Issue 1

Bi-Lliam 1

cover of issue #1

"We would like to thank Rodney for coming to the rescue with photocopying and to the man from Gesterner Limited for repairing Tigger (duplicator) within two days after the drive bands collapsed and lastly and most importantly to ourselves for thinking up this zine and for doing all the work!!!"

• cover by Jackie A. Clarke
• Demanding Mistress by Shirley P. Lambard
• Shore Leave by Jackie A. Clarke

Issue 2

Bi-Lliam 2 was published in 1980, contains 80 pages and is a single novel. It has the subtitle: "Death of the Phoenix."

front cover of issue #2

back cover of issue #2

Its foreword contains one of the earliest uses of the term "K/S" as a term that describes not just a deep friendship, but an intimate and perhaps sexual one. The authors, however use the term in the "modern" sense but state that they do not agree with its premise.

The novel is prefaced by two 1978 poems by Gladys Oliver. It contains a single illo near the back of the zine; the artist appears to be Wendy Holt.

The story includes an original female character named Jackie Grover who is Kirk's romantic interest.

The authors' foreword:

This story we feel needs to be able to justify its existence, especially during the developments of the part few months. In the beginning, Jackie had just a rough outline for A story, but did not know what to do with it. We discussed it and somehow got onto the subject of 'Price of The Phoenix' - a book we quite enjoyed apart from the ending. We decided to write the ending we felt should have occurred, after discussing it so many times, patience run out and Shirley stated "instead of talking about it, let's write it" - and It went from there. That was back in August 1978. Time passed and we managed to work out a more detailed plan that would turn it into a reasonable length story. It was started, and dropped, started again - there was no hurry, we had all the time in the world until - 'Fate of The Phoenix' appeared. That really made up our minds and we set to work in earnest.

It still took time - this was not just any old story - this was the story to end the Phoenix series altogether; so the title was no problem * 'Death of The Phoenix'.

Then the crux of the matter arose while we were in the States, People over there could see undertones of K/S relationships. We were stunned - had not seen them. Because of this K/S we were discouraged, told we should not write our version because in doing so, we would be, in fact, recognising the Phoenix books. We understood the concern, but felt that we could not just sit back and do nothing, so we decided to carry on, and we think we have made the right decision - the whole reason for this story is the ending. All we wanted to do was put the situation right. Omne and James had to die. K/S relationships do not even enter vaguely into it - it is totally irrelevant besides which we disagree with it anyway and will not touch the subject - in stories; although we may discuss the issue in the newsletters.

We have not rushed the story, it was finally finished in March 1980, nineteen months after we first discussed the idea. No story, within our fold, has ever taken that long to write before. 'Death of The Phoenix' is not a parody of the originals; nor is it meant to be an infringement on the copyright held by Sondra Marshak and Myrna Culbreath; it is just purely a story written to accommodate the ending we felt should have occurred.

We have included two poems sent to us by Gladys Oliver. We think they speak for themselves; we only hope the story does too. If it does not, we are truly sorry, but at least we did try....

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  inside page from issue #2, the two poems by Gladys Oliver

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  inside page from issue #2, first page of novel

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  inside page from issue #2, last page of novel

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  inside page from issue #2, illo by Wendy Holt, portrays the dead lovers "Di'on" and "Zh'James"

Issue 3

Bi-Lliam 3 was published in 1984 or before. It is a collection of stories.