Chameleon Factor
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| Title: | Chameleon Factor |
| Publisher: | South Australian Doctor Who Fan Club |
| Editor(s): | Mathew Fazaherley & Gerard van Rysbergen, then Rosie Peck and Austin Boothey |
| Date(s): | 1980s-1990s |
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| Fandom: | Doctor Who & multimedia |
| Language: | English |
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Chameleon Factor is a gen Doctor Who anthology published in Australia. Its content is unknown. There are at least 80 issues. This zine was published in Australia and has a sister zine, a newsletter called Wall of Lies.
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Some Comments
To see the letter column war to end all letter column wars, you must grab the latest Chameleon Factor from the South Australian Club: the various rants cover four pages of close-packed text! Sensational (if rather pathetic) stuff! Elsewhere, we’ve got the makings of a solid zine: K-9 bagging, story bagging/praising, interview with author Justin Richards, a bit more K-9 bagging, and then a really cheap-looking back cover collage to top it off.[1]
Issue 41
Chameleon Factor 41 was published in 1988 and contains 22 pages.
Issue 68
Chameleon Factor 68 was published in 1995. It includes an interview with Paul Cornell, an article on drawing, and the fiction piece ‘The Pure Fluid of Life".
Reactions and Reviews: Issue 68
Chameleon Factor is a gorgeous-looking fanzine. As it is being printed professionally rather than with your standard home printer, the editor, Matthew Fazakerley, can get away with things us mortals dare not even think of. Paul Cornell must have been busy recently, as we have yet another interview with him in here. Best bits are the piece on drawing and the fiction piece ‘The Pure Fluid of Life". Rating: • • • 1/2 out of five.[2]
Issue 69
Chameleon Factor 69 was published in 1996. It's the 15th anniversary of the South Australian Club and includes a look back at the club over the years. It includes articles about Doctor Who, Space Rangers, Stargate: SG-1 and Star Trek: TNG.
Reactions and Reviews: Issue 69
It’s the 15th anniversary of the South Australian Club and the highlight of this issue, for me, was their look back on the club over the years. The brilliant Matthew Fazakerley has left as editor, but Rosie Peck and Austin Boothey have slotted in quite nicely. Easy to read, though they better work out how to print pictures better, and I find it hard to believe they need Space Rangers, Stargate and Star Trek: Generations articles to fill out the zine. Rating: • • • out of five.[3]
Issue 70
Chameleon Factor 70 was published in 1996. This is the last issue edited by Rosie Peck.
- bit at how the story of The Mutants would have been translated to the screen for Star Trek: TNG, Star Trek: Deep Space Nine and Blake's 7
Issue 71
Chameleon Factor 71 was published in 1996 and has a new editor, Gerard van Rysbergen.
Issue 72
Chameleon Factor 72 was published in 1997.
- a look at how the club members saw the telemovie
- a very long review section
- an article on Time Lord regenerations
- an interview with Kate Orman
Reactions and Reviews: Issue 72
Under Gerard van Rysbergen’s editorship the zine has taken on a less-polished look but has picked up massively in the readability and comedy stakes. This is a relaxed zine, but with some great content. There’s the obligatory look at how the club members saw the telemovie, a very long but varied and occasionally hilarious review section, and a thought-provoking article on Time Lord regenerations. Plus an interview with Kate Orman—at least it had a monstrously silly picture to accompany it. Get this one! Four silly puns out of five.[4]
Issue 73
Chameleon Factor 73 was published in 1997.
- piece with The Doctors rock group (with ‘new vocalist Paul McGann, ex-member of Irish folkies The Hanging Gale’)
- 26 zine reviews
- other unknown content
Reactions and Reviews: Issue 73
Issue 73 of Chameleon Factor is unfortunately a bit of a let-down, even with a flood of Ringos scattered all over the place. There’s the piece with The Doctors rock group (with ‘new vocalist Paul McGann, ex-member of Irish folkies The Hanging Gale’) and another back-logged couple dozen reviews written largely tongue-in-cheek (OK, I lie, it was 26 reviews) but little else to inspire the reader. Gets one-and-a-half ‘Blame Him!’s out of five.[5]
References
- ^ David J. Richardson, February 1998
- ^ August 1995, Mag Bag, Archived version by David J. Richardson
- ^ October 1995, Mag Bag, Archived version by David J. Richardson
- ^ from David J. Richardson at First Published: Sonic Screwdriver #100
- ^ from David J. Richardson at First Published: Sonic Screwdriver #104