Changing the Rules and Security Risk

Zine
Title:	Changing the Rules/Security Risk
Publisher:	EPS and Oriole
Editor(s):
Date(s):	1982
Series?:
Medium:	print
Genre:
Fandom:	The Professionals
External Links:	AO3
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Changing the Rules/Security Risk is a privately printed and circulated Professionals fan fiction anthology.

In it, Bodie tries various ways of breaking Doyle out of a suicidal depression after he (Doyle) has to conduct a mercy killing.

Another summary: Cowley is concerned that Bodie's womanising may pose a security risk - he gives Doyle a special assignment.

It was released in the UK in 1982. As such it straddles the line between fanzine and a circuit story. As the writer and publisher explains:

Changing the Rules/Security Risk wasn't precisely a 'zine' - Lil and I (who wrote those stories) owned a Gestetner printer on which we produced zines (as Green Dragon Press (UK) - GDP), mostly Blake's Seven and a critical thing called Critical Mass. Rather than photocopy our stories for the circuit - as most people did - we'd run off about 20 copies for distribution, on the basis that they'd be returned to us when no longer required (Blue Jay Press did the same). These weren't 'zines' as they were intended only for the circuit distribution. Think of them as f-locked posts - I'd hate to think that anyone was ever asked for payment for them.'

Reactions and Reviews

I have just noticed a heap of stuff arrive on AO3 which I want to recommend right now, but I had a plan for my weeks at the wheel and this second week is going to be a couple of stories written as Pros was being broadcast. There are lots of these. Some remain on the paper circuit only; some have made it onto the CD; and this one sneaked onto the web a month or two ago.

Security Risk was written (or first circulated?) in 1982.

( In it, Bodie is a risk; Doyle takes a risk... )

If you don't have the Proslib CD (for details, see the Hatstand website, and you will need it for the next story I have in mind, sorry), and haven't been keeping a very close eye on uploads to AO3, you may have missed it. I hope to remedy that: