Emily Ross

Fan
Name:	Emily Ross, Emily C. Ross
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Type:	fanwriter, zine editor and zine publisher
Fandoms:	Star Trek: TOS, Blake's 7, The Professionals, Starsky & Hutch
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Emily Ross was a fanwriter, poet, and zine editor.

Ross, along with Rita Schmaltz, published zines under the name Uzi Press. Two of their most notable fanzines were Ellis Ward's Harlequin Airs and HG's Master of the Revels.

Ross was a member of Allies for Star Trek, a fan club based in Tennessee, US.

NOTE: This is not the same person as the fan who wrote a single Keifer/Lou story. That "Emily Ross" is TM Alexander.

Ross' Comments

In 1983, Ross commented upon two pro Trek novel reviews, saying:

I found the book review in the last newsletter so unpalatable I felt I had to respond. Your 'professional reviewer' admires Black Fire for the same reasons I disliked it, and pans Triangle for the very qualities about it that I enjoyed!

"Black Fire" tumbles mindlessly from one improbable action sequence to another. I got bored and started flipping pages to see whether all this exercise was leading anywhere. It wasn't.

The book's main character is Spock, but you'd never know it if you weren't told. It's not so much that he's out of character as it is that there's no character there, just a cardboard figure going thru the notions.

Black Fire is flashy, but shallow, like a roller coaster ride, it goes nowhere, just leaves you sick at your stomach.

As for Triangle, Marshak and Culbreath are not, I admit, everyone's cup of tea. They do happen to be mine. The authors adore their protagonists, and they spend a lot of time just playing with them, body and mind, for the sheer pleasure of it. I'll go along with them, any time, whether they bother to throw in a plot or not!

Sample Stories

• Cassandra (Blake's 7)
• Nor Iron Bars a Cage (Blake's 7)
• Once More Into the Breach (Blake's 7)
• There's Got to Be Morning After (Star Trek: TOS)
• Transposed Images (Star Trek: TOS)

Zine Contributions

Blake's 7

• Powerplay
• Resistance
• A Simple Game
• Songs of Experience
• Songs of Innocence

The Professionals

• British Takeaway
• Cold Fish and Stale Chips

• Czardas
• Master of the Revels
• Moon Phases (crossover with Darkover)
• No Holds Barred

Starsky & Hutch

• Blue Eyes and Blue Jeans
• Nightlight
• Tales by the Fireside (Starsky & Hutch?)

Star Trek: TOS

• Amazing Grace
• Communications Console
• Consort
• Daring Attempt
• First Time
• Galactic Discourse
• Impact
• Kaleidoscope
• Matter/Antimatter
• Naked Singularity
• Nome
• The Poets and I
• T'hy'la
• TREKisM
• TREKisM at Length
• Twin Destiny

Other

• Homosapien (Those Who Hunt by Night, Original Fiction)
• Twists of Fate (unknown fandom)