Encounters (multimedia zine 1)
| Zine | |
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| Title: | Encounters |
| Publisher: | Farpoint |
| Editor(s): | Bev Volker & Steve Wilson |
| Date(s): | 1997 |
| Series?: | |
| Medium: | |
| Genre: | gen |
| Fandom: | multimedia |
| Language: | English |
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Encounters is a gen multifandom 228 page fiction anthology published in 1997.
It was the first con zine for Farpoint, a con that began in 1993.
From the Editorial
GentleReader,
It all began with Steve asking me to edit Enterprise Betrayed.
"I don't think I know how to do that anymore," I protested.
"Well,then, just read it and tell me what you think."
"Okay,"I agreed, thinking it might make some good summer reading.
But, you know,it's sort of like riding a bicycle. Someone gives you a manuscript, and from somewhere a blue pencil materializes in your hand. Awkward phrases,dangling participles, and, finally, plot holes just seem to pop out; and, before you know it, there you are, back in the editor mode.
From Enterprise Betrayed to Encounters was a short phone conversation. "How about editing the Farpoint zine?"
"Sure,why not?"
Why not,indeed. For one thing. Encounters is a very different kind of zine from Contact. (Anyone remember that liltle Kirk-Spock zine Nancy Kippax and I used to do?)
I would be working with several media universes, not all of which are familiar to me. Secondly, I didn't get to pick the stories. That was all done by Steve. And thirdly, I would be working (with the exception of Lynn Syck, Mary Rottler and Steve) primarily, through Steve, with writers I didn't know. Well, I needed a challenge in my life.
The writers were all, to a person,wonderful. They were cooperative, prompt and professional in their responses to my requests for re-writes and re-working of their stories. To my knowledge there was not one bomb threat or temper tantrum even when what I suggested was a major revision.
You are holding what I believe is a collection of excellent SF stories, good writing and creative plotting— an SF media mix with a little something for everyone.
Contents
- Editorial by Bev Volker (1)
- Editorial by Steve H. Wilson (3)
- Just A Matter Of Time, story by Philip Giunta (Star Trek: TOS) (3)
- Transition: 2000, story by Steve H. Wilson (Space: 1999) 11)
- A Passion For Peace (Star Trek: TOS) (18)
- I've Always Known, poem by Lynn Syck and Mary Rottler (25)
- The Storm, story by Karen Donnelly (Star Trek: Voyager) (26)
- Transition: 2024, story by Steven H. Wilson (Lost in Space) (53)
- Endings and Beginnings, story by Lynn Syck and Mary Rottler (Star Trek: TOS) (62)
- Transition: 2032, story by Steven H. Wilson (SeaQuest DSV) (96)
- Future, story by A. Wheeler (Babylon 5) (103)
- ForeverCon, story by Philip Giunta (original science fiction) (108)
- Legends, story by J. Green and D. Heineman (This story takes place during the third year of the second five year mission, according to the Okuda timeline. Joanna McCoy has been in and resigned from Starfleet. She is now a respected Chief of Surgery at a Federation teaching hospital on a planet called Ystis. She is not happy and keeps looking for adventure the adrenaline rush she is so addicted to: her assignments in Starfleet were all on Border Patrol ships) (Star Trek: TOS) (115)
- Transition: 2294, story by Steven H. Wilson (Star Trek: TOS) (227)