False Images
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| Title: | False Images |
| Publisher: | Del Floria's Press & Samizdat Press |
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| Author(s): | Alexi Tesla |
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| Date(s): | February 1991 |
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| Fandom: | Man from UNCLE |
| Language: | English |
| External Links: | Del Floria's Press |
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False Images is a Man from UNCLE slash 148-page novel by Alexi Tesla.
It was edited by Katie Lynn Price.
It includes, "Partner rape, physical and psychological trauma, Buddhism, humor... h/c." [1]
Summary
From the publisher:
Illya attended Napoleon's funeral, gave himself a decent period of mourning, then tried to get on with his life. Six months later, Solo was suddenly back--but the man who staggered into U.N.C.L.E. HQ that bizarre morning was not the man Kuryakin had known. Solo is steadily withdrawing into himself, determinedly driving everyone away from him. He's quit U.N.C.L.E. to devote himself to the task of drinking himself into an early grave. When the repressed anger finally becomes too great for Solo to handle, he turns on his friend and nearly kills him. In his own eyes, he has finally managed to destroy the only remaining good thing in his life. But Illya refuses to walk out on him. Is there nothing Solo can do to drive Kuryakin away? Napoleon is convinced that's what he wants. But when a trip to Tibet turns deadly, and Illya's life hangs in the balance, Napoleon discovers needed wisdom and unexpected strength in the teachings of an elderly lama.
Publisher's Notes
From the zine:
Samizdat Press has gone to a digest size format for our novellas. This is because of our environmental concerns (digest size requires less paper per zine) and continually rising paper and postage costs.For our digest zines we have selected a typeface which, while smaller, we believe readers will find easy on their eyes ~ a serious concern, since it seems 90% of fandom wears glasses. (For those just dying to know, the text of this story is laserset in Times 10). Samizdat Press hopes you like our new, smaller format, and we welcome your comments-good or bad-on this change in size, selection of typefaces, etc. Correspondence to Alexi Tesla may be sent care of Samizdat Press, at the address on the first page of this zine.
And no, Alexi. You may not make "just one more change."
Official Samizdat Fag Cigarette: Virginia Slims Menthol 120s. Official Samizdat Fag: Nick Telsa... Official Samizdat Count of Number of Rewrites: 103. Official Samizdat Publisher's View on 'False Images' -- "Why don't you just shoot me in the head now and get it over with?'
Author's Notes
From the zine:
As you were warned in the flyers. False Images contains extreme violence. This story deals with the problems inherent in real life, and real relationships.I know I am going to get furious letter* regarding the "initial conflict scene." I'll hear from readers outraged at the very idea that these two men. who so obviously care so deeply for one other, could have such an event occur between them. Ill be told over and over that Napoleon loves Illya, that Solo would never do anything like that to Kuryakin. and how dare I. Well, dearies, it's like this: just because you love someone, doesn't mean you always do right by them. There's an old song called "You always hurt the one you love." There's a deep vein of truth threaded through that lyric. We hurt the ones we love because they are the last ones left in range when we go non-linear, wiser souls having headed for the safety of the hills. Their love puts them directly in the line of fire. And that is the tale told in False Images. So save your postage with those letters. Because if you still feel the need to write such a missive, you will have missed the entire point of this story. False Images is not an excuse to see how badly this writer can trash one of The Lads (and those of you who read me regularly know I can trash with the best of them). This is a story about love, about how tightly it can bind us to another, and what it can drive a man or woman to do-or to endure. Yes, this story is in places violent. I hold no illusions about that. Nor do I apologize for it. This is look at real life. And sometimes real life hurts. But be of brave heart. Gentle Reader there is tenderness here, too, and the ultimate triumph of love.
And if, after all of this, you're still seeing red with rage, remember it's only a story. That's all. Don't make more of it than it is.
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Reactions and Reviews
Brutal early on, so it might not be for everyone's taste. [2]
...contains an awfully brutal and graphic rape scene -- it's still a good story, but be forewarned. [3]