Fanlore:Featured Article Archives/2018: Week 5

Courts of Honor is a Kirk/Spock zine by Syn Ferguson, first published in 1985. It took the author roughly four years to write and publish.

A huge zine of more than 600 pages, Courts of Honor has a K/S storyline but features a number of secondary characters and romances as well as an intricate political plot. Many fans regard it as a fannish masterpiece.

Its road to availability was a very complicated one, with pre-orders being lost and misplaced, extensive delays in receiving copies of the zine, and fan controversy over the author selling the zine for profit. Although it was published to generally positive acclaim, many fans were angry with the zine or felt it had garnered undue special attention in the fandom.