Fanlore:Featured Article Archives/2019: Week 23

Cover of the 1989 novel "Avon: A Terrible Aspect."

Avon: A Terrible Aspect is a Blake's 7 novel by Paul Darrow, the actor who played Kerr Avon in the original show.

It was published in hardcover in 1989, with copyright shared between Darrow and Terry Nation, the creator of the Blake's 7 universe. The novel is widely known as "Avon: A Terrible Novel" due to its often outlandish revelations, and ironically, out-of-character presentations. It is rarely incorporated as backstory for Avon in fanfiction by other writers, with the possible exception of the zine, Fatal Collision.