Fanlore:Featured Article Archives/2023: Week 2
The Weight Collected is a gen and het (with hints of slash) 520-page perfect bound Star Trek: TOS anthology. It has the subtitle, "And Other Stories." It consists of three stories written and illustrated by Leslie Fish and one by Ed Zdrojewski, to which the others are sequels.
The zine is a collection of the "The Weight" which was serialized in eleven issues of Warped Space between 1976-79. The art by Leslie Fish from the "Warped Space" serialization is included in "The Weight Collected."
It was added to AO3 in 2022, as part of the Open Doors Fan Culture Preservation Project. Fish won the first FanQ best author award in 1977 for first part of this story.
The main story first appeared in serial form in Warped Space between 1976 and 1979. It was then collected and published as a standalone in 1988.
Some fans referred to "The Weight" series as "The Wait" in reference to the time it took for this story to be finished (3 years) and then to be collected in one publication (11 years).