Fantasy Flight

Zine
Title:	Fantasy Flight
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Editor(s):	Karla Jarrett
Date(s):	1981
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Medium:	print
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Fandom:	Star Wars and Battlestar Galactica (1978)
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Sat Nam Kaur Keahey

Fantasy Flight is a gen multimedia anthology 35-page fanzine published in 1981 by Karla Jarrett.

flyer for a proposed second issue that was never published

It contains Star Wars and Battlestar Galactica (1978).

The cover is by Sat Nam Kaur Keahey.

Originally Had a Different Title: "New Horizons"

This is the first issue of FANTASY FLIGHT. No, you haven't been sent the wrong zine. A few changes were made. It isn't often that you are given a second chance to re-evaluate before printing, but due to the mix up over the printing...

A friend of a friend of a friend said he could get the zine done for less money. Sounded good to me. Well, after over a month of mixed and lost messages, I finally got the zine back - unprinted. About this time I found out the main story for New Horizons #1 would not be ready for quite some time. Great.

So I decided to change the name to Fantasy Flight, and write, my own version of the past of Han Solo. I've been told it's every bit as different and good as the other. It will be out in Fantasy Flight #2. If you've put down a deposit on New Horizons it will be converted, towards Fantasy unless you wish a refund. I apologise for any inconvenience this has caused, and I wish it needn't have happened.

Feedback and Thank Yous

I hope you will enjoy this zine. In any case let me. know what you think as I will need your feedback and constructive criticism. There will also be a letters page in future issues providing there is enough response. Your letters needn't be only about the zine, but voice your opinions on the worlds of Trek, Wars and/or Battiestar.

I appreciate contributions. I need short stories, poems, filks, art, etc...in point of fact everything. Before letting you get on with the reading I would like to take this opportunity to thank all the people who helped get this zine out. It's not their fault this was delayed at the printers.

Sat Nam, Zann Jones, Lyn, Glenn and Karen. They did their best to help get this to you on time.

As you might have gathered, this is going to be a pretty informal zine. It's put out for your enjoyment, and mine, too, believe it or not; so, sit back and enjoy. You've waited long enough.

Contents

• Table of Contents
• Editorial
• Some Zine Listings
• Travelers Web, poem by Lyn Wiedemann (original science fiction)
• Turning Point by Jo Latham ([[Battlestar Galactica (1978)) (1)
• Oops Joke, cartoon by Katra (Star Wars) (3)
• Correlian [sic] Drinking Song curtesy [sic] of Boba Fett (Star Wars) (4)
• Shuttle Run by Karla Jarrett and Lyn Wiedmann ([[Battlestar Galactica (1978)) (5)
• Filk Wars by L. Wiedemann, K. Fullerton and P. Marek (14)
• Oops Joke, cartoon by Katra (Star Wars) (15)
• To Choose Your Own Path by Lizabeth Thomas ("Installment-novel of drug addiction, mind control and other situations. A taste of another side of a coin." -- "FROM AN IDEA BY CHERIE BUCHHEIM EDITING: Geoff Nathan, Laurel Olds, Kim Clark, Josie Figueroa, and a whole bunch of other good friends. ARTWORK: J.R., Mary Thomson, Honey Flash, Scorpio, A DREAM DEDICATED TO GEORGE LUCAS, WHO MADE IT FOR FILM AND TO KIM CLARK, WHO TIED IT UP FOR ME THANKS TO BOTH OF YOU." -- "Is anyone interested in getting it as a complete, bound work in three volumes?") (Star Wars) (16)
• Oops Joke, cartoon by Katra (Star Wars) (32)
• A Cache of Durnindrifes by Jo Latham (Star Wars) (33)

Interior Sample

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  Katra

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  Katra

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  Mary Thomson

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  unknown artist

Reactions and Reviews

Let me say with all positive emphasis that I sincerely hope that FANTASY FLIGHT keeps publishing. There is an informality and ingenuousness that I find refreshing. Initially, let me comment on the cover art. Sat Nam Kaur Keahey has done a remarkable piece of BATTLESTAR GLAACTICA portraiture. It is truly a lovely cover, and Karla did well to get it for her first issue.

Sticking strictly to the SW material (there is a major BSG piece included in this genzine), there are three stories and several poems here.

"To Choose Your Own Path" is the ambitious project of Ms. Lizabeth Thomas, an installment novel dealing with 'drug addiction, mind control, and other situations. The story picks up at the immediate end of TESB with Fett escaping with a Han Solo unit, Luke and Leia in a test of wills, and Chewie and Lando off piloting the Millennium Falcon. The new twist in this story is the introduction of an original character by the name of Fafnir Draegan. The name did not impress me since the source is too recognizable, however, the conception of the character is unusual in fandom. Instead of a sweet young thing in her twenties falling at the feet of Han Solo, Ms. Thomas implies that the story will follow the idea of a mature woman in middle age forced to a connection with Han Solo for the benefit of the Empire. This is done through a laboratory experiment, the full purpose of which has not yet been made clear to the reader; however, Darth Vader is sponsoring it. Fafnir also has a certain cynicism about her that gives her plausibility lacking in the other more well-known characters. It is, of course, difficult to say where the strengths and weaknesses of a story lie when you've only seen the first installment; but my interest is strong enough in the Fafnir character that I will make an effort to pick up the next issue to "find out what happens next".

Jo Latham has two short pieces in this issue, "The Turning Point" and "The Cache of Durindfires". Both of them bring me to state emphatically that I wish fan writers would realize that one can not expect to keep a reader's interest simply because one is writing about Luke (or Leia or Han). A writer has to have something happening constantly to keep the reader's interest, i.e. a plot. Character sketches and vignettes are all very well if they reveal something new about an individual, but they are not short stories. Vice versa, a short story does not become a character sketch or vignette if it lacks a plot. It merely dissatisfies the reader. Ms. Latham's stories are about Luke before ANH begins, which is good considering the current conviction of many that Luke was a dull boy before Obi-Wan got hold of him. However, more complex plot structure would have improved both pieces.

There is poetry of a sort (are filk songs poetry?) and a few cartoons. This was not a zine meant to revolutionize zine publishing, but very much a labor of love. I fully intend to get the next issue.