Far Horizons (multimedia zine)
See also Far Horizons (disambiguation).
| Zine | |
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| Title: | Far Horizons |
| Publisher: | out of Salinas, California |
| Editor(s): | D.S. Ingram, assistant editor was Margaret Ingram |
| Date(s): | 1981 |
| Series?: | |
| Medium: | fanzine, print |
| Size: | |
| Genre: | |
| Fandom: | multimedia |
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Far Horizons is a gen multimedia (mostly Star Wars) 202-page fanzine published by D.S. Ingram in 1981.
The first issue was the only issue.
It has art by Tabitha Amber, Nan Dalton, Charli Frank, D.S. Ingram, M. Ingram, and Fred Sellingner. The cover art is by Charli Frank and E.K. Horton.
It has content from Star Wars, Buck Rogers in the Twenty-First Century, and more.
Part of the zine's dedication:
This first issue of Far Horizons is dedicated not to any famous author or actor, hut to all the science fiction fans throughout the world who give writers and actors a reason to write and act. Bless you all!
From the Submission Guidelines
The following are our main areas of concerns a) SEX: If it serves a purpose in the story, isn't too graphic, and is tastefully written, then it's probably okay. There's no hard and fast rule here. Each story will be judged on its own merit. Just remember, FH is not an X-rated zine! Also, no SW stories with any homosexual content. It is my understanding that Lucasfilm does not like such stories, and I do not want to put FH in bad odor with Lucasfilm!
B) violence (blood gore type)s Ditto above. Stories concerning war, smuggling, and the like will sometimes have violence, but we needn't know what happens to every drop of blood and every shred of flesh. Again, no hard and fast rule.
C) BORROWING: Please, please, please!!! Get permission, in writing, before submitting any work that borrows another zine author's characters, story line, terminology, etc. Don't tell me that you've permission, send it along with your submission! It could just possibly save us all a lot of headaches later on. If you can't get in touch with the original author, or can't remember just where a particular character, etc., came from, let me know, and I'll try to help.
From the Editorial
One quiet summer afternoon, not quite a year ago, I said to my husband, "You know what I'd really like to do? Now, promise not to laugh, I'd like to put out a 'zine". Well, he didn't laugh. He just gave me a long look and said quietly, "If it's what you want to do, then do it".
So, I did it. Here you have the results. (It wasn't as easy as all that. It was a lot of work mixed with a few well worded curses, a fair number of late nights (not to mention early mornings), and a lot of late dinners. It was (and still is), a learning process. But if it was hard work, it was a lot of fun too. And I hope to do it again and again. Not, you understand, that I did it all alone, I have a fantastic staff and they have been of immeasurable help to me. An understanding husband helps too. He's just great about washing dishes for me, or changing the kitty box while I drum away at the typewriter, or try to explain to Charli just what kind of illustration I want for this or that story, (Yes, I said kitty box, I have four cats, Mr. Chekov, Peregrin Took, Biggs Darklighter, and Scragglepuss.)
'Bout the artists. Most of them (I'll leave it to you to figure out which ones.) don't claim to be artists. They're just willing to try to draw what I want, and brave enough to keep on trying till I stop yelling that it's all wrong, and pat them on the head as a reward for work well done when at long last it comes out right! Actually, I don't yell much My own artwork leaves so much to be desired that I have no right to criticize another's art work! You'll notice that I do very little of my own art.
Now, 'bout the writers. I think they're all good, all have a great deal of potential. Several are new to fandom in that they've never had works published in a 'zine, even though -they've been writing for years. Others are old hands at 'zine writing - veterans, with several published works under -their belts — ah, pens.}
Perhaps before I go any farther I should add furrier explanation to my editor's note above "Recompense". Ms. James and Ms. Thomas are acquainted. In fact, they're related. But at the time Ms. Thomas and Ms. James wrote their respective works, they were living many miles apart, communicating only sporadically, and not discussing their writing at all. The similarity in their writing is purely accidental.
And that accident brings something else to mind. There have been a great many accusations in 'zinedom recently, of one writer stealing (copying) another writer's work. For the record, I want to state, that all work in this 'zine is original. If any writer's (or artist's) work is similar to another's work in another 'zine, it's accidental, nothing more. Much as we'd like to, there's no way we here at FH cam read every 'zine article ever written in order to prevent likenesses in characters or story lines. When another author's work is borrowed, permission is obtained from that author before being used in a FH story.
One more thing, and I will try to shut up! I would like very much to run a letter column, so I would like to hear from all of you out there.
From the postscript:
I sit here in the middle of my not-too-large living room, literally surrounded by thousands of printed pages, pages that after, say, twenty or so hours of collation will comprise approximately 100 issues of Far Horizons 1 (Next time I'11 let the printer do the collating. My Head Collater, along with the rest of the staff, is awfully tired of crawling around the floor matching one page 1-2 with one page 3-4 and then one page 5-6 and then...), and I find myself thinking, "Oh-my-gawd-I've-finally-actually-done-it1!!" The insane idea that seemed at times like an impossible dream, at times like a nightmare, has at last come to pass.
And now that the 'zine has been printed... I spot the typos. (No, I won't tell you where they are. I'm sure you'll find them on your own!) I also see several pages, including the ad page for Jonas Soderblad's Swedish 'zines, printed so faintly as to be barely legible. What can I say but that we'll try harder next time?
Contents
- Horizons' View, Editorial (3)
- Like His Father by Jodi Joyce (6)
- Field Agent by D.S. Ingram (14)
- Star Trek Word Search (20)
- Creatures of Grace by H.L. Ingram (23)
- Recompense by Sarah James (Editor's note: "Please keep In mind as you read Recompense", that the author's final draft was typed in early spring of 1980, several weeks prior to the release of EMPIRE. Sarah James had no knowledge of the movie's theme or content. Also of Interest, "Recompense", by Sarah James, and the poem which follows, "Darkness, For Love's Sake", by Shiloh Thomas, were written by two separate authors living three hundred miles apart, with no knowledge of one another's work. When advised of the great similarities of their main characters, Shiloh and Sarah decided to collaborate on a sequel, and possibly a prequel to "Recompense".") (24)
- Darkness, for Love's Sake by Shiloh Thomas (42)
- A Matter of Taste by Elizabeth Frame (46)
- Bittersweet by Jodi Joyce (48)
- Wanted... a writing contest (78)
- Knots of Winter by D.S. Ingram (80)
- Friend-Search by Chewbacca (84)
- From the Nerf Department, ad (86)
- What Do You Get a Dragon for Christmas (When He's Already Been Impressed), filk to the tune "What Can You Get a Wookiee for Christmas When He Already Owns a Comb?", by Alicia Keyser (90)
- Searcher by D.S. Ingram (92)
- Little Man by Linne Addams (104)
- To Han by H.L. Ingram (106)
- Could It Be Magic? by Elizabeth Frame (108)
- Get Away by Linne Addams (114)
- A Matter of Semantics by D.S. Ingram (162)
- Wookiee Business by Volney Farnaha (172)
- It's Not Easy by Elizabeth Frame (193)
Sample Interior
Nan Dalton
Charli Frank
Charli Frank
Fred Sellinger
Nan Dalton
Nan Dalton
Nan Dalton
E.K. Horton
Charli Frank
M. Ingram
