Fate's Final Act
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| Title: | Fate's Final Act |
| Publisher: | KnightWriter Press |
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| Author(s): | Linda Knights |
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| Date(s): | 1997 |
| Medium: | print zine, fanfic |
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| Fandom: | Blake’s 7 |
| Language: | English |
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Fate's Final Act is a 53-page gen Blake's 7 novel by Linda Knights.
It was previously published in Southern Seven #5.
Summary
Series
This zine is part of a 1997 series of mini-zines, each with a story that has been published previously in another zine. Each mini-zine has a full-color photo cover.
- Bad Blood by Peggy Hartsook
- Blind by Linda Knights
- Close Calls by Linda Knights
- The Crucible's Flame by Linda Knights
- Endgame by Peggy Hartsook
- Fate's Final Act by Linda Knights
- Prelude to an Interview by Linda Knights
- Returned Favors by Linda Knights
- Surprises by Linda Knights
- Waves Upon a Mirrored Surface by Linda Knights
- Yesterday: Memories of Tomorrow by Linda Knights
From Yesterday: Memories of Tomorrow, the last zine in the series:
Welcome to a special re-release of a Blake's Seven story...
Over the years many of us have come and gone into Blake's Seven fandom...and, over the past year, it's come to my attention that there is now a whole new set of "fans" for this very special fandom.
That's terrific news, of course, for anyone in Blake's Seven fandom, it's always fun to have someone new in the group. However, for the new fans it can be very frustrating to "find" all those old, great stories they hear about -- most of which are no longer in print! To help those new fans, or even give the "old" fans a chance to re-read an old favorite, KnightWriter Press is hoping to re-release a number of previously published stories in this fandom!
Keep in mind, all the stories in the "Re-Release" series (no matter by what author!) will have been previously published at some prior date. That's why they are coming out in Digest format so that you can pick and choose among those you have not previously read -- or those you want a copy of no matter whether you've read it or not.
At any rate... enjoy these stories, they are the author's favorites -- and so tend to be the best of the best in a fandom that created some of fandom's classic writers!
Excerpt
He burned with the fire of a dozen concentrated suns. As he had burned for... as he had burned for just short of forever. Far over him, in the nether regions of a space that neither involved nor interested him, voices sounded."Orac?"
+There is no medically discernible change +
"His fever has been 104 degrees for over an hour, Blake. Much longer and there could well be brain damage."
"I'm aware of that, Cally. What do you purpose? The medical computer can tell us nothing. Orac can tell us nothing. I'm open to suggestions."
Avon had long since ceased to struggle against the paresis that gripped his body and mind. He floated uncomfortably in a sea of molten lava, burning, eternally burning. He listened apathetically to the voices pronouncing judgment and prognosis.
"Orac, anything?"
+The infection parasite is most definitely viral +
"Then why aren't any of the rest of us affected?"
"Shouldn't we just be thankful we weren't?"
"Vila, hush!"
+ The pathogen is body-type specific. It took an extremely specialized, and thus self-limiting, set of circumstances - both physically and historically - to make anyone susceptible to the illness +
"Specify."
+ The disease will affect only adult males who have spent the primary portion of their formative years on Earth or closeted within Earth-specific cultures. Moreover, the males affected can have never been afflicted with any of the beta-deviant diseases that harmlessly infect most children in those cultuers. +
"Prognosis?"
+ Without more information on the pathogen, a prognosis is difficult to determine to any high degree of probability +
"Well guess then!"
+ If the anti-serum is not found and distilled within five hours there is a seventy percent chance Kerr Avon will die +