File Forty (Man from UNCLE gen anthology)

Zine
Title:	File Forty
Publisher:	File 40 Press
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Date(s):	2001-2002
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Medium:	print zine
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Fandom:	Man from UNCLE
Language:	English
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For other pages with a similar name, see File Forty.

File Forty is a gen Man from UNCLE anthology. On the cover: "File Forty Dossier."

Issue 1

cover of issue #1

File Forty 1 was published in 2001 and contains 205 pages.

• Indelible by M.E. Wells (5 pages)
• The Met In Darkness Affair by Patricia Fetner--Illya and Napoleon don't quite meet on a battlefield in Korea. (8 pages)
• The Golden Oldies Affair by M. Mercedes--Years after Napoleon and Illya separated, each believing the other dead, Napoleon finds Illya in a new life as a married college professor. But Thrush found him too.... (31 pages)
• The Up-and-Down Affair by Rose Burkette--A young woman gets stuck in an elevator with Illya and Napoleon. (5 pages)
• The Hierarchy Insect Affair by Emrys (16 pages)
• Clues by Valentina (7 pages)
• City of Light by Kate Drummond, winner of the 2002 MediaWest Fan Q award for best gen story (30 pages)
• The Weather-Or-Not Affair by Rose Burkette (5 pages)
• The Two-By-Two Affair by M.E. Wells (12 pages)
• Shadow of A Doubt by Nickovetch (34 pages)
• A Day In The Life Of Illya Nickovetch Kuryakin by Deb (5 pages)
• The Met In Moonlight Affair by Patricia Fetner (8 pages)
• The Big Apple by Kate Drummond (16 pages)
• The Silent Clown Affair by Chajka (23 pages)

Issue 2

cover of issue #2

File Forty 2 was published in 2002 and contains 216 pages.

• The Mary Sue Affair by Loretta Ross (2 pages)
• The Scotch Mist Affair by Di T (12 pages)
• The Close Encounters Affair by Rose Burkette (5 pages)
• Remission of Sin by Nickovetch (22 pages)
• The Sololiloquy Affair by Loretta Ross (13 pages)
• Language Lessons by Emrys (7 pages)
• The Merrick Affair by Damara Winn (21 pages)
• A Lovely Daughter by T. Gabrielle (16 pages) (online version is revised and has two endings)
• The Brownstone Building Affair by Becky Heath (6 pages)
• The Lost Innocence Affair by Loretta Ross (14 pages) (reprinted in Taken to the Cleaners)
• The Noah's Ark Affair by Rose Burkette (5 pages)
• The Kamikaze Affair by Lee the T (30 pages)
• Depth Perception by Nickovetch (3 pages)
• Letters by Di T (11 pages)
• The Fuzzy Little Friends Affair by Loretta Ross (11 pages)
• Standards by Emrys (4 pages)
• The Chicago Underworld Affair by Chajka (36 pages)

Reactions and Reviews: Issue 2

[A Lovely Daughter]: Be honest: which (teenage) Illya fan didn't want to trade places with Miki Matsu from Her Master's Voice? Miki is the closest to a canonical Mary Sue as we get from any of the innocents in the series (and by Mary Sue, I mean female audience wish fulfillment). tgabrielle wrote a brilliant post-ep for HMV, letting us tag along as the two venture off to the Sayonara-A-Go-Go. I love the charmingly awkward interactions between Miki and Illya; I found myself relating very much to her naïve eagerness to connect with the ever professional Illya at a deeper level, to be more than an innocent. tgabrielle interweaves all of these achingly appropriate songs snippets that evoke the very 60's feel of the series as well as the lyrical idealism of the "Flower Power" generation coming of age. It's a wonderfully nostalgic story about all the dreamy expectations we have about growing up, the bittersweetness of memory, how good intentions all too often end up being no more than that - intentions. There are two endings to this story, which I both highly recommend.

[The Lost Innocence Affair]: This is a priceless little story, which despite being nearly a parody, has on-target characterization and a plot that could almost have been an episode. I could hear the dialogue in my head as I read, always the mark of an author with a real love for the characters. It also happens to be funny as hell. It's published as part of an online zine called "Taken to the Cleaners".