Final Drive: Transmissions in Time and Space
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| Zine | |
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| Title: | Final Drive: Transmissions in Time and Space |
| Publisher: | Rock Dog |
| Editor: | |
| Author(s): | Michele Hawley |
| Cover Artist(s): | Jim's OTP and Michele Hawley |
| Illustrator(s): | |
| Date(s): | March 1991 |
| Medium: | print zine |
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| Genre: | |
| Fandom: | Beauty and the Beast (TV) |
| Language: | English |
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Final Drive: Transmissions in Time and Space is a 136-page explicit het Beauty and the Beast novel by Michele Hawley. It has original poetry by Deborah C. Shanks, front cover by Jim's OTP and Michele Hawley.
The zine is also known as "Once Upon a Time in a Galaxy Not Near Here."
It required an age statement to order.
Summary
This zine is a rather unique version of the classic Romeo and Juliet story. Our heroine is a feisty, space-going ambassadress who looks and talks just like Catherine. Our hero is an alien whose people are mortal enemies of our heroine's race. He looks and talks just like Vincent. Love blossoms but they are torn apart. Our hero manages to rescue our heroine just as she is about to give birth to their child, and they flee both races in his ship. Unfortunately, they and their ship are destroyed, but not before they manage to transport their day-old son to the planet below, hoping he will somehow manage to survive. There are a few very oblique references to the show and 3rd season, so the more sensitive reader may want to be cautioned.[1]
Reactions and Reviews
Also known as Once Upon a Time in a Galaxy Not Near Here (two subtitles!), this is NOT a crossover zine, though spacegoing races are involved. Young woman stranded with enemy/creature-like-Vincent, and a human man, on an otherwise deserted planet. Love blooms. Fun reading, despite the many typos. The story crackles right along. A reviewer called it an intergalactic roller-coaster ride. Besides sensitive love scenes, there's some graphic sex, strong language. If you're ready for something completely different, buy it.[2]