Galactic Falcon
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| Title: | Galactic Falcon |
| Publisher: | Future Star Press |
| Editor(s): | Cyndi Hartman & Cathy Carmody |
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| Date(s): | 1981 (the editorials are dated April, but also mention they were written six weeks before the zine was printed) |
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| Fandom: | Star Wars & Battlestar Galactica |
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Galactic Falcon is a 100-page gen Star Wars (with a single Battlestar Galactica story) fanzine published in 1981 by Cyndi Hartman and Cathy Carmody.
The art is by Judith Low, Carol McPherson, Omega aka Cathy Carmody, Leah Rosenthal, Mike Pennock, Gee Moaven, and Linda Yamashiro.
All content is Star Wars, unless otherwise noted.
From the editorial by Cyndi Hartman:
A long time ago in a galaxy far, far away — California, to be exact — there was this strange little club called RCA that had about four members and never did anything. Until one day someone got the idea of doing a newsletter and xeroxing a copy for each member. Guess what you're holding right now? The club itself sank into the Great Void to be almost-forgotten by its members; the newsletter evolved into Galactic Falcon, amazing, isn't it? How we did this, I'll never know, Neither of us know what the Sith we were doing, and yet, it worked.
This fanzine is bound to be a little weird, since editor and publisher live 3000 miles apart (my fault — I'm the one who moved). We write long, detailed letters to keep each other up-to-date, and have long, detailed, expensive phone calls on same, but I cringe when I think of how much easier it would've been if I still lived around the corner. Hopefully our brains are working on more or less the same wave length; if they're not, this is going to be one mixed up (and interesting!) zine.
[snipped]
Special, special thanks to Omega, my best friend and 'big sister'. She waited ever-so-patiently while I lined up material for GF #1, and now she's totally swamped with work, getting the layout together. Do I really deserve her friendship?
Cathy Carmody's comments:
Throughout time man has always dreamed: dreamed of things that were different, things that would bring him to other worlds, other times, anything; just to forget about reality for a moment...
But ah, what a glorious moment it is. Picture yourself Captain of your own space craft, flying at unknown speeds across the blackness of space, feeling as if you are King in a world made just for you!
It's a shattering experience when you are brought back into the real world again, and most people have little if nothing to show for their beautiful dreaming...
I'm lucky, I do, and you're about to read it. All my dreams, my visions, and my loves are here on paper, done by others like myself. George Lucas once said: "To be able to make your dreams come true, is a great privilege and the result of a lot of luck." Well, my dreams came true: to be able to bring people a bit of Fantasy, to help them forget reality for a time: to give people something to believe in, something to hold on to, and maybe... for just a moment I'll have brought a smile, and a look of joy to someone's face.
And I will have been lucky and privileged, for then all my dreams will have become a reality!
Contents
- Docking Bay 94, a note from the editor by Cyndi Hartman (1)
- Constellation Omega, a note from the publisher by Omega (Cathy Carmody) (3)
- Interlude, story by Karen Miller (discussed in Han and Leia in Fanfiction) (5)
- Thoughts of a Sorrowing Princess, poem by Karen Ann Weikert (18)
- The Price of Success by Elyse A. Dickenson (Written in October 1980: "The author would just like to state here that she thinks Lando is being treated rather unfairly, being called such derogatory terms as "rat" and "creep" and other such things. Surely, Vader (whom I think should be called such things) would either persuade Lando to cooperate or else Lando would suddenly find himself with a much shorter life span than planned. Lando's only trying to save himself and his city. Give the poor guy a break!") (19)
- Homecoming by Samantha Blackley (32)
- Corellian Wander, filk to the tune of "Wanderin'," by Sherry Magee (59)
- We Did It, poem by Omega aka Cathy Carmody (61)
- Circe's Eclipse, story by Ellen Blair (Battlestar Galactica) (62)
- As Close as Han Solo Ever Got to Making a Pitch for the Alliance: In the Name of Profit, filk to the tune of "Vagabond King," by Susan Matthews (90)
- TESB: An Overview by Patti Rethore (91)
- Biggs' Song, filk to the tune of "Minstrel Boy," by Susan Matthews (94)
- One Other, fiction by Melinda Ann Holley (includes a 14-year old original female character named Carina) (95)
- includes a full-page personal statement regarding the dissolution of Galactic Flight, see that page
Interior Sample
Mike Pennock
Linda Yamashiro
Linda Yamashiro
Gee Moaven
Leah Rosenthal
Judith Low
Judith Low
Judith Low
Carol McPherson
Mike Pennock (Battlestar Galactica)
Carol McPherson
A Proposed Second Issue
A second issue of "Galactic Falcon" was listed in the "Planning Section" of the first issue of Jundland Wastes in March 1981.
In the editorial of "Galactic Falcon's" first issue, Hartman says:
Issue #2 will "be coming out, I can't say. Early summerish, I can estimate. We already have some tentative material for it, but needmore. Come on, writers! I'm ready and willing to read anything and if we don't use it, I'll at least give some constructive criticism, and
get Omega to, too. All submissions must be accompanied by enough postage to get it back home, I have to ask for this, because my income is very limited and there're few things I hate more than being broke.
There was a notice in Jundland Wastes #3 in July 1981 that said:
As of May 31, 1981 the fanzine known as Galactic Falcon has been discontinued and the partnership between Cathy Carmody and Cyndi Hartman dissolved... All contributions for future issues of GF will be used instead in a new zine, also under Future Star Press, as GF was, which I (Cyndi) will be putting out myself. I thank everyone who supported GF and/or the break in partnership, and to those who have shown support in my new zine.