Grope Flashback

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Zine
Title: Grope Flashback
Publisher: Ann Looker
Editor(s):
Date(s): May 1980
Series?:
Medium: print
Genre:
Fandom: Star Trek: TOS
Language: English
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front cover, Jim Barker
back cover, Jim Barker

Grope Flashback is a slash and explicit het Star Trek: TOS fanzine.

It was published in May 1980 and contains 80 pages of reprints from Grope and More Grope.

The creators describe it as "turgid tales of tumescence and torture, often both at once!"

It is a sister zine to Alnitah, and eight other "Gropes".

The art is by Robin Hill, Maggi, Helen McCarthy, Jim Barker, Mike Eason, Margaret Austin, and Beth Hallam.

From the Editorial

Both zines have been out of print for a long time. Hopefully, this reprint will please those GROPE readers who missed, the early issues. I have used the original masters to print this zine, so that means you also get all the original typos. I couldn't correct them without drawing unnecessary attention to them since these days I use: a different typeface. Joyce Gluett (then Joyce Deeming) typed most of this zine about 4 years ago and when she sees those unqorrected typos I'll have to go into hiding. And when Beth realises that I still haven't put the missing line back into LINKAGE she'll set Andy on me. (The last time I stayed chez Beth that damned cat dive-bombed me all night - and that was without any direct encouragement from its owner.')

I was anxious to include as many stories as possible in this reprint and could only print a limited number of pages. This has meant an unavoidable reduction in the amount of artwork. However, I have reprinted Mike Eason's striking cover [as an interior illo] for the first GROPE. I begged the FLASHBACK cover from Jim Barker, (who will never again be able to hold his head up in SF fandom after doing work for a Trekkie zine) and some fresh tribbles from Robin Hill.

[...]

I keep getting letters from GROPE fans pleading for a return of the series. I'm strongly tempted... If anyone cares to submit stories I may be inspired to start putting together another issue. I won't print anything without a proper,(or improper.') plot, although short vignettes are O.K.

Contents

The Gropes

Gallery

Reactions and Reviews

See reactions and reviews for My Love Has Wings.

See reactions and reviews for Where No Man Has Come Before.

[zine]: All are long out of print and difficult to obtain. I sincerely hope that #8 won't be the last, since I quite enjoy the sly humor and artwork, and the offbeat but mature writing. You won't find any too serious/dramatic, overwritten, overly sentimental, sophomoric tear-jerkers here. The editor herself said, in the "Editor's Postscript" to SON OF GROPE: "...the zine as a whole is not meant to be taken seriously, though certain individual stories may bring a tear to the eye, a lump to the throat, a wrench to the gut, or up yesterday's dinner! GROPE began as a light-hearted romp and, I hope, will continue in that spirit. The stories and poems...do not necessarily reflect the views of the editor nor are they intended to present a workable Star Trek universe—not even I think that the big E can function with its First Officer permanently on heat!" Some American readers may find some of the British writing hard to get used to. It should be noted, too, that the majority of stories are not K/S. In this case, the ability to appreciate Infinite Diversity certainly pays off! [1]

References

  1. ^ from Not Tonight Spock! #8
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