Isotope
| Zine | |
|---|---|
| Title: | Isotope |
| Publisher: | out of Minneapolis |
| Editor(s): | Pat Rear and Robin Root |
| Date(s): | early 1970s |
| Series?: | |
| Medium: | |
| Genre: | gen |
| Fandom: | Star Trek: TOS and sf |
| Language: | English |
| External Links: | |
| Click here for related articles on Fanlore. | |
Isotope is a gen Star Trek: TOS and sf zine of poetry, fiction, and articles.
As of 1974, there were five issues.
Issue 1
Isotope 1 was published in 1971 and contains 20 pages.
- Open Letter, editorial by Pat and Robin
- Starship, poem in Hyperspace
- Commitment, poem (Star Trek: TOS)
- Mistakes, graffiti
- To Be Known, poem (science fiction)
- First Command, poem (Star Trek: TOS)
- The Man I Know, poem (science fiction)
- Call in the Dark, poem by Lois Doty (science fiction)
- Why, poem (science fiction)
- Spock, art by Allens Nims
- Kloge, fiction (Star Trek: TOS)
from issue #1
from issue #1
from issue #1
Issue 2
Isotope 2 was published in 1972 and contains 20 pages.
The mimeo is so poor as to make it basically unreadable.
- Ad Sheet
- Commentary by Dave Harsh
- Sun Girl by Dave Harsh
- After All, He's Scotch, poem by Robin Root
- You Will Understand and That Will Be Beautiful by Pat Rear (original science fiction)
- The Last Thing on My Mind by P Rear (original science fiction)
- Ticklish Business by Pat Rear (Star Trek: TOS)
from issue #2
from issue #2
Issue 3
Isotope 3 was published in February 1973 and contains 40 pages.
The art is by Betty Jean Derro, Dave Harsh.
patr (Pat Rear) has become the publisher and she has control of the mimeograph. Robin Root is the editor.
- Moratorium by Warren Erickson (original science fiction) (4)
- an extensive plug for Federation Centennial Kraith IIIA by Jacqueline Lichtenberg) (6)
- a plug for Nimoyan Federation (6)
- untitled poem by patr (Pat Rear) (7)
- There Came a Call, poem by Robin Root (8)
- Nightingale Woman ("Written by Phineas Tarbolde on Canopus planet in 1996; quoted from memory by Gary Mitchell to Doctor Elizabeth Dehner. He called it one of the most passionate love sonnets of the last few centuries, but it does not rhyme or scan like a sonnet; extra quoted from page 387: "My love has wings, slender feathered things with grace and up-swept curve and tapered tip..." WNN.") (Star Trek: TOS) (9)
- untitled fanwork ("In the criminal justice system, there is the "revolving door', where the criminal "comes in" - "goes out" - and "comes in" again. Following is an illustration of a slightly different "revolving door". -- patr") (10)
- Deevill and Envious by yed (14)
- The Secret of Goskin (Kraith III C) by [[Jacqueline Lichtenberg (also in Kraith Collected) (16)
from issue #3
from issue #3
from issue #3
Issue 4
Isotope 4 was published in July 1973 and contains 20 pages.
The editor was Robin Root.
- The Year 20 a.n., fiction by Ellie Bach (Star Trek: TOS) (1)
- Stir Not Up, Memories, My Beloved is Knocking, fiction by Cathy Anderson (2)
- called a "book review" in the table of contents, this is actually a short plug for "When Harlie Was One" by David Gerrold (9)
- Yed-ish, editorial (apologies for the last issue's unreadable production, done on an electro-stencil) (10)
- untitled parody by Cathy Anderson (11)
from issue #4
from issue #4
Issue 5
Isotope 5 was published in January 1974.
- Uhura, a poem by Liza Gregory, also published in Sol III #1
- other unknown content