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Jennifer Adams Kelley

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Fan
Name: Jennifer Adams Kelley
Alias(es): Renn, Jennifarse, rennovative. Jennifer Adams
Type: fan writer, convention staff, costumer, fanartist, zine editor
Fandoms: Doctor Who, The Man from U.N.C.L.E., Kung Fu: The Legend Continues, The X-Files, Quantum Leap, Star Trek: The Next Generation, The Beatles, The Monkees
Communities: The Federation, Chicago TARDIS
Other:
URL: rennovative on Twitter
renn on LiveJournal
jennifarse.com (archive link)
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Jennifer Adams Kelley was a long-time fan most active in Doctor Who fandom. She was active in a variety of areas - fiction writing, fan art, zine editing, assisting with various conventions, including Chicago TARDIS, Visions and Gallifrey One, vidding/acting/costuming (as part of The Federation fan film collective) and more. Jennifer's fan writing included professional publications, with essays featured in Chicks Dig Time Lords by Lynne Thomas and Tara O'Shea (eds) and Outside In by Stacy Smith?[1] (ed). She also co-authoring Red, White and Who, a history of Who fandom in the U.S. from the 1960s onwards[2].

She died on February 26, 2019, at the age of 55 after a short battle with cancer.[3] Her death was considered a huge loss to the fandom she had cherished.

When Jennifer passed away on February 26th of this year, the internet exploded. Well, at least the internet feeds of Doctor Who fans. Hundreds of fans, with no exaggeration, posted on Facebook and other social media about the loss of one of fandom’s great champions. The outpouring of love and sympathy was staggering. Many of these friends and people had been brought together because of events that Jennifer had planned or been a part of. Many of the people commiserating knew each other because of Jennifer’s efforts. Friends gave each other hugs. Kind and loving words were shared in forums. People simply wanted everyone to experience love. It was what Jennifer would have done.

 [4]

Chicago TARDIS added the Cancer Research Institute to their charity auction donation roster in Jennifer's memory.[5]

Remembrances and Tributes

Notable Works

Fanfiction

Meta

Fan Films

Fanac

Conventions

Awards

Fan Q Awards

Interviews

Reviews and Recommendations

"The Missing Mistletoe Affair" (MUNCLE)

[zine]:

"The Missing Mistletoe Affair" by Jennifer Adams Kelly is a U.N.C.L.E. story that's better than most aired U.N.C.L.E. episodes. (Scarcely a term of distinction, I realize.) The story is just plain fun. My favorite part was the cliffhanger when Mark Slate was trapped in a life-size snowman mold about to be drowned in molten plastic! Very true to the flavor of the original series, with a lot more consistency of plot and cleverness of the agents. Some great lines, such as one Thrush underling to another: "Like you're Mister Bigshot because you get to deliver toilet paper to all satraps in a three-state radius." The Thrush's kindly, confused father was a funny and touching character, whose poignancy never degenerated into melodrama. [6]

"The My Partner Wore Tights Affair" (MUNCLE)

"The My Partner Wore Tights Affair" by Jennifer Adams is a romp on the level of a good Batman (TV) episode or a silly third season MUNCLE, say, the Off-Broadway Affair. Illya goes undercover as a superhero to capture a self-appointed "fashion police" character who has been stalking the laundromats of New York.[7]

Honorable mention in this division goes to Jennifer Adams' "My Partner Wore Tights." It is very silly, but oddly logical, after its own premises, which are comic-bookish. If you compare it to a typical third season episode, it looks even better. "Fashionman" is terrorizing NYC by destroying style solecisms, as well as a lot of people's laundry. Only "The Scarlet Manuka" (a.k.a. "The Grey Ghost"? "The Iron Paw"?) can stop him. Witty, characteristic dialogue especially sets off this piece. Adams has a good ear.[8]

Archives/Zines/Collections/Communities

Zines

As Editor

As Contributor

  • 11 & 2 (Man From U.N.C.L.E.)
    • Issue #3 - "The Sorority Rush Affair" (fiction) [1987]
    • Issue #4 - "The Science Must Be Served Affair" (fiction) [1987]
    • Holiday Issue #1 - "The Christmas at Ground Zero Affair" (fiction) [1987]
    • Issue #5 - "The Nice Red Suits Affair" and "The Ballad of John and the Time Lords" (fiction) [1990]
  • The Kuryakin File (Man From U.N.C.L.E.)
    • Issue #5 - "The Beauty and the Beat Affair" (fiction) [1987]
    • Issue #8 - "The Big 10 Basement Affair" (fiction) [1990]
    • Issue #9 - "The My Partner Wore Tights Affair" (fiction) [1990]
    • Issue #10 - "The Rear Window Affair" (fiction) [1991]
    • Issue #11 - "A Time to Every Purpose Affair" (fiction) [1992]
    • Issue #12 - "The He Blinded Me With Science Affair" (fiction) [1993]
    • Issue #13 - "The Kung Fuie Luie Affair" (fiction) [1994]
    • Issue #17 - "My Lunch with Austin" (fiction) [1998]
    • Issue #18 - "The Awful Truth" (fiction); "The Time is Relative Affair" (fiction) [1999]
    • Issue #20 - front cover; "A Pause in the Creative Process" (fiction) [unknown date]
  • Eyes Only (Man from UNCLE zine)
    • Issue #2 - "Heat and Passion" (fiction) [1992]
  • Open Channel D (Man From U.N.C.L.E.)
    • "The Surfin' and Spyin' Affair" (fiction) [1992]
  • Oh Boy (Quantum Leap)
    • Issue #3 - "The Waiting Room: Darlene Monte" (fiction) [1992]
  • Can You Get Channel D? (Man From U.N.C.L.E.)
    • Issue #1 - "The Missing Mistletoe Affair" (fiction) [1992]
    • Issue #2 - "The Sweet Rot of Desire Affair" (fiction) [1993]
    • Issue #3 - "The Winners and Sinners Affair" (fiction) [1994]
    • Issue #4 - "The It's All Happening in the U.S.A. Affair" (fiction and art) [1995]
    • Issue #5 - "The Way of Thrush Has No Mind Affair" (fiction) [1996]
  • Chinese Take-Away (Kung Fu: The Legend Continues)
    • Issue #1 - "Why Can't I Be You" (fiction) [1994]
    • Issue #2 - "Kung Fu, 90201" (fiction); "Waiting Room" (fiction); The New Fu Review co-written with Jan Fennick (episode reviews) [1995]
  • Eridani Omnibus (Star Trek TNG)
    • Issue #2 - fiction [1995]
    • Issue #3 - fiction [1997]

Archives

As Archivist

As Contributor

References

  1. ^ "Stacey Smith?" at Memory Alpha
  2. ^ From the publisher's web page: "The 2019 second printing includes a dedication to co-author Jennifer Adams Kelley, and $5 of every purchase will go to the Cancer Research Institute."
  3. ^ Jennifer Kelley Obituary
  4. ^ Nick Seidler at "Jennifer Adams Kelley—A Remembrance", Uncanny Magazine, Issue #28, 2019 (via Wayback Feb 1/23)
  5. ^ Chicago TARDIS. Charity Auction, Archived version, accessed 31 December 2022.
  6. ^ from Psst... Hey Kid, Wanna Buy a Fanzine? #5. The reviewer in gives it "4 trees." The reviewers in "Psst... Hey Kid, Wanna Buy a Fanzine?" rated zines on a 1-5 tree/star scale. See that page for more explanation. This review was also later reposted at Zine Reviews, accessed 6.1.2011
  7. ^ from Zine Scene V.2 N.1
  8. ^ from Psst... Hey Kid, Wanna Buy a Fanzine? #2. The reviewer, Paula Smith, gives it "3 trees." The reviewers in "Psst... Hey Kid, Wanna Buy a Fanzine?" rated zines on a 1-5 tree/star scale.
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