Jenny Starr
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| Name: | Jenny Starr |
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| Type: | fan writer |
| Fandoms: | Star Trek: The Original Series |
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Jenny Starr was an influential Star Trek TOS fan writer in the 1980s.
One contemporary fan described her as "one the best writers to come to K/S in years,"[1] and another wrote that she was "one of the best authors around, K/S or otherwise."[2] A 1987 LOC stated:
- "Ms. Starr knows Kirk as well as any writer in fandom today. She feels his hurts and joys and makes us feel them down to our toes as well. If she doesn't get too clinical and cool, (and she doesn't in [Waiting for Rain]) she is one of the top three or four writers in fandom today."[3]
More recent reviewers have stated: "Jenny Starr was one of the best of our genre‘s early writers"[4] and "I mourn the day Jenny Starr stopped writing K/S, because in my opinion she is one of our finest writers."[5]
Awards
Jenny Starr won several awards for her stories, including:
- 1987 Surak Award for "Best Humorist" (for "Voyeur" and "Odds and Abbs")
- 1988 Surak Awards for "Best Writer: Novel -- Age Statement" and "Best Zine Novel -- Age Statement" (for "Fetish")
- Winner of Naked Times writing contest #1 ("An Act of Salvation")
- Winner of Naked Times (issue 9) writing contest ("The Cocksman")
- First Place in the As I Do Thee #6 contest ("Rites")
- Second Place in the KSX II writing contest
Notable Fanworks
Novels
- Fetish (1988)
Other Stories
| Title | Zine | Year |
|---|---|---|
| A Caring Hand | As I Do Thee #3 | 1985 |
| An Act of Salvation | Naked Times #7 | 1985 |
| Just a Touch of Imagination | Naked Times #8 | 1985 |
| High Time | First Time #5 | 1986 |
| Night Rose | First Time #6 | 1986 |
| The Thought That Counts | As I Do Thee #5 | 1986 |
| Twice Met | Naked Times #9 | 1986 |
| The Cocksman | Naked Times #11 | 1986 |
| The Lovin' of the Game | One Night Stand #4/5 | 1986 |
| Eternity's Child | First Time #7 | 1986 |
| Venus Descending | First Time #11 | 1987 |
| Waiting for Rain | First Time #13 | 1987 |
| Passion's Keep | Way of the Warrior #1 | 1987 |
| Forbidden Colors | Naked Times #17 | 1987 |
| Voyeur | KSX #1 | 1987 |
| Rites | As I Do Thee #6 | 1987 |
| Odds and Abbs | Alien Brothers | 1987 |
| Cold Feet | Daring Attempt #8 | 1987 |
| Microcosm | KSX #2 | 1988 |
| Less is More | Matter/Antimatter #6 | 1988 |
References
- ^ Review of "An Act of Salvation" from Datazine #39, published January 1986.
- ^ Review of "Venus Descending" from The LOC Connection #17, published in May 1990.
- ^ Review of "Waiting for Rain" from Datazine #49, published in September/October 1987.
- ^ Review of "The Cocksman" from The K/S Press #139, published c. 2008.
- ^ Review of "The Cocksman" from The K/S Press #82, published 2003.