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La Guirlande
| Zine | |
|---|---|
| Title: | La Guirlande |
| Publisher: | Mary Frey |
| Editor(s): | Mary Frey |
| Date(s): | 1989-11-00 |
| Series?: | La Guirlande |
| Medium: | |
| Genre: | gen |
| Fandom: | Darkover |
| Language: | English |
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| Click here for related articles on Fanlore. | |
La Guirlande was a Darkover zine, focusing on short fan fiction.
It was mentioned in 1989 in Darkover Newsletter #4; interested fans were instructed to contact Mary Frey.
This zine probably had a small print run, and it is not known at this time whether there were any more issues after the first issue, although the editor did express an intention to publish more. In Envoi at the end of the first issue, she wrote:
And of course, I hope that sometime next summer there will be a second issue of LA GUIRLANDE. Send me a SASE, and I'll let you know when and how much.
The title of the zine comes from the French word for "wreath," and to the zine's creator, is a metaphor for writing fan fiction. In the editorial, Frey wrote:
A wreath is mde up of many branches which have been interwoven to create a whole. I see this as one way to describe any kind of fan fiction.I read what someone else has written, and from that I take an idea -- a bough or branch, if you will -- in order to create another story. When the new stories are put together in a single format, they will created something (the wreath) for others to enjoy.
Issue 1
The first issue contains only material by the editor herself, which makes La Guirlande #1 more a chapbook collection than a fanzine. The editor writes in the Editorial to the first issue:
Admittedly, this issue of LA GUIRLANDE is a very modest start: all the stories were written by one person. I have even had to inflict my minimal artistic abilities on he reader.
In the Envoi at the end of the zine, the editor writes:
I don't want to have to write and illustrate a whole zine alone again. I am looking for good stories for LA GUIRLANDE. It would really be great if I could find some artists too. And even if you think you can't write fiction or draw pictures, I would like to get comments from you about this issue.
Regarding "All That I Have Left": Frey wrote in the editorial that this story was submitted to MZB for the DAW Darkover Anthology that was supposed to be published in 1989. [1] MZB rejected the story for the DAW publication:
However it did come back with a note saying that this had happened only because she liked a second submission of mine better, and Marion suggested I send it to one of the fiction fanzines. I sent the story to myself because it was quicker and cheaper that way!
Contents
- Editorial by Mary Frey (1)
- All That I Have Left, short story by Mary Frey (The author's description: "The story is set about sixteen years after STORMQUEEN and deals with the decision Renata was forced to make.") (2)
- The Horse: A Fable, short story by Mary Frey (The author notes that this story was inspired by "a little folk tale about Durraman's donkey that was written by Eileen Ledbetter [2]...I want to try my hand at writing more Darkovan folk tales someday soon. There must be many of them just waiting to be 'found.' since Darkover must have a primarily oral literary tradition.") (8)
- The Last King of Darkover, short story by Mary Frey (The main character is Toby Lawton. Toby's mother is a borrowed, fan-created character by Lynne Holdom.) (10)
- Out of the Frying Pan, short story by Mary Frey (Speculation about Darkovan ancient history is this story's topic. The author says writing about this time period is easier as MZB hasn't, so Frey doesn't have to worry about contradicting MZB's canon.) (16)
- Envoi by Mary Frey (32)
On the last page, there's a list of other Darkover fanzines.
The back cover has no illustrations.
References
- ^ There was no DAW Darkover Anthology in 1989, so perhaps that issue ended up being the 1990 anthology, "Domains of Darkover," which does contain the short story "Our Little Rabbit" by Mary K. Frey.
- ^ This story was "The Tale of Durraman's Donkey" which was first printed in Starstone #2 in 1978, and then again in the DAW Darkover Anthology, "The Keeper's Price" in 1980.