Leaps Unbound
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| Title: | Leaps Unbound |
| Publisher: | Pink Roses Press |
| Editor(s): | Cheryl Bellucci, Tracy Finifter, and Gina Goff |
| Date(s): | 1994 |
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| Fandom: | Quantum Leap |
| Language: | English |
| External Links: | WayBack Link to zine flyer |
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Leaps Unbound is a 188-page gen Quantum Leap anthology. It has a cover by <=minds-i-view=>.
Submission Guidelines
From June 19, 1994:
"Leaps Unbound" is now accepting submissions for our second issue. This 'zine will contain two sections: The first will be of traditional stories that follow the standard QL format. The second section will be subtitled "Out of Bounds" and will deal with stories outside the 1953-1999 time frame.
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- Stories must be PG-13. We're keeping this adult, but no slash or hard stuff please. - Crossovers with any universe are allowed, but the story must stand on its own as a QL story.
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We highly encourage electronic submissions. If you are on America Online, CompuServe, GEnie, Internet (or *any* electronic service with an Internet mail gateway)
Although we won't automatically exclude stories that have appeared on alt.ql.creative or any other electronic bulletin board or service, we are looking for stories that have not previously appeared on any medium.[1]
A Proposed Sister Zine
"Out of Bounds" was a proposed sister zine that never made it off the ground. It had the same submission guidelines as "Leaps Unbound," with these additions:
- The leaps must be set outside Sam's "normal" leaping range; that is, not between August 8, 1953 or the year 2000.
- Please don't try to come up with a quasi-pseudo-scientific explanation for how he got there (like they *tried* to do in "The Leap Between the States." Just leap him back there (or ahead there), accept it, and move on with the story.
- Please allow Ziggy to access the information Sam needs normally. That is to say, if he's leaped far into the past or ahead into the future, allow Ziggy to have no more difficulty getting the original histories than if Sam had leapt into, say, the sixties. Whatever problems Ziggy might have on the leap shouldn't necessarily be related to where in time Sam is.[2]
Contents
- Code of Silence by Cheryl A. Bellucci ("Sam leaps into the husband of a star singer who is about to be murdered—by him. And why is she wearing an MIA bracelet for Al?")
- A Leap of Spirits by Steve Boyd ("Sam must prevent the suicide of a friend he can only contact via email.")
- That Terrible Price by Terri Librande ("Al must prove that Sam is still alive when the Project loses contact with him.")
- Future Perfect by Tony Perreault ("Sam leaps far into the past, into the time of MacBeth, and receives some help from the future in turn.")
- Good-bye Granpa by Beth Hlabse ("Sam leaps into a man dying of cancer. What can he do to help?")
- Flashover by Tracy E. Finifter ("Sam must decide between saving the life of a fellow firefighter or the young occupants of a burning home.")
- Afterimage by Gina Goff ("Sam leaps into Al's youngest daughter and tries to alter the design for Project Quantum Leap.")
- There But For the Grace of God by Beth Hlabse ("Sam leaps into a teenaged girl who must stop her father's emotional abuse before her brother commits suicide.")
- Love, Honor, and Obey by Jason E. Dzembo ("Sam leaps into one corner of a love triangle—at his ex-girlfriend's wedding.")
- Wounds that No One Can See by Sheryl Gere ("Big hair is not big fun when Sam leaps into a high school girl who loves to shop. Can he prevent the death of a classmate before he has to go to the prom?")
- A Matter of Trust by Cheryl A. Bellucci ("Sam has a second chance to save Charlie Starr, the beautiful rock star he first encountered in "Code of Silence." But can he be any more successful this time when both his and his host's lives are in danger?")
- poetry by Robin K., Elizabeth Reisman, and Mark Rotton.
Reactions and Reviews
See reactions and reviews for Afterimage.
See reactions and reviews for Flashover.
See reactions and reviews for There But For the Grace of God.
See reactions and reviews for Future Perfect.