Liberator Dreams

Zine
Title:	Liberator Dreams
Publisher:	Maverick Press
Editor(s):
Date(s):	1991
Series?:
Medium:	print, zine
Size:
Genre:	slash
Fandom:	Blake’s 7/Sime~Gen
Language:	English
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Liberator Dreams is a slash Blake's 7 120-page anthology.

from an insert in the zine

The majority of the zine is a Blake’s 7/Sime~Gen story.

There is no interior illustration.

From the Editorial

There are other people who weren't directly involved in putting together the zine, yet it couldn't have been done without them. Thank you, Terry Nation and Jacqueline Lichtenberg, for creating universes that we were compelled to build upon. And thanks to the cast who brought the Blake's 7 characters to life and whose performances have given us so much pleasure.

Fandom exists because of an endless circle of fellowship and camaraderie. Within our personal circle there are many friends who have encouraged, nurtured, and supported us not only in regards to the zine, but on a much larger scale. Getting to know them has made it all worthwhile.

Now we yield the zine to you, the readers, with the hopes that you will enjoy it at least half as much as we've enjoyed bringing it to you. Please share these stories with your friends. We encourage you to copy it and pass it on.

Contents

• Editorial (ii)
• Provisional Surrender by Ellis Ward (Blake's 7) (1)
• Tender Memories by Cami (Gan/Tarrant) (After Gan's death, Del Tarrant remembers visiting a brothel as a virginal youth and having sex with Gan.) (7)
• Unending Nightmare by Cami and Tasha (Blake's 7/Sime~Gen) (17)

Reactions and Reviews

Ellis Ward - "Provisional Surrender." (A/B) It's obvious from the first paragraph that you're in the hands of a thoroughly reliable slash writer, capable of delivering a story with an elegant structure and a definite point. Ward starts with the conventional bargain between Avon and Blake - "just sex, nothing more" - and then goes on to explore and reverse the bargain. In a sense, you could call "Provisional Surrender" a PWP, given that all the action takes place in Avon's bed, but every physical move that the characters make reflects some aspect of their changing relationship. The language seemed a bit formal and polysyllabic at times but that's probably intentional, since Ward is telling the story through Avon's point of view.

Cami - "Tender Memories." (G/Ta) An unusual but unlikely B7 slash story where Tarrant goes to a pleasure house, while studying at the Federation Space Academy, and is initiated into the joys of sex by Gan. The idea of Gan as the "whore with a heart of gold", touched by Tarrant's innocence, stretched my suspension of disbelief too far and the writing wasn't detailed or inventive enough to overcome the credibility gap.

Cami and Tasha - "Unending Nightmare". (A/B, D/Ta) A novella-length story which starts from the postulate that Avon and Blake have been captured and sentenced to a Federation Research Base where they are genetically altered into sime and gen, alien species drawn from Jacqueline Lichtenberg's s.f. novels. The sime develop superhuman abilities but become dependant on selyn, a chemical that they extract from the gen, which means that as simes, Avon and Tarrant have to overcome a combination of guilt and resentment about feeding from their gen partners, Blake and Dayna. I can see why Cami and Tasha were attracted to the sime/gen premise - it's an effective metaphor for some of the central conflicts between Avon and Blake - and they do a good job of dovetailing the developments in the sime/gen relationships with an ongoing adventure story. But even so, I suspect the novella is too long to hold readers who aren't already familiar with Lichtenberg's universe.