Linn O'Brien

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Alias(es):	Linn O'Brien, Cynthia L. Lockwood
Type:	fan writer
Fandoms:	Star Trek: TOS, Tris/Alex, The Professionals
Communities:	Houston crowd
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Linn O'Brien, also known as Cynthia L. Lockwood, was a Star Trek: TOS fan active in the 1980s.

O'Brien was one of the Houston crowd. She helped run IDICon, the first slash con, and was an editor for the K/S zine Out of Bounds.

Her best-known fanwork is the novel To Invite the Night, published in 1984. She also published work in anthology zines, such as "And a Time To Every Purpose" in Deck Five Digest, Issue #1 (1981), and "Who Marks the Sparrow's Fall", in Obsession, Issue #2 (1982).

As stated in an ad for To Invite the Night, "Linn O'Brien" is a pseudonym:

Linn O'Brien, while a pseudonym, is not Pamela Rose, Lezlie Shell, or anyone else you passionate K/S fans know and love. People who must know the wretched name O'Brien was born with can SASE her for her reluctant answer."

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[Besides writing To Invite the Night], I've finished two gen Trek stories, and one Pro's slash story, several poems (and no I'm not telling, those are under another pseudonym altogether). I've got a notebook of unfinished Pro's slash, two Tris/Alex stories, and a long K/S novella. None of it may ever get finished either, unless comes an epiphany.

So what do you do in fandom if you don't keep writing???

Why, you do a convention! As part of the WHIPS I worked on all four IDICON's, helped out a bit with a Blake's 7

convention, and then gave it all up just to attend them and let someone else do the work. (It does mean you don't have those moments when you are sitting in the Houston Convention and Visitor's Council offices listing your con, and the sales rep asks what WHIPS means. Thinking fast, I said, why "Women of Houston in Professions", and committed us to turning down reams of puzzled women who wanted to join our organization to further their careers.