Mary Ellen Curtin

Fan
Name:	mecurtin
Alias(es):	Doctor Science
Type:	fan
Fandoms:	Star Trek:TOS, Smallville, Stargate: Atlantis, Highlander, Supernatural, manga, and others
Communities:
Other:	http://www.eclipse.net/~mecurtin/ http://www.alternateuniverses.com/
URL:	mecurtin at LiveJournal
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Mary Ellen Curtin, or "Doctor Science", is an avid blogger and fandom historian. She is also the founder and archivist of the Foresmutters Project, "an anarchic effort to put material from the earliest days of slash online."

Mary Ellen Curtin and Laura J. Valentine were co-admins of the Highlander mailing list, CriticalEdge. Her fanfic page was part of TSU: TrekSmut University Webring.

Fans Comment

I admit that [my vote for her for an ASC Award] is a reaction as much to Mary Ellen's erudite commentary as it is to her fiction, but how in the universe can that be a bad thing? ME is a master of, by my count, at least three trades, and a jack of none.

Doc Science is one of the few people whose non-story posts I bother to read. For keeping me abreast of Vulcan biology and a host of other arcane subjects, I've gotta give her a vote of thanks.

Essays on Fandom

• The Fanfiction Universe: Some Statistical Approaches
• Statistics. How Much Fan Fiction Is There on the Web? How Many Fans? Who Are They?
• The Foresmutter's Bibliography of Early, Early K/S (a list)
• an autobio: Who's Who at alt.startrek.creative.erotica.moderated (March 1998)

Fanworks

• Boys of Summer