Niagara Blues
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| Title: | Niagara Blues |
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| Author(s): | Eros |
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| Date(s): | 1984 |
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| Genre: | slash |
| Fandom: | Starsky & Hutch/Professionals |
| Language: | English |
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Niagara Blues is a Starsky & Hutch/Professionals slash crossover zine by Eros. It has the subtitle: "a bedroom farce in 5 acts."
It was originally published in parts in Mixed Doubles, beginning in #2 in September 1984, and was compiled as a standalone zine sometime on or before 1988. NOTE: This standalone zine may have been created and distributed by the author, or by another fan. This zine shows up in early zine lists and discussions in Tell Me Something I Don't Know!.
"A Bedroom Farce in Five Acts"
- Niagara Blues (part 1 in Mixed Doubles #2, September 1984)
- (part 2 in "Mixed Doubles" #3 )
- Love's Labor Lost (part 3 in "Mixed Doubles" #4, February 1985)
- The Faces of the Stranger (part 4 in "Mixed Doubles" #5, April 1985)
- The Morning After by Eros (part 5 in "Mixed Doubles" #6, July 1985)
Fan Comments
1985
To be fair, all I can say about your novella is that I enjoyed it, and I'm very picky indeed. I could almost wish that I could devour every kind of fiction with the same indiscriminate palate that I possessed in the olden days of my entry into S&H fandom, when if it was S&H I read it all with unsated hunger - but I seem to have developed a critical eye somewhere along the way...
Which is not to say I disliked NIAGARA BLUES, because I did like it, in parts - for its lightness, its implausibility, and its sense of fun. I can have too much of the 'payne & aguny' fiction - and the romantic gunk - and this sort of thing restores my faith in fanfic. We all tend to take ourselves and our writing a tad too seriously at times, after all. The occasional banana-skin slip-up is good for our karma! [1]
I enjoyed Niagara Blues. I found it very tongue in cheek and I could quite happily see the characters as written, but then I'm always convinced of the validity of a given situation/character by a good writer. [2]
About, NIAGARA BLUES - sorry, but I just didn't like the conclusion. Up to the last chapter, I really was enjoying it, too, but the 'resolution' just fell flat for me. Doyle just didn't seem in character, somehow. Guilt-tripping Ray ("he'd blame himself for the invention of gunpower," as Bodie has said) taking it all so casually. And, as for Starsky -- we all know what a possessive, little bastard he is. I think he probably would've killed Ray - maybe even HUTCH, too, although he tends to forgive Hutch for everything. As far as that goes, I see all FOUR guys as being extremely possessive and jealous of each other, and I can't believe this whole 'situation' would be so quickly and easily resolved, over breakfast. I just didn't like the way it was done. It was handled almost as though the whole thing was a JOKE. And Ray seemed very much as if he didn't care if he lost Bodie, or not (the way this story was set up, I can't even believe B&D even WERE lovers - here, they really don't even seem to like each other very much! Unless it was just for the sex).[3]
1994
For years after reading Niagara Blues (subtitled 'a bedroom farce in 5 acts') I kept extra copies around so I could immediately mail one to anyone who admitted in my hearing that they hadn't yet read it. Brilliant farce of Starsky/Hutch interacting with Bodie/Doyle. (Beautiful scene of one character doing it in the dark, without speaking, running hands through curly hair, running hands over the heart surgery scars, and not realizing that it wasn't his partner...) [4]
References
- ^ from Mixed Doubles #7 (1985)
- ^ from Mixed Doubles #7 (1985)
- ^ from Mixed Doubles #7 (1985)
- ^ comments by Sandy Hereld on Virgule-L, quoted with permission (October 22, 1994)