P.B. Wrapper

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Name:	P.B. Wrapper, PB Wrapper, PBWrapper
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URL:	some fiction is here, and here
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P.B. Wrapper was a Trek writer. The writer's pseud likely is a nod to "plain brown wrapper," a way of concealing sexually explicit printed materials.

An Interview

• COCO CHANNEL Interview with PB Wrapper (1999)

Some Contemporaries

• Kharmen Ghia
• Jungle Kitty
• Kaki
• Raku

Not a Fan of Print Materials

P.B. Wrapper was anti-print fan fic. In an October 1999 interview, P.B. Wrapper said:

I've had very good experiences with the few printzine eds I've dealt with, both in and out of the Trek circle. I've bought more completely crappy Trek zines than I like to contemplate, and I do wonder how some of them managed to convince themselves that what they were selling was worth anyone's money, but artistic differences aside, they were still straightforward and cheerful people to do business with. In 'Enterprising Women'... there's a description of the zine community as something like the scientologists. You only get admitted to successively higher levels as you prove yourself to be 'one of us'. Now, imagine some rogue scientologist setting up a web page that admitted *anyone* to the upper levels of Hubbard's empire, and the reaction there'd be from the hierarchy - you're stealing *some* people's reason for living. Not only were they authors and editors themselves, but they thought that new authors and editors could only come about by the laying on of their hands. For *other* people, it's no big deal, but they're sticking by their friends. Others still have made the transition to the net with no problems. I think all of us who were involved with printzines have regrets. A manila envelope hitting the doormat sounds *special*.

[snipped]

Printzines need a market. People won't pay for what they can get for free, even if the free stuff is substandard. It's a trade dispute, isn't it? Print people are trying to protect their patch from substandard imports that will wreck their business. The recent 'foresmutters project' looked like an attempt to reposition their product in the market. They're telling the netizens that it isn't just good, it's a superb cultural treasure, and should be hedged around with controls to preserve it. Unfortunately, that's just not true. I can't think of a single printzine that's as good as the best of what's available on the web, and very few editors were utterly reliable purveyors of excellent material. I'm very pleased to see some of the old 'classics' available to everyone on the internet. They just don't look like classics any more. They look like what they always were: imaginative, amusing (not always intentionally) romance stories, well enough written, vastly overpriced and part of the fun of belonging to a secret society.

Some Fic

• some of P.B. Wrapper's online fiction is here
• also in the print zine Chekov Uncovered