Parallel Worlds Within the City
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| Title: | Parallel Worlds Within the City |
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| Author(s): | Peggy Ann Garvin |
| Cover Artist(s): | Michele Scott |
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| Date(s): | June 1993 |
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| Genre: | het |
| Fandom: | Beauty and the Beast (TV) |
| Language: | English |
| External Links: | Online here as part of Winterfest 2008 |
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Parallel Worlds Within the City is a 214-page het Beauty and the Beast novel by Peggy Ann Garvin.
About
Art Information: a color cover by the author's daughter, Michele Scott, a freelance pro graphic artist, interior artwork, printed unnumbered on colored stock. Other art is by Neal Farris, Anna Deavers-Kelley, Sue K, and Holly Riedel.
Note from the Helpers' Network Quality Fanzine Review Online regarding the rating: "R (in places) A toned-down version of the consummation scene, punched for insertion, was available free on request from the author when this zine was being sold. By exchanging love scenes and removing any adult artwork, the reader could turn this into a PG-13 rated zine."
From the Editorial
I became an avid fan of Beauty and the Beast in June, 1991. On a whim I ordered the videotape of the pilot and when it arrived I sat down to watch what I hoped would be an entertaining fantasy. Well, that was all it took and I was hooked. I immediately ordered the rest of the tapes that were available at that time. To my dismay, they only confused me. I met the immediately appealing Vincent and believed the love he and Catherine shared was "worth everything". I suffered with Catherine through the death of her father and with Vincent when she returned Above. I reveled in Vincent's rescue of Catherine from the evil Paracelsus. And I lived the horror and confusion of Catherine's death. WHAT HAPPENED AND WHY? I was filled with questions and I didn't know where to find the answers.
Gallery
Neal Farris
Holly Riedel
Anna Kelley
Michelle Scott
Reactions and Reviews
This offbeat, very entertaining zine is a great surprise. It starts out as a fairly all-purpose Classic story with C/V sighing and retreating-the familiar scenario. It seems that C's brush with a bunch of nice bikers who scare off the mean bikers who menaced her was no more than a passing incident. Then we get biographies of the bikers-nice, interesting people, constituting the Iron Vultures motorcycle club. Early on, there's a plot in which criminals who have killed an underworld figure in the nightclub where Vulture Nadia works pursue her, believing her a dangerous witness. They sweep up, not only Nadia, but C and Reaper (biker leader), as well. After this trio escapes-with some help from V-they're obliged to remain Below for a time to escape further attacks. But the threat providentially passes. The balance of the story is an account of V/C's increasing involvement with the biker “family,” learning their problems, their fears, their loves, their pride, their essential harmlessness. As V finds himself accepted and befriended by this group of misunderstood outcasts, the anxieties that make him hold back from C diminish.This is not polished writing; but it's heartfelt, brisk, well edited and presented, and very well informed. The author knows and likes the biker life and without being tiresome about it, she infuses her story with the special jargon, attitudes, and common experiences of that life. These people love one another and try to live as well as they can, which should sound familiar. The narrative moves along briskly from event to event, with warmly affectionate and perceptive portraits of the main members of the Iron Vultures. And the account of the growing closeness between V/C is both sensual and persuasive. This is a “parallel world” story only inasmuch as it vividly reveals another society almost as hidden and little known, in its way, as that Below. It's highly enjoyable reading and certainly fresh and surprising, which sets it apart. Character, not plot, is its strong point. Though the V/C “first time” section is long and quite graphic, everybody keeps their underwear on during 99% of the story: it would be a mistake to think of this as being a sex zine. Its main concerns are social, not erotic.
Besides a striking color cover by the author's daughter, Michele Scott, a freelance pro graphic artist, the handsome interior artwork, printed unnumbered on colored stock, is by Neal Farris, Anna Deavers-Kelley, Sue Krinard, and Holly Riedel. Note: a few pieces of art contain either sidal or frontal nudity. Poetry by the author appears between chapters. The zine is printed on heavy paper stock in medium typeset type. Altogether a goodlooking, well produced item. Note: a toned-down version of the consummation scene, punched for insertion, is available free on request. Says the author, “By exchanging love scenes and removing any offending artwork, the reader can turn Parallel Worlds Within the City into a PG-13 rated zine.” [1]