Perchance to Dream (Beauty and the Beast zine)
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| Zine | |
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| Title: | Perchance to Dream |
| Publisher: | DreamSeekers |
| Editor(s): | Adele Turner |
| Date(s): | 1993-? |
| Series?: | |
| Medium: | print zine |
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| Fandom: | Beauty and the Beast (TV) |
| Language: | English |
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| Click here for related articles on Fanlore. | |
Perchance to Dream is a het Beauty and the Beast anthology edited by Adele Turner.
Issue 1
Perchance to Dream 1 was published in June 1993 and contains 237 pages.
Art information: color cover and interior art by Lynette Combs, other art by Terri Milliman, Mickey Sayles, and Pam Tuck.
- To Dream by Adele Turner (1)
- Stone Soup by Lynette Combs (9)
- A Love to Transcend Time by Sandra Platt (57)
- To Serve in Heaven by Adele Turner (79)
- Bright Eyes, Big Kitty by Kim Raymond (101)
- The Real Tomorrow by Helen Commodore (107)
- And All The Winters End by Betty Mills (127)
- One Love by Betty Mills (129)
- To Have or Have Not by Laurie Wittenberg (191)
- My Sister's Keeper by Cindy Ban Houten (201)
- Tunnel Tappings by Helen Commodore (233)
- Vincent's Passionate Kisses by Adele Turner (237)
Reactions and Reviews: Issue 1
Mostly Continued Classic. The longest tale is a sequence by Betty Mills: “And All Winters End” and “One Love-Parts One and Two.” In this series, the first part serves as a brief prologue introducing V/C and their family of three young children, including Joseph, the youngest, who resembles V. In the later narrative, “One Love,” Joseph, grown to mid adolescence, is in love with Holly, the daughter of a helper, but their love is complicated by the time and attention he spends on his studies (he intends to become a doctor). Notable among the other fiction is Lynette Combs' “Stone Soup,” which continues the adventures Below of moppet Naomi, featured in Combs' zines Promises to Keep 1-2. In this installment, Naomi has found, Above, a small creature in need of care and shelter. It seems only reasonable to Naomi that she should sneak food to it, then bring it Below, as a surprise, during a nicely imagined tunnel custom, “Stone Soup Day.” Adele Turner's “To Serve in Heaven” is a unique look at Paracelsus' last days-a perceptive story emphasizing forgiveness and reconciliation. Sandra Platt's “A Love to Transcend Time” tells of the romantic encounter between Egyptian god Vckenere and destined princess Kahfrenei (try to say that three times fast!), due to wed another in a week's time, but bound forever to her loving divinity-evidently a dream inspired by C's buying a golden Egyptian artifact showing a lion-headed man, a gift for V on the fifth anniversary of their first meeting. Cindy Van Houten's “My Sister's Keeper” recounts how Devin, again with a traveling circus, finds himself the surrogate father of orphaned “freak” Eva, who's like V, only with spotted fur, white hair, and a more obviously feline way of laughing. Ambivalent about either keeping her in his care or entrusting her to another's, he eventually takes her to the sanctuary of the tunnel community. But Eva wants him to stay.... In Helen Commodore's “The Real Tomorrow,” the narrator is disgusted with the zines she uncritically accumulated in the first rush of enthusiasm for the series, zines which she now discovers undervalue C and, in some cases, turn V into “a prosaic man of flesh and blood with all of that creature's darkest instincts.” Appalled, she drags the box of offending zines to be collected with the trash...and, in what perhaps was intended as a dream, the box is delightedly collected by young Charles and younger Jacob, (the sons of you-know-who) and dragged back to the tunnels and the Continued Classic reality. When C gets hold of them, she's spitting mad to find herself so neglected, and V is mystified how any story could be told about him without C's figuring in it. Are also vignettes by Adele Turner, Kimberly Jo Raymond, Helen Commodore, and Laurie Wittenberg. A poem by Turner celebrates “Vincent's Passionate Kisses,” and Combs contributes several cartoons. Color cover-silhouettes, with V/C photos added in, by Lynette Combs. Interior art (one-sided; unnumbered) for this handsome and well-made zine by Combs, Terri Milliman, Mickey Sayles, and Pam Tuck.[1]
Issue 2
Perchance to Dream 2 is undated and contains 196 pages. Art by Michele Sayles, Lynette Combs and Kate Maynard.
- Acknowledgements (i)
- Table of Contents (ii)
- The Journey by Martia West (17)
- Someone to Watch over Me by Adele Turner (53)
- Driving While Driven, poem by Martia West (55)
- The First Time by Michele Sayles (55)
- Thoughts Behind an Enigmatic Smile by Martia West (61)
- Beggars Can't Be Choosers by Lynette Combs (63)
- The Storm by Adele Turner (109)
- Lost & Found by Cindy Van Houten (123)
- Love Letters Revisited by Helen Commodore (127)
- Catherine's Journal by Nancy Curles (193)
- cartoon (199)
from issue #2, unknown artist
from issue #2, Michele Sayles
