Sha-Lin

Zine
Title:	Sha-Lin
Publisher:	Empathy Publications
Editor:
Author(s):	Simon Kovack
Cover Artist(s):	Robin Hill
Illustrator(s):
Date(s):	September 1978
Medium:	print zine
Size:
Genre:
Fandom:	Star Trek: TOS
Language:	English
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Sha-Lin is a het 31-page Star Trek: TOS novel by Simon Kovack.

It was published in England.

It has embedded poetry by M. Cromarty, C. Nixon, and Anne Snell.

Robin Hill

another version of the cover

Summary

An ad in Universal Translator #1 describes it as "the story of Spock's love for Sha-lin."

A 2012 eBay seller describes it as "Spock's journal."

A Response Poem

A fan named Anne Page wrote a poem in response to this novel. It was published in Emanon #8.

Sample Interior

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Reactions and Reviews

I must say I was very pleasantly surprised at the quality of the story. The cover illustration is by R. Hill, and the repro is good mimeo. The story by Simon Kovack is a Spock romance, and it fits all the standards for a 'marysue' ... but it is unusual in that the story is told from Spock's point of view. He's trying to set down his feelings in the hopes that he can better understand them and as he slowly realized certain things about himself, we get to realize these things too. There is also some lovely poetry by M. Cromarty, C. Nixon, and Anne Snell. Keith Jackson told me that Sha-lin may be the best Trek story printed in Britain; not having read them all, I really can't say. But it is for sure one of the best Spock romances I've read, and I liked it a LOT.