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Shady Thoughts
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Shady Thoughts is the title of a series of meta essays in the print zine Shadowstar.
Some of the essays were written by the zine's editor, but most were by "guest" columnists.
All of the essays were fan-related except for one.
The Essays
- Shady Thoughts: Who is the Other? Theories I've Encountered by Mary Jean Holmes (Winter 1980)
- Shady Thoughts: Terrans Will Be Terrans by Jean Danielsen (Summer 1981)
- Shady Thoughts: In Defense of Media Science Fiction and Fan Fiction by Mary Jean Holmes (Winter 1982)
- Shady Thoughts: Further Comments and Editorial Reaction to "Who is the Other?" by Linda Ruth Pfonner (Spring 1982)
- Shady Thoughts: Tolerance in Fandom: an Endangered Specie? by Mary Jean Holmes (Summer 1982)
- Shady Thoughts: "Why Do You Waste Your Time Writing This Stuff?" by Roberta Stuemke (Spring 1983)
- Shady Thoughts: Our Writer's Guidelines: An Explanation by Mary Jean Holmes (Summer 1983)
- Shady Thoughts: On Being Edited, A Reaction by Roberta Stuemke (Winter 1984)
- Shady Thoughts: Another Look at "On Being Edited, A Reaction" by Wanda Lybarger (Spring 1984)
- Shady Thoughts: A Theory to Explain the Universe (According to George Lucas) by Mary Jean Holmes (Summer 1984)
- Shady Thoughts: An Open Letter to George Lucas by Dorothy P. Freda (Fall 1984)
- Shady Thoughts: Why I Like Reading/Writing Fan Fiction by Misty Lackey (Winter 1985)
- Shady Thoughts: On Challenger Incident by Mary Jean Holmes (Summer 1986) (not fannish)
- Shady Thoughts: Star Wars and the Road to Middle Earth? by Thomas M. Egan (Spring 1988)