Star News (Star Trek newsletter in English)

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Zine
Title: Star News
Publisher: Future Star Travelers, a fan club out of Randolph, Massachusetts
Editor(s): Gail Abend -- "This... nice kid who knows how to put out a real CRUDZINE"
Type:
Date(s): late 1967-?
Frequency:
Medium: print
Fandom: Star Trek: TOS
Language: English
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You may be looking for Star News (Brazilian Star Trek newsletter).

Star News is a newsletter with at least six issues.

Its focus was astronomy, science fact and fiction, and Star Trek: TOS.

For similar zines of this era, see List of Star Trek TOS Zines Published While the Show Was Still On the Air.

Issue 1

Star News 1 (volume 1 bulletin 1) was published in September/October 1967.

Issue 2

Star News 2 (volume 1 bulletin 2) was published in November/December 1967.

Issue 3

Star News 3 (volume 1 bulletin 3) was published in January/February 1968.

Issue 4

Star News 4 (volume 1 bulletin 4) was published in March/April 1968.

Issue 5

Star News 5 (volume 1 bulletin 5) was published in May/June 1968.

Issue 6

Star News 6 (volume 1 bulletin 6) was published in July/August 1968 and contains 3 pages.

front page of issue #6
  • info about Leonard Nimoy albums
  • a future UNICEF drive sponsored by the club
  • mention of a new Star Trek zine, refers to Galileo
  • some short articles about astronomy: the sun and Jupiter
  • "Report from the USS Intrepid II" by "Cmdr. Elyse Aurora (a fictional report about "what starmen do on a shoreleave" -- they go to a planet called Portsmouth)
  • the editor reports of a letter she has received from Arthur C. Clarke about the movie 2001: A Space Odyssey