Starship Britannica
| Zine | |
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| Title: | Starship Britannica |
| Publisher: | Overmind: The Society for British Science Fiction and Telefantasy, third issue by Pony Press, after 1986 all issues were published by Pony Press |
| Editor(s): | Leigh Arnold |
| Date(s): | 1986-1987 |
| Series?: | |
| Medium: | print zine |
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| Genre: | |
| Fandom: | British multimedia |
| Language: | English |
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Starship Britannica is a gen multifandom anthology focusing on the British media.
They were edited by Leigh Arnold.
There are three issues of art, essays, reviews, and fan stories.
Issue 1
Starship Britannica 1 was published in January 1986 (second printing March 1986) and contains 67 pages.
- Avon's Big Score by Leigh Arnold (reprinted in Powerplay #6) (Blake's 7)
- Intro to Blake's 7 (non-fiction)
- Retrospect by Meade Brockway
- Who Are the Tomorrow People
- A Pardner for Ellie-May
- Doctor Duck
- Book Review: Life, The Universe and Everything
- What the Hitch Hiker's Guide to the Galaxy has to Say on the Subject of Time Lords
- Only the End of the World Again
- The Adventures of Young Zaphod
- Share and Enjoy
- Mutiny Made Easy
- The Avengers/New Avengers
- Overmind's Talkaroundthegalaxy
- Thought for the Day
- The Mines of Gragafinch, part one (Doctor Who)
Issue 2
Starship Britannica 2 was published in 1986 and contains 72 pages.
It was edited by Leigh Arnold.
Contributors: Tom Perdoni and Bonnie Vitti.
- Adventures of Young Zaphod Beeblebrox (Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy) (1)
- Mines of Gragafinch, part two (Doctor Who) (16)
- Test of Terror (Doctor Who) (26)
- The Birthday Present by Leigh Arnold (Blake's 7) (49)
- U.F.O. Goodies (U.F.O.) (62)
- Wordsearch Hitch Hiker's (Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy) (67)
- A Matter of Perspective (Tomorrow People) (68)
Issue 3
Starship Britannica 3 was published in 1987 and contains 190 pages.
The art is by Vicki Brinkmeier (cover) and Dani Lane.
Fandoms are Blake's 7, Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, Doctor Who, Tomorrow People, Professionals and Dangermouse.
The production of the zine was delayed due to computer issues. In Datazine #44, the publisher writes, somewhat amusingly, that her computers have developed a personality of their own:
TO EVERYONE WHO MIGHT BE WAITING FOR STARSHIP BRITANNICA #3: Due to unforeseen difficulties, SB#3 will be postponed from October to December. First, changing from programming micros to programming IBM mainframes in machine language requires (shouldn't but does) more math credit than I have, and the fall semester has started. Even more seriously, Harriet, the wonderful, hard working IBM PC responsible for getting FOUR zines our between February and August of this year, had a nervous breakdown when she saw the number of disks to be formatted in preparation for SB#3...She'll quite willingly run programs (and did eventually format the disks) but word processing definitely needs a screen ....Peon, the Commodore, only requires a TV and has volunteered. Unfortunately, Peon also requires an RS232 interface board to run the beautiful dot matrix (could you tell) Toshiba Harriet uses. So which ever one comes up to par first runs the word processing software.
- Rest(less) Cure by Mary Alice Wuerz (Blake's 7)
- Promises to Keep by Rebecca Ann Brothers (Blake's 7)
- Jassi's Storm by Genn Eccles (Blake's 7)
- Journey's End by Joan Hoffman (Blake's 7)
- other unknown content
Issue 4
Starship Britannica 4 was never issued. It was supposed to be an all-Blake's 7 crossover issue. Its contents were instead published in Magnificent Seven #9 and New Horizons.