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Susan Crites
| Fan | |
|---|---|
| Name: | Susan Crites |
| Alias(es): | The Neon Nurse, Sufan |
| Type: | fanwriter, moderator |
| Fandoms: | X-Men, Star Trek: TOS, Star Trek: DS9, Buffy the Vampire Slayer |
| Communities: | Outside The Lines |
| Other: | |
| URL: | homepage, LJ, blog |
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Susan Crites is a multifandom fanwriter who was first published in a fanzine in 1969[1], where she received mention for her entry into a Detroit "Design a Starship Contest". She is the author of Neon Hearts, a popular het X-Men fanfiction story about a romance between Henry McCoy and OC Cassie, which was added to the Comic Book Fan-Fiction Awards Hall of Fame in 1999.
She also wrote the Klingon-centric Star Trek: TOS novels Games of Love and Duty and No Peaceful Roads Lead Home, and one of the first DS9 zines, For There Is Much To Dare, a novel written just six episodes into the first season.
She was the founder and moderator of the comics fanfic/discussion mailing list Outside The Lines (1998), as well as the X-Men mailing list Blue Believers (1999).
Crites was also the creator of the perszine: Sufan. Some issues of "Sufan" may also have been part of an apazine.
Mini Auto Bio
My own interest in this genre [of fanfic] showed up at an early age. I can clearly remember telling my little sister bedtime stories after we were tucked in with the lights out. We had our own imaginary 101 Dalmatian Plantation when I was 5 and she was 3. In later years our adventures included being adopted by Superman, and going off to live with Jonny Quest and his non-traditional family when that great old show hit the airwaves.
Eventually we grew up enough to rate our own rooms, and my stories were then just for me. I didn't commit any to actual paper for a good long while, and those early efforts are (happily) mostly lost to the many moves of my wandering life. (I counted up once--49 times by age 25!)
The first one I actually put out for public view in a fanzine was done in 1977. Since then I have toyed with the characters of many different universes. Now, inspired by the miracle of web publishing, I've decided to try to slowly collect my life's work (and ongoing/future projects as time permits) in one handy-dandy web-omnibus! [2]
Notable Works
Awards
Reviews and Recommendations
Archives/Zines/Collections/Communities
Archives
As Archivist
The Neon Nurse's Fanfic Folder
As Contributor
Zines
As Editor
As Contributor
- Dilithium #1 (Star Trek TOS) (1969)
- Sublight Reading #1 (Star Trek TOS) (1978)
- Ship to Shore #1 (Star Trek TOS) (1978)
- Stark Wars (Star Wars) (1978)
- Eel-Bird Banders' Bulletin #2 (Star Trek TOS) (1978)
- Sufan (perzine) (1979-)
- Masiform D (Star Trek TOS) (many issues, starting in 1979)
- Games of Love and Duty (Star Trek TOS) (1980)
- the lighter side of the force (Star Wars) (1980)
- WXYZine #3 (Star Trek TOS) (1981)
- Empire Review #4 (Star Wars) (1982)
- Vault of Tomorrow #2 (Star Trek TOS) (1982)
- Stylus #3 (non-fiction) (1982)
- Time Warp #6/7 (1984)
- No Peaceful Roads Lead Home (1987)
- Highly Illogical #8 (Star Trek TOS) (1988)
- Tunnels: Different Realities (Quantum Leap/Beauty and the Beast) (1990)
- Anime House Presents #5 (Albator, Captain Harlock) (1991)
- Lovers: "Trial by Friendship" (Star Trek DS9) (1992)
- The Rodilla Project (Andy Griffith) (1993)
- For There is Much to Dare (Star Trek DS9) (1993)