Survival (Star Trek: TNG zine)
| Zine | |
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| Title: | Survival |
| Publisher: | Orion Press |
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| Author(s): | Carol Davis |
| Cover Artist(s): | Adrian Morgan |
| Illustrator(s): | Adrian Morgan |
| Date(s): | 1991 |
| Medium: | print zine |
| Size: | |
| Genre: | gen |
| Fandom: | Star Trek: TNG |
| Language: | English |
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Survival is a gen Star Trek: TNG 122-page novel by Carol Davis. The art is by Adrian Morgan.
Summary
From Media Monitor: "Wesley and Beverly Crusher, their cousin and Deanna Troi crash land on a alien planet while en route to visit an ailing relative. Meanwhile, as the Enterprise crew enjoys shore leave Jean-Luc has his hands full with the daughter of an old friend, a daughter who is now an officer, and a quite attractive one at that."
Publisher's Note
From the zine:
In recent months, we have been chastised by some of our more zealous critics for publishing novels as issues of ERIDANI. All right, to calm those baying wolves, we have opted to print such lengthy Next Generation submissions as this one. Survival, by Carol Davis, as separate publications.
We have also been chastised regarding the old question that all fanzine editors must face: how much editing?
I believe (and others will vehemently disagree) that if a writer rewrites and reworks a submission over and over, the story will suffer. My reasoning? I feel an author will become jaded and fatigued at reworking the same premise over and over. Further, i think the story will lose a certain uniqueness that an author may have in style and concept as the editor's style and concept becomes more and more pervasive throughout the manuscript.
Orion Press is not interested in publishing a fanzine wherein the stories have been reworked so much that they are bland as vanilla by comparison to the original zesty flavor of the manuscript. This is one of the problems we see in so many zines. Too many editors edit so much that they drive their contributors crazy with all the rewrite requests. Further, the editor's continued reworking of a manuscript makes the piece more and more his or her work rather than a unique story from one of several authors.
This is not suggest that an editor should simply publish the submissions "as is." There are quite a few zines published by editors who are, in actuality, glorified typists. We, at Orion Press, are NOT typists. Each story we receive is carefully edited before it is published. There are dozens of contributors who will say, "Yes, they edited my piece." Some may even accuse us of over-editing (and we HAVE lost contributors because they refuse to allow us to edit their work). Yet, our zealous critics who want the bland, extremely edited fanzines accuse us of not editing submissions we received. Or accuse us of editing them poorly.
It's truly a no-win scenario.
This novel, which you are about to read, was edited by Chris Dickerson, Linda McInnis and myself. Some changes were made. Not many, mind you, but some. I hope that the novel retains the original flavor which we found so appealing, and I hope that you readers will enjoy it as much as we did.
