Tales from New Wales
You may be looking for Trek Tales from New Wales, a Star Trek: TOS zine.
| Zine | |
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| Title: | Tales from New Wales |
| Publisher: | Great Raven Press/Bearly Spaced Enterprises |
| Editor(s): | Sue Bursztynski |
| Date(s): | January 1986 |
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| Medium: | print, zine |
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| Fandom: | Blake’s 7 |
| Language: | English |
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Tales from New Wales is a gen Blake's 7 62-page anthology. It is an alternate universe set in the whimsical land of New Wales where unicorns and dragons abound. All fiction, but for one piece, is by Sue Bursztynski.
The art is by Robert John and Gail Neville.
Description
From an ad in GAZ: "NEW WALES, a planet in the constellation of the Unicorn, whose people left Earth after the final battle between Arthur and Mordred and settled here where unicorns, dolphins and other such beasts, long extinct on Earth, still live."
Contents
Fiction:
- Sue Bursztynski, "The Loveliest of All" (reprinted from Chronicles #14) (3)
- Sue Bursztynski, "Beltane Night" (reprinted from Chronicles #21) (9)
- Art Portfolio, "Three views of Gwenddydd Glyadwn"
- Sue Bursztynski, "Ever After" (reprinted from Enchiridion #3) (31)
- Nonfiction: * Sue Bursztynski, "New Wales, an Introduction" (47)
- Sue Bursztynski, "All the Perfumes of Arabia" (Star Trek: TOS crossover (49)
- Robert Jan, "Ill Met" (51)
- Sue Bursztynski, "Editor's Afterword"
- Poetry: Sue Bursztynski, "The Planet of New Wales" (filk, Ten Thousand Miles Away)
Art:
- Robert Jan (front cover)
- Gail Neville
- Fiona Ellem
Reactions and Reviews
Yes, that is a unicorn-pony on the cover. He’s Avon’s childhood friend/pet. Because of course Avon had a unicorn-pony as a child!
This is something of an AU, obviously. In this, Avon’s father came from the independent colony of New Wales, a planet colonized via stargate centuries back by the Welsh people, including sentient dragons. They stay independent through a sort of magic/psychic trickery. (This is one of those stories where Avon is mildly telepathic.) The stories run from first season to PGP, with a surviving Vila & Avon (and a Cally rescued from Terminal a couple of years before that.)
No, you’ll never make it fit canonically. Doesn’t matter. Let Avon have his unicorn-pony friend. New Wales is an entertaining concept all on its own, and the stories are a good read. Blake's 7 #vintage fanzines #It's not an AU I would personally run with #but I enjoy reading it [1]
References
- ^ A Random Pile of Stuff, January 23, 2018