Tales from the Vulcan Hearth

Zine
Title:	Tales from the Vulcan Hearth
Publisher:
Editor(s):
Date(s):	1989
Series?:
Medium:	print
Genre:	gen
Fandom:	Star Trek: TOS
Language:	English
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front cover by Ann Crouch

back cover by Ann Crouch

Tales from the Vulcan Hearth is a 40-page digest-sized Star Trek: TOS anthology by "Yuan Fen," Karen Hunter, and Ann Crouch.

The zine lists Ann Crouch as the artist, but the art is signed "Siobhan."

The original story which sparked this zine was in TREKisM at Length #5 in 1985.

The Vel Jaeger Connection

In December 1986, Vel Jaeger wrote:

I've written far more than anyone would expect, as I keep changing pseudonyms, a different name for each genre: some are probably obvious, such as my art pen name — my style is pretty hard to disguise, but I have fun trying (and no, I'm not going to mention it). Those I don't keep secret are Vera Cacciatore for filthy limericks, though it's been years since I've indulged in them, and Ellen Hulley for poetry/vignettes that I publish in one of my own zines. It's not that I'm ashamed of what I've written, but rather that I think it looks tacky to have an editor's name dominate the contents page — and mostly stuff written to fit an orphan illo, or sometimes I need something at the last minute to fit X number of inches of dead space. It's been one of my biggest thrills in writing that one of those "poems by the inch" inspired a whole new fan universe (TALES FROM THE VULCAN HEARTH), and at least one other story I know of (so far).

Descriptions

One description:

From the dawn of our days when the world was cooler, a collection of Vulcan legends and folktales by Karen Chobot Hunter.

From an ad in Communications Console in January 1989:

A volume of legends and tales from old Vulcan. Published by Yuan Fen, an organization attached to the Vulcan Historical Group under the auspices of the Federation Academy of History. Yuan Fen's materials are taken from accounts by researcher's expeditions, and independent explorers, and may include archeological papers, reports, and research in Vulcan and Federation records.

From the zine itself:

Tales From the Vulcan Hearth is a reconstructed account of a Vulcan's duties to his clan; the passing of the Old Knowledge to one of the next generation. Raised primarily off world, and having embraced only the cold logical aspect of his heritage, he finds himself ill equipped to fulfill the request of his Matriarch. But through the fulfillment of his duty, he learns the words of the Ancients; and how Vulcans lost their wings, why the sehlat and the le-matya cannot live in peace, what he thought were only the legends of Mt Seleya, and the sacredness of the Kata.

This is a publication Yuan Fen, a non profit organization attached to The Vulcan historical research group operating under the auspices of the Federation Academy of History.

Material for the Society's publications are taken from private journals. Federation Officer's logs, the descendants of the Ka'sahar'ger-ia Clan. Vulcan, T'Erin, Matriarch, and the Vulcan Academy of History, Professor Shorr, Director of Antiquities.

Contents

• Untitled framing story (6 pages)
• How Vulcans Lost Their Wings (3 pages) (reprinted from TREKisM at Length #5)
• The Sky God's Daughter (2 pages)
• The Gift of the Gods (3 pages)
• How the Seasons Came to Be (3 pages)
• Why the Sehlat & the Le-Matya Do Not Live in Peace (3 pages)
• Soul Stealer (6 pages)
• The Legend of Seleya (5 pages)
• A Tale of Two Warriors (7 pages)

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  art by "Siobhan"

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