Talk:The Deryni Archives

I just plopped that fandom name in the template but know it's not "formatted" correctly. I'm not sure how a fandom based on books should be titled. Can someone help? Mrs. Potato Head 15:14, 25 October 2009 (UTC)

Does this even count as fanfic if the author of the source is the editor? or did I misunderstand something?--Ratcreature 17:39, 25 October 2009 (UTC)

Well, it has gone on for thirty years, many with her not as the editor, and it is stories, art and poetry by other people other than her. I'd say so. Mrs. Potato Head 18:14, 25 October 2009 (UTC)

But almost all the zines on this page list Katherine Kurtz as editor, i.e. #1-4, 6-10, 16-20, that 12 of 20 that she edited, and in the ones she did not edit she still contributed. And she is the author of the novels too. So basically she seems to publish anthologies for her own universe in which other people write some too? I get that there can be original fic fanzines, so I'm not saying this isn't fandom at all, but it is somewhat odd. Also as to what to call this, wikipedia has the article under "Deryni novels", so perhaps the fandom could be called that, or it could be done like it's for some other authors here with smallish fandoms that the author name is the main page, and novel series and books and such subpages.--Ratcreature 18:35, 25 October 2009 (UTC)

Inserted a paragraph clarifying and distinguishing the zine (definitely a zine) from the two related but distinct professionally published Deryni books. (Clearly, the DA fanzine is indeed a fanzine incorporating fanfiction; the parallel is clearly to the early state of affairs in Darkover fandom, wherein MZB was aware of and supportive of assorted zines publishing Darkover fiction, up to and including Kurtz's gathering of some of the material for a commercially published anthology. Except, of course, that Kurtz hasn't had a conflict of the kind MZB eventually experienced. --djonn 16:13, 17 June 2010 (UTC)

QUERY: I am not the original author of this page, but now that I think of it -- shouldn't a lot of the byline/credit names in the contents listings here be redacted in accordance with the Fanlore:Pre-1995 Fan Name Use policy? Presumably names of those associated with post-'95 zine issues are permissible (and a number of those go back to pre-'05 issues as well), but that still leaves a degree of editing to do. [Come to that, Kurtz's tenure as editor is all pre-'95, which raises an interesting question.] --djonn 23:16, 17 June 2010 (UTC)

re the pre-1995 naming - it looks like the info came direct from the magazine publisher's website. --Morgandawn 00:06, 18 June 2010 (UTC)

That's a definite point, and the fact that it's a pretty complete listing certainly counts for something. (I'm also moderately intrigued that this has remained a printzine right up till 2009, and that you can apparently still order every single issue in the run in said printed form.) However. playing Devil's advocate: the fact that the Web site editors have outed early contributors does not necessarily prove that those contributors wanted to be outed. That would depend on when the Web page was done and what measures or understandings were taken at that time to make sure said early contributors were OK with being listed as such on the Web site. I don't know that there's a good answer one way or the other; I mostly bring it up because the stated policy is to err in favor of not outing, and I suspect that the Fanlore admins have given this more thought than most editors of external zine-related Web pages. --djonn 00:46, 18 June 2010 (UTC)

Isse 9

The date of issue 9 is probably wrong. According to the page issue 4 and 5 are from 1980, issue 6 and 7 from 1981, issue 8 from 1982, issue 10 from 1984, issue 11 from 1985 and 12 from 1986. Issue 9 being from 1978 doesn't fit. --Doro 18:35, 19 June 2011 (UTC)