The Chaotian Chronicles
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| Title: | The Chaotian Chronicles |
| Publisher: | The Federation Crazy Corps and Unicorn Press |
| Editor(s): | Jayne Largent?, Terri Nevins, Lydia Bobash |
| Date(s): | April 1977 to at least March 1979 |
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| Fandom: | Science Fiction with some Star Trek: TOS, some Star Wars |
| Language: | English |
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The Chaotian Chronicles is a club-zine published by the fan club The Federation Crazy Corps of Ohio which in 1977 had 12 members.
Issue 1
The Chaotian Chronicles 1 was published in April 1977 and contains 48 pages. This issue may have been edited by Jayne Largent.
It is a science fiction and fantasy zine that contains one Star Trek: TOS story and a Questor story. Art is by Linda Shadle, Barbara Slater, and Jayne Largent. The zine is "fondly dedicated to Andre Norton who gave us many hours of science fiction reading pleasure."
From the editorial:
This zine is hopefully something new in the fandom is that it is not strictly TREK. Our intention is to combine good TREK fiction with poetry, past and present TV series episodes, science fiction, fantasy, horror, the supernatural, and sword-and-sorcery. Not all in one issue, of course. As well as science articles, when we can get our hands on them, a bit of Tolkien, and movie, TV, and book reviews... WHY, you may ask, are we doing such a thing? It's like this. We were just sitting around having one of our usual gab-fests (a Starsky & Hutch-Emergency! group at one end, a Tolkien-cum-fantasy-horror group at the other end with some wanderers somewhere in between,) a normal occurrence at an F.C.C. [Federation Crazy Corps] meeting... Anyway, there we were just sitting around trying to outshout each other... when one of our number said, 'Hey, why don't we do something constructive for once and put together our own fanzine?' Well, we all thought that was a terrific idea, but there was one problem.... Somebody else suggested we'd only be another drop in the bucket since there are over 200 STREKzines out now, so why not make it a collection?... It would be something different.
- Editorial "Why Are We Here?"
- Grab bag by Matt Drahan
- Poetry Syndrome by Kathy Drouillard ("Song of Miramanee," "Manchild")
- Chaotic Citchen by Kathy Drouillard (a recipe for "Romulan War Burgers"—1 can of drained tuna, 1 small chopped onion, 1 package of cheddar cheese, mustard, salad dressing, hamburger buns, mix together, bake in foil, put on a hamburger bun and "Enjoy!")
- Filksong, "The Gofer's Lament" by Linda Shadle and Kathy Drouillard (dedicated to the con com of the Chicago Strektacular)
- Rerun Roundup: Sixth Sense -- "Thou Shalt Not Suffer a Witch" by Linda Shadle (a Questor story)
- Alien Imagery "First Skirmish" by Trina Jackson and Barbara Slater (a Star Trek story)
Jayne Largent
Jayne Largent
"The Gofer's Lament"
"The Gofer's Lament"
Issue 2
The Chaotian Chronicles 2 contains 42 pages.
- sf/fantasy reviews
- stories
- puzzles
- a four-page Alias Smith and Jones story
Issue 3
The Chaotian Chronicles 3 was published March 1979 and contains 58 pages. This issue was edited by Terri Nevins and Lydia Bobash.
The art is by Terri Nevins, Lydia Bobash, Valerie Singler, F.L. Robinson, and Amy Harlib.
A long Star Wars story makes up most of this issue.
- Critic's Corner: Flashman's Lady by George MacDonald Fraser, World Without End by Joe Haldeman, Riddle-Master of Hed/Heir of Sea and Fire by Patricia McKillip (3)
- Queen of Spades by Valerie Singler (original fantasy) (7)
- A Special Gift of Silence by Suzanne Hinr (original fiction) (11)
- Chaotian Crossword Puzzle (14)
- This Side of Paradox, fiction by Linda Shadle (16)
- Fanzine Directory (52)
- Fan Scene (54)
from issue #3, artist unclear
from issue #3, Terri Nevins
from issue #3, Terri Nevins
from issue #3, Amy Harlib
