The Pirates of Avalon
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| Title: | The Pirates of Avalon |
| Publisher: | Bill Hupe & Peg Kennedy (editor) |
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| Author(s): | Terre-Deuce Wellons |
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| Date(s): | November 1991 |
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| Fandom: | Star Trek: TNG |
| Language: | English |
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The Pirates of Avalon is a gen 82-page novel by Terre-Deuce Wellons. It was edited by Peg Kennedy and won a 1992 FanQ.
Summary
"Picard is on a mission to establish a trade agreement and exclusive diplomatic relations with Holy Avalon before the Rhannsu negotiate an agreement. Complicating this agreement are pirates who have been using Holy Avalon as a haven. [1]
Reactions and Reviews
The the biggest problem with The Pirates of Avalon the author's square-pegging and round-holing of multisyllabic words whose meanings she obviously doesn't know. I huh-whatted my way through, constantly going back and rereading until I kind of figured out what the author might've meant when she said that 'time slowed atmospherically,' or that someone tried to 'conjecture tactically.' She's also got a penchant for telling the story in the most ponderous, convoluted, and high-falutin' way possible... I'm all for simple... Between translating the author's high-sounding bobble and navigating my way through her sentence structure, I tended to lose sight of the plot. After months of dredging an allosaur from a tar pit, bone by bone, it's hard to keep in mind that it was once a living, breathing, flesh-rending animal. According to the dedication page, The Pirates of Avalon is "editted by Peg Kennedy." That's right, with two" t's." I have trouble believing that the zine was "editted." ... I have yet to demand my money back for any fannish item (and, like most of you, I've opened the mailbox many times and found it redolent of fannish bandini), but I'd have done just that had I forked over my own money for The Pirates of Avalon. Had I seen the thing displayed on a dealer's table, I'd have been tempted to buy it, because it is an attractive little package: spiral bound, cleanly laid out, serviceably bound. But the product simply does not fulfill the function for which it is being so Id; it just isn't readable. Neither Peg nor publisher Bill Hupe did Terre-Deuce any favors by letting her embarrass herself in public this way. It would have been far, far kinder to have pointed her toward the nearest junior college and an English 101 refresher course, while encouraging her to write for her own enjoyment and artistic development. But not for publication. Not yet. [2]
References
- ^ from Media Monitor
- ^ from Psst... Hey Kid, Wanna Buy a Fanzine? #4. The reviewer gives it "1 tree." The reviewers in "Psst... Hey Kid, Wanna Buy a Fanzine?" rated zines on a 1-5 tree/star scale.