The Reality Barrier
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| Title: | The Reality Barrier |
| Publisher: | Marion McChesney |
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| Author(s): | Donna Jardis |
| Cover Artist(s): | Carole Swoboda |
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| Date(s): | June 1983 |
| Medium: | print zine |
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| Fandom: | Star Trek: TOS |
| Language: | English |
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The Reality Barrier gen Star Trek: TOS 90-page novel written by Donna Jadis and edited by Marion McChesney. The art is by Carole Swoboda.
The zine features an original character named Gabrielle Grove, a Star Trek fan in 1982, who picks up three hitchhikers in Connecticut that shock her. Her passengers are Kirk, Spock & Dr. McCoy who have fallen through a gate from an alternate universe. After saving Spock from pon farr, they find a way back... with Grove becoming Spock's wife.
Dedication: "To Leonard Nimoy, in gratitude for creating a Spock that we could spin such fantasies from."
Reprint Permissions
After Peg Kennedy took over Bill Hupe fanzine distribution business, Marion McChesney allowed the new company to distribute the zine. That ended in June 1997 when the reprint rights for all of Marion's zines were withdrawn from New Leaf Productions.
Vault of Tomorrow Special Editions
Sample Interior Gallery
Reactions and Reviews
Her [Marion McChesney] regular Star Trek anthology story collections were pretty much hurt/comfort gen. But her VoT Special Editions were not only adult, but either overtly or ultimately MARY SUEs. There is nothing ultimate about the Mary Sue in this novel. She is a Star Trek fan of the time who comes across Mr. Spock by the side of the road while driving about her day. It doesn't get much more Mary Sue than this!!! [1]
References
- ^ from an eBay Seller in 2007