The Tecton Star

Zine
Title:	The Tecton Star
Publisher:
Editor(s):	Leigh Kimmel was a co-coordinator, Karen S. Boyer was the founder
Type:	apa
Date(s):	see article
Frequency:
Medium:	print
Fandom:	Sime~Gen
Language:	English
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The Tecton Star is a Sime~Gen APA.

It was originally planned in the 1989 by Mark Kadey, who gafiated shortly thereafter.

submission guidelines, printed in Ambrov Zeor #21

"In 1991, another fan asked about the possibility of reviving it. When Jacqueline Lichtenberg gave the go-ahead, the very first issue of The Tecton Star came out in December of 1991. Since then it has kept fairly well to a bimonthly schedule. Our membership has come and gone over the years, but has remained active."

As of 1999, there were at least 35 issues.

See some more covers here.

From a brief description in Ambrov Zeor #21:

After reading about the new S/G APA, The Tecton Star, you may be thinking, why should we be starting such a thing? Aren't three fanzines enough already?

I decided to start a S/G APA because it would serve a different purpose from any of the fanzines. All three of them are filled through the formal process of submission and editing, like any other magazine. By contrast, my APA would be produced by the members, with each member producing a zine for it and having total editorial control over that zine.

Through this I hope to provide a congenial forum for discussion and personal interaction between fellow fans. Because it will be less formal, members can feel free to devote their pages to discussing their own lives and thoughts. In this way, the APA will serve more as a fan club by mail than a formal fanzine. Much as the early Tecton, the league of Householdings, had a publication that enabled the Householdings to communicate with one another when it was not possible to communicate in person (see HoZ), I hope that the Tecton Star will enable S/G fen to communicate with one another even when it would be difficult or impractical for them to meet in person for a regular fan club.

Because an APA is a publication produced by its members for its members, it can only grow as its membership does. Membership activity is to an APA what selyn is to a Sime. And just as only Gens can produce the selyn that the Sime needs, only individual members can provide this essential activity. So please don't hesitate to express your interest -- there's room for everybody who is interested. If we have to, we can expand our copycount to include everybody who is interested and willing to participate.

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  cover of issue #20, Gail Barton

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  cover of issue #25, Gail Barton

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  cover of issue #29, Gail Barton