They Were Only Stunned
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| Title: | They Were Only Stunned |
| Publisher: | Delores J. Whitbread and Angela M. Churm |
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| Date(s): | August 1982 |
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| Medium: | print, zine |
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| Fandom: | Blake’s 7 |
| Language: | English |
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They Were Only Stunned is a gen Blake's 7 GP 10-page anthology published in the UK. It has the subtitle, "...Or Were They?"
From the zine: "... a collection of bits and pieces relating (mostly) to the feelings aroused by Blake's death.... Dedicated to Gareth Thomas, with love: -- and we hope he doesn't find out that Avon shot the clone!"
The original cost was twenty pence.
From the Editorial
First of all, thank you for buying this collection of bits and pieces -- I would hesitate to dignify it by the word "zine."There are two main things noticeable about this collection -- one, it's incredibly short, and two, it's incredibly cheap. The two conditions are not unrelated!
What I'd like to clarify are my reasons for bringing out "They were only stunned." About twenty minutes after [the episode] "Blake" was transmitted, Angela Churm and I had the idea of a "stunned" zine. Like most ideas, nothing else happened. Then, a couple of weeks later, Mike Wild sent me a couple of pieces he'd written in response to Blake's death. Lacking a zine to put them in, I've sat on them ever since, not knowing quite what to do with them. I kept them in mind, though, for I thought they were rather good and deserved to see the light of day.
Angela, a Cally fan if ever one drew breath, wrote the "last farewell" and I, prompted by heaven knows what, wrote "mind scan." [snipped] I collected them together, wrote my favourite explanation of how Our Heroes got out of lumber (a story that will give you the satisfaction of saying "I thought of that') and the result is what you see before you.
[snipped]
A word of apology to Mike. He thinks that they really were killed at the end of "Blake" and I heartily disagree with him. However, each to their own. The only thing is, to knock some kind of format into Section 1/A, I had to write some linking passages. These, I'm afraid, give the impression that our favourite rebels are either very much alive or looking at the Federation files from the vantage point of the Great Beyond -- an unlikely occupation in the circumstances.
Contents
- Dear carbon-based life form, editorial by Delores J. Whitbread"
- How We Got out of Lumber, fiction by Dolores J. Whitbread (1)
- [Federation file frame story], fiction by Delores J. Whitbread (2)
- Interrogation, fiction by Mike Wild (2)
- Death, fiction by Mike Wild (4)
- Mind Scan, fiction by Delores J. Whitbread (5)
- The Last Farewell, fiction by Angela M. Churm (6)
- The Alternative Universe Ending to Blake's Seven, fiction by Dolores J. Whitbread (based on ideas by Angela Churm) (8)