Time Knight

Zine
Title:	Time Knight
Publisher:	Dark Horse Publishing Group
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Date(s):	May 1992
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Medium:	print
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Fandom:	Quantum Leap
Language:	English
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Time Knight is a gen anthology edited by Roxanne Shearer Koogler.

a 1992 flyer, printed in Good Guys Wear Fangs #1

It is an even mix of crossovers and original universes.

Contents

• The Price of Glory by Pat Dunn and Diana Smith (Quantum Leap crossed with Pat and Diane's vampire characters, Nicholas and Varina)
• To Kill a Vampire by Pat Dunn and Diana Smith (Quantum Leap crossed with Pat and Diane's vampire characters, Nicholas and Varina) (reprinted in The Collected Nicholas and Varina)
• Final Entries by Pat Dunn
• Stitches in Time by Casey Jordan
• Leaping on the Air in Cincinnati by Fraser Sherman (WKRP crossover)
• The Courtship of Jamie's Mother by Pat Dunn and Diana Smith
• Circles by Shannon O'Connor ("Sam leaps into a Vietnam vet who lost an arm during the war.")
• Plumb Loco by Mary Robertson
• Al About Eve by Fraser Sherman ("Sam leaps into Al as a young Navy Lieutenant and in between fending off romantic overtures, must save the life of a woman from Al's past.")
• White Knight to Queen by Kay Simon ("Sam must rescue the kidnapped Queen of the Fair, but his concussion hampers his efforts.")
• Bewitched, Bothered and Bewildered by Lee Kirkland (Beauty and the Beast crossover. Part of the author's Quantum Beast series)
• Windows of the Soul by Heidi Sanchez
• A Three Hour Tour by Reggie Beck

Reactions and Reviews

Three out of five stars. An even mix of cross and original universes.

• "The Price of Glory" and "To Kill a Vampire" - Pat Dunn and Diana Smith. QL crossed with Pat and Diane's vampire characters, Nicholas and Varina, add vampires to those who can sense Sam as he really is.
• "Final Entries" - Pat Dunn. Sam's journal, just before he leaped.
• "Stitches in Time" - Casey Jordan. How Al and Ziggy deduced that God was controlling the leaps, visualizing the threads of the web of time.
• "Leaping on the Air in Cincinnati" - Fraser Sherman. Sam's at WKRP again.
• "The Courtship of Jamie's Mother" - Pat Dunn and Diana Smith. and Sam is Jamie, a 12 year old girl. Can he convince her mother that the man she's been seeing is abusive?
• "Circles" - Shannon O'Connor. Sam's back in college, a disabled Vietnam Vet Vet. Predating Nowhere to Run, Sam can use the arm the leapee is missing, but it takes a great deal of effort and concentration.
• "Plumb Loco" - Mary Robertson. Sam has no luck at plumbing, but fixes another problem.
• "Al About Eve" - Fraser Sherman. and no, that isn't a typo :-) Sam switches places with Al, again.
• "White Knight to Queen" - Kay Simon. Sam to the rescue.
• "Bewitched, Bothered and Bewildered" - Lee Kirkland. More of Lee's series on Sam in the Beauty and the Beast universe. Sam's farther back in Cathy's past, causing her breakup with Steven Bass. This is a sequel to Lee's digest size QL/BatB zines, but you don't really need them to follow it.
• "Windows of the Soul" - Heidi Sanchez. Sam rescues, and falls for, another abused woman. I've read quite enough of these now, thank you.
• "A Three Hour Tour" - Reggie Beck. Guess!

Contains a variety of stories, including “Stitches in Time” by Casey Jordan, an unusual back-at-the- Project story focusing on Al searching for the meaning of Sam’s Leaping. He finds it when he sees a remarkable “sign” in the sky. This introspective story deals with the themes of God, Time and Fate in a very realistic way.

“Circles” by Shannon O’Connor has Sam leaping into a disabled Vietnam veteran, now a college student, who must help a troubled young woman change her mind about committing suicide. This is a good taut story, and offers an interesting twist on the “body question”: Sam’s right arm is present, but apparently paralyzed, while he is replacing the leapee-- who is an amputee.

“Al About Eve” by Fraser Sherman leaps Sam into an recently-repatriated Al Calavicci, and into the midst of an explosive situation with the wife of an old friend of Al’s. With the holgraphic Al’s constant advice, Sam avoids a tragic outcome. Good dia- logue in this one.

There are three cross-over stories: “Leaping on the Air in Cincinnati” by Fraser Sherman (QL/WKRP in Cincinnati); “Bewitched, Bothered, and Bewildered” by Lee Kirkland (QL/Beauty & the Beast); and “A Three Hour Tour” by Reggie Beck (QL/Gilligan’s Island) this last is much more serious than I’d expected!

Other contributions to Time Knight include: “Plumb Loco” by Mary Robertson; “To Kill a Vampire” by Dunn & Smith; “White Knight to Queen” by Kay Simon; and “Windows of the Soul” by Heidi Sanchez.

Art by Dragon, Barbara Gipson, Phyllis Berwick, and Lena Wood. A well-produced fanzine.