Vulstar Equation
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| Title: | Vulstar Equation |
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| Editor(s): | Teresa Patterson |
| Date(s): | around 1977 |
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| Fandom: | Star Trek: TOS |
| Language: | English |
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Vulstar Equation is a gen anthology with at least three issues of art, fiction, and news.
It is a club zine published in Texas by high school students. While at a pizza parlor during a Star Trek convention, they decided to publish a zine.
Contributors are Teresa Patterson, Steve Oller, Julie West, Julie Barrett, James Robinson, and Cindy Grinstead.
Issue 1
Vulstar Equation 1 was published in September, year not specified.
cover of issue #1
One of the zine's creators, Julie Barrett, had this to say in 1991:
When I was a freshman in college ~ back when dinosaurs ruled the earth - I helped publish a Trek zine called VULSTAR EQUATION. It was a dinky little affair, but I suspect it had the dubious distinction of being one of the first zines ever to be produced on a computer. One of our lot had access to an IBM 1620, a hulking machine the size of several major appliances. We typed the whole thing in on punch cards. The theory was that if a typo needed to be fixed, we could just type one or two cards over rather than to do an entire page on a mimeograph stencil. By golly, it worked! The only problem was that the entire manuscript was "typeset" in dot-matrix caps. We went back to the typewriter and mimeo for the next issue. [1]
Issue 2
Vulstar Equation 2 contains 40 pages and is undated. This is a collection of around 12 stories, poems, puzzles and illustrations.
cover of issue #2
Issue 3
Vulstar Equation 3 contains 69 pages. The art is dated 1979, the zine itself is not dated.
The art is by Teresa Patterson, Patricia Nead, Cindy Grimstead, John Battles, and Earlene Benson.
- Star Mistress, poem by Teresa Patterson (science fiction) (inside front cover)
- Prime Directive, fiction by Patricia Nead (Star Trek: TOS) (1)
- Though the Looking Glass: News of the Future, fiction by Julie West (original science fiction) (44)
- THe Logic of Emotion, fiction by Cindy Grimstead (Star Trek: TOS, McCoy-centric) (45)
- Nebula, poem by Julie West (54)
- Flavius, poem by Patrica Nead (Star Trek: TOS/Christianity) (55)
- Dark Shadows in the Sun, fiction by Teresa Patterson (original science fiction, winged horses) (57)
- Review of the Television Show: "Quark" by Jule West (64)
- Nebula's Fire, poem by Teresa Patterson (Star Trek: TOS) (66)
- Welcome Back by Darlene Johnson (Star Trek: TOS) (67)
from issue #3, Patricia Nead
from issue #3, Earlene Benson
from issue #3, Patricia Nead
from issue #3, Cindy Grimstead
from issue #3, Teresa Patterson
from issue #3, Darlene Johnson
from issue #3, John Battles, inside back cover
from issue #3, sample text
References
- ^ from the editorial of A Matter of Time #1