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Xenofilkia
| Filk Songbook | |
|---|---|
| Title: | Xenofilkia |
| Publisher: | |
| Editor(s): | Lee Gold |
| Date(s): | October 1988-present |
| Medium: | |
| Language: | English |
| External Links: | online here, previous |
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Xenofilkia is a gen multifandom bi-monthly filk fanzine. "Xenofilkia comes out every even month (February, April, June, August, October and December). Each Xenofilkia has about twenty pages of filksongs and weighs about 3 ounces. The first issue was October of 1988, and issues have been appearing punctually ever since." [1]
Issue 16
Xenofilkia 16
- "Like Comyn to the Slaughter," by Harold Feld (Darkover song TTTO "Like a Lamb to the Slaughter," retelling the events of The Horse-Tamer's Daughter)
- other unknown content
Issue 19
- Beward of the Vogonese Poets by Susan Macdonald ( Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, by the late, great Douglas Adams, has been a radio show, a TV show, a book, and a movie. In theory this should fit any of the variations, but if push comes to shove, it's based on the radio show. Originally published in Xenofilkia #19, October 1991. To be sung to the tune of "Beware of the Sentient Chili," by Chris Weber.)
- other unknown content
Issue 25
Xenofilkia 25
- The A-Team Filksong by Susan Macdonald (To be sung to the tune of "Signy Mallory" (words by Mercedes Lackey, music by Leslie Fish.)
- other unknown content
Issue 34
Xenofilkia 34
- Blake's 7 poetry/filk
- other unknown content
Some filks from unknown issues
- The Beagle Has Landed by Michele Eatough (about Snoopy's adventures as a WWI Flying Ace)
- A Pilot's Song by Susan Macdonald (Airwolf)
- Bertholdt Brecht Does Shakespeare by Jane Mailander (MacBeth, to Mack the Knife)
- Harvester by Leslie Fish (about a peasant turned soldier)
- Acts of Parody by Bob Kanefsky (A parody of Acts of Creation, about how filkers steal tunes and ideas to create parodies)
- Home Again by Raoul I. Benefiche (about Gilligan's Island, but to The Mary Ellen Carter)
- Sirius Song by Lee Gold (A calypso song about the Dog Star (to Dayo))
- P G P by Lee Gold (About Phil Zimmerman's Pretty Good Privacy)
- possibly Where Have You Been Miles O'Brien by Susan Macdonald (Star Trek: TNG)
References
- ^ Xenofilkia home page, Last change: May 24, 2009