Xenophilia (Star Trek zine)
| Zine | |
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| Title: | Xenophilia |
| Publisher: | Katherine J. Lydick, Carl J. Lydick |
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| Date(s): | May 1976 |
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| Medium: | print zine |
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| Fandom: | SF & Star Trek: TOS |
| Language: | English |
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Xenophilia is a gen Star Trek: TOS and original fiction zine. It was published in May 1976 and contains 52 pages. The main editor was Katherine J. Lydick.
The editor wrote in the editorial about her plans for future issues, but it is likely this was the only one.
The zine has illos by Janice Auburger Drake, Ellen Dwyer, Terri Erikson, Vicki Hilpert, and Hilda Soto.
The writers (listed in the zine, but not always specifically attached to the stories): Ellen Dwyer, Kathryn Baker, Valery Michaelis, Charles Wannell, Jr., Nick Smith, and Katherine Lydick.
According to the bios included, the contributors were all students at Wilson College, John Hopkins, University of Maryland, CalTech, a Pittsburg high school, Essex Community College and/or members of the military at the 376 ASA Company at Fort Meade Maryland, and/or employed as a journalist and a worker at Xerox.
From the Editorial
How did his happen, and where are we going from here?
It all started with Robert Wilson.
Or Doc Savage, combined with a liberal dose of space opera and Heinlein juvenile. Anyway, the end result was Robert Wilson. A dozen books of him.
Meanwhile, a couple of hundred miles south, someone was fired up by some possibilities using the Star Trek universe, and, unaware of an organized fandom, used the characters and her own imagination to predict a possible Star Trek future. Particularly fascinating were the possibilities inherent in Mr. Spock, and the crisis he would eventually have to go through to preserve his integrity as a person. The crisis of finding, deciding, just what being a Vulcan really means. Does it really mean a barren life, devoid of friendship, love, devotion? The glimpses we’ve seen of the Sarek/Amanda relationship, of T’Pring and of Stonn — are these a refutation of what Vulcan really is, or merely a declaration of what they should be?
Both manuscripts were shown to close friends. And at Wilson College, some years later, the manuscripts crossed paths, and their respective authors met. The seed was sown there.
Both authors were drawn into fandom over the next several years, made contacts among other creative fans, and ran across that peculiar publication, the fanzine. And the seed sprouted among the unclosed circle: Why not one of our own?
Why not indeed? We had intended to go the traditional fanzine format — offset, yes, but as far as format goes, the norm—typed out, margins unjustified, etc. Then my husband suggested a more professional format.
We found that the cost of doing our own typesetting would be more than offset (ouch!) by the amount of pages we could save. The amount of copy remains the same as in most of the largest fanzines (we started with two hundred and ten double-spaced, typed pages), but with smaller type in a more readable format, you now have in your hands a much smaller, infinitely more readable, and actually less expensive fanzine than could have otherwise been produced.
[snipped]
Xenophilia is utterly open to contributions, and we welcome them. Stories, poetry, articles (which we are noticeably lacking) and art. Any SF, fantasy, Star Trek, or Mythologically related material of decent or better quality. Preferably, art should be in pen and ink on white paper, 8 1/2 x 11. But if you get other kinds of work to us, and it’s undeniably good, we’ll find a way to reproduce it. What kinds of stories? Confrontation between protagonist (or antagonist) with something alien, external or internal. And something positive coming out of the confrontation. This does not mean no unhappy endings, by any means. As long as there is something upbeat about the story, it will fit the fanzine.
[snipped, biographical info about the contributors]
- Journal by T'Pring, fiction by Valery Michaelis (pseud) (Star Trek: TOS) (3)
- Trivia Quiz (6)
- The Tests, fiction by Kathryn Baker (Star Trek: TOS) (7)
- The Defender, fiction by Nick Smith (Star Trek: TOS) (16)
- Trivia Quiz, answers (17)
- The Enlightened One, fiction, not specifically credited (original fiction) (18)
- Loki, two poems (18)
- R.W.E., fiction by Ellen N. Dwyer (original science fiction) (20)
- Loki, poem (50)
- Afterword, by the editor (50)
Janice Auburger Drake
Hilda Soto
Ellen Dwyer
Ellen Dwyer
