Zentraedi Connection
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| Title: | Zentraedi Connection |
| Publisher: | Tanglewebb Press (Australia), distributed in the U.S. by Jackie Beeman |
| Editor(s): | it has one, but they are not named |
| Date(s): | 1991 |
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| Fandom: | Robotech |
| Language: | English |
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Zentraedi Connection is a slash Corg/Lancer Robotech series of novels by Tessa Rae.
The art is not credited but is signed "Tammy."
Info From the Zines
From the zines: "We apologise for the fact that all artwork in Z.C. has been sold, and only appears with the kind permission of the owners."
From the zines: "Tanglewebb Press cannot be held responsible for any fanzine lost in transit to subscriber."
Issue 1
Zentraedi Connection 1
Issue 2
Zentraedi Connection 2 is subtitled "The Acceptance." It was published in 1991 and contains 140 pages.
From the editor:
If you are reading this, it means you have read Part One of the Zentraedi Connection and my Editor's notes therein. If you havent't [sic] read Part One, I want to know why!!!
I asked the author:
"Why don't I just tell our readers to read the Editor's notes in Part One again and save me thinking of something new to write for Part Two."
"That wouldn't be fair," she says.
"Fair!!"
I like that. She isn't doing her Author's notes again, still she does have to write the Introduction. Maybe that is punishment enough.
Speaking of punishment... no better not, that's another story!
She says I have to try and say something sensible (fat chance of that!), and also fill this page at the same time. Well, here goes...
Shall I tell you about the times I have sat up to all hours of the night and early morning editing the Chapters (here it is 2 a.m. and I'm typing this now) because I had to find out what happened to Lancer in the next chapter or... what was Corg going to do if Lancer did... and so it would go on. Or that the spell checker on the computer fouled up and we didn't find out until AFTER we had spell checked all fourteen chapters of this Part. Believe me, you wouldn't have heard of half the swear words we used, we even made up some Invid ones on the spur of the moment... or was it in the heat of the moment... never mind, I'm sure you get the picture. It took Tessa and myself a lot of time to set it up originally, because of the unfamiliar words, like protoculture, Zentraedi, Corg and so on. Altogether, there were about sixty unusual words that the spell checker insisted should not belong. Then to find out later upon reading it with my 'eagle' eye that we had many mispelled [sic] words was really the last straw! Still that is all behind us now and our spell checker's 'glitch' has been rectified...
I have found much enjoyment in editing Zentraedi Connection... yes all two parts of it so far... can't wait to get my hands on the last part where all the loose ends are tied together, and Lancer and Corg are tied to each other, and... no, shouldn't say any more, don't want to spill the beans... I know I'm a tease!!
The story is terrific and Tessa Rae has taken them where no carton [sic] show has gone before!
Well, that wasn't so bad, I've managed to boor [sic] you to pieces and still fill up this page.
Enjoy....
inside page from issue #2
inside page from issue #2
inside page from issue #2
inside page from issue #2
Issue 3
Zentraedi Connection 3 is subtitled "The Fulfillment." It was published in 1991 and contains 148 pages.
The editorial:
There shall be great sighs of relief from across the land and waters, Tessa Rae has finished Zentraedi Connection... or has she? I hate it when I see that sort of speculative look in her eyes, it surely means trouble...
Did she tell you about the scene where Lancer goes out with the kids one day. He has to see Simon and wants some time to himself.
He leaves the children in one of those special child minding playgrounds. It is within a shopping centre. An enormous enclosed cage, fully padded, with every conceivable plaything a normal child (is there such a thing!) could want. The children have a wonderful time. The gate is locked and only the guard can let the children out to the parents.
Lancer has a good day, much is decided and planned. Corg arrives home later that day to find Lancer has returned. There is peaceful silence about.
"Where are the children," he asks, after some time has lapsed. Lancer looks confused for a moment and then a horrified gasp, "I knew I forgot something."
You mean she hasn't told you about that scene... oh dear... you know what this means...
Someone else in Tanglewebb was heard to mutter: "I want to know how Lorn is going to turn out." That person has now been gagged... permanently!
I must admit though, to a small sigh of regret. I have enjoyed editing Zentraedi, seeing the characters develop and grow, and then with the last part, to finding out how Tessa was going to tie up all the loose ends and finally to end it off. I can't really say that the intriguing last line doesn't give me a slight hope that some time in the future (please not the near future), say in ten years or so... that we will find out how the children have matured, or more to the point, what mischief they have caused. I quite like the sound of that scene I mentioned above, that never did find its way into Zentraedi... maybe...
inside page from issue #3
inside page from issue #3
inside page from issue #3
Reactions and Reviews
After reading your list of favorite couples I was going to ask you if you'd seen Zentraedi Connection, a Yellow/Batolar (Lancer/Corg in American) novel from Tanglewebb Press. Then I got to the bit about your least favorite types of slash, and decided you might want to be warned off. Yellow is portrayed as weak, clinging, and emotional,a nd ends up having Corg's children! (OK, they're test tube babies and he doesn't actually carry them, but still...) Just because a guy wears a dress doesn't make him a wimp.[1]
Glad to hear more about Zentradi Connection, which has been hovering unfinished on dealers' tables for a couple of years now, and at Z-con appeared in three-volume finished form. I couldn't make myself buy it, however, having a sort of premonition that your description is absolutely correct. I really wish it seemed better. (Say, this isn't related anywhere to the Darth-Vader-as-a-dancing-girl epic that come out of Australian SW fandom at one point, is it? Truly weird, I promise you.) [2]
References
- ^ from a fan in Strange Bedfellows #2 (August 1993)
- ^ from a fan in Strange Bedfellows #3 (November 1993)