Fannish giveaway: fanzines, pro novels and a lunchbox

[marycrawford]

Quick heads-up: the ever-fabulous dorinda is clearing out a number of fannish items, yours for the mere cost of shipping. The haul includes fanzines, pro novels, records and a MST3K lunchbox. Fandoms include H:LotS, ST:TOS, Pros, QL and SH.

Kirk/Spock fans who appreciate the old as well as the new, go forth and grab that copy of Alien Brothers before some other, possibly less deserving fan gets their mitts onto it!

I love that zine, it's one of the earliest TOS K/S zines around and has beautiful art. If I didn't already have a copy I'd be on it like white on rice. Just look at the gorgeous typography of that cover.

Comments

Alien Brothers

[(Anonymous)]

Are the fanzines, such as Alien Brothers, protected under copy right laws? I want to read "The Ring of Soshern" rather badly, but it isn't posted anywhere online. If it isn't restricted by copy right laws, couldn't some wonderfully generous fan help the unluckier and/or younger fans out? I have seen multiple people asking about it online, but so far no luck.

Re: Alien Brothers

[marycrawford]

I believe copyright law should extend to fanfic, as it does to any other creative work of recent origin. But that will require a lot more action in courts around the world to settle.

Does it not occur to you that there are more issues at stake than copyright laws? When "The Ring of Soshern" was published, the internet didn't exist. Zines were sold at cons and through the mail, to at most a couple hundred of fans in-the-know, and slash fandom was as underground as it could possibly be. Some writers wrote under their real names.

It's wonderful to me that, given that history, Trek stories from the dawn of fandom are still coming online, scanned and proofed by volunteers, and with the explicit permission of the original author and/or artists. That's a rather different approach than "I want to read this story, someone scan it and put it online already!!"