Tales from Space City is an eclectic mix of gen, het and slash
(homosexual) Blake's 7 material written by the members of the Space City
mailing list. Please note that this zine is intended to provide a paper
version of online material, and many of the stories are available on the
Web - the amount varies from issue to issue.Helen Patrick currently lives in the US but visits the UK and Australia about once a year - email helen.patrick@waveney.org to check on prices.
Mini-Review and Contents for #1
Review and Contents for #2.
(About issues 3-7) Not much point in reviewing the contents of these, since they're all familiar to FC citizens. But I did want to say that they are well edited and laid out, and what is more, very portable. I can and do read them on buses and trains, and the artwork, while rather nice (particularly the Carnell in no 4) is not such as to cause a scene on the public transport.Hafren
| Issue 1 has 130 pages and 106 000+ words of non-editorial text. Stories
range from half a page to nine pages, and from the extremely silly to
the serious. Just like the mailing list, in fact. All art by Val
Westall. Second edition (no adult art). Sold Out.
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| Issue 2 has 65 000 words and 77 pages of non-editorial text. All art by Val Westall. Second edition (no adult art). | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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There may be savings on postage where more than one of the following
digest-sized zines are ordered together. Any saving will be credited in
the form of a Knightwriter gift certificate.
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Issue 3: digest size zine, 76 pages and 33 000 words of non-editorial
text. Please note that all of the contents of this zine are available on
the Web.
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Issue 4: digest size zine, 71 pages and 29 000 words of non-editorial
text. This issue focuses on the interplay between writers that email
facilitates. The Atonement Cycle started as a story Hafren posted to the
list. Willa Shakespeare asked if she could show the story from the
viewpoint of another character, and Hafren, Willa and Nova then wrote
further stories showing what happened next. The Nova and Executrix Show
is a pair of stories on the same theme, by two writers with very
different styles. And there are individual stories, inspired by comments
on the list, suggestions for story themes, and just the time of year.
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Issue 5: digest size zine, 73 pages and 31 000 words of non-editorial
text. On the 21st of December 2001 the list held a wake for the 20th
anniversary of the massacre on Gauda Prime. Some of the resulting
fiction is collected in this issue.
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Issue 6: digest size zine, 36 pages and 15 000 words of non-editorial
text. This being a wake for Gauda Prime, quite a lot of the fiction was
a trifle angst-inducing. So much so that Willa Shakespeare, President of
the Happy Ending eXpediters, provided HEX sequels of some of the stories
for those who'd used up their entire supply of tissues. This issue
contains the HEXes written for stories published in issue 5. There's the
odd bit of angst on the way, but you're guaranteed a happy ending in
each and every story.
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Issue 7: digest size zine, 74 pages and 30,000 words of non-editorial
text. Most of this issue is the result of the 2003 Labor Day Party. This
year's theme was "it seemed like a good idea at the time", which might
be considered to be one of the basic themes of the series itself. As
usual, the Citizens found a startling variety of ways to interpret a
simple sentence, ranging from the chilling to the uproariously funny.
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Issue 8: digest size zine, 76 pages and 28,000 words of non-editorial
text. No particular theme this time, although looking over the completed
proofs I get the impression that it's a distinctly listish issue.
Rollcall snippets, Labor Day party pieces, challenges, and examples of
one writer being inspired by another.
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Issue 9.
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Issue 10.
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Posted on 21st of December 2007