AVON NEWSLETTER

AVON NEWSLETTER #30

Editor: Ann Bown (Basingstoke, Hampshire)
Date: October 1987
Format: A5 digest, 24 pp., green card cover, center staples

Fiction:
Susan Chadwick, "Guardian, Part I" (S4)

Nonfiction:
Ann, editorial
Jane Porter, "A Case of Identity" (logic puzzle)
Judith Seaman, "Golf? That's an Easy Game" (review of golf event with PD)
Denise Donahue, "Scorpio V" (con report)
Self-intros by members (Mary Robertson, Margaret Martin, Sylvia Anderson)
Louis Hirshhorn, interview with PD during BATS East Coast Tour, 1986; reprinted from FINE TUNING, July-August 1987
Ros Williams, "The Mystery Man of B7, or, The Thorny
Matter of Avon's Brother" (essay)
Letters
Ads

Poetry:
Dana Waddell, "My Knight in Studded Black Leather Armor"

Art:
photo cover PD
photos by Jeanette Murawski pp. 12, 13, 14, 15 PD
p. 16 PD & MK

AVON NEWSLETTER #31

Editor: Ann Bown (Basingstoke, Hampshire)
Date: January 1988
Format: A5 digest, 24 pp., red card cover, center staples

Fiction:
Susan Chadwick, "Guardian, Part II" (S4)
Judith M. Seaman, "Safe with Me" (S4, post-Orbit; V-O)

Nonfiction:
Ann, editorial
Denise Donahue, jargon exercise (puzzle)
Essays on Anna by Denise Donahue ("One Woman's Opinion"), Sylvia Anderson, Ros WIlliams
Self-intros by members (Flo Freeman, Dana Waddell, Judith Seaman)
Elaine Clark, "The Naming of Baru" (fossil named for PD)
Letters
"The Avon Survey-- Results"
Margaret Martin, Worldcon (Brighton, 1987) report
"Creation Convention-- Philadelphia" (con reports by
Barbara Fletcher, Ellen Weitz & Denise Donahue)
Ads
Jargon exercise answers
"Little Bits of Trivia" (clippings, quotes, anecdotes)

Art:
photo cover S1 A

AVON NEWSLETTER #32

Editor: Ann Bown (Basingstoke, Hampshire)
Date: April 1988
Format: A5 digest, 24 pp., cream card cover, center staples

Fiction:
Susan Chadwick, "Guardian, Part III" (S4)

Nonfiction:
Newspaper clippings on "Are You Lonesome Tonight"
Ann, editorial
Self-intros by membvers (Daniel Nardini, Ruth Gutteridge, Toni Lay, Lisa Swaincott)
Janet Darrow, "DSVI or, The Fandom of the Space Opera" (autobiography)
DSVI con reports (Sue Christian, Toni Lay)
"Are You Lonesome Tonight?" (theatre reviews by Carole
Howell, Margaret Greenwood, Judith M. Seaman)
Carole Howell, double crosswrod (puzzle)
Letters
Gena Davies, "More About That Brother!" (essay)
Judith M. Seaman, "Mercutio, Mercutio! Wherefore Art Thou...?" (zine review, BLAKE SOMETHING by Paul Darrow)
Ads

Art:
cover playbill for "Are You Lonesome Tonight?"

AVON NEWSLETTER #33

Editor: Ann Bown (Basingstoke, Hampshire)
Date: July 1988
Format: A5 digest, 28 pp., pale blue card cover, center
staples

Fiction:
Kathy Coy, "Respite" (S4, Rescue; A)

Nonfiction:
Newspaper clippings on "Are You Lonesome Tonight"
Ann, editorial
Carole Howell, double crossword (puzzle)
Barbara and Rebecca Reeves, "Interview-- Paul Darrow (May 8th, 1988-- Anglicon, Seattle, Washington)"
"Anglicon" (con reports by Barbara Reeves, Toni Lay)
"Are You Lonesome Tonight?" (theatre reviews by Judith M. Seaman, Susan Chadwick)
Letters
Ads

Art:
photos cover PD & JLP
pp. 14, 15, 16 from "Are You"
Dave Bowden inside back c. "Bod" cartoon

AVON NEWSLETTER #34

Editor: Ann Bown (Basingstoke, Hampshire)
Date: October 1988
Format: A5 digest, 24 pp., pale gray card cover, center staples
(No fiction in this issue.)

Nonfiction:
Newspaper clippings on "Are You Lonesome Tonight"
Ann, editorial
Carole Howell, chain-reaction puzzle
Bill Lindsay, "Space City 1988" (con report)
Letters
"Are You Lonesome Tonight?" (theatre reviews by Ann Preece, Cindy Rumley)
Ros Williams, "Avon's Friends" (essay)
Ads

Art:
photo front c., inside front c., pp. 12, 14, 15
PD in "Are You" (from newspapers)
p. 5 GT, PD, JLP at Space City con
Dave Bowden p. 4 "Nigel from Rigel" (cartoon)

AVON NEWSLETTER #35

Editor: Ann Bown (Basingstoke, Hampshire)
Date: January 1989
Format: A5 digest, 28 pp., yellow card cover, center staples

Fiction:
(No fiction in this issue.)

Nonfiction:
Ann, editorial
Anonymous letter
Letter from Paul Darrow
Judith M. Seaman, "Stand Up, Avon's Angels!"
Mary Moulden, "The Paul Darrow That I Know"
Janet Darrow, "Slash Fiction"
Janet Darrow, "Kangaroos and Kiwis" (autobiography)
Letters
Elaine Clark, "Zencon II" (con report)
Ads

Art:
front c. playbill for "Alibi"
inside front c. playbill for "Alibi"
inside back c. ad for Avon: A
Terrible Aspect
photo p. 16 PD at charity event
? p. 24 Zencon II T-shirt design
Dave Bowden p. 28 "Nigel from Rigel" (cartoon)

AVON NEWSLETTER #36

Editor: Ann Bown (Basingstoke, Hampshire)
Date: April 1989
Format: A5 digest, 32 pp., orange card cover, center staples

Fiction:
Marie Parsons, "Fans, Fans, and Fans-- A Fable" (satire on B7 fandom)
Sue Christian, "The Heat of the Light" (S2?; humor)

Nonfiction:
Newspaper clippings on "Alibi for Murder"
Ann, editorial
Carole Howell, "The Saturnalian Olympics" (logic puzzle)
"Alibi for Murder" (theatre reviews by Lorna Newton, Ros Williams, Sue Chadwick)
"Avon, A Terrible Aspect" (book reviews by Jean Graham, Marie Parsons, Judith M. Seaman ["Father of Man"])
Kathy Hanson, interview with Janet Lees Price, reprinted from DOWN & UNSAFE #7 (NZ, 1988.8)
Jean Airey, "Paul Darrow-- The Interviewee"
Jean Graham and Pearl Stickler, "Paul Darrow in San Diego-- November 10-13, 1988" (con report)
Letters
Ads

Art:
photo cover
Dave Bowden p. 32 "Bod" cartoon

AVON NEWSLETTER #37

Editor: Ann Bown (Basingstoke, Hampshire)
Date: July 1989
Format: A5 digest, 28 pp., blue card cover, center staples

Fiction:
Ros Williams, "How It Was-- Or Was It?" (S0; humor)

Nonfiction:
Newspaper clippings on "Alibi for Murder"
Ann, editorial
Mary Ruiter, quiz
"Unicon" (con reports by Leigh Arnold, Lee Vibber)
"Alibi for Murder" (theatre reviews by Nicola Best, Sue Chadwick, Sue Christian, Helen Parkinson)
Darren Funnel, "Episodic Retrospective-- Blake"
Jan Rayner, "Voyage into a Black Hole" (newspaper article on sf shows)
Letters
"Avon, A Terrible Aspect" (book reviews by Sue Chadwick, Lesley Hatch, Ros Williams)
Ads

Art:
photo front c. PD
back c. A
Dave Bowden p. 28 "Bod" cartoon

AVON NEWSLETTER #38

Editor: Ann Bown (Basingstoke, Hampshire)
Date: October 1989
Format: A5 digest, 20 pp., white card cover completely
printed over with bw photos, center staples

Fiction:
Dan Bowden, "Brake's Even" (graphic story; humor)
Fiona Haggart and Helen Williams, "Yet Another Alternative to Blake's Seven, or, Have You Met the Wife?" (alt-S1; A/Anna; humor)

Poetry:
Jackie Topp, "Of an Actor"

Nonfiction:
Ann, editorial
Liz McCarthy, crossword puzzle
Letters
Jackie Willmott, "Midsummer Madness-- or Heat Hayes II"
"Pages of the Past" (old reviews of plays with PD and JLP, from 1967-8)
Judith M. Seaman, "The Good News" (TV review, "Making News")
ads

Art:
photo front c. PD
back c. JLP
Dan Bowden p. 13 "Brake's Even"
? p. 20 A as Roman

AVON NEWSLETTER #39

Editor: Ann Bown (Basingstoke, Hampshire)
Date: January 1990
Format: A5 digest, 24 pp., pink card cover, center staples

Fiction:
Helen Parkinson, "Xenon Base, Monday" (S4; humor)
Dan Bowden, "Brake's Even" (graphic story; humor)

Poetry:
Sue Chadwick, "The Committee and Space City" (parody of "The Walrus and the Carpenter;" ad for Space City 1990 con)

Nonfiction:
Ann, editorial
Mary Ruiter, word search puzzle
"Pages of the Past" (old reviews of plays with PD, from 1964-5 and 1969), from Judith Seaman and Mary Moulden
Janet Darrow, "What a Glamorous Life You Lead!" (autobiography)
Letters
Ads

Art:
photo cover PD in "Making News"
Dan Bowden p. 9 "Brake's Even"
? p. 10 A as Roman


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