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Sarcophagus alien and Servalan
by jacquispeel＠netscape.net 26 Dec '01

26 Dec '01

I wondered 'a little while back' what these two would make of each other. What would Servalan's (assorted)sidekicks think of being made the Sarcophagus Alien's 'pets'? Jacqui -- __________________________________________________________________ Your favorite stores, helpful shopping tools and great gift ideas. Experience the convenience of buying online with Shop@Netscape! http://shopnow.netscape.com/ Get your own FREE, personal Netscape Mail account today at http://webmail.netscape.com/

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Fwd: [B7L] Where to publish?
by Jean Komatsu 26 Dec '01

26 Dec '01

>From: "Nico Mody-Nikoloff" <nico(a)farsight.co.nz> >Subject: [B7L] Where to publish? > >After all the discussion about on-line stories and zines and their relative >costs to different people, (sic)....I'm close to finishing "Vila Restal's >E-mails". I'm planning to put them on-line, and was going to >put my other stories there too as I finish them. > >1) Which gives the widest readership - web pages or zines? >2) What are the pros and cons of each for writers? >3) Which do readers prefer? It's cheaper for me to read stories on-line but >I do find hard copies much more pleasant to read from. However I suppose >this will differ by country because of relative costs. > This has been an interesting discussion thread. Just goes to show that one must be careful about making assumptions on even the most basic level, since circumstances differ so much from one area to another. Being from San Francisco, I have unlimited and fast Net access, both business and personal. I dislike travel, so my access to fanfic magazines has been recent, expensive, and limited to those I have found through Judith's inestimable website. So I will vote for on-line. It would not, for instance, bother me at all to subscribe to a fanfic library. The energy and willingness of so many people to voluntarily maintain websites for the pleasure of others awes and amazes me. It only seems fair to compensate those webmasters/authors in some small way. Even the "free" public libraries are only as good as the willingness of taxpayers to support them. For those of you who have posted URL's and other sources for second-hand fanfics, you have my (and I'm sure other newbies') sincere thanks. Contrary to what some might think, such sources are very hard to find. They do not, for instance, show up when I search on Google (the most popular search engine here) for Blakes 7 sites. I would not have discovered the Avon's Club publications without the mention it received on this list earlier this year (prior to their becoming available on Judith's site). BTW, kudos once more to her for helping to maintain their availability; there are some very good stories in the set. I also would like to offer my assistance to those dedicated writers who have old B7 print stories that are too much hassle to convert to e-copy -- of course, I'm assuming there's not TOO many of those! But I have free, if slightly indirect, access to a professional text scanner and a high-quality digital copier, as well as owning an extremely good PC with the Microsoft Word program. I would be happy to assist you in turning them into e-copy. I'm a professional executive assistant (the politically-correct term for a high-level secretary) and proofing/editing copy is all part of my job. Being a fanfic writer myself (although I write about a character named Julian Kestrel, the late and much lamented Kate Ross's Regency dandy-detective creation), I have the utmost sympathy for those who don't wish to put themselves to a large amount of effort for old stories they spent a lot of time slaving over to begin with. Sometimes one wants to go forward and spend one's energy on new projects and ideas instead! -- quite understandable. But still, those of us who are relatively new to B7 fanfic would dearly love to read some of those stories which are either no longer available or extremely difficult to obtain. Should anyone be interested in taking me up on my offer, please contact me off-line and we can work out the details. Since I would be doing this in my spare time I can't promise an immediate turnaround, but there's no reason why a medium-length story (10-20 pages) should take more a few weeks. If the story is short enough, in fact, it would probably be just as easy to retype it, since I also type about 110/wpm. Piece of cake. Hope everyone had a wonderful holiday season. Feb 15 2002 starts the Year of the Horse--Happy Chinese New Year! _________________________________________________________________ Send and receive Hotmail on your mobile device: http://mobile.msn.com

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Re: [B7L] out of print fanzines
by Bizarro7＠aol.com 26 Dec '01

26 Dec '01

I'd like to comment that virtually every single one of the 50+ fanzines that Ashton Press ever produced are still available and in-print from the original editor. These include the BLAKES DOUBLES, SOUTHERN LIGHTS, SOUTHERN SEVEN, LAST STAND AT THE EDGE OF THE WORLD, the sequel (SHADOW AT THE EDGE), SOUTHERN COMFORT, THE BIZARRO ZINE and many more. Artwork samples, text exerpts and ordering info for the zines: http://members.aol.com/methosela/zines.htm Leah

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Re: [B7L] out of print fanzines
by Bizarro7＠aol.com 26 Dec '01

26 Dec '01

For those in the USA (or willing to travel), the dealer's room at MediaWest*Con every year is a treasure trove of out-of-print B7 fanzines of every description, being offered at cut-rate prices. Most dealers are fans, and many bring zines they no longer wish to keep out of their own collections to the convention table to sell out of boxes for less than the original price. If there's *any* fandom you love, chances are you'll find paper zines for it on sale at MediaWest. http://members.aol.com/MdiaWstCon/mwc.htm Leah

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re librarians
by linda joyce 26 Dec '01

26 Dec '01

Ellynne you must be a lot younger than me because when I started work 30 years ago the bun tweeds and brogues brigade were still very much in ecidence. You do however know public libraries, perhaps thats why I am an avon fan I need him in work. Linda ______________________________________________________________________________ Send a friend your Buddy Card and stay in contact always with Excite Messenger http://messenger.excite.com

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RE: out of print fanzines
by JEB31538＠cs.com 25 Dec '01

25 Dec '01

This is my second attempt to make this post so I will be brief. My servor bumped me offline during the first attempt. I am looking for two out of print fanzines and am willing to pay for copies if someone has the zines but doesn't wish to sell her originals. The zines are Wallow Plus TWO and Orion's Approach. Contact me if you have these---JEB31538(a)cs.com. I believe in print zines and when I got into fandom 8 years ago, it was fairly easy to get zines, but they were expensive. Since then, the price has gone down for most zines....if you can find them. I've got a fortune wrapped up in my paper zines and they take up an enormous amount of space to store. BUT I still prefer them to reading online simply because I prefer cuddling up with a paper zine in bed before I go to sleep. I relate much better to paper than I do to a monitor. ANY story online I really like....if I don't have it already in a zine, I print out and put in a notebook. That way I can enjoy it anytime I want to as opposed to waiting for my husband to get offline or my teen daughter to get off the phone line. There are real advantages to having fiction on paper. Plus several of my favorite writers are NOT online anywhere that I know of--Sylvia Knight (slash), Suzan Lovett (gen), Bryn Lantry (gen and slash), and Natasha Solten (slash). I sincerely believe Lovett to be one of the best gen B7 writers ever. And her "Road to Hell" is definitely one of the best gen stories ever written, in my opinion. Her five stories are available in three zines--all out of print, so for most new fans today the best way to enjoy Lovett is to buy Judith Proctor's reprint zine entitled ROAD TO HELL. I frankly prefer the stories in the original used zines because I love POWERPLAY 1, POWERPLAY 2, and THOSE WHO FAVOR FIRE, but I realize that for most new fans that it is more realistic to buy the Proctor reprint zine. Joyce

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Seasons Greetings
by Ellynne G. 25 Dec '01

25 Dec '01

Merry Christmas. Ellynne ________________________________________________________________ GET INTERNET ACCESS FROM JUNO! Juno offers FREE or PREMIUM Internet access for less! Join Juno today! For your FREE software, visit: http://dl.www.juno.com/get/web/.

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Re: [B7L] out of print fanzines
by Sally M 25 Dec '01

25 Dec '01

Nico wrote: <I can see that, but for those of us on the other side of the world (well, here in NZ anyway), it's impossible to find zines which aren't sold on the net, and very expensive to buy them too, as P&P is usually as much as if not more than the price of the zine. <snip> Cruising the second-hand book shops isn't even an option, as they just don't have them.> You can get second-hand zines, though being on your side of the world (Australia, in my case) it's not precisely cheap. Jim & Melody Rondeau have what I found a very good, reliable service (I've bought heaps from them) - I haven't been able to get into their website for a little while, but they have a calague you can get for return postage. Postage eats up the pennies, of course, but if you aren't me you might have the patience to wait for a slower and cheaper mail service :-) Details are on Judith's site, and their email address is: jimmel(a)jps.net I might add that, when one *is* buying from the other side of the world, Judith's zine indexes with descriptions and reviews is a godsend to help work out which ones are more likely to be worth it for me. _________________________________________________________________ MSN Photos is the easiest way to share and print your photos: http://photos.msn.com/support/worldwide.aspx

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Horror Holidays
by Ellynne G. 25 Dec '01

25 Dec '01

Thinking of various holiday favorites our heroes could be put in. Some are obviously no goes. Avon in Rudolph the Red-nosed Reindeer would have to play the Bumble (unless, if Blake was King of the Isle of Misfit Toys, he was one of the characters over there). As for "Its a Wonderful Life," well, yes, the galaxy would have been overrun by Andromedans but, other than that, I can't quite see Avon running through the streets saying "Merry Christmas, Building and Loan!" I can't quite see any of the others doing it either (although Travis as Potter has possibilities). I toyed with some of the lesser known Christmas stories. There's the old ghost story about the woman who arrives at the church before daybreak on either Christmas or New Year's when all the ghosts are evidently having their yearly service - angry, mean ghosts who don't like the living showing up. She lives because the ghost of a good friend helps her escape. There's a PGP idea, Avon accidentally stumbles on a gathering of all the people he's gotten killed (directly or indirectly) and is rescued by Blake. Not very yuletide cheer, though. Or there's Dickens' story, The Haunted Man, about a man (whose description is even a bit like Avon's) who makes a supernatural bargain to be rid of all his bitter memories of the past (he's been betrayed by the woman he loved, by his best friend, etc) only to find he becomes a _real_ without these memories - kind of Avon in S4. Oh, and the conditions contagious. Lots of previously decent people turn mean and rotten once they've been around him, also S4ish. But I can't quite see Avon finding the happy ending hidden in this story's haystack. I don't think the necessary characters would have survived long enough. Then, I read Linda's comments about being a librarian, and it got me thinking. Avon would make a great Librarian. Think about, he knows a little about everything because he's read all the books. He's great with computers because he's the one who keeps all the systems in the library online (ancient antiques the government won't replace, state of the art ones given by local corporations, and everything inbetween - none of them designed to be compatible). Not that he ever gets recoginition or appreciation for this. And, although I've never seen a librarian with hair in a bun or clothes from another century, this stereotype would explain some of Avon's odder fashion choices and any haircuts that might be open to criticism. Then, he meets Anna. All that deep buried bitterness about how librarians are underpaid and their intelligence underappreciated comes to a head. I'm sure you see the point. Avon's not George Bailey's avatar, he's Mary's. Someone, off stage, got to see all of seasons 1 through 4 and know that this was happening because she made that dumb wish and hadn't been born. Ellynne ________________________________________________________________ GET INTERNET ACCESS FROM JUNO! Juno offers FREE or PREMIUM Internet access for less! Join Juno today! For your FREE software, visit: http://dl.www.juno.com/get/web/.

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Subject: [B7L] And one more...
by JEB31538＠cs.com 25 Dec '01

25 Dec '01

Lisa said-- I've added "Powerplay" to the frame capture library. This completes the anniversary special edition I've been working on -- four new episodes on display, one from each year of the show. Merry Christmas and happy browsing. _____________ Thanks, Lisa, for "Voice from the Past," "Duel," "Animals," and "Powerplay." Your work is definitely appreciated. I especially love "Duel" because you've got a lot of nice Blake shots in it. Joyce

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