In message 000801c158bc$aa19d480$e535fea9@neilfaulkner, Neil Faulkner N.Faulkner@tesco.net writes
Some parodies can be too subtle for their own good. There was a B/A slash one I peeked at once, with Avon as an androgynous alien who got pregnant by Blake. When I got to ranting about it to Judith P she pointed out that it was, in fact, a piss-take.
Ah yes, "Duet for Emmanuelle", by Tounge N. Cheek, in Resistance 8. That's from the online zine database and may have transcription errors, I think the spelling of the author's surname was a little more subtle in the zine itself.
Although I suppose you have to have read a fair bit of bad slash to get the parody in that one. It's a good parody, but like all good irony is rather too easily taken with a straight reading. "A Modest Proposal", anyone?
Perhaps, though I've got four Gambits, which are probably equal to half a dozen Horizons each. And a couple of other meaty US anthologies. A lot of authors cross the pond, both ways, so where a zine comes from might not be that important.
In the early ones there does seem to be a strong association between editor's and authors' countries of residence. Much less so now.
Mind you, having been recently going through a stack of early zines with a view to writing reviews, I am struck by how awful a lot of them were. And being early zines, they were British. I've just read a classic Mary Sue, 55 pages of this wonderful woman with red hair, violet eyes, and legs down to *there*, single-handedly saving the crew and knowing more about operating the Liberator than they do. Pass the sick bag...
That wouldn't have been in Horizon #2, by any chance?
Have you just been reading the Horizon zines as well? I kept reading it, in the hope that it was intended to be a parody, but could find no indication that it was.