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An invaluable resource for every die-hard fan.
Verba is the ultimate insider - a huge star trek fan from the get-go and an active collector and contributor to st fanzines fro... Read More
It's sorta like putting a tidal wave in an empty bath tub, hard to do, but squeeze more in anyway.
They kept it up, year after year, only growing in size and strength.
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- This product had a total of 13 reviews as of our last analysis date on Jul 18 2024.
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I thought i had or had read every book out there about fanfiction until i attended a panel at dragoncon 2018 about female star trek fans and this book was mentioned
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I ordered it practically when the panel was over
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Dont expect academic erudition like henry jenkins and camille baconsmith who wrote the seminal fanfiction studies textual poachers and enterprising women respectively or examination of individual stories like the fanfiction reader or a great big overview like fic
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This is a cutanddried narrative by verba who through her own collection and collections of others tried to list as many of the star trek zines before 1987 when usenet reared its head and stories began to be posted online instead of on paper as possible
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If you have any interest in the history of star trek fanfic or even fanfiction in general i would grab a copy of this book
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Back in the mid1960s a science fiction series called star trek went off the air after three seasons
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And that would have been that
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Except for a growing group of people whod fallen in love with the show and everything it stood for and simply refused to let it die