*nods* On the one hand, I feel a little ridiculous clinging to the Blishes; I'm so far out of Trek at this point I've never even bought the DVDs, and if I ever wanted to dive back in, I could get beautiful remastered source in a heartbeat in multiple ways. On the other hand, I devoured these when I got them, and just looking at them brings some of that back. So what the hell; they survive another round of purges. *g*
The fotonovel is amazing! What a tremendously clever idea, really, to satisfy people who were craving a fix of their favorites.
I fell into that earlier network of fandom - well, I sought some of it out, reading SF magazines like Analog and catching glimpses of a whole SF world out there, and my library had a copy of the Star Trek Concordance that changed my life (it talked about conventions for Star Trek! Where people got together and just... talked about Star Trek!! zomg). But I was in the suburbs and all the interesting stuff was in the cities, and also cost money. But then the year I was 15, Worldcon came to my city, and the paper did a big writeup on it in the Sunday paper, which my parents saw and showed me. I was all "wow, that's so cool - someday I'm going to one of those!" and went upstairs to pine a bit, and a few minutes later my dad came up and said "How about I give you $50 and drive you in to that, would you like that?" \o/
If he hadn't, I don't know if I ever would have gotten involved in the con scene at all; I don't like going in to the city and probably never would have on my own without that push, and cons are expensive, even if you just stay local (which I always did, until I hit media fandom). And if I hadn't made it to cons, I never would have found zines, either. The little things you don't realize are going to affect your whole life, man.
(I went to some Star Trek cons and mostly didn't like them; by the 80s, they were being run by Creation, which, ugh is not the kind of con that appeals to me, generally).
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The fotonovel is amazing! What a tremendously clever idea, really, to satisfy people who were craving a fix of their favorites.
I fell into that earlier network of fandom - well, I sought some of it out, reading SF magazines like Analog and catching glimpses of a whole SF world out there, and my library had a copy of the Star Trek Concordance that changed my life (it talked about conventions for Star Trek! Where people got together and just... talked about Star Trek!! zomg). But I was in the suburbs and all the interesting stuff was in the cities, and also cost money. But then the year I was 15, Worldcon came to my city, and the paper did a big writeup on it in the Sunday paper, which my parents saw and showed me. I was all "wow, that's so cool - someday I'm going to one of those!" and went upstairs to pine a bit, and a few minutes later my dad came up and said "How about I give you $50 and drive you in to that, would you like that?" \o/
If he hadn't, I don't know if I ever would have gotten involved in the con scene at all; I don't like going in to the city and probably never would have on my own without that push, and cons are expensive, even if you just stay local (which I always did, until I hit media fandom). And if I hadn't made it to cons, I never would have found zines, either. The little things you don't realize are going to affect your whole life, man.
(I went to some Star Trek cons and mostly didn't like them; by the 80s, they were being run by Creation, which,
ughis not the kind of con that appeals to me, generally).