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Organization for Transformative Works Fanzine and Fan Fiction Collection Access and Restrictions: This collection is open for research. Digital Surrogates: Except where indicated, this document describes but does not reproduce the actual text, images and objects which make up this collection. Materials are available only in the Special Collections Department. Copyright: Please read The University of Iowa Libraries' statement on Property Rights, Copyright Law, and Permissions to Use Unpublished Materials. Use of Collections: The University of Iowa Libraries supports access to the materials, published and unpublished, in its collections. Nonetheless, access to some items may be restricted by their fragile condition or by contractual agreement with donors, and it may not be possible at all times to provide appropriate machinery for reading, viewing or accessing non-paper-based materials. Please read our Use of Manuscripts Statement. Acquisition and Processing Information: OTW began transferring materials to UI Special Collections in the summer of 2009. Individual donors include: Nancy Barnes, Melody Jones, Joanna Lowenstein (in memory of Beth Kiedrowicz), Katherine Penland, Ann Raymont, and Claudia Rebeza. Photographs: None |
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Scope and Contents
The OTW Collection consists of fanzines and pieces of fan fiction written and/or collected by various fans and acquired for Special Collections via the Organization for Transformative Works. Most of the materials in the collection consist of publications related to different genre media properties, although there are a few pieces of original fiction as well.
Much of the fan fiction is of the "slash" variety."Slash" refers to fan fiction that is sexually explicit, and same-sex in nature. In slash sex and sexuality are often the centers of the story, rather than the more conventional adventures featured in more traditional fan fiction. A few of the materials are what is called "real person" fan fiction, that is, fiction in which the characters are celebrities or other real people.
This collection is expected to continue growing for some time as OTW continues to faciliate the transfer of fannish materials to Special Collections.
Historical Note
The Organization for Transformative Works (OTW) is a nonprofit organization established, in its own words "by fans to serve the interests of fans by providing access to and preserving the history of fanworks and fan culture in its myriad forms." OTW's mission is to ensure that fannish materials are recognized as both legal as and as creatively transformative. Again, in its own words, "we are proactive and innovative in protecting and defending our work from commercial exploitation and legal challenge. We preserve our fannish economy, values, and creative expression by protecting and nurturing our fellow fans, our work, our commentary, our history, and our identity while providing the broadest possible access to fannish activity for all fans."
OTW is involved with a number of ongoing projects, including an open-source electronic archive of fannish works that are born digital or preserved digitally; an effort to provide legal defense for fans working to protect their intellectual property rights; the maintenance of a fandom wiki; and the production of an online peer-reviewed journal devoted to scholarship on fannish works and practices.
For more information on OTW, consult its website at http://transformativeworks.org/.
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HILL, SUSAN. The Susan Hill Fanzine Collection, 1986-2009. 4.0 ft.
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HORVAT, M. The M. Horvat Collection of Genre Apazines, 1943, 1945, 1958-2002.
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HORVAT, M. The M. Horvat Collection of Science Fiction Fanzines, 1935-1990.
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Box Contents List
Box 1
Alias Smith and Jones
Just You, Me, and the Governor #2 (1989)
Angel
Deoir Fola: A Drop of Blood (May 2000)
Angel/Buffy the Vampire Slayer
Body and Soul, n.d.
Blake’s 7
Liberator Fantasies (1998)
Resistance #8 (August 1999)
Buffy the Vampire Slayer
Smoke and Mirrors (January 2002)
Stained Glass (July 2001)
Crossover
More Misadventures #1 (May 1993)
[Quantum Leap/Various Fandoms]
Storm Sign (May 2000)
[The Sentinel/Quantum Leap]
Due South
The Brothers Kowalski (The Northwest Passage Series) (May 2002)
Northwest Passage (The Northwest Passage Series) (March 2000)
Serge Protector [Sacred Stetson Press, ed.] (2000)
Duran Duran [Real Person Fanfic]
UMF #3 (May 1995), #5 – 6 (January-April 1996)
Flatliners
Heroes: A Postlude to Flatliners (May 1996)
Harrison Ford
Flip of a Coin #4 – 5/6 (July 1984-February 1985)
Flip of a Coin #10 (February 1987), #13 (August 1989)
Highlander: The Series
Stroke of the Sword (May 1994)
Kung Fu: The Legend Continues
Bitter Blood (May 1996)
Corridors (1994)
Eight Pieces of Brocade (April 1995)
Patterns #3, n.d.
Patterns #4, n.d.
Box 2
Kung Fu: The Legend Continues
Sins of the Father 1997)
Sound of the Flute #1 (May 1995)
Speak No Evil (1995)
Splinters of Light #2 (May 1994)
That Was Zen, This is Tao #1 (May 1995)
Thursday’s Child (1996)
The Lord of the Rings [Real Person Fanfic]
Lotripping: Lotrips Zine 2004 (August 2004)
MacGyver
MacGyverisms #4 (1999)
M.A.S.H.
M.A.S.H. N.O.T.E.S., n.d.
Miami Vice
Balance Due (1991)
Out Where the Busses Don’t Run (1993)
Multimedia
Bite the Bullet #1 (May 1992)
The Celestial Toybox #3 – 4 (June-November 1988)
Cohorts #3 (January 1997)
The Comfort Zone #1 (May 2002)
Dark Fantasies #5 [Maverick Press, pub.] (March 1997)
Dial “S” for Steele…or Simon…or Sleuths at Large #1 (November 1985)
Ghost Riders #4 (1987), #13 (1994)
No Holds Barred #12 (May 1996), #15 (May 1997)
Rerun #3 (1985)
Wounded Heroes: Tales of the Big Guys, n.d.
Original Fiction
Scoundrels (March 1998)
Tales of the Numen #1: Comfort Station (March 1997)
Quantum Leap
The Angel and the Dreamer #1 (February 1997), #5 – 6 (September 1999-February 2001)
Box 3
Quantum Leap
The Angel and the Dreamer #7 – 8 (April 2002, n.d.)
Bingo! Bango! Bongo! (November 1996)
Green Eggs and Ham #2 – 3 (March 1992-May 1993)
The Last Measure of Devotion (January 1996)
Leapin’ Friskys #2 (May 1993)
Leaping In With a Net (December 1993)
A Matter of Time #3 [Threadneedle Press, pub.] (1992)
Oh Boy #3 (May 1992)
The One You Love (October 2001)
Play It Again #2, n.d.
Quantum Instability #6 – 7 (n.d., May 1997)
Quantum Mechanics #2 (November 1992)
Variations on a Theme #2, n.d.
The Rat Patrol
Moffitt Missions #1 (Winter/Spring 2001)
Renegades (1989)
Renegade Souls (May 1992)
The Sentinel
The Cascade Quarterly #1 – 3 (August 1997-March 1998)
“Cascade’s Finest” [Original Art Print] (1998?)
Come To Your Senses #4 – 6 (October 1997- April 1998)
Come To Your Senses #9 (September 1998), #15 (September 1999), #20 (February 2000)
Crossroads (2000)
852-Prospect (Spring 1998)
Gemini (September 1997)
Box 4
The Sentinel
Gris Gris (May 2001
The Jungle Book, n.d.
Passages (Fifth Season/Sixth Sense Series) (April 2002)
Pictures of the Past (September 1997)
Sacred Senseless #1 (March 1998)
The Sentry Post #8 (May 2003)
Therapy for the Soul (November 2002)
Transcience (November 1997)
Simon & Simon
Brothers, Partners, and Friends #1- 4 (August 1991-February 1992)
Simon & Simon Investigations #11 (May 1988), #16 – 18 (August 1989-February 1990), #21 (February 1991)
Star Trek
There Are Three (July 1985)
Zap! #4 (1979)
Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea
Crashdive! #2 (July 2001)
Operation Sea Dragon (March 2002)
White Gold Highway (December 2000)
The X-Files
All I Want for Christmas (May 2000)
The Best Lies], n.d.
The Cat Came Back (May 2000)
A Change of Heart (May 2000)
Double eXposure (1998)
eXposure, n.d.
A Fish Called Krycek, n.d.
The Gift of an Enemy (1998)
I Still Have Plans to Go to Mexico (April 2000)
Il Traviato (1997)
M/K Ultra (1998)
