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Celeste Hotaling-Lyons Fanzine Collection
MsC 400
Collection Dates: 1976-2005

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.

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Use of Collections: The University of Iowa Libraries supports access to the materials, published and unpublished, in its collections.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: This collection was donated by Celeste Hotaling-Lyons, in cooperation with the Organization for Tranformative Works, in July 2009. It was processed in August 2009.

Photographs: None

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 


Scope and Contents

This collection consists of fanzines from a number of different genre fandoms, assembled by fan writer and editor Hotaling-Lyons. Included are a number of zines that Hotaling-Lyons herself wrote or edited. Fandoms include, among others, Blake's 7, Buffy The Vampire Slayer, Doctor Who, Forever Knight, Star Trek, and The X-Files.

Also included are a number of program books and other materials from various science fiction conventions, and a few miscellaneous genre-related items.

Most of the items are pieces of fan fiction. Fan fiction is defined as stories, novellas, novels, or poems written by fans about the characters, situations or general universe of the original work.


 

 

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Box Contents List

 

Fanzines

 

Box 1

 

Blade Runner

                  Cityspeak: Special Edition (1988)

 

Blake’s 7

                  Alternative Seven #4, #8 (n.d.)

                 

                  Avon, Anyone? (n.d.)

                 

                  Avon The Terrible (1990)

                 

                  Bear’s on the Roof and We Can’t Get Him Down (1987)

 

                  The Big Boy’s Book of 1001 Things to Do In Zero Gravity with a Federation Hand Blaster (August 1983)

                 

                  The Bizarro Zine #1 – 3 (1988-1990)

 

                  Brother of Shadows and Son of the Light (January 1989)

 

                  B7 Complex #3 – 8 (July 1982-May 1986)

 

                  B7 Complex #9 (August 1986), #13 – 15 (January-July 1988)

 

                  Calendar for 1987-1988

 

                  Chronicles #24 (April 1986)

 

                  The Crazed Sevener’s Guide to Traveling to a B7 Con (July 1987)

 

                  Down and Unsafe #1 – 3 (1984?-1985?), #5 – 6 (1986-1987)

 

                  The Drake’s Seven Comic Book (1980)

 

                  D.S.V. #1 (1994); #3 (1998)

 

                  Fifth Season #1 – 3 (July 1982-1984?)

 

                  Fifth Season #4 – 5 (August 1986-August 1988)

 

                  Forbidden Zone #1 (n.d.)

 

                  The Freedom City Gazette #1- 2 (January-April 1987)

 

                  From the Log of the Hellhound #2 (n.d.)

 

                  HMS D.S.V., or, the Cast of the Liberator (n.d.)

 

                  Horizon #6 – 7 (1984?); #10 (April 1987)

                                #15 – 16 (August 1991-April 1992)

 

                  Liberator #10 (October 1980)

 

                  Lone Star (March 1986)

 

                  The Machiavelli Factor (1996)

 

                  Magnificent Seven #1 (n.d.), #3 (July 1986), #8 (December 1989)

                 

Box 2

 

Blake’s 7

                  Masacarada (August 1985)

 

                  Memory-Play (October 1990)

 

                  The Mind of a Man is a Double-Edged Sword (September 1983)

 

                  New Horizons #1: Survivor (n.d.)

 

                  New Horizons #2: Revelations (n.d.)

 

                  New Horizons #3: Figurehead (n.d.)

 

                  Orbit #1 – 5 (October 1982-January 1985)

 

                  Orbit #6 – 9 (August 1985-June 1986)

 

                  Port in a Storm (n.d.)

 

                  Powerplay #1 – 3 (1987-July 1988)

 

                  Powerplay #4 – 6 (January 1989-1989)

 

                  Powerplay #7 (n.d.)

 

                  The Price of Justice (November 1998)

 

                  Program – Blake’s Seven: A Fifth Season #1 – 4 (1986)

 

                  The Quibell Abduction (July 1980)

 

                  Reflections in A Shattered Glass (1989)

 

                  Restal’s Rules of Order (1989)

 

                  Return of the 7 (May 1985, reprinted August 1986)

 

                  7th Sector #3 (1986)

                  Shadowplay (January 1988)

 

                  Signals from Scorpio #16 (December 1986)

 

                  Southern Lights Special #2.5 (March 1986)

 

                  Southern Seven #1 – 2 (November 1986-October 1987)

 

                  Southern Seven  #3 (August 1988)

 

                  Standard By Seven #3 (n.d.)

 

                  Star Three (1996)

 

                  Straight Blake’s  (1988)

 

                  Strategies (1986)

 

                  Trust, Like the Soul (1986)

 

                  The Web #1 (March 1987)

 

Box 3

 

Buffy The Vampire Slayer

                  An Alternate Viewpoint #1 (October 1998)

 

                  Give Blood (August 1998)

 

                  Innocent Blood (May 1999)

 

                  This Rough Magic  (1999)

 

Crossover

                  My Parental Units Invaded the Earth, and All I Got Was This Lousy Tee-Shirt (n.d.)

                  [Multiple Fandoms]

 

                  Time and Time Again (1990)

                  [Star Trek (TOS)/Star Trek (TNG)

 

                  The Times They Are A-Changing (1991)

                  [The Real Ghostbusters/Back to the Future]

 

                  Travelling Companions #3 (n.d.)

                  [Doctor Who/Multiple Fandoms]

 

                  Well Met in Time and Space (November 1985)

                  [Doctor Who/Battlestar Galactica]

 

                  Zeta Minor Special Edition: “The Doctor and the Enterprise” (1982)

                  [Star Trek (TOS)/Doctor Who]

 

Doctor Who

                  Bafflegab #2 (n.d.)

 

                  The Blue Guardian #13 (May 1982)

 

                  The Faces of Time #3 – 4 (March 1983-May 1984)

 

                  Jelly Baby Chronicles #2 (1983)

 

                  Police Boxes (Summer 1985)

 

                  Sing Sweetly, Sing Strong (1989)

 

                  TARDIS Blue (May 1989)

 

                  TARDIS Key: Pillars of Time (May 1982)

 

                  Time Log #6 (1982), #11 (1985), Best of #1-4 (1983)

 

Due South

                  Detective Armani  Intro (n.d.), #2 (October 1996)

 

                  Due Frisky #1 – 2 (May 1996-January 1997)

 

Forever Knight

                  Le Coeur A Ses Raisons [The Heart Has Its Reasons] (May 1995)

 

                  Daydreams and Nightmares (May 1993)

 

                  Dreaming of the Knight (March 1994)

 

                  Pet Peeves (1995)

 

                  Settlement (December 1996)

 

                  Spyder’s Web (1995)

 

                  Toujours LaCroix (April 1999)

 

                  The Wisdom of LaCroix: Quotes from Forever Knight (1997)

 

Genzines

                  The Clipper Trade Ship #51 (April 1986), #54 – 55 (January-April 1987)

 

                  Datazine #41 (April/May 1986)

 

                  The Visitor, no issue # (July 1985)

 

Heroes

                  Anthology of Heroes Comic Stories (n.d.)              

 

                  “Heroes” (Script Draft) (December 2005)

 

Highlander: The Series

                  Blue Boxer Chronicles #1 (1999)

 

                  Futures Without End #3 – 4 (2000-2001)

 

Box 4

 

Sherlock Holmes

                  Friend of My Heart #2 (1994)

 

                  The Holmesian Federation #2 (1980), #7 (1987)

 

                  Untitled, Incomplete Holmes Zine (n.d.)

 

The Man From U.N.C.L.E.

                  Southern Lights Special #1.5 (August 1985)

 

Max Headroom

                  Maxzine #1 (May 1990)

 

Multimedia

                  Anime House Presents #3 – 4 (1990)

 

                  Dimensionally Transcendental #1 (December 1982)

 

                  Fantazy #3 (1986)

 

                  Gateway To Time #4 (1988)

 

                  Highly Animated #1 – 2 (March 1984-July 1985)

 

                  Melange: A Mixed Media Anthology #8 (1986)

 

                  Of Dreams and Schemes #5 (October 1986)

 

                  Outlands #10 (1987)

                  Prime Time #1- 2 (May 1986-January 1987)

 

                  Rerun #4- 5 (1986-1987)

 

                  The Return of Scenario (Scenario #2) (June 1986)

 

                  Southern Lights #1- 2 (August 1985-August 1986)

 

                  Warped Space #28 (August 1977), #51-52 (September 1984-May 1985)

 

                  Wide Open Spaces #9 -10 (May 1985-May 1986)

 

The Real Ghostbusters

                  Ecto-4 (May 1995)

 

                  Slime Trails #7 (1998)

 

The Road Warrior

                  Outrider (May 1993)

 

The Secret Adventures of Jules Verne

                  No Time for Landings (May 2002)

 

                  Spicy Airship Stories (May 2002)

 

The Sentinel

          

                 Crossroads (2000)

 

Smallville

                  Omiai (n.d.)

 

Stargate SG-1

                  Untitled Anthology of Stargate Stories (2000)

 

Box 5

 

Star Trek

                  Alnitah #8 (August 1978)

 

                  The Complete Faulwell Landing Party 6, vol. 2 (1984)

 

                  Epilogue #1-2 (1977)

 

                  [TNG] If We’re Always Going Where No Man Has Gone Before, Why Do We Always Meet Somebody When We Get There? (1990)                          

                  It Takes Time on Impulse, vol. 3 (1985)

 

                  [TOS] Living in Spite of Logic (December 1990)

 

                  Masiform-D #13 – 15 (September 1983-May 1986)

                 

                  More Vulcan Reflections (1976)

                 

                  R&R #21 (Spring 1985)

 

                  Spockanalia #1 (6th printing, July 1976)

 

                  Star Trek Adventure (2nd printing, 1976)

 

Star Wars

                  Echo #1 (n.d.)

 

                  Lasergram, vol. 1 #8 – 11 (April-July 1978)

 

Wizards and Warriors

                  Crossed Swords #1- 2 (1986-1987?)

 

The X-Files

                  Alex Through the Looking Glass (2000)

 

                  Mulder’s Spooktown Café #1 (May 1997)

 

                  Shadows (July 1996)

 

                  The Skeptic and the Believer #2 (May 1996)

 

 

Convention Materials

                  Albacon ’98: Homeland [Glasgow: 1998]: Program Book

 

                  DSV One (1998, Blake’s 7): Program Book               

 

                  Mad Con 2001 (Madison, WI: 2001): Program Book

 

                  Mad Media 5 [Madison, WI: 1998]: Program Book

 

                  MediaWest Con 6 [Lansing, MI: 1986]: Program and Badge

 

                  Omnicon 1987 [Ft. Lauderdale, FL: 1987]: Program Book

 

                  ORBIT [Newark, NJ: 1990, Blake’s 7]: Program Book

 

                  Panopticon New Orleans: North American Time Festival [New Orleans, LA: 1985, Doctor Who]:    Program Book

 

                  Past Visions of the Future [London, 1986]: List of Films Shown

 

                  Scorpio 5 [Oak Brook, IL, 1987, Blake’s 7]: Program Book

 

                  Scorpio 6 [Oak Brook, IL, 1988, Blake’s 7]: Program Book

 

                  Space-Con 3 [San Francisco, CA: 1977, Star Trek]: Program Book

 

Miscellaneous

 

                  Badge, The Winter’s Tale w/Deborah Duchene (owned by Celeste Hotaling-Lyons)

 

                  Bayfilk III Songbook (n.d.)

 

                  The Fantastically Fundamentally Functional Guide to Fandom, vol. 1 (April 1989), vol. 2 (Booklets A – C) (May 1990) [Susan M. Garrett, auth.]