Ever wonder what happened to Gage and Desoto? Starsky and Hutch? Sam after that final Leap? Or maybe you just wonder what’s really going on between Chakotay and Janeway or Mulder and Scully.
Whatever your thoughts, you can find the answers in fanzines; fan-written and owned publications that provide alternative realities, stories and essays on your favorite characters long after the shows they existed on have headed down the road to syndication land or total cancellation.
The premise behind fanzines are simple - fans write stories using their favorite characters, fanzine publisher edits and produces fanzine, you purchase it for your own reading. All for the fans, by the fans.
Fanzines first came into existence over thirty years ago with the appearance of Star Trek - startling the audience with vivid and deep characters that leapt off the screen and into your hearts and minds with complicated personalities and a universe that begged to be explored. With the cancellation of this popular series fans decided to keep it alive in their own way - sending stories to each other and eventually binding them into volumes so that you could share your vision of the universe and of Spock and Bones long before the current series of novels and magazines.
This format leapt to other series as well, non-science fiction. Emergency!; Starsky and Hutch, Knight Rider… if you enjoyed a series in the past forty years; it’s likely there’s a major fanfiction base out there waiting for you to dive into. Angry with the last Quantum Leap? Upset at Katherine’s death in Beauty and The Beast? Fanzines offer a much more palatable existence and stories abound of alternative endings.
With the explosion of the Internet fanzines and fanfiction went online, with various groups being set up to showcase and explore the fictional stories easily produced and shared by fans around the world. The X-Files is one such group; with over ten thousand stories being archived on special sites that offer everything from intense novel-sized cases to light fluff for a quick read. Other series found a whole new life on the Internet where fans could meet and discuss their love for long-gone shows such as M*A*S*H and Hawaii Five-O with people around the world.
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