The Chaotian Chronicles
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| Title: | The Chaotian Chronicles |
| Publisher: | The Federation Crazy Corps and Unicorn Press |
| Editor(s): | Jayne Largent?, Terri Nevins, Lydia Bobash |
| Date(s): | April 1977 to at least March 1979 |
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| Fandom: | Science Fiction with some Star Trek: TOS, some Star Wars |
| Language: | English |
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The Chaotian Chronicles is a club-zine published by the fan club The Federation Crazy Corps of Ohio which in 1977 had 12 members.
Issue 1
The Chaotian Chronicles 1 was published in April 1977 and contains 48 pages.
Art is by Linda Shadle, Barbara Slater, and Jayne Largent.
This issue was edited by Jayne Largent.
It is a science fiction and fantasy zine that contains one Star Trek: TOS story and a Questor story.
The zine is "fondly dedicated to Andre Norton who gave us many hours of science fiction reading pleasure."
From the editorial:
This zine is hopefully something new in the fandom is that it is not strictly TREK. Our intention is to combine good TREK fiction with poetry, past and present TV series episodes, science fiction, fantasy, horror, the supernatural, and sword-and-sorcery. Not all in one issue, of course. As well as science articles, when we can get our hands on them, a bit of Tolkien, and movie, TV, and book reviews... WHY, you may ask, are we doing such a thing? It's like this. We were just sitting around having one of our usual gab-fests (a Starsky & Hutch-Emergency! group at one end, a Tolkien-cum-fantasy-horror group at the other end with some wanderers somewhere in between,) a normal occurrence at an F.C.C. [Federation Crazy Corps] meeting... Anyway, there we were just sitting around trying to outshout each other... when one of our number said, 'Hey, why don't we do something constructive for once and put together our own fanzine?' Well, we all thought that was a terrific idea, but there was one problem.... Somebody else suggested we'd only be another drop in the bucket since there are over 200 STREKzines out now, so why not make it a collection?... It would be something different.
Poem, "Song of Miramanee":
- Weep, children of the sky, for your mother
- is about to die.
- She can't do her Rain Dance anymore.
- The white man has thrown her on the floor
- to die and fade away, to have her babies
- take her place one day.
- Weep, children of the land, this wasn't
- planned. To be, put on a nickle, and saved.
- Dedication (3)
- Editorial "Why Are We Here?" (5)
- Grab Bag by Matt Drahan (review of the film, "The Omen") (7)
- Poetry Syndrome, poems by Kathy Drouillard ("Song of Miramanee," "Manchild") (8)
- un-credited cartoon (Captain Kirk gets a pie in the face.) (9)
- Chaotic Citchen by Kathy Drouillard (a recipe for "Romulan War Burgers"—1 can of drained tuna, 1 small chopped onion, 1 package of cheddar cheese, mustard, salad dressing, hamburger buns, mix together, bake in foil, put on a hamburger bun and "Enjoy!") (10)
- The Gofer's Lament, filk by Linda Shadle and Kathy Drouillard (dedicated to the con com of the Chicago Strektacular) (11)
- Rerun Roundup: Thou Shalt Not Suffer a Witch, fiction by Linda Shadle ("Stories based on T.V. series past and present other than STAR TREK. This includes episodes based on T.V. pilots which never made it to the series stage. An example - QUESTOR.") (Questor) (13)
- Alien Imagery: First Skirmish, fiction by Trina Jackson and Barbara Slater ("Stories include SF, science fantasy, horror, occult, gothic, and sword-and-sorcery. STAR TREK stories also eligible for this section.") (Star Trek: TOS) (34)
- Submission Requests (47)
- Fan Scene (lists and addresses of other media fan clubs) (48)
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from issue #1, "The Gofer's Lament"
Issue 2
The Chaotian Chronicles 2 was published in September 1977 and contains 42 pages.
The art is by Jayne Largent, Lydia Bobash, and Terri Nevins.
The dedication:
This, the second issue of THE CHAOTIAN CHRONICLES is dedicated to those who read the first issue but didn't take the time to acknowledge it.
From the editorial:
We're eager to know what you think of it.
You see, we got very few responses to the first issue out of the fifty or sixty copies we sold. So we don't really know how we struck you, and most of oirr decisions concerning this issue were made using the first two factors of the above combination. We hope we'll get more response this time. This is the first time any of us have been involved in the production of a fanzine, and we want response — we need it. We've got to know how well or how poorly we're reaching you, what we're doing wrong and what we're doing right.
After all, isn't a fanzine" put out by, for, from, and to fans"? This is as much your publication as it is ours; let us know what displeases you so we can do our utmost to please you!
Many thanks to you who did respond!
Also from the editorial:
We've got two ideas we'd like to present for possible inclusion in future issues:
As you know, we have the section "Rerun Roundup" for stories based on television shows and movies, but what about stories based on motion pictures? I may never get my "Star Wars" story written, but if I got the idea, what's to stop at least half of America from having ideas for "Star Wars-" stories, or for any other movie? So, if you've got any motion-picture-based stories, we're open to them.
We'll probably put them in "Alien Imagery", unless we get enough to warrant starting a separate section. If that happens, are there any suggestions for titles?
We'd also like to have a letters column. Would anyone like to write the letters to put in it? What do you think of printing addresses — with the letters so correspondents can strike up direct communication if they'd like?
Oh,yes; one major change: Last time around, we tried hard to hand color (at least outline) the pictures in our zine. The task was too much for us; we didn't make it through the initial fifty copies, and we've had to print up more. In view of this, we feel it would be insanity to try to color them again. Look at it this way, folks: Not only are you getting fantastic reading material, but you're getting a coloring book!
The introduction to "Rerun Roundup:
Once upon a time, about the year 1976, young Donna Chisholm attempted to put out a different kind of fanzine. This zine 'would 'welcome stories based on television shows other than "Star Trek". She would call this zine "Rerun Roundup". By the end of the third quarter of the year, Donna had to forsake this idea: she did— not get enough orders to make printing the zine worthwhile.
Many of us who had ordered the zine still wanted to read the stories that would have been in it. Donna was kind enough to send them on to us. Upon reading them, an ingenious idea came to light: why not include a section in our planned diversified zine for such stories and why not call it —- with Donna’s permission, of course — "Rerun Roundup"?
Donna approved the idea, and this section of our zine was born. In this issue, we include one of the stories that would have appeared in Donna’s zine.
- Editorial: There We Go Again! by Trina Jackson (1)
- The Grab Bag: Comments by Matt Drahan (and friends)
- The War Machines of Kalinth by Matt Drahan (book review)
- Star Wars by Trina Jackson (very positive review with the complaint about the lack of female characters, ends with "'Star Wars' tears me in two. Should I go back to see it the infinite number of times I would like, or should I save what little money I have for the sequel in two years? This is one case where I expect the sequel to pack as large a wallop as the original!")
- The "Wizards" Washout by Barbara Slater (review of the film)
- The Puzzler's Corner by Matt Drahan ("Find the science fiction writers.")
- An F.C.C. Adventure by Lydia Bobash (Description of their fan club meeting on the East Side Riverside in Toledo being visited by the police, who were concerned about the fake fighting they observed.)
- Rerun Roundup: Don't Con a Con Man, fiction by J.P. Sinclair (Alias Smith and Jones)
- Chaotic Citchen by Kathy Drouillard (recipe for "Photon Torpedoes": chopped onions, sliced tomatoes, shredded cheese, tomato paste, ground beef, oregano -- cook together and stuff into a loaf of French bread. Bake and top with green pepper slices.)
- Alien Imagery
- Home by Trina Jackson (original science fiction)
- Tomorrows Are For Dying by Valerie Singler (original science fiction)
- The Ever-Elusive Solution by Kaye Ann Linke (original science fiction)
- The Fan Scene
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from issue #2, Jayne Largent: "This, the second issue of THE CHAOTIAN CHRONICLES is dedicated to those who read the first issue but didn't take the time to acknowledge it." -
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from issue #2, Jayne Largent
Issue 3
The Chaotian Chronicles 3 was published March 1979 and contains 58 pages. This issue was edited by Terri Nevins and Lydia Bobash.
The art is by Terri Nevins, Lydia Bobash, Valerie Singler, F.L. Robinson, and Amy Harlib.
A long Star Wars story makes up most of this issue.
- Critic's Corner: Flashman's Lady by George MacDonald Fraser, World Without End by Joe Haldeman, Riddle-Master of Hed/Heir of Sea and Fire by Patricia McKillip (3)
- Queen of Spades by Valerie Singler (original fantasy) (7)
- A Special Gift of Silence by Suzanne Hinr (original fiction) (11)
- Chaotian Crossword Puzzle (14)
- This Side of Paradox, fiction by Linda Shadle (16)
- Fanzine Directory (52)
- Fan Scene (54)
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from issue #3, Amy Harlib
