Independent Entity

Independent Entity is a gen Star Trek: TOS anthology edited by Lynda Martindale and Sheryl Przybylski.
It was "a unique endeavor by the enthusiastic brigade of the Galaxy Gazette," this zine's predecessor.
From Time Warp #1 (1977): "INDEPENDENT ENTITY is an enjoyable ST genzine. It contains some clever short, humorous pieces: puzzles, cartoons, trivia, book reviews (by Jackie Lichtenberg), a delightful comic strip, etc. General ST-oriented fiction is also featured. An inexpensive mimeo zine. IE provides light and beguiling reading."
==About the Zine's Size==
From The Halkan Council #9 (August 9): "Independent Entity" #2 is almost out! Send SASE for more info. It'll be normal size this time around -- 5 X 11 and 80 pages."
==Issue 1==
Independent Entity 1 was published in August 1974 and contains 61 pages. 
The art is by Mike Bunn, Mark DiCamillo, K.T., Lynda Martindale, Cara Sherman, Martynn Walther, and Leonard Fornalik. 
From the zine: 
From the editorial by Sheryl: 
* Editorials (3)
** Letter from the Empress
** A View from Under the Ironing Board
* View from a Stabilized Orbit, poem by Martynn Walther (6)
* Wouldn't You Like to See by Gail Abend (6)
* Meet the Empress and Her Court (7)
* Cogley's Corner by Psych Siegman (8)
*Appointment with Destiny, fiction by Sharon Emily (9)
* An Official Teachents Star Trek Examination (trivia) (19)
*Warp Drive Analysis by Dr. Mark DiCamillo (article on warp drive) (25)
*Song for a Wildflower, fiction by Psych Siegman (29)
* Mirror, Mirror: Captain's Last Orders of the Alternate Universe (33)
*Ecoutez, Sir, poem by Martynn Walther (34)
* Now, a Stuck Kaleidoscope, poem by Martynn Walther (34)
* Dear Mr. Spock (35)
* Lament of the Star-Struck Housewife, poem by Judy Resutek (37)
* Scarborough Fair Revisted, poem by Martynn Walther (38)
* Lament for Humankind, poem by Psych Siegman (38)
*The Risk, fiction by Lynda Martindale (a Romulan story) (39)
* Star Trek, poem by Liz Krause (55)
*Analysis of a Fan, article by Prof. T' Prune aka Sheryl Przybylski (56)
* Epilogue, poem by Lynda Martindale (59)
* Teachents Answers (60)
* You Are Receiving This Zine Because (61)
 
 
Image:independententity1-3.jpg|from issue #1, Lynda Martindale
Image:independententity1-4.jpg|from issue #1, Leonard Fornalik
Image:independententity1-5.jpg|from issue #1, Leonard Fornalik
Image:independententity1-6.jpg|from issue #1, Leonard Fornalik
 
Image:independententity1-8.jpg|from issue #1, Mike Bunn
Image:independententity1-9.jpg|from issue #1, Leonard Fornalik
Image:independententity1-10.jpg|from issue #1, Leonard Fornalik
Image:independententity1-11.jpg|from issue #1, not credited
Image:independententity1-12.jpg|from issue #1, Cara Sherman, "... and finally, if you lay any more of the 'General Order Number One' bullshit on us, we'll rip your faces off!"
Image:independententity1-13.jpg|from issue #1, Lynda Martindale
Image:independententity1-14.jpg|from issue #1, Leonard Fornalik
 
==Reactions and Reviews: Issue 1==
==Issue 2==
Independent Entity 2 was published in August 1975 and contains 76 pages. Mimeo, two pages of offset. The art is by Mike Bunn, Lyn Martindale (cover), Dave Cambrini (bacover), Jerry Roundtree, Cara Sherman, and Martynn Walther.
From the editorial: 
* Editorial (3)
* Reserved for Strong Hearts by Laura Virgil (outline for a Star Trek: TOS/Lost in Space story) (4)
* The Hearing by Johanna Cantor, story (5)
* Is It or Isn't It Star Trek?, article (13)
* Kalifee Krossword (14)
* Destiny by Lyn Martindale, story (17)
* poem by Psych Siegman (22)
* Computer Game, article by James Brown (23)
* Stiles' Dilemma by Carla Sherman, story (26)
* Dear Mr. Spock (short parodies of letters of advice by Star Trek characters) (43)
* On the Bridge by Sheryl Przybylski (also in Galaxy Gazette 1974) (44)
* poem by Martynn Walther (51)
* poem by Thomas McCaskey (52)
* The Revenge by Psych Siegman, story (53)
* An Analysis of the Functional Characteristics of the AT-1211B, A Representative of the Modern Dematerializing Non-Receiver Transporters, article by Dr. Mark DiCamillo (58)
* First Command... Last Command by Psych Siegman, story (60)
* Understanding by Lyn Martindale, story (63)
* Zine Reviews by Sheryl 
** Interphase (Star Trek: TOS zine)|Interphase]] #1, see that page
** Sol III, see that page
** Menagerie #5, see that page
** Berengaria #3, see that page
** "Omen" ("Quarterly; This one is for the general SF fans. Nice format. OMEN consists of mostly short SF stories but also has genzine reviews § letters from readers. It would be nice if it were longer--but it's still a bargain at 35 cents.")
 
Image:independent2game1.jpg|from issue #2, computer game, James Brown
Image:independent2game2.jpg|from issue #2, computer game, James Brown
Image:independent2game3.jpg|from issue #2, computer game, James Brown
Image:independent2game4.jpg|from issue #2, computer game, James Brown
Image:independent2art1.jpg|from issue #2, Mike Bunn
Image:independent2art2.jpg|from issue #2, Martyn Walther
Image:independent2art3.jpg|from issue #2, Cara Sherman
Image:independent2blurbs.jpg|from issue #2 
Image:independent2art6.jpg|from issue #2 
Image:independent2art7.jpg|from issue #2
==Reactions and Reviews: Issue 2==
==Issue 3==
Independent Entity 3 was published in July 1976 and contains 84 pages. Cover: John Holmes. The interior art is by Mike Bunn, Sandy Dennis, John Holmes, Suzanne Kirwan, Edward Laprade, Lyn Martindale, Frank Paonessa, and Martynn Walther.
From the editorial: "We know--we promised a of a kind ' zine with #1. But isn't getting carried away by ideas part of what it's all about? So here's #3 in a of one, the last in one of those fashionable groupings, the trilogy. Like Tolkien, we feel three is a decent number at which to stop, before becoming dangerously addicted to the masochism of publishing--the mad typing, the gluing together of fingers, the creeping financial drain, all the fun, little madnesses that become more and more difficult to integrate into lives that need have at least a semblance of sanity. So, once again we promise, this is it."
* Federation Service by Patti Cullen (4)
* Duty of a Parent by Johanna Cantor (reprinted in Despatch #33) (5)
* Famous Last Words by Patti Cullen (16)
* From Whence This Vestige by Joyce Stroedecke (includes a Trek version of the Lord's Prayer) ("Great Bird of the Galaxy, who art in the heavens; hallowed be thy name. Thy trekdom come, thy dreams be done on Terra as it is in the heavens. Give us this day our daily episode, and forgive us our misquotes as we forgive those who misquote us. And lead us not into cancellation, and deliver us from Nielsons. For thine is the trekdom, the creator and the producer forever..." A similar fanwork is The Star Trek Rosary (1974).) (17)
* The Cure by Lucy Diefenbach (18)
* Dear Mr. Spock by anonymous (advice column) (40)
* Memo Series by Joyce Stroedeke (41)
* Blurbs (50)
* Hair of the Dog #3 by Jacqueline Lichtenberg (#1 and #2 appeared in Sol III) (contains book reviews: "One thing readers of 'Entity' have is a certain addiction to STAR TREK. When it goes off the air in all our cities, we sometimes have to travel thousands of miles to a con to get a fix. Good fanzines come all too seldom. So what do you do the rest of the time? Climb the walls? Well, my secret vice is science fiction. If I can't get enough of it to read. I write it myself." -- she reviews a bunch Darkover books and a book called "Keeper" by Joan Hunter Holly, and a handful of DAW books.) (52)
* A Time for Departure by Lyn Martindale (56)
* How to Command a Starship by Sheryl Przybylski (62)
* The Masquerader by Sandra Dennis (63)
* Star-Struck in "Con-Oy" (comic strip) (68)
* The Step by Psych Siegman (73) 
* Dual Dream by Karen Klinck (77)
* Gnomic Vulcan Saying, poem by Martynn (80)
* Conference, and Out to Launch, poems by Martynn (81)
* In Shadows by Connie Colman (83)
* You are Receiving this Zine Because (84)
Image:entity3art1.jpg| from issue #3, Mike Bunn
Image:entity3art2.jpg| from issue #3, Edward Laprade
Image:entity3art3.jpg| from issue #3, John Holmes
Image:entity3art4.jpg| from issue #3, Martynn
Image:entity3art5.jpg| from issue #3, John Holmes
Image:entity3art6.jpg| from issue #3, collage and blurbs -- one blurb hits on slash: "Whadaya mean this picture would be utilized to its fullest potential in Grup?"
Image:entity3art7.jpg| from issue #3, Martynn
Image:entity3art8.jpg| from issue #3, Martynn, some Gen Bathing
==Reactions and Reviews: Issue 3==
==References==
Category:Non-fiction Zines
Category:Star Trek TOS Gen and Het Anthology Zines
Category:1974 Zines
Category:1975 Zines
Category:1976 Zines