Surfacing

You may be looking for The Surfacing Series.
Surfacing is a two-volume slash Stargate Atlantis McKay/Sheppard anthology. 
The artists are Lorraine Brevig and Crysothemis. 
It is spiral bound and digest sized.
The editor was Valentin, the proofreader was Etui, and the "head cheerleader" was Speranza.
 
The zine debuted at the 2007 Escapade. An age statement was required to purchase.
==From the Zine==
==General Comments==
==Issue 1==
Surfacing 1 was published in 2007 and contains 320 pages.
 
It has a fold-out cover and two interior illustrations by Lorraine Brevig. The cover won second place in the Hand-drawn/Painted category of the McShep Awards 2008.
The original flyer is here: . 
*Perpetual Motion by Martha Wilson ("Rodney moved directly beneath one of the racks. He could see needles, all connected to wires, woven through the rack. Some of them were still attached to the rotted flesh. His stomach tried to turn and he swallowed hard. "This is power conduit. These bodies were hooked up to some kind of power generation system. As if whoever did this was using them like… batteries."")
*A Left-Handed Relationship by chelle (""It’d be better if…" John said, holding up his hand. "You can’t?" John shook his head. "My left just doesn’t seem to be as coordinated." "Huh." Rodney was probably able to use both hands. That figured. "Do you want some help?" ")
*The Stonemason’s Buildings Want For His Hands Again by Synecdochic (""You call him McKay," she says. "Even after spending so long shipwrecked together?" John spreads his hands and does his best impression of harmless. "Habits are hard to break," he says. She purses her lips and scribbles another cryptic line, and he wonders again whether the secrets he’s allowing her to see will suffice.")
*Normalize by Pru (""Okay, will you two idiot bastards stop fooling around and get the fuck over here and focus on the problem?" Meredith finally roars, eyes blazing, and John and Jane and Rodney and Rodney all share a meaningful look before the Rodneys scramble over to her side of the room as Other John scrambles away.")
*Mousetraps by Barb G ("The naquadah generator should have been able to generate enough power to run the trap for years, but even in the hour it took for the shadows to come out of the forest it was already down to eighty percent. As soon as a tendril got trapped in the machine the rest of the shadows pulled back, but that was all Rodney needed.")
*Weddings, Plural, and a Yak by Speranza ("By the eighth time John Sheppard married Rodney McKay, they were old pros at the wedding thing, having weathered not only an Ouishan blood wedding, but also a twelve-hour Avalonian handfasting, a Malanese necklace exchange, and a Thurtu joining ceremony that invoked a fire god and featured seven kinds of cake.")
*Heart of Glass by torch (John and Rodney get tangled up in an Ancient story.) (""I touched a piece of Ancient," Rodney grimaced, "technology. Loosely speaking." He rubbed his fingers together. He could still feel the slick glass, the heat. "I think Rabh had some philosophical differences with the other Ancients."")
*As Wide as the Sky by jenn ("Beneath the desk John feels his knees begin to shake, and strangely, the room seems to telescope, giving him flashes of this life that he’d never meant to lead, this world that he stumbled into on chance, the flip of a coin that took him from a retired Air Force Lieutenant Colonel to the United States Congress.")
*Gotta Dance! by Lenore (What wouldn't Rodney do for a ZPM?) (""Well, you don’t expect me to dance with Mt. Everest over there, do you? He’ll stomp all over my feet. Besides, if you hadn’t gone into the military, you’d probably have ended up an exotic dancer or something."") 
*Diplomacy in Waltz Tempo by Rachael Sabotini ("Rodney glanced at him, and their gazes caught and held a moment before Rodney turned back to his equipment. That one brief glance was all it took for the sensation of the veil brushing his skin to become a visceral sense-memory of Rodney naked, stroking him; John shifted his weapon slightly, covering himself, feeling exposed and almost uncomfortably hard.")
*Suffer Me Not to Be Separated by Auburn ("Sheppard could have died. He really could have died on a mission and Rodney wouldn’t have known, not until the rumor mill worked its way to Terra Atlantica. All because he’d held onto an unjustified grudge for years. He really was petty and arrogant enough to think Sheppard should have chosen Atlantis over Earth, Rodney over duty.")
 
Image:surfacing1-1.jpg|from issue #1, Lorraine Brevig
Image:surfacing1-2.jpg|from issue #1, Lorraine Brevig
Image:surfacing1-3.jpg|from issue #1, sample text
==Reactions and Reviews: Issue 1==
==Issue 2==
Surfacing 2 was published in February 2007 and contains 304 pages.
The original flyer is at: .
Cover and interior art by Crysothemis.
*Mr. Karaoke by Pares (""Be free for dinner tonight. You know, you’re not getting any younger. I’ll look for someone for you, too. That way we can double date! Take some of the pressure off." "What?" John said blankly.")
*Just Like Schrödinger's Cat by lamardeuse ("Once the door closed behind him, Sheppard turned to face him with his arms still folded. Rodney sighed. "She thinks you’re already involved with someone."")
*No Way Out But Through by CJ Andre ("Through a haze of pain, John could almost see Rodney frantically thinking "off" at the little blue cube. John thought it, too, and for once, the tech performed as expected. Lucy seemed puzzled, and not a little put out, but nodded in the end. "Very well, you have shown us that you are pure. You shall now Testify your friend so that he may be freed from his demons and once again be safe to walk the paths of Ligia."")
*Never Have I Asked an August Sky by Hth ("The last time Rodney had been on Earth, he’d come through the stargate with Major Sheppard, then gone back to Atlantis by spaceship without him. They didn’t make you— No. They hadn’t made anyone but John stay behind.")
*Ordinary Life by shalott & Speranza (""They all think I’m your boyfriend anyway," John said. "Yes, so? You are my boyfriend," Rodney said. "Why is this a problem?" "They thought I was before I even was!" John yelled.")
*A Faltered Hinge by lilysaid (""Everyone has something to hide, Colonel," Rodney says darkly. "And these people have the means to—to do whatever they like with what they find, yet for some reason everyone is all right with this?" "I am fine with it," Teyla says. "Just think of it as extreme customer service," John says.")
*Duet by Miss Pamela (""…it’s the Air Force, Rodney." He reached out and touched Rodney’s leg. "I wasn’t supposed to do this again." "This? This?" Rodney slapped his hand away. "So, what, having sex with me was like some stunt? I’m just the dumb, risky thing you did on spring break?"")
*The Highwayman by trinityofone (""I do not even know your name," said the doctor, leaning forward. "Or anything of your life or how you came to be here." There were parts of that that even Jean could not answer. But he said, "I am Jean Berger, matelot breveté. I loved the sea."")
*The Fiery Hound of Lo’r Mawra by SkoosiePants ("Rodney took a sip of coffee, typing with one hand. It was already past eight. He’d downloaded the data he’d collected from Lo’r Mawra, and the weird thing was… The weird thing was that the erratic pattern seemed to have followed them back through the gate.")
*What It Brings the Rabbit by Giddy (""They call it an oracle’s gift. It’s supposed to be good luck."")
*Slither by liketheriver ("I don’t think anyone that has done a stint on Atlantis could live anywhere that wasn’t by the water, not unless they had hated their time there. And Rodney had loved Atlantis, loved her so much he had given her up so that she could have what he thought she needed most… me.")
 
File:John Sheppard 20 by crysothemis.jpg|ifrom issue #2, Crysothemis
File:Rodney McKay 4 by crysothemis.jpg|from issue #2, Crysothemis 
Image:surfacing2-1.jpg|from issue #2, Crysothemis 
==Reactions and Reviews: Issue 2==
==External Links==
*Surfacing at Duet Press: Volume I, Volume II
*Links to Surfacing stories online
==References==
Category:Stargate Atlantis Zines
Category:2007 Zines