Powerplay (Blake's 7 zine)

Powerplay is a gen Blake's 7 anthology.
==Reactions and Reviews: General==
==Issue 1==
Powerplay 1 was published in 1987 and is 108 pages long. The front cover is by Suzan Lovett, the back cover is blank. Interior artwork: Suzan Lovett (front cover), Caren Parnes, TACS, Sheila Willis.
 
The proofreading was by Melissa James.
The editorial: 
* The Road To Hell by Suzan Lovett (also in The Road to Hell and Other Stories) (From the zine: "This is an alternative-universe story based on the episode, "Hostage." It starts taking liberties with the established story-line shortly after Avon, on the hillside, contacts Blake through the teleport bracelet, and totally disregards the rest of the episode. Mea Culpa. Adrienne and Annette, thank you for all your help and work, given so willingly and able. Kathy, thanks for the emotional support.") (1)
* Mirror Images by Marion McChesney (73) 
* Terminal by Wendy Rathbone (74) 
* Once More Into the Breach by Emily Ross (75) 
* Pick a Pocket or Two by Roberta Rogow (82) 
* The Longest Journey by Marion McChesney (82A) 
* Cassandra by Emily Ross (83) 
* Aftermath by Wendy Rathbone (86) 
* Heaven Doesn't Want Me by Suzan Lovett (86A) 
* The Great Lord Shiva's Dance by Susan Matthews (87) 
* There's Laughter, Too by Marion McChesney (90A) 
* The Slumber Party: An Oral Overture (in script form) by D.J. Driscoll (91) 
Image:powerplay1-1.jpg| from issue #1, sample text
Image:powerplay1-2.jpg| from issue #1, Caren Parnes
Image:powerplay1-3.jpg| from issue #1, Caren Parnes
Image:powerplay1-4.jpg| from issue #1, sample poem
Image:powerplay1-5.jpg| from issue #1, Suzan Lovett
Image:powerplay1-6.jpg| from issue #1, TACS
Image:powerplay1-7.jpg|i from issue #1, Suzan Lovett
Image:powerplay1-8.jpg| from issue #1, TACS
Image:powerplay1-9.jpg| from issue #1, Suzan Lovett: the sign at the Pearly Gates reads "NO ADMITTANCE. This means you, Kerr Avon." The words encircling Avon: "Heaven doesn't want me and Hell is afraid I'm going to take over."
Image:powerplay1-10.jpg| from issue #1, Suzan Lovett
Image:powerplay1-11.jpg| from issue #1, Suzan Lovett
Image:powerplay1-12.jpg| from issue #1, Sheila Willis
===Reactions and Reviews: Issue 1===
==Issue 2==
Powerplay 2 was published in January 1988 and contains 193 pages.
The art is by Suzan Lovett (front cover, interior), Laura Virgil, (back cover, interior), TACS, Jean C., Celeste Hotaling, Gayle F., Pamela Auditore, Carol Hedge, Pat Cash, and Suzie Molnar.
From the editorial: 
* Doppelganger by Suzan Lovett (1)
* Dreamin' by D.J. Driscoll (69) 
* Lonely in Your Nightmare by Mary Gerstner (72) 
* The Happy Ending by Celeste Hotaling (74) 
* Precipice by L.E. O'Brian (77) 
* The Nature of the Beast by Marion McChesney (82) 
* Even Now by Cindy Henry (84) 
* Downtime by Kate Daniels (85) 
* For a Few Moments More by April Giordano (89) 
* Words Unuttered by Paulie Kay (92) 
* Follow the Leader by Barbara T (93) 
* The Seventh Gate by Sheila Paulson (115) 
* Gan by Kelly Hardin (122) 
* Mask by Marion McChesney (122a) 
* Revenge of the Slumber Party by D.J. Driscoll (123) 
* Voices by Jane Sibley (127) 
* Sarcophagus by Pat Nussman (133) 
* The Vicious Circle by D.J. Driscoll (reprinted somewhere else previously; the editor thanks Wendy Rathbone for allowing this story "to be transferred" to Powerplay.) (134) 
* The Survivor's Song by Cindy Henry (140) 
* Across the Well of Time by Marion McChesney (173) 
 
Image:powerplay2-1.jpg| from issue #2, Jean C.
 Image:powerplay2-4.jpg| from issue #2, Jean C.
Image:powerplay2-2.jpg| from issue #2, Jean C.
Image:powerplay2-5.jpg| from issue #2, Jean C.
Image:powerplay2-3.jpg| from issue #2, Suzan Lovett
Image:powerplay2-6.jpg| from issue #2, Gayle F.
Image:powerplay2-7.jpg| from issue #2, Pam Auditore
Image:powerplay2-8.jpg| from issue #2, Pat Cash
Image:powerplay2-9.jpg| from issue #2, Suzan Lovett
Image:powerplay2-10.jpg| from issue #2, Suzan Lovett
Image:powerplay2-11.jpg| from issue #2, Suzie Molnar
Image:powerplay2-12.jpg| from issue #2, Celeste Hotaling
===Reactions and Reviews: Issue 2===
 
==Issue 3==
 
Powerplay 3 was published in July 1988 and contains 175 pages.
The art is by Suzan Lovett TACS, Leah Rosenthal, Karen River, Bea Quindlen, Pam Auditore, Pat Cash, and Sue Williams.
The front cover by Suzan Lovett was used a year later (with Paul Darrow's permission) as a fundraiser for Freedom City. Darrow had been an invited guest to that con, but did not attend, something that may be because of the con's timing and The Blake's 7 Wars. See Take Kerr!.
From the editorial: 
* October Story by Susan Matthews (From the author: "The concept of homosexual relations, fantasies, desires, or inclinations between members of the Liberator’s crew is one that does not exist in the Minor Arcana universe.") (1) 
* Just A Bit Late by Jeff & Mary Morris (60) 
* Song of the Seven by Linda Terrell (61) 
* Thief by Kristy Merrill (65) 
* Garden of Stone by Pat Nussman (90) 
* The Kindest Cut by Kathleen Coy (91) 
* Martyr by CarolMel Ambassador (107) 
* The Shuttle Experience by JoAnn Marquet (109) 
* Closing Shadows by Marion McChesney (112) 
* Team Effort by Jill Grundfest (113) 
* What is It You See? by Sue Williams (123) 
* Patterns of Trust by Sheila Paulson (124) 
* Stalking Toward Revenge by Tyndara Meffe (128) 
* Circles by Mary Gertsner (130) 
* Counterpoint by Emily Ross (133) 
* Dust in the Wind by Cindy Henry (134) 
* Carousel by P. Dell Ames (151) 
* A Fragile Alliance by Sue Williams (152) 
* His Own Man by Shoshanna (168) 
* Revenge of the Slumber Party by D.J. Driscoll (170)
 File:Shuttleexperience.jpg| from issue #3, "The Shuttle Experience," cartoon by Leah Rosenthal. A fan in 2016 said: "I could give you the context, or I could sit back and just watch the wild theories roll in." 
 Image:powerplay3-1.jpg| from issue #3, artist is Suzan Lovett. A fan in 2016 said: "from a norse-style saga poem. But I’m afraid I’m just here for Vila with puppies.... Vila looks like he's rethinking whatever he added to the Soma this time" 
Image:powerplay3-3.jpg| from issue #3, TACS
Image:powerplay3-4.jpg| from issue #3, Suzan Lovett
Image:powerplay3-5.jpg| from issue #3, Karen River
Image:powerplay3-6.jpg| from issue #3, about "October Story"
Image:powerplay3-7.jpg| from issue #3, Suzan Lovett
Image:powerplay3-8.jpg| from issue #3, Pam Auditore
Image:powerplay3-9.jpg| from issue #3, Sheila Paulson
 
===Reactions and Reviews: Issue 3===
==Issue 4==
Powerplay 4 was published in January 1989 and contains 221 pages.
* Love and War by Jeanne DeVore ("What (or who) does Roj Blake value the most? And what would he do to get him ... or her back The question might well cost Blake more than he is willing to lose." (1) 
* A Letter by Cindy Rancourt (reprinted in Dealer's Choice with the title "Tarrant's Lament.") (50)
* Homing by Marion McChesney (51) 
* Quoth Avon "Nevermore" by April Murray (54) 
* Hecate Waits by Jean Graham (63) (reprinted in Gambit #9)
* Playing the Fool by Ann Wortham and Leah Rosenthal (79) (reprinted in Southern Seven #6)
* And Then There Was One by Jeff Morris (84) 
* Flight Down by Pat Nussman (86) 
* Lost by Steven Swanger (87) 
* Nothing But the Thorn by Jean Hoffman (91) 
* Voice of Reason by Pat Nussman (96) 
* Too Good for You by Paulie Kay (97) 
* Past Tense by Sheila Paulson (108) 
* Last Clear Chance by Sue Wells and Dee Beetem ("When Avon regains consciousness after Gauda Prime he faces his last chance to save ... his soul.") (117) 
* Memory by Mary Gertsner (123) 
* After Sarcophagus: Cally by Shoshanna (126) 
* A Fool's Wager by Kathy Hintze ("What, exactly, lay behind the near disaster on the shuttle from Malodaar? Was there more going on then we'd been told?") (128) 
* The Wrath of the Slumber Party by D.J. Driscoll (138) 
* Still Life by Judith Kitses (151)
* artwork: Suzan Lovett (front cover), Adrian Morgan, Caro Hedge, Karen River, O'Caoindeablan, Sue Williams, Gayle F, Billie Phillips
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===Reactions and Reviews: Issue 4===
==Issue 5==
Powerplay 5 was published in April 1989 and contains 216 pages. 
The art is by Jean Kluge (front cover), Suzan Lovett, Karen River, and Tacs.
It contains an A3 fold-out Suzan Lovett artwork.
* Infernus by Cindy Rancourt ("Following Gauda Prime, Vila wakes to find his world has completely changed - and so has his role in regards to Avon. Changes must be worked ... but how?") (1) 
* The Way to the Beginning by Heather Saavaarda (21) 
* Intruders by Sue Glaven (26) 
* Physicist by Tom Beck (29) 
* Crusader by Tashery Shannon (81) 
* Balance by P. Dell Ames (87) 
* What Dreams May Come by Shoshanna (66) 
* Broken Image: Vila/Avon by Pat Nussman (92) 
* Timeless Conflict by Sue Williams (93) 
* Knowledge by Vickie McManus (116) 
* Musing, at the Pilot's Controls by Vickie McManus (117) 
* The Flying Dutchman by Judith Kitzes (sequel to "Still Life" in #4) (118)
* Next-to-Last Thoughts on Gauda Prime: Tarrant by Jacqueline Taero (163) 
* Hurricane by Judith Kitzes (sequel to "The Flying Dutchman") (164)
 
File:powerplay5art1.jpg|from issue #5, Karen River
File:powerplay5art2.jpg|from issue #5, Karen River
File:powerplay5art3.jpg|from issue #5, fold-out by Suzan Lovett: "... there's an A3 fold-out Suzan Lovett image inside (so she's not absent from this zine at all). And it's so amazing that I almost want to keep this zine just for the image, as I am already keeping stupid PP3. But I am going to be strong and not keep it. The image is Avon and Servalan, Avon looking into a mirror-of-Galadriel type deal, surrounded by two borders full of various different medieval Blakes..." from http://web.archive.org/web/20220427142130/https://aralias.dreamwidth.org/2049502.html aralias.dreamwidth] (Jan 24, 2016) 
===Reactions and Reviews: Issue 5===
==Issue 6==
Powerplay 6 was published in 1989 and is 164 pages long. 
The art is by Suzan Lovett (front cover, interior), Gayle F (back cover), Sue Williams, Karen River, and Adrian Morgan. 
From the editorial: 
* Letters by Judith Kitzes (1) 
* Purgatorio by Cindy Rancourt (29) 
* Tale of a Fool by Sue Williams (49) 
* Silent Knight by April Murray (50) 
* The Legacy by Mary G.T. Webber (also in Panning for Pyrites and Rallying Call #15) (52) 
* Something Fishy by Debbue McKean (53) 
* Lest We Forgive by Kathy Hintze (57) 
* I Wish I Knew by Sue Williams (86) 
* Next Generation by April Murray (87) 
* Evensong: Avon by Jacqueline Taero (98) 
* Childhood's End by Jill Grundfest (99) 
* The River by Marion McChesney (reprinted from Those Who Favor Fire) (126) 
* The Stonecutter by April Giordano (127) 
* Avon's Big Score by Leigh Arnold (129) 
* It Tolls for Thee by Sue Williams (142) 
* Slumber Party IV by D.J. Driscoll (143) 
 
Image:powerplay6-1.jpg|from issue #6, Suzan Lovett
Image:powerplay6-2.jpg|from issue #6, Adrian Morgan
Image:powerplay6-3.jpg|from issue #6, Adrian Morgan 
Image:powerplay6-4.jpg|from issue #6, Adrian Morgan 
 
Image:powerplay6-6.jpg|from issue #6, fold-out titled "The Legacy," by Suzan Lovett, also in Panning for Pyrites (1989)
File:Powerplay6-10.jpg|from issue #6, Suzan Lovett
Image:powerplay6-7.jpg|from issue #6, Karen River 
==Issue 7==
Powerplay 7 was published in 1990. It contains 11 stories and is 153 pages long.
 
 
 
This issue was dedicated to "Satchel Productions and its continued success."
From the editorial: 
* Out of the Pit by Sheila Paulson ("The "war" has been fought and won ... but not all the victors have been gathered close about. One remains conspicuously absent.") (1) 
* A Study in Contrasts by Roxie Ray ("An artist shines new light on Blake's people.") (11) 
* Just Give It Some Time by K. Ann Yost ("Avon's never been out of the domes and the "wide open sky" takes on new, and frightening, complications that will have to be dealt with.") (19) 
* Second Chance by April Murray (23) 
* The Dream Foregone by Virginia Waldron ("After Gauda Prime the remaining "crew" of the Scorpio has to find new ways of making their way in life. Some do well... and others don't.") (50) 
* Puppet by Sue Glaven (64) 
* Irreconciable Allies by Susan Rottellini (69) 
* On Time by Paulie Kay (90) 
* Heart of Stone by Marie Logan (99) 
* Shivan by Sheila Paulson ("We know that "Shivan" is a code name, an alias taken on by the rebel leader to protect...someone. But who? And who was "Shivan" before he took that name?") (115) 
* Those Dreams by Pat Nussman and Jacqueline Taero (150) 
* artwork: Bea Quindlen (front and back cover), Suzan Lovett (color, inside front cover, the same as the cover of issue #4), Sue Williams, TACS
 
Image:powerplay7-2.jpg| from issue #7, TACS
Image:powerplay7-3.jpg| from issue #7, Sue Williams
 
===Reactions and Reviews: Issue 7===
== References ==
 
Category:Blake's 7 Gen Zines
Category:1987 Zines
Category:1980s Zines