Crystal Singer (zine)

:This article is about the Anne McCaffrey fanzine. For the Star Trek filk album, see Crystal Singer (filk).
Crystal Singer is a gen anthology of articles and fiction about Anne McCaffrey's works.
There were fourteen issues.
The zines contain articles on dragons, the Crystal Singers and all Anne's works, some fanfiction, lots of small bits of art, personal stories, and an early version of a McCaffrey fan site.
Later, photocopies of Crystal Singer were bound into a single volume and sold as the Crystal Singer Omnibus.
==Reactions and Reviews: From McCaffrey==
McCaffrey was sent copies of the first two issues.
Her comments regarding an article in the first issue, one which deals with F'lar's age: 
==Reactions and Reviews: From Fans==
==Issue 1==
Crystal Singer 1 was published in March 1978 and contains 14 pages.
* Cloudy (editorial)
* Womp Search by Baby Bobby Womp Rat (as told to C.J. Todd) (story)
* On Dragon's by Deborah Burros (article)
* Silver Thread and Golden Dragons by David Lubkin (filk)
==Issue 2==
Crystal Singer 2 was published in April 1978 and contains 11 pages. The cover is an illustration by Stacey Mandell which appeared in issue #1.
* Cloudy (editorial)
* One Weekend With Ur Child by Jacqueline Lichtenberg (article about her meeting Anne McCaffrey at Balticon in 1978) (This is a reprint of the con report in A Companion in Zeor #2 called, "one weekend, with orchid.")
* Field Work by C.J. Toad and Bryant Craig (story)
* Augmented Fifths (letters to the editor)
==Issue 3==
Crystal Singer 3 was published in May 1978 and contains 12 pages. Cover by Robert Corr.
* Cloudy (editorial)
* 1978 Hugo Nominations
* Dragonhold - a letter from Anne McCaffrey after receiving copies of the first two issues of Crystal Singer
* Augmented Fifths (letters to the editor)
==Issue 4==
Crystal Singer 4' was published in June 1978 and contains 12 pages. Cover by Robert Corr.
* Cloudy (editorial)
* Zines (ads for fanzines)
* The White Dragon - question for subscribers to discuss in the next newsletter
* Augmented Fifths
* Dragonhold - letter from Anne McCaffrey to subscribers
* Consciousness Zero (aka The Nerd Viewpoint) by Joe Hertzlinger (article)
* Dragon Conclave - discussion of how to divide the US into "Weyrs" according to states/population centers
==Issue 5/6==
Crystal Singer 5/6 was published in August 1978 and contains 22 pages.
* Editorial
* Letters to the editor
* An Experimental Talk by Samuel R Delaney
* Fanzine and filk songtape ads
==Issue 7==
Crystal Singer 7 was published in September 1978 and contains 12 pages. Cover by Gordon Carleton.
* Cloudy (editorial)
* Letters to the editor
* Zine ads
* Conscousness Zero: the Nerd Viewpoint by Hertzlinger (article)
==Issue 8==
Crystal Singer 8 was published in October 1978 and contains 6 pages. Cover by Gordon Carleton.
* Adverts
* Cloudy (editorial)
* Letters to the editor
==Issue 9==
Crystal Singer 9 was published in November 1978 and contains 6 pages. Cover by Joni Wagner.
* Cloudy (editorial)
* Letters to the editor
* Adverts
==Issue 10==
Crystal Singer 10 was published in December 1978 and contains 8 pages. Cover by Joni Wagner.
* Adverts
* Cloudy (editorial)
* Letters to the editor
* Pungent (introducing a pun contest)
* Who Asked Me? by Eileen Roy (article)
==Issue 11==
Crystal Singer 11
==Issue 12==
Crystal Singer 12
==Issue 13==
Crystal Singer 13 was published in March 1979 and contains 12 pages. Because of problems with a planned art centerfold, issues #11 and 12 were delayed. Einstein cover by Real Musgrove in honor of Einstein's centennial.
* Adverts
* Cloudy (editorial)
* Letters to the editor
* Consciousness Zero by Joe Herztlinger (article)
* Who Asked me? by Eileen Roy (article)
==Issue 14==
Crystal Singer 14 was published in 1979 and contains 8 pages. Cover by Kurt Erichsen. Issues #11/12 were once again promised.
* Adverts
* Cloudy (editorial)
* Letters to the editor
* Crosscuts by Kathy Esselman (article)
* Who Asked Me? by Eileen Roy
==References==
Category:Non-fiction Zines
Category:Dragonriders of Pern Zines
Category:1978 ZinesCategory:1979 Zines