Parodies Lost

Parodies Lost has the subtitle: "A Collection of Blake's Seven Parodies." It is a gen Blake's 7 144-page anthology of filks, stories and poems by Chris Blenkarn, written in the style of different authors.
==Summary==
Summary from Knightwriter: 
==From the Zine's Dedication==
==Excerpt==
An excerpt: 
"Avon nearly lost his grip
When he ordered the Pharos trip
The end was not what he's imagined
He should've had his head examined."
(Roger McGough: "Headhunter Poems")''
==Contents==
Fiction, all by Chris Blenkarn, all humor:
* "Your Call Is Important to Us" 
* "Exbar and Barbarity," after Jane Austen 
* "The Delta Sons of Toil," after Garrison Keillor 
* "Mornington Dome" (script for play Mornington Crescent)
* "Five Go Off in a Huff," after Enid Blyton 
* "The Rose and the Rebel (a new title from Mills and Boon)" 
* "Yippie-i-oh! Blake's 7-- The Western" (four AU stories: The Stagecoach Saga, the Honest Homesteaders vs. the Railway Barons Saga, the Homesteaders versus the Cattle Barons, and the Ranch House Saga)
* "Soliloquy: Night Watch," after William Shakespeare 
* "The Infamous Alpha," after Georgette Heyer 
* "Mission to Destiny: The Competition Winners"
* * "1st Prize: Murder on the Ortega Express, by Agatha Christie"
* * "2nd Prize: Sherlock Avon and the Mystery of the Missing Neutrotrope, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle"
* * "3rd Prize: Farewell My Liberator, by Raymond Chandler"
* * "The Runners-Up"
* * "Morse Codes, by Colin Dexter"
* * "Gaudy Death, by Dorothy L. Sayers"
* "Hello! Magazine" 
* "The Death of Gan," after Charles Dickens 
* "Xenon Base," after Woody Allen 
* "Time Distort Magazine: Jeremy Clarkson's Mean Machine" 
* "Systems Check" 
* "An Unexpected Error Has Okkerred" (retold in computer language)
* "Casanegra" (plot summary in form of letter)
* "The Way Forward: A Premier Galactic Conference" (AU; documents and convention report)
Poetry, all by Chris Blenkarn, all humor:
* "Steak Out at Gauda Prime," after Brian Patten/Michael Rosen 
* "Servalan's Secret Passion," after W. H. Auden 
* "The Unhappy Propensity of Cally of Auron: A Cautionary Tale," after Hilaire Belloc 
* "Vila Was a Lockpick," after traditional nursery rhyme: Taffy was a Welshman
* "Oh Beautiful Planet of Chenga," after William McGonagall, Poet and Tragedian 
* "Transport of Delight," after Flanders and Swann 
* "Poetic Justice," after Adrian Mitchell
* "The Pylene Fields of Purimac," after Sir John Betjeman 
* "Citrus Thoughts," after Brian Patten 
* "Cygnus Alpha Quadrille," after Lewis Carroll 
* "Throwaway Lines," after John Cooper Clarke 
* "Shop Til You're Dropped," after John Hegley 
* "How to Kill Yourself with Your Own Bare Hands," after John Hegley 
* "Avon's Plaint," after Ogden Nash
* "Sarran Poem," after Ogden Nash
* "Oh Life!" after Dorothy Parker 
* "I Am the Very Model of a Federation Officer," after Gilbert and Sullivan
* "Headhunter Poems," after Roger McGough 
* "Soliloquy: After Malodaar," after William Shakespeare 
* "Resume Revisited," after Dorothy Parker 
* "Probability Square," after Roger McGough 
* "Bang Bang Bang," after John Hegley 
* "Star Warnings," after Roger McGough
* "The Leader," after Roger McGough 
* "Paradise Lost," after John Milton 
* "T/o/n/e/ Moan Poem," after Brian Patten
* "Just Do It!" after Noel Coward
* "Who Killed Kerr Avon?" after the nursery rhyme, Who Killed Cock Robin?
* "Blake's Drum" after Sir Henry Newbolt
* "The Ballad of Blake and Kerr Avon" after Frankie and Johnny
* "Recipe for Disaster" after Brian Patten
* "Where is Roj???????" after Dr. Seuss
* "What If?" after Roger McGough
* "Ends and Means" after John Cooper Clarke
* "Zen Stood on the Burning Deck" after Mrs. Hemans
* "So They'll Go No More A-roving" after George, Lord Byron
Nonfiction, all by Chris Blenkarn:
* acknowledgements
* editorial
* "Zerok Tours" (travel brochure)
* "Turn Your Dreams into Reality at the Cutting Edge of Rebellion!" (job application)
* "Avalon Publishing Company" 
* "Blake's Seven: The Programme Guide" (complete episode summaries)
* "The Liberator Gift Catalogue: Autumn 55"
* "Healthy Eating on the DSV: The Auron Diet, the Delta Diet, the Alpha Diet" 
* "The Rebel Romance Library: New Titles for This Autumn" 
* "New Titles This Autumn from Avalon Press"
* "Zircaster Widows" (retirement fund ad)
* "Disentrastra Drama Festival" (descriptions of plays)
* "In the Next Edition" (parody titles)
Art:
* Michael Blenkarn 
==Reactions and Reviews==
==References==
 
Category:Blake's 7 Gen Zines
Category:2001 Zines