The Plain Man's Guide to Alien Invasions

The Plain Man's Guide to Alien Invasions is a gen and het Blake's 7 anthology, a club zine. 
==General Fan Comments==
==Issue 1==
The Plain Man's Guide to Alien Invasions 1 was published in 1989 and contains 190 pages. 
Fiction:
* Sharon Ann Murphy and Virginia E. Milewski, "Misguided Honor" (The first story in this zine has definite adult content, even though it's not explicit. PGP, both Tarrant and Vila wind up in a (heterosexual) brothel on GP, servicing dirty old ladies. With some unexpected help, they make their escape.)
* Janet Wells, "Malfunction!" 
* Mysti Frank, "Analgesia" 
* Sharon Ann Murphy, "Second Nature" 
* Jeanne DeVore, "Ambush" 
* Sharon Ann Murphy and Virginia E. Milewski, "Inside a Broken Dream" 
* Curt Phipps, "Flake's 11" 
* Bud Hanzel, "Jail-Break" 
* Curt Phipps, "Vila's Inner Fear" 
Nonfiction:
* Anonymous, "When Fans Have Pets" 
Poetry:
* Mysti Frank, "Vila Restal"
* Sharon Ann Murphy, "Image"
* Tammy Verbande, "Little Fuzzy Blake" 
* Mary Pat Cheney, "A Plea to Avon"
* Mary Pat Cheney, "Your Eyes (Vila to Avon)"
* Mary Pat Cheney, "Vila"
Art:
* Judi Boguslawski (front cover)
* Kate Knepper 
* Adrian Morgan 
* Tamara Verbande 
* Peter Heimsoth 
* Jay Harber 
* Bart Quick
File:Plainman1-1.jpg|inside issue #1
File:Plainman1-2.jpg|inside issue #1, Judith Boguslawski
File:Plainman1-3.jpg|inside issue #1
File:Plainman1-4.jpg|inside issue #1, Judith Boguslawski
File:Plainman1-5.jpg|inside issue #1
File:Plainman1-6.jpg|inside issue #1
==Reactions and Reviews: Issue 1==
==Issue 2==
The Plain Man's Guide to Alien Invasions 2 was published in 1990 and contains about 200 pages.
Fiction:
* Janet Wells, "A Holiday Story" 
* Jeanne DeVore, "A Little Trust Is a Dangerous Thing" 
* Bud Hanzel, "The Hunt" 
* Cami, "Consequences" 
* Orac, "Twisted Moloch, or, What Really Happened" 
* Anne-Marie Picard, "Marques de Gris" 
* Sue Clark, "Avon's Next Enterprise" (Star Trek: TNG crossover)
* Wes Lee Crusher, "Ladies' Night Out" 
* Leigh Motooka, "Accountability" 
* Alia Atreides, "Midway to Nowhere" 
* The Space City Irregulars, "Some Things Never Change" 
* Linda Garlick, "We Are But the Stuff Dreams Are Made Of" 
* Lorna B., "Embarkation" 
* Zenobia Seagreane Quimby, "Passion's Purple Flower (Pale Lavender Prose)" 
Poetry:
* Sue Clark, "A Fight Like Ours Could Really Spoil Your Day" (filk, Everyday, preferably the Buddy Holly version)
* Sue Clark, "A Blakes 7 Primer"
* Lovejoy, "Horizon"
* Sue Clark, "Mr. Avon" (filk, Mr. Postman)
* Sue Clark, "Fed Man" (filk, Soul Man)
* Angela Reese, "Orac" (filk, Lola)
* Sue Clark, "Soolin" (f, Sususudio)
* Sue "Way Cool" Clark, "Avon's Too Cool For Me"
* Sue Clark, "This Hand Ain't Your Hand" (filk, This Land Is Your Land)
* Bud Hanzel, "The Federtation Rebels" (filk, theme from The Beverly Hillbillies)
* Lovejoy, "Avon at Star One"
* Sharon Ann Karpierz, "Self Doubt"
* Lovejoy, "Gauda Prime"
* Sue Clark, "Orac at Large" (filk, If I Only Had a Brain)
Art:
* Barbara L. Adams (front cover)
* Adrian Morgan 
* Linda Fairbanks 
* Tanje 
* Bart Quick 
* Linda Garlick 
* Kate Knepper
Image:plainman2-1.jpg|interior from issue #2
Image:plainman2-2.jpg|interior from issue #2
Image:plainman2-3.jpg|interior from issue #2
==Reactions and Reviews: Issue 2==
==References==
 
Category:Blake's 7 Het Zines
Category:Blake's 7 Gen Zines
Category:1989 Zines
Category:1990 Zines