Scuttlebutt

You may be looking for the Canadian club zine Shuttle Butt or the Scully/Skinner fiction archive Scuttlebutts.
Scuttlebutt is a Star Trek: TOS reviewzine edited and published by Mary Ann Bentz and Celeste Henkel. It is dedicated to Star Trek fandom and is primarily a listing of fanzines (mostly Trek, but other fandoms as well) that were about to go to print, fanzines that were available, and reviews of fanzines. Upcoming conventions were listed and a list of subscriber birthdays to celebrate.
There was also a small amount of discussion of the building trend in ST fandom of K/S, and one issue has one of the earliest uses of the term. Science Fiction Citations, accessed December 26, 2010 
There are sixteen issues, each running about 17 pages, letter-sized. They were mimeographed during the first year and then went to offset. The copy printed count varied from 300 to 330. 
The editors write that the project "started in Connie Faddis' living room." This first issue was handed out as a freebie at SekWester*Con Too. The zine logo was created by Gordon Carleton.
From an announcement in The Halkan Council #25: "Scuttlebutt is a new zine with 'up-to-date news about fanzine fandom.' Hope to print at a very low cost, more frequently than every two months. Mimeo. First issue available for a business size SASE... In association with Connie Faddis and Nancy Hillman."
 
A fan wrote: "Scuttlebutt was not only needed in the ST community, but it was a solid, steady product -- no small feat in our amateur realm." (from a fan in issue #16) 
==An Introductory Flyer==
 
==From Mimeo to Offset==
On the zine's one year anniversary, the production went from mimeo to offset:
==From the Editorial of Issue 1==
==Its End==
The editors announced in issue #13 that they would end the zine at the end of the year with issue #16. They wrote: "Anyone wishing to do an information zine with a format similar to our is welcome to do so, but we could appreciate the courtesy of allowing us to retire our zine intact."
In the last issue's editorial, the editors noted that three zines were going to step up and fill their space. One was Forum and another was Universal Translator. It is unclear what the third zine was. 
==Reactions and Reviews==
==Issue 1 (May 1977) ==
Scuttlebutt 1 May 1977 and contains 19 pages	
* an announcement that Interphase #4 is no longer available, but xerox copies are available from Lori Chapek-Carleton, send an SASE
* The Interstellar Trading Post has an ad for "The Star Trek Slide and Picture Catalog, featuring over 2100 scenes from 78 episodes and the animation, plus many, many special effects for only seventy-five cents AND the Star Trek Slide Catalog Supplement, listing an additional 1400 scenes, more animation, and episode plus the characters list, only sixty-cents. Mention this ad and get both catalogs for $1.15." There is a similar Logan's Run catalog also available.
* Signe Landon "asks that anyone who wants her to do artwork... to give her at least three month's notice. She is mostly interested in doing covers and portfolios."
* Connie Faddis will not accept requests for art or fiction until she has finished her "Scotty" novel for Menagerie.
* a listing of upcoming cons: Phoenix STAR TREK (May 28-30, VulCon #4 (New Orleans, June 10-12), Space-Con #4 (L.A., June 18-19), HoustonCon 77/Star Trek/ 77 (June 22-26), STAR TREKon 77 (Kansas City, KS June 24-26), Astra*Con (Boston, July 2-4), DallasCon (July 7-10), Star Trek Philadelphia (July 15-18), Okon (Tulsa, July 30)
* a listing of current zines for sale
* a listing of forthcoming/tentative zines, two of which, at least in the announced format/title, didn't make it off the ground: "Chattel of the Gods" (a novel by D.S. Talbotson, "profusely illustrated by Monica Miller. Buyers must be over 16 years of age. Sword and sorcery from Pre-Reform Vulcan. Tentatively scheduled for January 1978, Enchantress Press."), and "Thy Beloved Wilderness" (novel by Trinette Kern and Leslye Lilker)
* a listing of zines about ready to go to press
* fans' birthday dates
* reviews of Probe #10, Showcase #1, #2, #3, Millennium, More Trek Tales, Delta Triad Supplement #1, Star Trek Magazine, Furaha #4, Alpha Continuum #2, Menagerie #11, Galactic Discourse #1, Rigel #3, Dreadnought Explorations #1-#5, T-Negative #32/33, Obsc'zine 31, Contact #3, see those pages
* Sharon Emily sent in the personal statement: 
==Issue 2 (July 1977) ==
Scuttlebutt 	2 was published in July 1977	 and contains 25 pages. It has art by Gordon Carleton, L.A. Robinson, Elizabeth Marshall, William Bow, T.J. Burnside, and Amy Falkowitz.
* a fan is begging for anyone who has a copy of her "unpublished Jai story 'Honorific" to send it to her as she doesn't have a copy of her own anymore
* Jacqueline Lichtenberg writes a defense of The Forging
* there are reviews of 1001 Trek Tales #1, R&R #3, Kraith Collected #5, Warped Space #25, Beyond Orion #1, McCoy's Illegible Log, Sol Plus #4, The Forging, Time Warp, Nourishment, and Probe #10, see those pages
* there is a rebuttal/response regarding a review in the previous issue for Dreadnought Explorations, see that page
* there is a personal statement from Trinette Kern: 
* there is a personal statement from Jacqueline Lichtenberg about the status of future Kraith stories. In it, she explains why new stories have not been forthcoming: 
* Lori Chapek-Carleton writes that she is: 
==Issue 3 (September 1977) ==
Scuttlebutt 	3 was published in September 1977 and contains 22 pages. The art is by Gordon Carleton (logo), William Bow, and Lynn Robinson. 
* this issue contains reviews of The Colors of Love, Furaha #5, Eridani Triad, Berengaria #9, Interphase #4, Rim of Starlight, Deep Grope, Secret Agent: Enterprise, Neural Neutralizer, Off the Beaten Trek #3, Masiform D #6, Stardate: Unknown #3, see those pages
* there is a rebuttal to a review of Probe #3 that was printed in the last issue, see that page
* the editors point out that Paula Block and Paula Smith are two different people people: "Sorry Poblocki and Posmithi."
* the editors bring the hammer down a bit on late entries: 
* the editor of Southern Star: 
* there is a personal statement by Jean Lorrah: 
==Issue 4 (December 1977) ==
Scuttlebutt 	4 was published in December 1977 and contains 16 pages.	 
* a fan proposes a section in future 'Scuttlebutts' that would focus on reviews of art in zines
* a fan writes in and complains that zine editors are getting slower and slower (or not at all in replies) and that she has been waiting, despite sending SASEs for long time for many zines, one of them over four years old
* a fan writes a con report for SaltCon
* this issue contains reviews of Contact, Pegasus #2, The Clipper Trade Ship #18, Probe #11, Obsc'zine #2, see those pages
* the editor of The Other Side of Paradise writes that after three issues, they won't be doing another one unless folks step up to the plate and send them submissions: 
* one of the editors of Fesarius is parting ways after issue #5: 
==Issue 5 (Jan/Feb 1978) ==
Scuttlebutt 	5 was published in Jan/Feb 1978 and contains 16 pages. 
* one of the editors of Halkan Council reports that two of her suitcases were stolen in New York and all the paper work and canceled checks for their end of publication auction is now gone; she warns fans to stop payment on checks and that she will be responsible for the fees
* it contains reviews of Warped Space #29/30, The Sensuous Vulcan, R & R #5, In a Different Reality #2 and #3, Delta Triad #4, Mahko Root, Swords and Sulu, see those pages
* in a personal statement, Gerry Downes explains she has had massive quality control issues with a printing company, one of four of which she dealt with. She also comments on the sixth issue of the zine, Stardate: Unknown: 
* the editor of Rigel writes: 
* Leslye Lilker has this personal statement: 
* the editor of Probe has a rebuttal to a review of his zine in the previous issue of 'Scuttlebutt'. It is harsh and untactful; one result of his rebuttal was that the original reviewer, Eileen Roy, writes in the following issue of 'Scuttlebutt' that she will no longer by reviewing zines: 
==Issue 6 (Apr/May 1978) ==
Scuttlebutt 	6 was published in April/May 1978 and contains 14 pages. The editors write: "We don't know how long this insanity [issuing this zine] will last, so PLEASE DO NOT ORDER PAST ISSUE TEN." 
* a fan writes a letter complaining about 60 Minutes and a letter by a senator that was read on the air. The fan found the letter disrespectful of space travel: "Because I am a normal, red-blooded Trekker, I became extremely upset, and sent the senator a tape explaining to him why I am for the space program."
* there are reviews of Warped Space #31/32, Thrust, The Turbolift Review, Parted from Me, Threshold, Solar Sailors, Sahaj Collected, and Starbase MTL, see those pages
* there is a personal statement from Eileen Roy regarding her actions after the editor of Probe wrote a letter about her in the previous issue: 
* there is a personal statement from Linda Deneroff announcing that she will no longer be associated with Probe: 
* there is a personal statement from Bev Volker regarding a statement made in a review of Mahko Root: 
* there is a plea from a fan who wants to publish a zine but is having trouble making connections with other fans. She thinks blames geography: 
* there is a note from a fan that date stamps one of the first rumblings of George Lucas' attempts to corral and control fanzines: 
* there is a note that reads: 
==Issue 7 (June 1978) ==
Scuttlebutt 	7 was published in June 1978 and contains 14 pages.
* this issue is the first-year anniversary issue and the editors celebrate by going from mimeo to offset; the postal rates also go up, and they beg for stamps and loose change
* there is a personal statement from Gerry Downes outlining the financial hassles she has been having regarding printing, and that issue four of Stardate: Unknown will be delayed
* the editors of Guardian apologize for a late first issue, blaming moves, illness, other commitments, and the ever-popular scapegoat, the Post Awful
* there is a personal statement from Carol Hydeman, the coordinator of the Star Trek Fan Fund; she offers a detailed accounting of costs and expenses: it includes the $12 from the sale of a Chewbacca poster donated by Burger Chef, and the various sources of cash from auctions, votes and donations, and private fundraising; the check for $523 was mailed to Ann Looker, the winner who was this year's winner
* three fans, Victoria Clark and Barbara L. Storey and Nancy M., thanking other fans for their support at the February Convention in NYC that was "one final effort toward doing something about the situation of Star Trek II and Leonard Niomy." 
* there are reviews of Menagerie #14, To Share the Dawn, Moonbeam #1/2, Nexus #1, Stardaze, Probe #12, Quartet, Fantasia #2, Pastak #4, see those pages
* Myrna Culbreath and Sondra Marshak write that they are looking for submissions for Star Trek: The New Voyages #3 and #4, two pro-books that never got off the ground
* about 15 fans write in to announce they have new addresses, including one fan who "fears she is the only ST fan in North Carolina" and wants people to write her
* there is a review of the pro-book, "Splinter of the Mind's Eye"
* a van load of fans is driving from New York to California and is 1) offering space in the vehicle for those who want to go with them, and 2) asking fans along the way for floor space on which to crash
* there is a personal statement from Winston Howlett that says: 
* there is a personal statement from Fern Marder and Carol Walske complaining about copyright infringement on the characters/universe they have created: 
* there is a personal statement from Mandi Schultz about her fannish departure: 
==Issue 8 (July 1978) ==
Scuttlebutt 	8 was published in July 1978 and contains 14 pages.
* there is a personal statement from Mandi Schultz concerning Diamonds and Rust: 
* the editors write that they are NOT printing a personal statement: 
* there are reviews of Stardate: Unknown #4, The Beast, Companion #1, Spectrum #37, Skywalker #1, Android and Tribble, Future Wings #1, Crystal Singer #1, #2, #3, and Starbase M.T.L., see those pages
==Issue 9 (Sept/Oct 1978) ==
Scuttlebutt 	9 was published in September/October 1978 and contains 18 pages.
* fan asks about what may be a pass-around or round robin series of stories. She would "like to know if 'The Great Voyage Conspiracy' stories are alive and well. Writers who might know the whereabouts of the stories are asked to drop me a postcard."
* there is a very long and detailed account, complete with dates and transcripts of letters regarding the cease and desist matter between Paramount and Dreadnought Explorations; the very short version: Paramount sent the fanzine editors a cease and desist letter, Paramount appeared to be confused as to what constituted a fanzine (length? quality?), Paramount went back and forth with their demands and terms and sent more confusing letters, and at this printing of 'Scuttlebutt,' the issue had not been resolved. In any event, while the first five issues of the zine continued to be sold, as well as two collected volumes, the sixth issue of 'Dreadnought Explorations' was never printed. See the Dreadnought Explorations page for the full text of the letter
* a frustrated zine ed has a personal statement that there has been no progress all summer on the zines she was planning as her family was redecorating the house, and she had to help, as well as change bedrooms. She also graduated from high school, and at the moment "has the emotional stability of a wet noodle"; several of the proposed zines she's suggested in past issues of 'Scuttlebutt' are canceled
* a fan is demanding to know where her copy of The Sensuous Vulcan is; she wonders if the editor "has passed" and if so, would someone have the executor of her will contact her, as she is determined to get a hold of this zine
* in this issue are reviews of Companion, Obsc'zine #3, R&R #6/7, Pern Portfolio, The Best of Pon Farr, Phlegethon, Sol Plus #5, Pegasus #3, The Displaced, and Matter/Antimatter, see those pages
* there is a personal statement from Winston Howlett: 
* a fan is angry about a slam against fan writers: 
==Issue 10 (Nov/Dec 1978) ==
Scuttlebutt 	10 was published in November/December 1978 and contains 18 pages.
* there is a very lengthy personal statement from Barbara Wenk in which she blasts Paramount about the cease and desist letters that the editors of Dreadnought Explorations had received during the last year: 
* one zine ed writes that in two years, she has never had a financially bad experience with fan: "I am very, very proud of fandom. It is a pleasure to work with such people."
* several fans write in and complain of not receiving zines they've paid for, several zine eds write in and apologize for late zines, and everyone's wondering what the hell happened to D.T. Steiner. The editors write: "It has been many months since we last heard from her. There really isn't anything we can do about the situation, but if we do happen to hear from Diane, we will be sure and pass on the information onto all of you." 
* there are reviews of several pro publications: "Star Trek Tapes" by Jack M. Sell, the Bantam book "Vulcan!," and some Viewmaster color slides, and "The Official Star Trek Cooking Manual" (the latter with the subtitle is the cringeworthy: "From the Logbook of Nurse Christine Chapel") by Bantam
* there are reviews of The Other Side of Paradise #3, Star Canticle, Nexus #2, The Turbolift Review #2, Log Entries #17, and Variations on a Theme #1
==Issue 11 (Jan/Feb 1979) ==
Scuttlebutt 	11 was published in January/February 1979 and contains 20 pages.
* the editor of Side-Trekked apologizes for the delay in her zine; it is "still at the hands in the slowest printer in the world."
* this issues contains reviews of Star Trek Nuts & Bolts, Odyssey #2, Alpha Communicator, Berengaria #10, Alnitah #7 and #8, The Tale of Windy Hollow, Plak Tow, The Best of Amanda and Sarek, Enterprise Log Entries #20, Zap #3, Rising Star, Enterprise Incidents #2
* the editor of R & R writes: 
* a fan writes of his support of Battlestar Galactica: 
* Rayelle Roe writes a personal statement: 
* one fan writes a personal statement that cuts ties with two other fans and their zine: 
==Issue 12 (Mar/Apr 1979) ==
Scuttlebutt	12 was published in March/April 1979 and contains 20 pages.	
* the editors write that they received so many reviews that they only printed the ones from fans who'd never had one published before
* a fan in prison says he's allowed to only spend $15 a month which doesn't cover many zines, but if folks send him any as a donation, they must come directly from the publisher; he also wants some pen pals.
* a fan says thank you to the many fans who offered her "loan and xerox copies" of Zebra Three #1
* a fan, Sharon Emily, is "offering to review fanzines, be they Trek, Star Wars, SF, or any TV action-adventure shows. If she can't say anything good, she won't say anything at all. However, she thinks it should be understood that she is one of those 'bigots' who does not accept the Premise (the K/S homosexual relationship theory)."
* one interesting ad is for the Man from U.N.C.L.E. "book" by David McDaniel, called "The Final Affair" (online as a pdf here). It is for "a heretofore unpublished major Man from U.N.C.L.E. novel. Hardcover, currently limited to a 500 copy run. Send SASE for publication date and price to Gavin Claypool." The manuscript, part of the pro book series, is discussed here: "Ace’s Man From U.N.C.L.E. paperback series in the last sixties had twenty-three books before it was ended, David McDaniel’s novels were the best selling of all of them. He had six published and a seventh written that never made it to print, the series being canceled before he turned it in... McDaniels’ seventh novel, THE FINAL AFFAIR, was supposed to wrap up the series. For years, copies of the manuscript have been passed around among fans (I have one). Then it became available as a PDF file on the internet. One wonders if it will ever be converted to the Kindle, although I understand Amazon has finally okayed PDF programming in Kindles." An ad in the next issue of 'Scuttlebutt' calls it a "posthumous publication of his last novel." 
* there is much backlash regarding the letters about KlingCon, see that page
* a zine ed is upset that the editors of "Scuttlebutt" ran what he felt was a badly written, unhelpful, and terrible review of his zine Star Trek Nuts & Bolts
* this issue contains reviews of Enterprise Incidents #6, Innisfree, The Oracle Speaks #2, Archives #2, The Clipper Trade Ship #23, Mahko Root #2, Wine of Calvoro, Snow on the Moon, Currents, Sublight Reading #2, see those pages
* a fan says she has received an anonymous letter, while not the first, was the most disturbing. She says if she gets another one, she will be forwarded to all the letterzines and that the editors can decide if they should be pitched out or printed for everyone to read: 
* a fan writes that she heard two authors at the most recent WisCon, Suzy McKee Charnas and Elizabeth Lynn, denounce Star Trek and the Jacqueline Lichtenberg's books as being "popcorn" and: 
* the editors ask that no one sends money for too many issues: 
==Issue 13 (May/June 1979) ==
Scuttlebutt 13 was published in May/June 1979 and contains 15 pages. 
* the editors announce they are retiring the zine at the end of 1979, with issue #16: 
* Zebra Three #1 continues to be a hot item: another fan requests someone sell her copy
* about a dozen fans, which is about the usual number in other issues, announce change-of-addresses
* several fans are selling off their zines
* this issue contains reviews of Spin Dizzie #1 (1978), Warped Space #40, Deathdance, Fans, see those pages
==Issue 14 (July/Aug 1979) ==
Scuttlebutt 	14 was published in July/August 1979 and contains 20 pages.
* this issue contains an ad for The Kirk Spock Erotic Paper Doll Set and the Kirk Enslaved Poster
* there are many address changes for fans, one fan wants to buy all of the Star Trek episodes in BETA video cassette form ("name your price"), another fan wishes to purchase anyone's audio cassette recordings of Star Trek episodes ("high tonal quality preferred"), and another fan wants a copy of the Star Trek Poster Book #3 ("will pay mutually acceptable top dollar price")
* an eight-year old boy named Marky is looking for a pen-pal. His interests are "Kirk, Chekov, Tribbles, McCoy, Scotty (all but Spock), cars, and The Six Million Dollar Man."
* a fan proposes a letter campaign to bring back The Paper Chase
* a fan scolds another fan for not sending her the zines she paid for, telling him that, while she sympathized with his personal problems, he shouldn't have listed a zine a "available" five months before it was printed. She adds an addendum that, after eight months and four letters later, the zine, Captain Uhura, has finally arrived.
* this issue contains reviews of Innisfree, Warped Space #41, Rigel #4/5/6, Masiform D #8, IDIC #6, Sahaj Collected, Zebra Three #4, Naked Times #2, Currents #1, Right of Statement, Time Warp #3, ReVisions #2, The Mos Eisley Tribune #2, Matter/Antimatter #2, The Holmesian Federation, Canektion #1 and #1, The Oracle Speaks #1, #2, #3, Odyssey #3, and Bjo Trimble's science fiction pro-newsletter, Megamart see those pages
* a fan writes a personal statement asking zine eds to use better packaging to send zines in the mail
* a fan asks about Furaha: 
* a fan writes a personal statement regarding "editing": 
* there is a personal statement from one of Diamonds and Rust's writers: 
* a fan is trying to track down another fan who has refused to return her fannish belongings: 
==Issue 15 (Sept/Oct 1979) ==
Scuttlebutt	15 was published in September/October 1979 and contains 20 pages.
* a fan writes in support of the zine Enterprise Incidents: 
* Gerry Downes writes a personal statement saying that: real life challenges were causing her to cancel the sixth issue of Stardate: Unknown, and that she "hoped not to leave fandom entirely; there are too many nice people in it for one thing, but of necessity it will be long time before you hear from me again. Don't worry -- I haven't forgotten you." 
* this issue has reviews of Alien-ation, To See Thee Smile, New Alliance, The Perfect Object, Masiform D #9, Academy Chronicles #6 and #7, The Palantir #1, Axanar, In a Plain Brown Wrapper #1, The Web of Selagor, Intersect #1, see those pages
==Issue 16 (Nov/Dec 1979) ==
Scuttlebutt 	16 November/December 1979 and contains 16 pages.
* two fans alert others that another fan has had a "very bad accident while putting zines away on a high shelf... They fell and cut the cornea of her eye." This zine ed will therefore be unable to send out orders or letters for a while
* this issue contains reviews of some pro books, and the zines Captain Uhura, Nome #1, Fesarius #4, Plak Tow #2, see those pages
* a fan is selling some Starsky & Hutch stationery she has created
* the editors write: 
* a fan sends in a plea: 
* there is personal statement by Bev Volker, April Valentine, Nancy Kippax regarding to an "unauthorized sequel" to their story, The Rack: 
==References==
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