Jean Lorrah

Jean Lorrah is a writer and editor of fan fiction and pro novels who is frequently named in discussions of fans becoming pro-writers. 
Jean was also a frequent Guest of Honor at cons. 
She also had the dubious distinction of being specifically named in the infamous Open Letter by Mary Lou Regarding Explicit Fanworks. 
Jean was also a prolific commenter and often provided feedback to other writers. She has been noted by various individuals as being particularly welcoming and niceAsk the Author: RivkaT to newbies and encouraged others to create. 
Jean has a number of fandom 'firsts' to her name, including the first RPF story (Visit to a Weird Planet) and the first use of fandom-created punctuation to indicate telepathic conversation in a pro-book.
Her Star Trek writing includes the NTM-universe and Kraith. The first NTM-verse zine was The Night of the Twin Moons, published in 1976. 
Star Trek pro books by Jean Lorrah are: The Vulcan Academy Murders, The IDIC Epidemic, "Survivors", and "Metamorphosis."
Her collaborations with Jacqueline Lichtenberg include the Sime~Gen shared universe, in which both write profic novels. "All the work by Jacqueline Lichtenberg and Jean Lorrah revolves around themes of an "exchange of lifeforce." Both of them have written "traditional" vampire novels and stories (not in the Dracula vein), but their major work has been reinventing the vampire archetype in the Sime~Gen series." Lifeforce-L newlstter info They and their work were the subject of at least one fan club; The Alternate Universes Welcommittee.
Lorrah was one of the hosts of the Writing for Fanzines workshop and as recently as 2020 was still taking part in interviews and discussions of fandom.
==Fan Comments==
===2018===
From Steven H. Wilson: 
==Lorrah's Comments (2015): On Fandom, and Being a Fan==
==Considered "Her" Sarek and Amanda" to Be Penultimate==
Many fans praised Lorrah's Sarek/Amanda stories in The NTM Universe, and Lorrah embraced their adoration wholeheartedly. 
In 1978, Lorrah critiqued a story in an issue of Despatch, suggesting that it was inspired by her own universe: 
==Heavy Lies the Crown: The Heavy Burden and Responsibility of Being a Mentor==
In 1978, Lorrah schooled some zine editors, telling them they'd squandered an opportunity to be as good teacher as she was. She also offered up a list of BNFs, and included herself on it: 
==On Basing Her Characters on Other Fans' Characters==
From a 1978 letter by Lorrah in Despatch: 
From the 1995 essay, More Eroica Connections:
==Attitudes Toward Fanworks Based on Her Universes==
In 1989, Jean Lorrah explained why she didn't want other fans to write in some universes, but that other were fair game: 
==Interviews/Panels==
* Feminism in Trek Fan Lit with Sharon Ferraro (1976)
* Created Worlds panel track with "Night of the Twin Moons" (1977)
* Porno and Sex in ST (with Sharon Short, Melinda Shreve, Jackie Bielowicz) (1977)
* Spock Among the Women (1986)
* Creating Universes: A Writers' Panel: Winston A. Howlett, Jean Lorrah, and Pat Paul (1989)
* Writing for Fanzines (2003)
*Chat with Jean Lorrah, Jacqueline Lichtenberg, and Anne Phyllis Pinzow (2000)
*Living Star Trek: How Two Women Breathed New Life into the Franchise (2020)
* Interview with Jacqueline Lichtenberg and Jean Lorrah by Aya Katz (2021)
== Fanworks ==
=== Fanfiction ===
==== Star Trek ====
* Visit to a Weird Planet (Star Trek: TOS) (co-written with Willard F. Hunt, 1968) - considered one of the first RPFs
* Nuts! (1968)
*NTM Universe - Sarek/Amanda series (in chronological order)
** The Sensuous Thing to Do
**In a Bed of Stone (AU) (1976)
** The Tenth Night (1976)
** Time of Mating
**Full Moon Rising (1976)
** A Matter of Principle
** Ask the Right Question (1977)
**Domestic Scene with Sehlat (1976)
**The Ambassador's Nightmare (1976)
** Amanda of Vulcan (1979)
** Mother to Mother
** Among the Ways to Babel
**The Night of the Twin Moons (1976)
* Time of a New Beginning (1976)
* The Logic of Change (1976) - winner of Contact's writer's contest
* Touched (Star Trek: TOS story) (1976)
* ...Simple Song co-written with Sharon Emily (1976)
* Never and Always (1976)
* Epilogue (Sarek/Amanda, 1977-1978)
* Miranda Jones (1977)
* Parted from Me (1977)
* The Missing Lesson (1977)
* Logical Alternative (1977) - sequel to "Simple Song"
* The Warmth of a Touch (1977) - a Sahaj story
* Visit to an Alternate Universe (1979)
* Sarek's Meditation (1980) (Kraith Universe)
* Volumes of Forgotten Lore (1992) (Star Trek: TNG)
 
==== Dark Shadows ====
* Paradox Lost (1977)
==== House of Zeor ====
* Donation (1976)
* Puzzle co-written with Betty Herr (1976)
* Commitment (1977)
* First Transfer (poem) co-written with Jacqueline Lichtenberg (1978)
* Round Robin 1 by Eileen Ledbetter, Penny Ziegler, Joyce Peterson, Roberta Brown, Jim Passmore, Jean Lorrah, and Jacqueline Lichtenberg
* Summer Afternoon, America, 1978 (1980)
* The Starred-Cross (1980)
* Zelerod's Doom co-written with Jacqueline Lichtenberg (1984)
==== Blake's 7 ====
* Confession (1987)
* Dreams (1987)
* Trust, Like the Soul (1988)
* Dirty Feet and Might-have-beens (1988) - sequel to "Trust, Like the Soul")
* Ask Questions Later (1989)
* Homecoming (1990) - sequel to "The Mutoid" by Adrian Morgan and Brendan O'Cullane in Raising Hell #2
* Promises (1990)
==== Alien Nation ====
* Marked Men (Alien Nation) (1991)
=== Zines ===
==== Personal Anthologies ====
* The Night of the Twin Moons (1976)
* Full Moon Rising ‎(1976)
* Parted from Me and Other Stories (1977)
* Epilogue (Star Trek: TOS zine) (gen and het Star Trek: TOS set of novels, 2 issues, 1977-1978)
* NTM Collected (1978-1979)
* Jean Lorrah's Sarek Collection (1979)
* Trust, Like the Soul (1988)
* Volumes of Forgotten Lore (1992) (Star Trek: TNG)
==== As Editor ====
* Avon the Terrible (Blake's 7 anthology) (editor 1990)
* Sardonac (Alien Nation anthology) (editor, 1991)
* To the Fullest X-Tent (X-Files zine) (editor 1995-1997)
* Lifeforce-L (mailing list created by Jacqueline Lichtenberg and Jean Lorrah for discussion of their work (2000s)
==== As Contributor ====
* ST-Phile (Issue 2, 1968)
* Triskelion (Issue 1, 1968; Issue 2, 1968; Issue 3, 1969; Issue 5, 1971; Issue 5, 1976)
* Spockanalia (Issue #2 1968)
** The Free Enterprise by Lois McMaster (a humorous piece, claimed to be the underground newspaper for the Enterprise, a publication circulated by the crew. Sample articles: "Is There Really a Bridge?" and "Does Engineering Exist?") Contributors include Jean Lorrah, Susan Hereford, Joyce Yasner, and Deborah Langsam.
* Spockanalia (Issue #3, 1968) 
* Spockanalia (Issue #4, 1969)
** "Crank Letter "
* Masiform D (Issue 1, 1971; Issue 5, 1976) 
* The Halkan Council (Issue 13, 1975)
* Introduction to Star Trek Fanzines (1975)
* Contact (Star Trek: TOS zine) (Issue 2, 1976)
* Grup (Issue #5, 1976)
* Despatch (Issue 29, 1976)
* The World of Dark Shadows (Issue 20, 1976)
* A Piece of the Action (Issue 44, 1976; Issue 64, 1978; Issue 66, 1978; Issue 80, 1980)
* Warped Space (Issue 16, 1976; Issue 26/27, 1977; Issue 29/30, 1977; 
* Ambrov Zeor! (Issue 1, 1976; Issue 2, 1976; Issue 3, 1976; Issue 5, 1977; Issue 6, 1978; Issue 11, 1980; Issue 18 1990)
*R & R (Star Trek: TOS zine) (Issue 1, 1976; Issue 2, 1976; Issue 3, 1977; Issue 12, 1980)
* The Best of... (Issue 3, 1977; Issue 4, 1978)
* Sol Plus (Issue 3, 1976; Issue 4, 1977)
* Showcase (Issue 3, 1976; Issue 4, 1977)
* Interphase (Issue 4, 1977)
* Fesarius (Issue 2, 1977)
* Furaha (Issue 5, 1977)
* Who's Who in Star Trek Fandom (1977)
* T-Negative (Issues 32/33, 1977; Issues 34/35, 1979)
* IDIC (Issue 6, 1978)
* Right of Statement (Issue 1, 1978; Issue 2, 1978; Issue 3, 1979)
* Archives (Star Trek: TOS zine) (Issue 1, 1978; Issue 5, 1980; Issue 6. 1982)
* A Companion in Zeor (Issue 1, 1978; Issue 2, 1978; Issue 3 1979; Issue 4, 1979; Issue 5, 1980; Issue 11, 1994; Issue 14, 2000-2001)
* Stardate: Unknown (Issue 5, 1979)
* Kraith Collected (Volume 6, 1980) 
* Dracula (1980 zine)
* Zeor Forum (Issue 1, 1980; Issue 2, 1980; Issue 3, 1980; Issue 4, 1982; Issue 5, 1984)
* Computer Playback (Issue 5, 1981)
* Destiny (Blake's 7 zine) (1981)
* The Women's List (Issue 2, 1986)
* Raising Hell (Blake's 7 zine) (Issue 1, 1987; Issue 2, 1988; Issue 3, 1990)
* Southern Seven (Issue 4, 1987)
* Probability Square (1989)
* Wulfstone (1989)
* Contagion (zine) (Issue 1, 1992)
* Companions in Chaos (Issue 2, 1995) 
==== Letters of Comment ====
* Warped Space (Issue 11, 1975; Issue 15, 1976; Issue 24, 1977)
* The Halkan Council (Issue 17, 1976)
* Menagerie (Issue 9, 1976) - feedback on The Logical Conclusion
* Menagerie (Issue 11, 1977)
* Scuttlebutt (Issue 3, 1977)
* Atavachron (Star Trek: TOS letterzine) (Issue 1, 1978)
* Interstat (Issue 20, 1979; Issue 24, 1979; Issue 25, 1979; Issue 27, 1980; Issue 31, 1980; Issue 35, 1980; Issue 39, 1981; Issue 43, 1981; Issue 46, 1981; Issue 70, 1983; Issue 79, 1984; Issue 85, 1984; Issue 123, 1988; Issue 131/132, 1988; Issue 133, 1988; Issue 134, 1988; Issue 136, 1989; Issue 141/142, 1989; Issue 146, 1989; Issue 147, 1990; Issue 151/152, 1991)
* Ambrov Zeor! (Issue 8, 1979)
* Datazine (Issue 6, 1980)
* BeNiF (1982)
* STARLink (Issue 2, 1991) 
== Essays ==
===Star Trek===
* D.C. Fontana is a Romulan Agent (1968) Triskelion #2
* "On the Original of Humanoid Life in Our Galaxy" essay by Jean Lorrah and Willard F. Hunt (1968) Spockanalia Issue #2
* The Unity of 'Operation:Annihilate' (answer to Ruth Berman's discussion of the rapidly changing moods in that story) (1968) ST-Phile Issue 2
* "The Vulcan Character in Night of the Twin Moons" (1976) The Halkan Council/Issues 20/21
* Care to Debate That? Vulcan Sexuality in the Night of the Twin Moons Universe (1977) R & R Issue 3 
* Crew Fantasia reponse - Chapel (1977) Interphase Issue 4
* Explanation of copyright law re fanfiction (1978) A Piece of the Action, Issue 64 
* Update re copyright law (1978) A Piece of the Action, Issue 66
* How about a discussion of one of everybody's favorite topics: money? (1978) Right of Statement Issue 1
* Copyright: at the moment we are stuck with what the Library of Congress says (1978) Right of Statement Issue 2
* rebuttal to Care to Debate That? The K/S Relationship... Con (1980) R & R Issue 12 
===Sime~Gen===
* All from Essays.
** The Development of First Channel (first published "A Companion in Zeor" #1, June 1978)
**Son of First Channel (first published in a "A Companion in Zeor" #3, November 1978)
**The Man Who Came To... (first published in A Companion in Zeor #3, 1979)
**The Expanding Universe (first published in "A Companion in Zeor" #4, May 1979)
**What-- Another New Universe? (first published in A Companion in Zeor #4, May 1979)
**The Case of the One-armed Donor (1980)
**Of Wer-Gens and Red Killer Whales (1980)
**Zelerod's Doom: AN OUTLINE FOR A NOVEL (1984)
* Other Sources
**Male Chauvinism in "House of Zeor", a series of four letters, an exchange of letters between Jean Lorrah and Jacqueline Lichtenberg (1976) Ambrov Zeor! Issue 1
** In Defense of Next Tuesday (1976) Ambrov Zeor! Issue 2
** Tigue Family Tree (1977) Ambrov Zeor! Issue 5
** Letters exchanged between Jean Lorrah and Jacqueline Lichtenberg (1990) Ambrov Zeor! Issue 18
** The Development of First Channel A Companion in Zeor (1978) Issue 1
** Son of First Channel A Companion in Zeor (1978) Issue 2
** "Cassandra Rising" - book review A Companion in Zeor (1978) Issue 2
** The Man Who Came To... A Companion in Zeor (1979) Issue 3
** The Expanding Universe, professional book update A Companion in Zeor (1979) Issue 4
** What-- Another New Universe? A Companion in Zeor (1979) Issue 4
** Distect vs. Tecton, part II (continuation of the discussion begun in A Companion in Zeor #4) (1980) Zeor Forum Issue 1
** What Do You Mean, Gens Can’t Learn Simelan by Jean Lorrah, Jacqueline Lichtenberg, C.J. Cherryh (1980) Zeor Forum Issue 1
** The Case of the One-Armed Donor (1980) Zeor Forum Issue 2
** Of Wer-Gens and Red Killer Whales (1980) Zeor Forum Issue 3
** The Great Gay Channel Controversy (1985) Post-Syndrome: Considerations on Sexuality in the Sime/Gen Universe Issue 1
** 'Slash' Fiction - In Search of a Definition (2005)
=== Other ===
*Ray Bradbury and the A.T.T. (1971) Masiform D Issue 1
* More Eroica Connections (1995) Companions in Chaos #2 (From Eroica With Love)
* Dracula Meets The New Woman (1980) Dracula (1980 zine) (Dracula)
== Convention Attendances ==
* SeKWester*Con (panellist, 1976, 1977)
* August Party (GoH 1977)
* Alamo City Con (GOH 1977)
* 1977 Philadelphia Schuster Star Trek Convention (panellist)
* Shuttlecon Columbus (1978)
* Sci-Con (GOH 1979)
* Augustrek (GOH 1980)
* Rebellion (GOH 1980)
* Shore Leave 4 (GOH 1982)
* Starship Cincinnati (1983)
* MediaWest*Con/MediaWest*Con 1987 (readings)
*Dixie Trek (GOH 1990)
* Contagion 2 (GOH 1992)
* International Association of the Fantastic in the Arts (chair, 1994)
* MediaWest*Con/MediaWest*Con 1999 (panellist)
* MediaWest*Con/MediaWest*Con 2005 (panellist)
* MediaWest*Con/MediaWest*Con 2007 (panellist)
* MediaWest*Con/MediaWest*Con 2008 (panellist)
== Professional Works ==
* Sime~Gen Series
 
* The Keeper's Price (1980) ("The Answer" with Jacqueline Lichtenberg)
* Savage Empire Series 
 
* The Vulcan Academy Murders (1984) (Star Trek: TOS)
* The IDIC Epidemic (1988) (Star Trek: TOS)
* Survivors (1989) (Star Trek: TNG)
* Metamorphosis (1990) (Star Trek: TNG)
==References==
Category:Science Fiction Authors
Category:Fanwriters