The Sensuous Vulcan

The Sensuous Vulcan is a het and slash Star Trek: TOS 150-page anthology edited by Diane Steiner and Kay Houston.
==Long in the Planning==
In fall 1975, Kay Houston mentioned this zine: 
==The Slash Content==
It contains four VERY early slash stories; Desert Heat, Long Way Home, Cooling One's Heels, and Interlude. The poem "Nova" by Barbara Richley is not overtly slash if it were read without the art, but the illo accompanying it by Diane Marchant quite clearly depicts a physical sexual relationship between Spock and Kirk.
 
==Many Fans Had to Wait a Long Time for Delivery==
From the zine news section of the September 1979 issue of Warped Space: "Diane Steiner has announced that she is fulfilling all orders for SENSUOUS VULCAN, but that her printer would not release all copies until the printing bill was paid for. If you're still missing your copy, you might try writing Diane..."
 
==From the Editorial==
===The Journey===
===Regarding How Long This Zine Took to Create===
===Regarding Leonard Nimoy and the Movie===
===General Comments on the Zine Contents===
===Specific Comments on the Zine's Contents===
===The Cost of the Zine===
==Some Controversy Regarding a Story: Valjn'd'jt to Val'jn'jt -- The Universe Becomes Fanon==
 
 
A fan wrote a story and used (without permission) the term, "Valjn'd'jt", a fanon creation by Leslye Lilker While Karen had asked for permission from Lilker, and was led to understand it was Lilker's term, not all fans made that connection. Like Kraith and other popular fan-created universes, the Sahaj Universe spawned much fanon, and even the fans had a hard time keeping it straight. 
In 1978, Lilker wrote a personal statement to Warped Space: 
Lilker had plans for a later story: 
In the end, it wasn't Lilker who wrote "Nivar to a Desert Rose," but Juanita Salicrup: in The Other Side of Paradise: 
In 1980, when a fan used Leslye Lilker's term in a story, the fan and the editor of the zine it appeared in had to apologize. "In "And God Against All" In R&R XII, Collette Mak used the term, Valjn'd'jt, which is a term coined by Leslye Lilker for the Sahaj universe. Collette thought it was one of the usual terms in Treklit. I knew it was Leslye's, but I missed it. Both Collette and I apologize; the term is Leslye's, and our use of it was unauthorized." from the editorial of R & R #14 
A fan, Claire Cooper, utilized Sahaj and Valjn'd'jt in her two 1983 stories in the Australian zine series Spock. They were "To Return Again..." in #30 and "As Would I For You" in #32. 
In August 2015, Leslye Lilker added to Fanlore: "Apologies to Collette Mak. 40 years ago I was a real jerk. I should have been honored that Collette thought enough of the term to use it. Besides, I didn't create it. It was given to me by Trinette Kern. The place is Val'jn'jt these days, and if you use it -- well, thanks. added to Fanlore by L. Lilker 8/2015. 
==Zine Contents==
The artwork is by Alan Andres, Clare Bell, Pat Bradshaw, Linda Cappel, Edith Crowe, Merle Decker, Gerry Downes, Mary Emerson, Amy Falkowitz, Gayle F., Karen Flanery, Leslie Fish, Doug Herring, Virginia Jacobsen, Alice Jones, Signe Landon, Nan Lewis, Diane Marchant, Gee Moaven, Kathy Penland, Marty Siegrist, Laurraine Tutihasi, and Joni Wagner.
* Nightingale Woman, poem by D. T. Steiner (2)
* There's Always Self-Abuse: Editorial (3)
* Vulcan Bride, story by Johanna Cantor (reprinted in Relay #1) (7)
* Just Desserts, story by Alice Thompson (11)
* Long Way Home, Kirk/Spock story by Eileen Roy (reprinted in Relay #1) (14) 
* Kirk's Plea, poem by Ellen L. Kobrin (19)
* The Way of a Warrior, story by Karen Lewis (There was controversy regarding this story.) (38)
* Loving Commands, poem by Gerry Downes (39)
* The Changeling, story by Lora Rene (40)
* Nil Desperandum, story by Frankie Jemison (45)
* Thy Gracious Dews of Solace, story by Juanita Salicrup (46)
* The Prisoner, poem by Sandra Gent (64)
* Mr. Spock... Would You Care To Dance?, story by Toni Cardinal (reprinted in Relay #1) (65)
* Poetry by Frankie Jemison (69)
* Nightmare in Black, story by Bren Harper (70)
* Desert Heat, Kirk/Spock story by Gayle F. (As he is left to gather up a scientist and his experiments, Spock enters pon farr with Kirk the only other person on the planet. The sequel is Beyond Setarcos. ("Desert Heat" is an early, influential K/S slash pon farr story... and the first in the Cosmic Fuck Series and later in Naked Times #2. Desert Heat was first published in The Sensuous Vulcan in 1977, but was written and circulated hand-to-hand earlier.The Foresmutters Project. Bibliography of early, early K/S (accessed 31 August 2009)) (83)
* Nova, poem by Barbara Richley (93)
* The Joy Bringer, story by Clare Bell (part of The Elder Brother universe) (94)
* Bonded Couple: First Pon Farr illo and poem by Amy Falkowitz (not listed in the table of contents) (115)
* The Blooming, poem by Frankie Jemison (116)
* An Economy of Memories, story by C.R. Faddis. gen (Kirk, Spock and McCoy are tricked into mating with a hideous creature by its keepers who get away with it by blackmailing Spock, the only one of the three who remembers the attack.) (also in Nome #7) (118)
* Disputation, poem by Jane Aumerle (128)
* Speak to Me, poem by Barbara Richley (128)
* Cooling One's Heels, Kirk/Spock story by Leslie Fish (a sequel to Shelter and Poses) (129)
* Haiku, poem by Frankie Jemison (132)
* Credo, poem by Jane Aumerle (132)
* When Legends Fall Silent, story by Karen Louis (133)
* Dreams Are Illusions and On a Distant Shore, poem by Sandra Gent (140)
* Cheap Thrills: Limericks by Steiner, Lubkin [Leslye Lilker's husband], Kobrin (141)
* Interlude, Kirk/Spock story by Maggie McClendon. During R&R on the planet, Andrion, Kirk and Spock discover and explore an until now unadmitted attraction to one other. (142)
==Sample Art==
File:Sensmarchant.jpg|art by Diane Marchant
File:Sens-23.jpg|by Diane Marchant
File:Sens-3.jpg|by Edith Crowe, from the editorial
File:Sens-4.jpg|by Gee Moaven from "Nightingale Woman"
File:Sens-5.jpg|by Laurraine Tutihasi for "Vulcan Bride"
File:Sens1.jpg|by Leslie Fish for "Just Desserts"
File:Sens2.jpg|by Alice Jones for "The Gracious Dews of Solace"
File:Sens-9.jpg|by Alice Jones for "The Gracious Dews of Solace"
File:Sens-10.jpg|by Alice Jones for "The Gracious Dews of Solace"
File:Sens3.jpg|by Joni Wagner, Kirk and Miramanee
File:Sens4.jpg|by Karen Flanery, inside back cover
File:St sens vulcan interior by gayle f.jpg|by Gayle F for "An Economy of Memories"
File:Sens-22.jpg|by Gayle F for "An Economy of Memories"
File:Sens6.jpg|by Marty Siegrist for "The Way of a Warrior"
File:Sens-6.jpg|by Marty Siegrist for "The Way of a Warrior"
File:Sens7.jpg|by Signe Landon for "The Way of a Warrior"
File:Sens-7.jpg|by Linda Cappel for "The Changeling"
File:Sens-8.jpg|by Nan Lewis for "nil desperandum"
File:Sens-11.jpg|by Nan Lewis for "Mr. Spock... Would You Care To Dance?"
File:Sens-12.jpg|by Merle Decker for "Nightmare in Black"
File:Sens5.jpg|by Gayle F for "Desert Heat"
File:Sens-13.jpg|by Gayle F for "Desert Heat"
File:Sens-14.jpg|by Gayle F for "Desert Heat"
File:Sens-15.jpg|by Gayle F for "Desert Heat"
File:Sens-16.jpg|by Clare Bell for "The Joy Bringer"
File:Sens-17.jpg|by Clare Bell for "The Joy Bringer"
File:Sens-18.jpg|by Amy Falkowitz for "Bonded Couple: First Pon Farr"
File:Sens-19.jpg|by Marty Siegrist for "When Legends Fall Silent"
File:Sens-20.jpg|by Merle Decker for "Interlude"
File:Sens-21.jpg|by Gerry Downes for "Interlude"
File:Sens-24.jpg|by Nan Lewis
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==References==
Category:Star Trek TOS Slash Zines
Category:Star Trek TOS Gen and Het Anthology Zines
Category:1977 Zines