The K/S Press/Issues 051-060

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==The K/S Press 51 (November 2000)==
* contains 30 pages
* has LoCs for fiction A Day in the City, And We Fall in Love, All This Time, The Double Bind, Enemy Mine, Home Again, Forget, The Marriage, Nepenthe, Miles to Go Before I Sleep, Odyssey, Once and For All, Pacing the Cage, Parted and Forever Parted, A Private Mission, Rain, River Rising, Sadness, Loss and Love, Save Water, Sweet Talk, Time is the Fire, Trial, The Tribble with Troubles from the zines The Sound of Rain, Amazing Grace #4, Beyond Dreams #1, #2, Charisma #9, First Time #12, #50, #51, Off Duty #2, T'hy'la #10, #11, see those pages
* a reminder of the deadline under threat of Shelley Butler, "The Enforcer" and "her infamous blue velvet poodles."
* some thank yous to fans who'd renewed their subscriptions and also donated money
* a reader agrees with another that '"Jenna and Shelley need some kind of award for 'balls,' for going into these copy places with their explicit K/S stuff."
* discussion about whether Kirk would say "fuck"
* a reader comments that the first person/present tense is a format that online stories seem to favor
* an excerpt from an online article about the "copyright" of actors' voices and "The Cheers Case"
* an ad asking for the location of some specific works of art
* "Heartbeats," fan bio for [G F]
* a reader comments: 
* reader remembers the photonovels: 
==The K/S Press 52 (December 2000)==
* contains 32 pages
* has LoCs for fiction Actions Speak Louder, Backrub, As Others See Us, The Diver, Enterprise Roulette, The Healing, The Heat, In Celebration, Home Again, K/S Generations, The Letter, Love Is, Rain, Tirizandi, Save Water, The Valley of Love and Delight, Venus Descending, When Rain Comes in the zines As I Do Thee #21, Amazing Grace #4, Beyond Dreams #1, Fever #1, #2, First Time #11, #42, #45, #51, Kaleidoscope #3, Splendor, T'hy'la #21, see those pages
* the editors note that you can now pay for your subscription with Pay Pal
* fan writes an entertaining account of her experiences trying to sell her zine collection in the essay, "I Was a Zine Sale Virgin." In it, she recounts horrors with the U.S. Postal service, how the internet has changed zine sales, how to price zines, how to account for postage, how to describe your zines, and many other similar subjects. In the end, it took her 2 years to sell 144 zines.
* a notice that a fellow fan, [J B] has passed on, along with a written memorial by a friend
* an eloquent short essay on "why I write K/S"
* some discussion on the writing process and did others want there to be more of this topic in future letterzine issues
* the editors note that it's been a while since they've printed an age statement: 
* a fan says that Jim Rondeau has just posted a list of zines for sale on the internet: 
* a notice that Gerry Downes, one of the first K/S writers, passed away on November 22, 2000, along with a nice memorial about her contributions to K/S. Included were these words: 
* the editor of Festival explains the zine’s origins: 
* a query: 
==The K/S Press 53 (January 2001)==
* contains 34 pages
* has LoCs for fiction ComeupPANce, Forbidden Colors, The Date, They are Immortal, All Those Stars, Winds of Chance from the zines Amazing Grace #4, Beyond Dreams #2, Fever #2, Setting Course, T'hy'la #21, see those pages
* detailed information about KiScon
* a 2000 Philon ballot
* the editors note how some specifics of fandom have changed over the years: 
* a reader comments about the tribute to Gerry Downes in a previous issue: 
* a reader has made the move to a new fandom: 
* a fan talks about “custom bears”: 
==The K/S Press 54 (February 2001)==
* contains 35 pages
* has LoCs for fiction The Bond, Echoes of Forever, Games, The Captain's Needs, Heartstrings, Life Lines, La Ronde, Lord of the Dance, Lost Sailor, Morning Dew, Ripple, Sadness, Loss and Love, Ravage, Thoughts: Letting Go, Tirizandi Voyages, The Word Withheld, Worlds Apart from the zines Naked Times #14, #17, First Time #38, #51, Cheap Thrills #1, Songs of the Dirhja, T'hy'la #21, Festival, Worlds Apart, Nome #8, see those pages
* a fan says she thinks the food synthesizers could come up with vegetarian food for Vulcans and others than boring salads
* there is much discussion about what makes a story a “Spock story” or a “Kirk story”
* an announcement that KiScon is looking for zines for the orphan zine table
* the editors write: 
* a reader comments on a story: 
* a reader writes of LoCs that backfired: 
* a fan writes of her early day paranoia: 
* the change with art and computers: 
* a well-known and prolific artist makes this comment about art and the internet: 
* a reader notes that Orion Press is changing its Star Trek options: 
==The K/S Press 55 (March 2001)==
* contains 40 pages
* has LoCs for fiction Beneath the Sands of Gri'Alon, The Fragile Bottle, Catalysis, Home, Going Public, Lady Amanda, Lord of the Dance, Making a Captain, Remember Me, Sadness, Loss and Love, The Same Mistake, The Sting, Thoughts: Letting Go, To Journey's End, The Valley of Love and Delight, The Unknown Quantity, Voyages, The Word Withheld from the zines Naked Times #13, #14, #20, As I Do Thee #13, #16, T'hy'la #21, First Time #51, Festival, see those pages
* excerpt from "Beneath the Sands of Gri'alon" by Dovya Blacque in As I Do Thee #13
* a comment about art: 
* a comment about zines losing their popularity: 
* an artist talks of photo manipulations and art: 
* an artist ponders whether making photo manips is ethical: 
* a comment on the rise of photo manips and graphic nudity: 
==The K/S Press 56 (April 2001)==
* contains 39 pages
* has LoCs for fiction An Anguish to Pay, The Body's Treason, Catharsis, But Never Parted, Dreamweaver, Echoes, Lessons, Lost Sailor, Ripple, Golden Silences, A Matter of Trust, Personal Devil, The Missing Piece, Sing the Tune, This Dialogue of One, The Word Withheld, The World Turned Upside Down in the zines Year of the Ram, Festival, First Time #40, #52, Matter/Antimatter #3/4, Naked Times #1, Scattered Stars #2, T'hy'la #19, see those pages
* announcement of Philon winners
* includes a Kiscon con report by Dusky, Linda W., Karen P, [K S], Shelley Butler, Jenna
* an interview with Mary Sweeney who won an honorable mention for her story in the published anthology "Strange New Worlds IV."
* a fan encourages others to go back and re-read some older K/S fic. She recounts an anthology of stories by Ginna La Croix called "Encore": 
* more thoughts on the new photo manips: 
==The K/S Press 57 (May 2001)==
* contains 42 pages
* has LoCs for fiction An Act of Salvation, Communication, Debriefing, A Deltan Dilemma, The Flavor of Gold, A Doctor's Tale, Fruits and Nuts, Into the Light, Hour of Freedom, Just a Kiss, A Midsummers Night's Dream, The Necessary Meld, Players in the Game, "No Brighter Moment", The Power of Suggestion, Paradise?, Reaching Eden, Ritual, Remember Me, Sound of Heartbeats, To End is to Make a Beginning, To Serve, To Dance with a Warrior, The Touch of Your Hand, The Valley of Love and Delight, Whatever Thou Wouldst Crave, Untouched, When Fate Summons, When Rain Comes from the zines Beyond Dreams #3, First Time #37, #45, #46, Kaleidoscope #2, Legends, Naked Times #7, Nome #10, T'hy'la#17, #21, When Fate Summons, see those pages
* the editors hoped, if they could figure out the digital camera, there'd be photos from KiScon
* a Heartbeats bio from Linda B.
* some con reports for KiScon
* some fans describe what they did on K/S Day
* a fan brings up "the panel on pornography at KiScon: 
* a fan comments on another fan's observation: 
* a fan is a little frustrated: 
* a fan says about reviews and LoCs: 
* a frequent contributer offers a: 
* of photo manips and composites: 
* a fan wears her Star Trek uniform for the costume contest at KiScon and gets a reaction in the hallway: 
* a British fan makes an KiScon observation: 
==The K/S Press 58 (June 2001)==
* contains 41 pages
* has LoCs from fiction Acceptance, The Awakening, Along the Way, But Never Parted, Contemplations, Dilithium Dreams, Duet for One Voice, The Edge of the World, Dark Star, The Gol Letters, Just a Kiss, One Winged Angels, The Necessary Meld, Remember Me, Ritual, Standing in the Shadows, Second Time, Test of Faith, Someone to Watch Over Thee, The Things I Cannot Change, Things That Go Bump in the Night, To Dance with a Warrior, The Valley of Love and Delight, Whatever Thou Wouldst Crave, To Dance with a Warrior, Transparent, What Has Always Been Between Us, The World Turned Upside Down in the zines As I Do Thee #15, #16, KaleidoScope #3, #5, Festival, Courts of Honor, Naked Times #18, #21, Legends, KiScon Zine 2001, Scattered Stars #7, #12, T'hy'la #15, #20, #21, Beyond Dreams #3, Standing in the Shadows, First Time #49, #52, Festival, see those pages
* many KiScon con reports
* an excerpt from Nome #8, "And Never Parted" part three by Elwyn Conway
* a fan suggests that others look at Kirk's erection/pants in the episode "The Apple"
* in a rare mention of other fandoms, a fan says she was an avid K/S zine collector but had to sell her collection to make way for her Blake's 7 zine collection
* the editors write: 
* a fan tells of some correspondence from Gerry Downes shortly before she died: 
* a fan disagrees, "sort of," with a fan's praise of internet fiction in the previous episode: 
* a fan ruminates on a theory she heard "some years ago" on switching allegiances: 
* a reader wishes the letterzine would provide a section on listing K/S websites as this would be helpful: 
* a fan in Puerto Rico discovers a whole new world: 
* fan is confused by the Internet: 
==The K/S Press 59 (July 2001)==
* contains 38 pages
* has LoCs for fiction And We Fall in Love, Bet, Dilithium Dreams, The Body's Treason, Enemy Mine, Fire and Rain, Ever Warm, Forbidden Colors, Getting to Know, Keeping Secrets, Just a Kiss, Losing Myself in You, A Meal to Remember, Mirror Mirror Mirror, The Love Song of Lt. Commander Spock, A Moment's Surrender, The Necessary Meld, Night Lessons, Pacing the Cage, Personal Devil, Rejected Tryst, Present Tense, Future Perfect, Sharing the Sunlight, Save a Prayer, Snowman, To Defy the Night, Together in the Afternoon, That of Which We Do Not Speak, Transfer of Affection, Up to Something, Voyages, Wednesday's Child, Bitter Circle, What Can I Offer? in the zines Beyond Dreams #1, #2, The KiScon Zine #2, Legends, Matter/Antimatter #3/4, Within the Mirror #13, Naked Times #17, Festival, Charisma #17, Encore, First Time #52, T'hy'la #21, see those pages
* con organizer tells of her attempts to find a bakery that would make her explicit erotic cake and how she succeeded as well as purchasing the two large dildos and a pornographic sports bottle used in the play “CinderSpock.”
* includes a list of online K/S sites and comments/reviews of them
* a reprint of an article in the Los Angeles Times: “Fandom’s Final Frontier: Homoerotic Literature” by Mary McNamara
* A writer, [D B], says: 
* a zine publisher says: 
* a fan says she fell for Spock hard as a child, and as she grew older she: 
* where to put all the zines?! a reader says: 
* a fan writes of her earlier years: 
* a zine publisher, with her arm in a cast, has a collating party with her husband (a man who she says should get a medal.) They were sitting at the table: 
==The K/S Press 60 (August 2001)==
* contains 45 pages
* has LoCs for the fiction The Assessment, Bet, ComeupPANce, Bargains, Destiny's Way, The Extremists, Dracus, I Told You So, Lost Sailor, Odds and Abbs, Mirror Mirror Mirror, P.R., Ripple, The Same Mistake, "Report from the Rim", Sweet Surrender, Thicker Than Blood, Thoughts: Letting Go, The World Turned Upside Down, the Time Between, Voyages, Yesterday, Today, and Tomorrow, see those pages
* on why do some K/Sers start out as Spock lovers and end up loving Kirk more: 
* on obsession: 
* a fan comments on favorite characters: 
* a fan thanks another for some internet info: 
* a fan is amazed at a new world: 
* a fan congratulates another one on her determination: 
* a fan writes: 
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