Leslie Fish

Leslie Fish is probably best known for her filksong writing and singing, but she was well represented in early Star Trek zines as well, writing columns for Interstat and other letterzines, writing The Weight Collected (an enormous gen Trek story, originally serialized in Warped Space), and writing early K/S.
In 2018, Leslie Fish offered the following blanket permission: 
 
==Notable Fanworks==
 
* Hope Eyrie
* Banned from Argo
* Descensus Averno
* The Horse-Tamer's Daughter
* Poses
* Pushin' the Odds
* The Sight of Kollos (1976)
* Sunset and Evening Star
* Shelter
* This Deadly Innocence, Or The End of the Hurt/Comfort Syndrome
* The Weight
 
==Interviews==
* Enterprise Incidents Interview with Leslie Fish (1980)
* Where Are They Now: Leslie Fish (1988)
* Legacy Interview with Leslie Fish (2007)
* Pubwages Interview with Leslie Fish (2011)
* Media Fandom Oral History Project Interview with Leslie Fish (2017)
==Meta by Fish==
* Why Star Trek? (1976)
* Care to Debate That? (Rebuttals to the Arguments Against The K/S Relationship) (1977)
* Feminism (Or the Lack of It) in Trek-Lit (1980)
==Highlander==
There was 2004 controversy regarding Fish, unauthorized sequels, which involved fan Tritorella, and more in the Highlander fandom. 
From Diana Williams: 
* When Fandoms Collide or BNF's Attack (2004) 
* Our Absinthe Friends - Internet Paranoia (2004)
== As a Filker ==
She has written hundreds of songs, including The Horse-Tamer's Daughter; Hope Eyrie, about the Apollo 11 moon landing; and Banned From Argo, about the crew of the starship Enterprise on shore leave. Her songs inspire strong, active emotions—outrage, joy, humor, or determination.
She wrote her first filksong, "Fellowship Going South," in 1963, in the Lord of the Rings fandom. In 1969, Leslie began writing the filksong, "Hope Eyrie" (a.k.a. "The Eagle Has Landed"), which took six years to complete.
Leslie has recorded two albums of space and Star Trek songs with her band, The Dehorn Crew: Folk Songs For Folk Who Ain't Even Been Yet (1976) and Solar Sailors (1977), along with Carol Shuttleworth, which includes "Banned from Argo". Fish has received three Pegasus Awards and was elected to the Filk Hall of Fame in 1995 as one of the first inductees.
She usually attends filksings with a 12-stringed guitar named "Monster" and a large bottle of something alcoholic with a label that says "Bard Oil," and always has a knife on her, whether you can see it or not.
She published a zine of lyrics and chords for filk material named "The Incomplete Leslie Fish".
Her thoughts on Banned from Argo: 
==As an Artist==
Leslie's artwork has been included on Fanlore with her permission.
Leslie answered a number of questions about her art in a 2007 article, Dribbling Scribbling Women: The History of Our Art. Some excerpts:
== As a K/S Advocate and Writer ==
During the K/S wars in the late '70s-early '80s, Leslie was a passionate supporter of K/S, writing a column in Interstat and sending LoCs to other Trek zines of the time defending fans' rights to write K/S, and even taking to task those who didn't believe that Kirk and Spock were lovers. She wrote some of the first works that crossed the line from gen to slash.slytherin_gypsy, This Deadly Innocence by Leslie Fish (PG-13), May 20, 2008. Post in lj community epic_recs. Shelter, (published in Warped Space #20), is one of these stories. Her K/S slash is included in the ksarchive.com, as well as Foresmutters project.This Deadly Innocence, or The End of the Hurt/Comfort Syndrome, story. She's also a writer of fantasy in several fandoms, and has collaborated with Mercedes Lackey on several projects, both filk and prose.
* Shelter, by Leslie Fish, Commentary & Historical Background by Mary Ellen Curtin
* Poses, sequel to Shelter, by Leslie Fish and Joanne Agostino, Commentary & Historical Background by Mary Ellen Curtin
From Judith Gran at the The Foresmutters Project:
From Leslie Herself:
In a letter to James Van Hise (editor of Enterprise Incidents) on June 6, 1978, Leslie wrote:
Leslie also wrote: 
 
==Zines: Fiction, Non-Fiction, Art, Poems==
 
* Alpha Continuum
* As I Do Thee
* Beyond Orion
* The Compleat Dirtie Nellie
* Contact
* Enterprise Incidents
* Fantasia 
* Fantazy
* Farthest Star 
* Fesarius
* First Time 
* Galactic Discourse 
* IDIC 
* Impact 
* Infinite Diversity
* Interphase 
* Interstat 
* It Takes Time on Impulse 
* K/S Relay
* A Kind of Magic 
* Legacy 
* Mahko Root 
* Matter/Antimatter 
* Mirage 
* Naked Times 
* Nome 
* Obsc'zine 
* On the Edge 
* One Trek Mind 
* The Other Side of Paradise 
* Outrider 
* Paradise 
* Pegasus 
* The Price and The Prize 
* Pushin' the Odds 
* R & R 
* Rec Room Rhymes 
* Relay 
* Sehlat's Roar 
* The Sensuous Vulcan 
* Sol Plus 
* Southern Star 
* Stardate 
* Stardate: Unknown 
* Thrust 
* Warped Space 
* The Weight Collected 
* Wide Open Spaces 
* WXYZine
==As an Artist: Gallery==
===1976===
File:Beyondorionart2.jpg|from Beyond Orion #1
File:contact2art2.jpg|from Contact #2 -- "Some of the other illustrations, by Leslie Fish, have a really weird, distinctive woodcut-ish style that's pretty cool." from Classic Zines: Contact #2 (Star Trek: TOS), intrigueing, December 20, 2014
File:Warped20art2.jpg|from Shelter (October 1976)
File:Warped22art3.jpg|from The Weight in Warped Space #39 (1976)
File:Warped22art4.jpg|from The Weight in Warped Space #39 (1976)
File:Warped22art5.jpg|from The Weight in Warped Space #39 (1976)
File:Warped22art6.jpg|from The Weight in Warped Space #39 (1976)
File:Warped22art7.jpg|from The Weight in Warped Space #39 (1976)
File:Warped22art8.jpg|from The Weight in Warped Space #39 (1976)
File:Warped22art9.jpg|from The Weight in Warped Space #39 (1976)
File:Warped22art10.jpg|from The Weight in Warped Space #39 (1976)
File:Solplus3-12.jpg|from Sol Plus #3
File:Sehlatsfish2.jpg|from Sehlat's Roar #2, Summary of the Physiological Roots of Andorian Culture
File:Sehlatsfish3.jpg|from Sehlat's Roar #2, Summary of the Physiological Roots of Andorian Culture
File:the mirage-1.jpg |from The Mirage (November 1976)
File:the mirage-4.jpg|from The Mirage (November 1976)
File:FISHTHREE.jpg|original art used in The Mirage (November 1976)
File:the mirage-5.jpg|from The Mirage (November 1976)
File:the mirage-8.jpg|from The Mirage (November 1976)
File:the mirage-9.jpg|from The Mirage (November 1976)
===1977===
File:Artwork by Leslie Fish1977.jpg|from But Can He Type? in Obsc'zine #2
File:Star trek we are three by leslie fish small.jpg|We Are Three, original art print for art used in Warped Space #20 for the story Shelter
 
File:Nutsandbolts13-4.jpg|from Star Trek Nuts & Bolts #13 (February 1977)
File:Galdis1art7.jpg|from Galactic Discourse #1, prompt for a story contest (February 1977) -- ""And then there's the writing contest, to write what you feel upon seen a Leslie Fish illo. Let me warn you, that illo is NASTY. The winners will be interesting to read in the next ish."from Scuttlebutt "Story contest - illo of Kirk holding Spock protectively while McCoy huddles nearby clutching a book and a skeletal figure looks on. Grim story of beings coming to life to destroy the landing party with madness." from Karen Halliday's Zinedex (2006)
File:ob1-1.jpg|from Obs'zine #1 (March 1977)
File:ob1-2.jpg|from Obs'zine #1 (March 1977)
File:Leslie_Fish_SPOCKUHURAFISH.jpg|original art for the story Kwa Heri, Hadiya (May 1977)
File:Leslie_Fish_FISHONE.jpg|original art for the story Kwa Heri, Hadiya (May 1977)
File:Leslie Fish artwork for Memories.jpeg| original art for the story Kwa Heri, Hadiya (May 1977)
File:men12art4.jpg|from Menagerie #12
File:men12art5.jpg|from Menagerie #12
File:Warped24art3.jpg|from The Weight in Warped Space #24 (1977)
File:Warped24art4.jpg|from The Weight in Warped Space #24 (1977)
File:Warped25art2.jpg|from The Weight in Warped Space #24 (1977)
File:Warped25art6.jpg|from The Weight in Warped Space #24 (1977)
File:Contact4art2.jpg|from Contact #4
===1978===
File:Idic678-15.jpg|from IDIC #6/7/8
File:Warped39inside-4.jpg|from The Weight in Warped Space #39 (1978)
File:Warped39inside-5.jpg|from The Weight in Warped Space #39 (1978)
File:Ob3-6detail.jpg| from Obsc'zine #3 (May 1978)
File:Mahko Root 2 by Leslie Fish.jpeg|interior art Mahko Root #2 (September 1978)
File:Other side 3 interior leslie fish 1.jpg|from The Other Side of Paradise #3, "What the hell do I do with this?"
File:Other side 3 interior leslie fish 2.jpg|from The Other Side of Paradise #3, "The legends never mentioned this problem."
File:Other side 3 interior leslie fish 3.jpg| from The Other Side of Paradise #3, "A study in comparative anatomy."
File:Rec_Room_cover.jpg|cover of Rec-Room Rhymes #1 (1978)
File:thrustdetail.jpg|from Thrust for Song of the Unwilling Bride (February 1978)
File:obsczine3detail-1.jpg|from Obsc'zine #3
File:obsczine3detail-2.jpg|from Obsc'zine #3
File:Fantasia2art3.jpg|from Fantasia #2, for Yesteryear, Today & Tomorrow
===1979===
File:Contact5-6art9.jpg|from Contact #5/6
===1980===
Image:infinite3-4.jpg|from Infinite Diversity #3, for "His Majesty"
Image:infinite3-6.jpg|from Infinite Diversity #3, for "His Majesty"
Image:infinite3-7.jpg|from Infinite Diversity #3, for "His Majesty"
Image:infinite3-8.jpg|from Infinite Diversity #3, for "His Majesty"
Image:infinite3-9.jpg|from Infinite Diversity #3, for "His Majesty"
Image:fes5-1.jpg|from Sunset and Evening Star
File:fes5-2.jpg|from Sunset and Evening Star
File:fes5-3.jpg|from Sunset and Evening Star
File:fes5-4.jpg| a foldout from Sunset and Evening Star
File:fes5-5.jpg|from Sunset and Evening Star
===1981===
File:Nome4art1.jpg|from Nome #4
===1983===
File:Galacticdis4art15.jpg|from Galactic Discourse #4
===1987===
File:Galdis5art22.jpg|from Galactic Discourse #5
==A Fan's Tribute: A Filk Song!==
From Sehlat's Roar #4 in : "Sing waily, waily,' I'm a Leslie Fish Fan":
==External Sources==
Filk awards and bio at Fan Gallery
==References==
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