Forever Autumn (Starsky & Hutch zine)

Forever Autumn is a 133-page slash Starsky/Hutch novel by Sue S and S. Meek.
It was the first fanzine S/H published.
It was published in England. The cover and interior art is by Min. 
The last page of this zine is a You are Receiving this Zine Because.
This story contains a lot of song lyrics by Justin Hayward and John Lodge from the 1975 album Blue Jays, both imbedded in the text, as well as used at the top of various chapters. The story contains several fan-written poems as well.
Its sexual content is non-explicit: there is some kissing and fade-to-black sex. One would think that with all the times Hutch is beaten up, it would be a hurt/comfort bonanza, but this element is very drily described and not very much of an element. In fact, the entire story is very low on emotion, and incorporates a lot of "tell rather than showing," and often reads more like an disjointed outline than a fully-realized fic.
The story has a description in flash-back of Starsky and Hutch's first meeting, one that took place in Viet Nam where they served together, were involved in violent combat, and lived to tell the tale. 
The story deviates from canon in that the episode Sweet Revenge never happens. 
One hundred copies were originally printed and the stencils were burned seven months after the zine was published. 
==Brief Summary==
The story opens with Starsky and Hutch not getting along, and it is left-over anger from the Kira situation. Starsky angrily tells Hutch he doesn't want to go to a Dodger's baseball game with him, but then feels bad about this, intending to go over to Hutch's house in the morning to apologize. He doesn't get this chance, because Hutch has subsequently been kidnapped by some bad guys in revenge for Hutch killing one of their brothers. Hutch is beaten and left for dead, but found by a hermit named Smokey and nursed back to health with his homemade tea in Smokey's culvert home. Hutch has amnesia from his injuries. Hutch gets a job at a rural gas station and works for a man named Bob. Bob give Hutch the name "Kid." 
When bikers roll into the gas station to steal gas, they beat up Hutch and destroy the place. Hutch then moves on to L.A., and at one point, runs away from Huggy Bear in fear. Shortly afterwards, Hutch is picked up by the police who think he was involved in more biker violence. Dobey recognizes Hutch and when Dobey uses Hutch's name, Hutch's memories completely return. He has been gone four months.
Dobey calls Starsky who comes to take him home. It is that night, that they realized they love each other, and they have non-explicit sex.
Hutch, Dobey, and Starsky realize that the bad guys are still after Hutch, so they hatch a plan and capture them.
Kira makes an appearance at the end of the story in a scene reminiscnt of the last scene in the episode "Starsky vs. Hutch" at the bar. She tells Hutch she is thinking of opening up a clothing boutique, but is also interested in marrying a man with a lot of money. She says she wants to resume her and Hutch's relationship and hits on him. He hints he is now with someone, and she becomes scornful. 
Starsky and Hutch tell Nick Starsky about their relationship, as well as Dobey and others, and people are almost uniformly supportive. 
==From an Ad==
"[Forever Autumn] is an 'adult' Starsky and Hutch novel. It deals with the possible development of the relationship between Dave Starsky and Ken Hutchinson after the aired episode 'Starsky vs. Hutch.' It is a story of loss, discovery, and the birth of a love which, although fraught with difficulties and disasters, nevertheless cannot be denied." from Datazine #1 
==From the Editorial==
From the introduction: 
==Some of the Authors' Acknowledgments==
==Sample Interior==
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==Post-Publication Comments from One of the Authors==
===Will There Be a Sequel?===
A sequel was planned but not written. The author wrote: 
===Original Issues and Permission to Copy===
Shortly after the zine was published, one of the authors wrote: 
===The Stencils===
The editor notes in an issue of the letterzine, S and H, that the stencils were burned at Mini-Con in October 1980. As affordable photo-copying was still years away, this meant that, aside from the photostat mentioned above, new copies of this zine would be nearly impossible to recreate. 
===Deviation from Canon===
One of the authors, Sue S, responded to fan comments regarding the decision to ignore the events of the episode "Sweet Revenge": 
===Lack of Explicitness===
==A Dust-Up Regarding Age Statement==
The creator of Forever Autumn writes that she has learned that a: 
The minor fan in question wrote to the letterzine later and explained: 
A fan in a later letter responds: 
==Reactions and Reviews==
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==Forever Autumn and S/H Fanfiction History==
Forever Autumn was the first S/H fiction zine published. It was issued in the UK in March 1980. 
Next, a single slash story was published in the second issue of Ten-Thirteen in February 1981. 
It is commonly understood that the first full S/H fiction zine published in the U.S. was Code 7 in Summer 1981, and then Trace Elements in 1982. 
Hanky Panky, though a letterzine, contained much art and fiction. That zine began in January or February 1982.
Some other very early slash zines were The Phone Booth (the front cover art is dated 1982, one piece of inside art is dated 1981), Fly United (likely mid-1982), Cucumbers and Crisco (likely 1982). All three of these zines were very roughly produced and considered pass-around zines.
A single slash story, A Handful of Sand, was printed in September 1981 in Daily Reports #2. 
There was contradiction regarding which full S/H fiction zine was first, Code 7 or Trace Elements, but this was based on semantics and definition. This is because the editors of Code 7 issued an announcement in June 1981 that the Code 7 had been canceled. There is an announcement regarding Code 7 in S and H #22: 
The reason? According to some fans, "Code 7" was at the printers when Karen B heard that anti-slasher fen were threatening to send the zine to the stars and to the producers of the show. She pulled the zine at the last minute and removed all the names. 
In reality, the editors of Code 7 secretly published their zine, anonymizing the authors, and distributed it to a select group of people. Because of this, some fans did not consider it a 'real' zine.
The exact nature, scope and reality of the threat is difficult to ascertain. There were many veiled references in later issues of S and H about fans betraying other fans and how the anti-slash sentiment was driving good writers away from the fandom (or at the very least underground). See S and H issues 21-30. Yet even those rumors were hotly disputed in later issues of S and H. (See issues 30-38) 
Because Code 7 #1 was an underground publication, some fans consider Trace Elements the first "published" US S/H zine, but also understand that Code 7 was printed and distributed many months before. 
The secrecy regarding the publication of Code 7 is given a nod in this statement: 
A fan in early 1982 gives a wink to fellow fen regarding "Code 7": "I haven't seen that much S/H to date -- just one excellent zine (that doesn't exist, of course)." from Hanky Panky #1 (January or February 1982) 
In 2001, a fan wrote: 
Later issues of Code 7 were offered publicly in letterzines and authors and publisher info was included. 
Ironically, many years later, Code 7 was available at Agent With Style, a highly visible zine agenting and publishing business.
As early as these Starsky & Hutch slash zines were, Star Trek: TOS K/S has them beat by several years (and in the case of drawerfic such as The Ring of Soshern, by at least a decade).
The first K/S novel was Gerry Downes' Alternative: The Epilog to Orion (around August, 1976, though it appears an earlier drawerfic was passed around several years earlier.)
The first fiction Kirk/Spock anthology was Thrust (around the middle of February, 1978)
An early K/S fiction series was Yea, Though I Walk by Katy Young (1978). Also see Gate of Ivory, Gate of Horn (1980) by Pamela Dale.
==References==
Category:Starsky & Hutch Slash Zines
Category:1980 Zines