Sublight Reading

Sublight Reading is a gen anthology with fiction, commentary and artwork about Star Trek: TOS. It has a small amount of Star Wars, and in issue two, a bit of Battlestar Galactica.
An ad in Datazine #32 spoke of a once-proposed third issue: "We plan on breaking 'Sublight Reading' #3 into three smaller zines so that we can get at least one [of our proposed zines] out fairly soon." It is unknown if this occurred, or what those zines were.
 
==Issue 1==
Sublight Reading 1 was published in May 1978 and contains 76 pages. 
Some of the material was sexually explicit, it wasn't to be sold to anyone under 16 years of age. 
The front cover shows Spock reading three zines, Grup, R & R and what appears to be Obsc'zine. 
This zine contains an excerpt from the yet-unpublished zine Games of Love and Duty.
One of the stories by Crites was reprinted in Ship to Shore.
* The Chain Gang (2)
* Shore Leave at Denny's Pleasure Planet (4)
* Bad, Bad Nancy Brown, filk (6)
* Mooncharmed by Susan Crites ("It isn't easy being a woman in the Klingon Empire, but Mara had ambition.") (7)
* Coming Soon from ChttTP (18B)
* Fetch by Caroline Hedge. ("A fairy tale about the Great Bird of the Galaxy.") (19) 
* The Only Possible Choice by Joyce Thompson (25)
* Ashes of Yesterday by Susan Crites. ("She had been alone for years, but could never forget.") (30)
* Games of Love and Duty, excerpt by Susan Crites (32)
* Poetry (47)
* The Road to Honor by Nancy Brown (52)
* Make Me Proud of You by Susan Crites (55)
* The Lighter Side of the Force (59)
* All Our Yesterdays by Mary Sue Donym (6)
* Nursery Rhymes for Babyfen (66)
* ChttTP's Guide to Fandom by Susan Crites (68)
* Cartoons by Nancy Brown (70
* How Farr? by Caro Hedge (71)
* Cartoons by Crites (74)
* art by Nancy Brown, Susan Crites (front and back covers), Sonnie DiFonzo, Mary Stacy-MacDonald, Debbie McDaniels and Jacque Marshall
Image:sublight1-1.jpg|inside page from issue #1
Image:sublight1-2.jpg|inside page from issue #1
Image:sublight1-3.jpg|inside page from issue #1
Image:sublight1-4.jpg|inside page from issue #1
Image:sublight1-5.jpg|inside page from issue #1
Image:sublight1-6.jpg|inside page from issue #1
==Reactions and Reviews: Issue 1==
==Issue 2==
Sublight Reading 2 was published in January 1981 and contains 138 pages. 
A description of issue #2 from an ad in Datazine #15: "The zine that goes from straight action/adventure Trek to kinky droid sex and almost makes it back again! Story topics include Vulcans and/or Vampires, Klingons, Cylons, whipped cream, fannish dating services, Spock/McCoy arguments, command decisions, parodies, running jokes, mucho bizarre humor, and Caro Sue finding True Love." 
From the editorial, by Caro: 
From the editorial, by Susan: 
* The Editorial "We" by Hedge n' Crites (2)
* ... If You Don't Watch out by Susan Crites (5)
* Femme Feline by Ruth Kurz (26)
*Paradise Sickness by Richard Arnold (27)
* Daggit of the Mind by Caro Hedge (29)
* Proserpina by Carol Hansen (32)
* Noli Me Tangere by Kate Birkel (33)
* Prophecy by Renee Arceneaux (42)
* Beware of Strange Faces by Susan Crites (43)
* Iron Maiden by Carol Christensen (51)
* Sesame Sector by Susan Crites (73)
* Shawna by Gene S. Delapenia (77)
* Cream by Caro Hedge (78)
* Poem by Jo Philagios (80)
* A Peter Potter People Live Interview #10, transcribed by Sandy Hall (81)
*A Star is Scorned by Susan Crites (84)
* Breaking Away is Hard to Do by Mary Sue Donym (85)
* The Ready for Prime Time Strayers by Susan Crites (91)
* Surak's Song (If I Were Free) (98)
* The Ultimate Confusion by Richard Arnold (99)
* Victim by Caro Hedge (103)
* My Favorite Klingon by C. deMasoch as told to Guinn Berger (While written as humor, it is actually a biting commentary on domestic abuse and a woman's appalling low self-esteem and the willingness to stand for mistreatment, the latter something later fan reviews did not touch upon.) (113)
* One Good Turn by Susan Crites (119)
* Poem by Bonnie Reitz (135)
* A Touch of the Hand by Renee Arceneaux (137)
* art by Richard Arnold (front cover), Beverly Clark, Bob Cochran, Susan Crites, Ann Crouch, DawnSinger, Hans Dietrich (back cover), Carol Hansen, Caro Hedge, Vel Jaeger, Ruth Kurz, Mary Stacy-MacDonald, Bonnie Reitz, Melody Rondeau, Carrie Rowles, Dawna Snyder, Chuck Stout, Lowry Thompson and Carol Waterman
Image:sublight2-16.jpg|inside issue #2, Mary Stacy-MacDonald, "Where do they get their crazy ideas?"
Image:sublight2-1.jpg|inside issue #2, Bonnie Reitz
Image:sublight2-2.jpg|inside issue #2, Bonnie Reitz
Image:sublight2-3.jpg|inside issue #2, Ruth Kurz
Image:sublight2-4.jpg|inside issue #2, Richard Arnold
Image:sublight2-5.jpg|inside issue #2, Carol Hansen
Image:sublight2-6.jpg|inside issue #2, Carrie Rowles
Image:sublight2-7.jpg|inside issue #2, Ann Crouch
Image:sublight2-8.jpg|inside issue #2, Melody Rondeau
Image:sublight2-9.jpg|inside issue #2, DawnSinger
Image:sublight2-10.jpg|inside issue #2, Susan Crites
Image:sublight2-11.jpg|inside issue #2, Melody Rondeau
 
Image:sublight2-13.jpg|inside issue #2, Richard Arnold
Image:sublight2-14.jpg|inside issue #2, Melody Rondeau
Image:sublight2-15.jpg|inside issue #2, Vel Jaeger
==Reactions and Reviews: Issue 2==
==References==
 
Category:Star Trek TOS Gen and Het Anthology Zines
Category:Star Wars Zines
Category:Battlestar Galactica (1978) Zines
Category:1970s Zines
Category:1980s Zines