Terry Nation

Terry Nation was a producer, screenwriter, and novelist. 
He created the Daleks and Davros on Doctor Who. He was also the creator of Blake's 7.
Nation also worked on The Avengers, Out of the Unknown, The Baron, The Champions, Department S, The Persuaders! The Saint. He also wrote scripts for MacGyver and A Fine Romance. 
He interacted with fans at many cons where he was a guest of honor, and in Horizon Newsletter. There are many fan comments about Nation in Horizon Letterzine.
Nation was supportive of fanworks, and gave his specific approval to some zines in the form of introductions; Reflections in a Shattered Glass is one example. Nation supported fanworks in 1988 when he wrote a letter of support in the 1988 Blake's 7 Bootlegged Zines Discussion.
Nation passed away in 1997. 
==Cons==
* Destiny
* Dixie Trek
* Freedom City
* Gambit 
* ORAC
* Panopticon West
* RevelCon
* Scorpio
* Unicon
* many more
==The Blake's 7 Wars==
In 1989 and onwards, he embroiled himself in The Blake's 7 Wars when he and Paul Darrow (the actor who portrayed Kerr Avon saw the potential of profit in conventions and cooked up a plan to take over the not-for-profit fancons by controlling fanart displayed and sold at them and by requiring that guests of honor only commit to his own for-profit cons. One of the flashpoints in this controversy, was slash fanworks, a subject that was utilized as a strawman for the real topic: money. 
* Decima Productions
* Laurie Cohen's Jan 1989 Open Letter, part of the Darrow/Nation Press Release Packet (January 1989)
* Horizon's Summary of "The Controversy in Blake's Seven Fandom" (June 1989) 
* interview with a fan who was in the center of the beginning (2017)
==Attitudes Toward Slash Fanworks==
===Fan Comments: Slash===
[1993]: "I asked Terry Nation (creator of B7) what his opinion of slash. He thought it funny, because he couldn't picture Avon or any of the others doing anything like that. But he did agree that we were dealing with the characters, NOT THE ACTORS." comments at Virgule-L, quoted anonymously (March 24, 1993) 
[1995] "To my knowledge, Terry Nation has never voiced any viewpoint on the issue of slash, pro or con." Leah Rosenthal: The Generic Slash Defense Letter 
[1995]:
"I had several discussions with Terry Nation (the creator of the show) about the controversy and was Terry was in his cups (which he was usually every night at a con) he laid most of the problem at Janet's doorstep.His almost exact words were, "Imagine your working hard all day and you come home to a wife that has been receiving letters and writing to people all day and she is screaming at you to do something about all this *nasty* material out there. After a while you will do anything just to get some peace and quiet." Terry knew about slash, he didn't understand it, but he certainly was appalled by it and I gathered that Paul know about it as well and wasn't particularly concerned about it. comments on Virgule-L, quoted anonymously (April 10, 1995) 
===Nation's Comments About Slash: Unknown Date===
In 1994, Jean Graham wrote: 
===Nation's Comments About Slash: August 1987===
Nation and the creator of Robin of Sherwood (Richard "Kip" Carpenter) were on a writing panel at Scorpio. Excerpts from that panel:
===Nation's Comments About Slash: January 1989 ===
From RevelCon: 
From the list of requests from the committee in the "RevelCon" program book: "Fanzines. What you publish or read is your business. What you offer for public viewing is ours. Terry Nation states, 'I don't believe in any form of censorship, but please be discreet.' We ask that fanzines containing "slash" fiction please not be in view of the public areas of the hotel. Flyers may be placed on the flyer tables or on dealers' tables."
==Nation's Comments About Blake's 7's Fourth Season==
In a 1987 interview printed in The Freedom City Gazette , Nation stated his unhappiness with the fourth season of Blake's 7: 
==Further Reading==
* Dalek Man, London. Having scrambled British SF TV expectations, Terry Nation considers reshaping fan conventions (This article in Starlog discusses Terry Nation's plans to recreate fan cons as a for-profit con, cons that Nation would control and reshape. This article came out during the The Blake's 7 Wars. It illustrates the theory that where there are fans, there is money to be made.) (January 1990)
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