5th Season (Blake's 7 zine)

You may be looking for Blake's Seven: a Fifth Series or Series 5 (Blake's 7 zine).
Blakes Seven 5th Season is a gen Blake's 7 anthology. The cover title is sometimes "5th Season" and sometimes "Fifth Season."
This zine series is an early virtual season.
==About==
From Deb Walsh in B7 Complex #2 (March 1982): 
==Issue 1==
5th Season 1 was published in 1982 and has 145 pages. 
Art: T.J. Burnside (front cover), Pat Cash, Mary Bloemker, and Robin L. Belyea.
Some of the "thank yous" from the editorial: 
From the editorial: 
* Editor's Notes by Sheila Willis (2)
* Episode Guide by Robyn Kevelson Burnside (4)
* What Be the Price of Trust, fiction by Gail Pittaway (11)
* The Thought That Counts, fiction by Robin L. Belyea (34)
* The Prisoner, original music by Sheila Willis (45)
* Re-Naissance, fiction by Linda Melnick (46)
* Like the Night, poem by Gail Pittaway (68)
* You Can't Go Home, fiction by Sandy Hall (105)
* The Liberator-ed Princess, fiction by Sandy Hall (105)
* Fire and Ice, fiction by Sheila Willis (114)
* Silver Swords, original music by Erin Jahr-Strom (132)
* Calliope, fiction by fiction (133)
* Song of the Kirith-Rah, original music by Erin Jahr-Strom g) (144)
* Tarrant's Theme, original music by Kathryn Yount (143)
 
File:Fifthseason1b7-1.jpg|inside issue #1, Pat Cash
File:Fifthseason1b7-2.jpg|inside issue #1, Mary Bloemker
File:Fifthseason1b7-3.jpg|inside issue #1, Gail Pittaway
File:Fifthseason1b7-4.jpg|inside issue #1, Mary Bloemker
File:Fifthseason1b7-5.jpg|inside issue #1, Mary Bloemker
File:Fifthseason1b7-6.jpg|inside issue #1, Mary Bloemker
File:Fifthseason1b7-7.jpg|inside issue #1, Sheila Willis
File:Fifthseason1b7-8.jpg|inside issue #1, Robin L. Belyea
File:Fifthseason1b7-9.jpg|inside issue #1, Robin L. Belyea
File:Fifthseason1b7-10.jpg|inside issue #1, Robin L. Belyea -- from the editorial: "...my new character, Commissioner Damien. (For those of you who detect some familiarity in his face, it is based on Damien Thomas, the actor who played father Alvito in Shogun, but with Lee Van Cleef's eyes.)"
==Issue 2==
5th Season 2 was published in May 1983 and contains 300 pages. 
The editor was Sheila Willis, the co-editors were Kathryn Yount and Robyn Burnside.
The art is by Pat Cash, Kat Yount, Robin Belyea, Sheila Willis, G. Winters, Rene Steiner, Deb Walsh, T.J. Burnside, and Mary Bloemker.
From an ad in Universal Translator #21: "[It] satisfies the editor's sick desire to produce the world's first 300-page B7 zine, with many, many stories and mucho, mucho art." 
From the editorial: 
 
* Editor's Page by Sheila Willis
* Loitering With Intent, fiction by Sheila Willis (4)
* The Piper, filk by Kat Yount (32)
* If the Spirits Are Willing, fiction by Kathy Hintze (33)
* Easy to Be Hard, fiction by Sandy Hall (55)
* The Mirapi, fiction by Sheila Paulson (74)
* A Blake's Seven Primer (or Mr. Roj's Neighborhood) by Pat Cash (90)
* The Return of Blake, fiction by Janet L. Walker (92)
* Berserksganger, fiction by Susan R. Matthews (94)
* A Thief's Pride, fiction by Kathy Hintze (102)
* Speak Gently, Sweet Avon by Susan R. Matthews (filk, Flow Gently, Sweet Afton) (119)
* Another Fine Mess, fiction by Sandy Hall (120)
* ...And Still Blake, fiction by Janet L. Walker (130)
* Friendly Drink, fiction by JoLynn Horvath (152)
* Water, Water, fiction by Sheila Willis (161)
* Avon/Unspoken, poem by Kat Yount (181) 
* Dayna/Dream, poem by Kat Yount (182)
* Phantom Snowball, fiction by Gail Pittaway (184)
* Double Cross, fiction by Brenda Callagher (184)
* The Scars That Won't Heal, fiction by Sandy Hall (204)
* Saraba, fiction by Eileen Dougherty (287)
* Final Episode, fiction by Janet L. Walker (288)
* Blake's 7th by Eileen Dougherty (list of frequency of appearances of characters)
* poem, untitled ("It's a most unusual day...), by Raymond (?)
* Zine ads and con ads
File:Fifthseason2-1.jpg|from issue #2, Mary Bloemker
File:Fifthseason2-2.jpg|from issue #2, G.(?) Winters
File:Fifthseason2-4.jpg|from issue #2, T.J. Burnside
File:Fifthseason2-5.jpg|from issue #2, Robin Belyea
File:Fifthseason2-6.jpg|from issue #2, Pat Cash
File:Fifthseason2-7.jpg|from issue #2, Pat Cash
File:Fifthseason2-8.jpg|from issue #2, Deb Walsh
File:Fifthseason2-9.jpg|from issue #2, Deb Walsh
File:Fifthseason2-10.jpg|from issue #2, Deb Walsh
File:Fifthseason2-11.jpg|from issue #2, first page of "Berserksganger"
File:Fifthseason2-12.jpg|from issue #2, Deb Walsh
File:Fifthseason2-13.jpg|from issue #2, T.J. Burnside
File:Fifthseason2-14.jpg|from issue #2, Sheila Willis and Kat Yount
File:Fifthseason2-15.jpg|from issue #2, Sheila Willis
==Issue 3==
5th Season 3 was published in 1984 and contains 126 pages. The working title was "The Double Digit Hurt." 
Art: Deb Walsh (front and back cover), Pat Cash, Nancy Kolar, Robin Belyea, Sheila Willis, and Peter Zale.
It was edited by Sheila Willis, with Robyn Burnside listed as Editor Emeritus, Kat Yount as Editor De-Facto, and Laura Peck as Editor-in-Training.
* Editor's Notes by Sheila Willis
* The Collector, fiction by JoLynn Horvath (1)
* Federated Worlds Insurance Company, claim report (30)
* Thump! Thump! Thump!, fiction by Gail Pittaway (31)
* Locked Without a Key, poem by Marion McChesney (37)
* The Ties That Bind I, fiction by Sandy Hall (39)
* The Ties That Bind II, fiction by Sandy Hall (50)
* Comfort, fiction by JoLynn Horvath (61)
* Price of Passage, fiction by Nabby Lee (63)
* Limericks by Pat Cash (65)
* And Another Fine Mess, fiction by Sandy Hall (66)
* Warning!, poem by Kat Yount (73)
* The Long Fall, fiction by Kat Yount (74)
* Two Steps Back, fiction by Sheila Willis (includes two original characters: Commissioner Damien and Section Leader Dana Kuyler. The latter is a fan-casted Ray Doyle. In another universe, Willis also fan-casted Ray Doyle as an original character in Love and Necessary Discipline (Pen Dublin) in the same way.) (77)
* Nightmares, fiction by Sheila Willis, with Kat Yount (105)
* The Ultimate Alternative, fiction by Susan R. Matthews ("It was the one orientation that the women would never be able to use against him. He had resisted taking the step, but they had left him no other options. After the life they had had him leading, there was no desire left in his heart for any but his choice. Celibacy. It was the ultimate alternative, after all.") (123)
* Zine ads, con ads
File:Fifthseason3-4.jpg|from issue #3, Pat Cash
File:Fifthseason3-2.jpg|from issue #3, Nancy Kolar
File:Fifthseason3-16.jpg|from issue #3, Nancy Kolar
File:Fifthseason3-3.jpg|from issue #3, Nancy Kolar
File:Fifthseason3-5.jpg|from issue #3, Robin Belyea
File:Fifthseason3-10.jpg|from issue #3, Peter Zale
File:Fifthseason3-6.jpg|from issue #3, Pat Cash
File:Fifthseason3-7.jpg|from issue #3, Pat Cash
File:Fifthseason3-8.jpg|from issue #3, Pat Cash
File:Fifthseason3-9.jpg|from issue #3, Pat Cash
File:Fifthseason3-11.jpg|from issue #3, Pat Cash, the original character, Damien
File:Fifthseason3-12.jpg|from issue #3, Pat Cash
File:Fifthseason3-13.jpg|from issue #3, Pat Cash, Ray Doyle fancasted as the original character, Dana Kuyler
File:Fifthseason3-14.jpg|from issue #3, Pat Cash
File:Fifthseason3-15.jpg|from issue #3, Sheila Willis
File:Fifthseason3-1.jpg|from issue #3, Sheila Willis, also in Discovered on a Rooftop
==Issue 4==
5th Season 4 was published in August 1986 and is 200 pages long. 
Art: TACS (front and back cover), Leah Rosenthal, Pat Cash, T.J. Burnside, Denise Habel, Spurlock, Peter Zale, Kate Nuernberg.
 
 
* Editor's Page by Sheila Willis
* Watching Blake's Seven, filk by Holly Horseman (f, Waltzing Matilda) (4)
* Taking Liberty, or Avon's Revenge, fiction by Sandy Hall (S4; humor) (6)
* Cuckoo, fiction by Louisiana Bailey and A. Toyten Banks (S2; B/oc; humor, mpreg) (36)
* Dune Walker, poem by Susan R. Matthews and Sheila Willis (44)
* Blake!, poem by Marjorie McKenna (47)
* Ghosts, fiction by Sandy Hall (S4; A/D) (48)
* , fiction by Leah Rosenthal and Ann Wortham (S2; A as cat, V as dog; humor) (57)
* Still Another Fine Mess, fiction by Sandy Hall (S5; Fine Mess story 3; AU humor) (67)
* A Blake's 7 Nursery Rhyme by Denise Hable (parody of The House That Jack Built; humor) (73)
* Nightshade, fiction by Katharine Scarritt (S3-S4; Rescue; A/C) (81)
* Emptiness, poem by Marion McChesney (96)
* Band on the Run, fiction by Leah Rosenthal (S5; Bizarro Seven universe; humor) (99)
* Deus Ex Machina, fiction by Susan R. Matthews (S5) (106)
* Shattered Immortality, poem by Karin L. Zygowicz (140)
* Conscience, fiction by Sandy Hall (S1) (143)
* Yet Another Fine Mess, fiction by Sandy Hall (S5; Fine Mess story 4; AU humor) (144)
* Coda, fiction by Sheila Willis, with Kat Yount (S5; episode 7; A/D) (151)
* Care to Know, poem by Kat Yount (172)
* Secrets, fiction by Sheila Willis and Kat Yount (S5; episode 8; A/D) (173)
* zine ads
File:Fifthseason4-1.jpg|from issue #4, Leah Rosenthal
File:Fifthseason4-2.jpg|from issue #4, TACS
File:Fifthseason4-3.jpg|from issue #4, Kate Nuernberg
File:Fifthseason4-4.jpg|from issue #4, Peter Zale
File:Fifthseason4-5.jpg|from issue #4, Leslie Spurlock
File:Fifthseason4-6.jpg|from issue #4, Leah Rosenthal
File:Fifthseason4-7.jpg|from issue #4, Denise Habel
File:Fifthseason4-8.jpg|from issue #4, Pat Cash
File:Fifthseason4-9.jpg|from issue #4, TACS
File:Fifthseason4-10.jpg|from issue #4, TACS
File:Fifthseason4-11.jpg|from issue #4, TACS, some mpreg
File:Fifthseason4-12.jpg|from issue #4, T.J. Burnside
File:Fifthseason4-13.jpg|from issue #4, T.J. Burnside
File:Fifthseason4-14.jpg|from issue #4, TACS
File:Fifthseason4-15.jpg|from issue #4, Leah Rosenthal
File:Fifthseason4-16.jpg|from issue #4, Pat Cash
File:Fifthseason4-17.jpg|from issue #4, Leslie Spurlock
File:Fifthseason4-18.jpg|from issue #4, TACS
File:Fifthseason4-19.jpg|from issue #4, Pat Cash
File:Fifthseason4-20.jpg|from issue #4, TACS, portrays a seven-year old Dayna
File:Fifthseason4-21.jpg|from issue #4, TACS, portrays young Dayna and "Andrew Phillip, Space Pirate (a fan-casted William Bodie)
File:Fifthseason4-22.jpg|from issue #4, TACS, portrays a fan-casted Ray Doyle (Kuyler?) and Kenneth Hutchinson (Governor David James)
File:Fifthseason4-23.jpg|from issue #4, TACS
File:Fifthseason4-24.jpg|from issue #4, Pat Cash
File:Fifthseason4-25.jpg|from issue #4, TACS
File:Fifthseason4-26.jpg|from issue #4, filk
File:Fifthseasonfour-1.jpg|Comic Strip by TACS
==Reactions and Reviews: Issue 4==
==Issue 5==
5th Season 5 was published in August 1988 and contains 200 pages. Art: Suzan Lovett (front and back cover, interior), TACS, Leah Rosenthal, Lee Moyer, Tim Pieracini, Pat Cash.
The zine is online here.
* Ed's Orial, editorial by Sheila Willis (1)
* Worse Than Useless, fiction by Joan Hoffman (4)
* Sea Change, fiction by Mary Alice Wuerz (36)
* The Castle and the River, fiction by Jean Stevenson ("This is a story in which the mage Kier of the River, in service to the Roje of Blakemir, is tempted by the sorceress Siri Valan, who wishes him to assassinate the Roje. But he has seen images in a crystal of another Kier, and another life that ended very badly…") (48)
* The Turning Point, fiction by Alex Delicado (60)
* Happy Birthday, fiction by Jane E. Sibley ("Author's note: This nonsense takes place in Susan Matthew's universe, where everyone is alive and relatively safe and happy together on the Liberator.") (81)
* Aftermath II, fiction by Toni Lay (84)
* Never Frighten a Little Man, fiction by Jeff Morris (94)
* Nevertheless, Another Fine Mess, fiction by Sandy Hall (98)
* A Matter of Time, fiction by Alex Delicado (104)
* Ill Met on Malodaar, fiction by Dee Beetem and Renee Couture (114)
* What Dreams May Come, fiction by Mary Robertson (119)
* The Wait, fiction by Susan R. Matthews (122)
* As the Gentle Rain, fiction by Mary Alice Wuerz (140)
* Swan Song for a Survivor, fiction by Jean L. Stevenson (150)
* The Long Run, fiction by Jeff Morris (168)
* Till Death Do Us Part, fiction by Dee Beetem and Renee Couture (172)
* Student Driver, fiction by Mary Robertson (178)
* A Likely Story, fiction by Sandy Hall (181)
* No Difference part 1, fiction by Sheila Willis (191)
* Endgame, poem by Tyndara Meffe (198)
* zine ads
File:Fifthseason5-1.jpg|from issue #5, TACS
File:Fifthseason5-2.jpg|from issue #5, TACS
File:Fifthseason5-3.jpg|from issue #5, Leah Rosenthal
File:Fifthseason5-4.jpg|from issue #5, Leah Rosenthal
File:Fifthseason5-5.jpg|from issue #5, Suzan Lovett (the color version was used as the front cover)
File:Fifthseason5-6.jpg|from issue #5, Suzan Lovett
File:Fifthseason5-7.jpg|from issue #5, Tim Pieracini
File:Fifthseason5-8.jpg|from issue #5, Pat Cash
File:Fifthseason5-9.jpg|from issue #5, sample poem
File:Fifthseason5-10.jpg|from issue #5, Pat Cash
File:Fifthseason5-11.jpg|from issue #5, Lee Moyer
File:Fifthseason5-12 .jpg|from issue #5, sample text
==Reactions and Reviews: Issue 5==
[[File:killinggroundsflyer.jpg|thumb|"Speaking of 'to be continued' - the zine ends with one of the cruellest adverts ever. Blake and Avon work together... to defeat Carnell... with Blake's engineering skills... in a fic written by the author of 'Road to Hell'... and Avon says that Blake is distracting him... and then they get under a desk together......I must read this fic.AND YET.It's almost 25 years later and so I KNOW THIS ZINE WAS NEVER PUBLISHED because there is no record of it anywhere on the internet. Fortunately, I've already hunted down the right gifset to express my feelings on this matter: [See Aralias' journal]BRB, being sad forever..."]]
==Issue 6==
5th Season 6 was published in May 1990 and contains 192 pages. 
The art is by Robin Wood (front cover), Karen River (mostly), Robin Belyea, and Sheila Willis.
Like some of the other issues of this zine, it contains only 5th series stories. All stories are parts of a larger series, though in most cases the whole series is not represented in this issue (Kat Yount's series may be stand-alone?). The other 'episodes' of Sheila Willis's series appear to be published in earlier issues of this zine. Alex Delicado's 'Puppet Master' is presumably a sequel to their two stories in issue 5.
 
* Puppet Master" (part III), fiction by Alex Delicado (5)
* Mandala, fiction by Kat Yount (was originally planned for the 1984 proposed zine, "The Sun Never Sets") (gen, with B/J and A/D) (36)
* The Piper, filk by Kat Yount (music from "The Piper" by Björn Ulvaeus) (62)
* What Is Gone Is Gone, fiction by Kat Yount (sequel to the above, same pairings) (64)
* Interlude, fiction by Sheila Willis (S5; interlude before episode 9; A/D) (89)
* Colfax, fiction by Sheila Willis (S5; episode 9; A/D) (92)
* Dreams That Never Were, fiction by Sheila Willis (episode 1 of a new series, probably following on from the earlier one) (131)
* Liberator Journey: Avon Calling by Roberta Rogow (filk, Sentimental Journey) (146)
File:Fifthseason6-1.jpg|from issue #6, Karen River
File:Fifthseason6-2.jpg|from issue #6, Karen River
File:Fifthseason6-3.jpg|from issue #6, Karen River
File:Fifthseason6-4.jpg|from issue #6, Karen River, premiered at Gambit art show where a fan wrote: "Karen River's, whose portraits were as fantastic as usual and whose big showpiece, "Shattered Illusions,"... showed a broken window in a frame, with "Orbit" scenes of Vila cowering in closet (on the remains of the glass) and Avon threatening (behind the glass). Juxtaposition and execution were both remarkable." -- from a con report quoted anonymously
File:Fifthseason6-5.jpg|from issue #6, Karen River
File:Fifthseason6-6.jpg|from issue #6, Karen River
File:Fifthseason6-7.jpg|from issue #6, Karen River
File:Fifthseason6-8.jpg|from issue #6, Sheila Willis
==Issue 7==
 There are adverts in issue 6 that suggest a seventh issue either exists or was planned. Presumably it does/would have contain(ed) later episodes of Sheila Willis' 'Dreams That Never Were'.
== References ==
Category:Poetry Zines
Category:Blake's 7 Gen Zines
Category:1982 Zines
Category:1980s Zines
Category:1990 Zines