The K/S Press

The K/S Press was a long-running Star Trek letterzine and review zine specifically for Kirk/Spock fandom. 
It is impressive for many things, including its general civility; the dust-ups, letterwars and personal attacks that often punctuated other letterzines were very largely avoided. Despite the generally positive communication, one topic became rife with pointed discussion beginning in 1997: The K/S Netfan-Printzine Fan Wars. 
The K/S Press was available in both a print and an email version and averages 36 pages per issue. 
Rather than purchasing one issue at a time, "members" bought a full-year subscription. In addition to the monthly letterzine, the subscription included access to The K/S Library, which lent out more than 150 out-of-print zines to members (mostly K/S, some gen Trek) through the mail (from both European and American branches).
See the List of Con Reports in The K/S Press.
==A Forum for Information, But Also for Socializing==
"The K/S Press" contains many letters of comment from fans regarding K/S information and observations, but it is also a venue of fans getting to know each other and socializing. 
Around mid to late 2010, the "Roundtable" letters and fans' comments had dissipated to almost none, and the zine became more of a newsletter of factual information regarding cons and zines. The chatty back-and-forth content has perhaps moved to online forums and other venues and, hopefully, not simply waned.
==The Issues==
See these subpages for details about individual issues, including quoted opinions and summaries of fannish views on topics current then, and now. 
Excerpts are posted on Fanlore with the permission of the publisher.
The K/S Press Issues	The K/S Press Issues	The K/S Press Issues	The K/S Press Issues	The K/S Press Issues	 	
Issues 001-010 	Issues 011-020 	Issues 021-030 	Issues 031-040 	Issues 041-050 	Issues 051-060	Issues 061-070
Issues 071-080 	Issues 081-090 	Issues 091-100 	Issues 101-110 	Issues 111-120 	Issues 121-130	Issues 131-140
Issues 141-150 	Issues 151-160 	Issues 161-170 	Issues 171-180 	Issues 181-190 	Issues 191-200	Issues 201-210
Issues 211-220 	Issues 221-230 	 	 	 	 	
==Straddling a Place in Time==
The K/S Press was the first Star Trek letterzine to have been published before and after the "arrival of the internet," and this was a topic that its many readers vigorously debated.
==Some Context and Previous Letterzines==
==Some Fan Testimonials==
==Awards==
This zine was the winner of a 1996, 1997, and 1998 STIFfie Award.
==Other K/S Letterzines== 
* Not Tonight Spock! (June 1984-Winter 1987)
* On the Double (November 1986-January 1996)
* The LOC Connection (January 1989-December 1993)
* Come Together (January 1994-August 1996)
* The K/S Press (September 1996-present day)
For other letterzines, see List of Letterzines.
==About the Title==
From the first issue: "We are having a contest for the best title for your newsletter. The K/S Press remains our working title until we choose the best title from your ideas! The winner will receive a full year's subscription to The K/S Press!" There was never a mention of a name change again, and the title of the letterzine remained as it was on the first issue.
It had varying subtitles, A Forum for Most Everything K/S, A Forum for All Things K/S, A Forum for Almost All Things K/S, and A Forum Close to All Things K/S.
==Features==
Each issue had some regular features: "Tricorder Readings" (story and art reviews), "Heartbeats" (fan bios), "Best of the Best," (fiction excerpts), "Roundtable" (LoCs), forthcoming zines, zine submission requests, want ads, and additions and listings of the The K/S Library (both US and UK branches).This letterzine was preceded by the letterzines, Come Together and The LOC Connection. Two similar letterzines are S and H (Starsky and Hutch) and Southern Enclave (Star Wars).
The K/S Press is impressive in the number of very detailed fan reviews of numerous stories, poems and art found in zines. Some reviews and comments were only a few sentences long, but the majority were several paragraphs, and many went on for multiple pages. The reviews were, for the most part, very balanced in scope and opinion.
==From the Flyer==
According to The K/S Press publisher's flyer: 
==Originator of an Award==
In 1997, The K/S Press in conjunction with Beyond Dreams Press, established the Philon Awards to recognize K/S fanzine writers and artists.
==Originator of a Zine Library==
The K/S Press sponsors The K/S Library, a zine library for members.
==The Press Goes All Digital==
In November 2011, the KS Press announced that it was going all digital. Issue #182 was the last print issue. 
==References==
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