The Osiris Files

The Osiris Files is a gen multimedia fanzine. There are eight issues.
==About==
As described in a flyer: 
From another flyer: 
==Controversy Regarding a Story in the First Issue==
About "Survive the Alliance": 
From the editor in issue #2: 
==Controversy Regarding a Story in the Second Issue==
Regarding the story by Joy Harrison called "For Fortune and Glory" -- "This story previously appeared in a somewhat different form in the fanzine FORTUNE AND GLORY #1, published by Alvyren Press, and was printed without the author's permission in the final issue of OUTLANDS, by Pandora Publications."
==Controversy Included in the Seventh Issue==
The editor included two open letters in the seventh issue. These letters explained in great detail an altercation regarding zines, alleged theft, and boycotts. See The Osiris Press Open Letters.
==Issue 1==
 
The Osiris Files 1 was published in November 1987 and contains 120 pages.
The art is by Mori, Toni Hardeman, Barbara Fister-Liltz, Suzette Henderson, Lisa Mudano, and Gordon Smuder.
From a flyer: 
From the editorial: 
 
*A Special Message from the Staff of The Osiris Files (3)
*Editorial: An Armed Camp?, essay about weapons and weapon-play at conventions, by Joy Harrison (3)
*None So Blind by Linda Ruth Pfonner ("Hawke is accused of a series of vicious political assassinations.") ("The song "Time and Stars" (copyright 1983 by Sharon Porath), which appears on Page 40 of this publication in Linda Ruth Pfonner's story "None So Blind," is reprinted with the written permission of Sharon Porath.") (Airwolf) (5)
*Tenth Anniversary Art Portfolio by joan hanke-woods (Star Wars) (49)
*Angels We Have Heard on High by Mary Robertson ("A little girl meets an "angel".") (Greatest American Hero) (63)
*Tales of Sagittara by Lisa Mudano ("On the night of a longed-for armistice with the Cylons, workers at a space dock find themselves in the middle of an invasion.") (Battlestar Galactica) (69)
*Star Dancing by Mary Robertson (Original Fiction) (86)
*Retrospective Art Portfolio by joan hanke-woods (Star Trek (TOS)) (87)
*Survive the Alliance, Pt. 3 by Lisa Mudano ("The Visitors have invaded Earth, the Resistance has called for help—and the Colonials and the Cylons have both answered. Apollo is shot down by a menacing something that resembles a marine mammal with a propeller beanie; The Firm is called to investigate the wreckage of an alien spacecraft; and Starbuck is kidnapped by...a talking automobile?") Battlestar Galactica/V): The Series (See note about this story at the beginning of this page.) (99)
*From Deep Space (119)
*Acknowledgments (120)
File:Nonesoblind.jpg|from issue #1, Toni Hardeman
File:Osirisfiles-1.jpg|from issue #1, Toni Hardeman
File:Osirisfiles-3.jpg|from issue #1, Toni Hardeman
File:Osirisfiles-4.jpg|from issue #1, Delphyne Mori: "motherless... and a long way from home"
File:Osirisfiles-5.jpg|from issue #1, Delphyne Mori: "burned out"
File:Osirisfiles-6.jpg|from issue #1, Delphyne Mori: "ego and alter"
File:Osirisfiles-7.jpg|from issue #1, Delphyne Mori: "to see"
File:Osirisfiles-8.jpg|from issue #1, Delphyne Mori: "dark lord"
File:Osirisfiles-9.jpg|from issue #1, Delphyne Mori: "menace"
File:Osirisfiles-10.jpg|from issue #1, unknown, possibly Suzette Henderson
File:Osirisfiles-11.jpg|from issue #1, Delphyne Mori: "the price paid"
File:Osirisfiles-12.jpg|from issue #1, Delphyne Mori: "guide"
File:Osirisfiles-13.jpg|from issue #1, Delphyne Mori: "meld"
==Issue 2==
The Osiris Files 2 was published in 1988 and contains 170 pages. Jean C. is the cover artist. The artists are thanked in the publisher's afterward, but that list is incomplete. Combining this list and deducing from the signatures on the art itself, the artists appear to be Barbara Fister-Liltz, Pat Posadas, Kate Soehnien, Toni Hardeman, Gennie Summers, and joan hanke-woods, Karen River. 
From a flyer: 
From the long editorial: 
* From the Wolf's Den: Editor's Desk: FANzines or FUNzines (3)
*For Fortune and Glory by Joy Harrison ("Indiana Jones journeys to Cairo in search of a long-lost amulet.") ("This story previously appeared in a somewhat different form in the fanzine FORTUNE AND GLORY #1, published by Alvyren Press, and was printed without the author's permission in the final issue of OUTLANDS, by Pandora Publications.") (Indiana Jones) (5)
*Limbo and Little Voices by Kathie Hughes ("Thomas Magnum lies near death — then he meets Judi.")(Magnum, P.I.) (37)
*There's Always a Catch by Lisa Mudano ("Long before his fateful meeting with Leia of Alderaan, Han Solo is asked to rescue another princess.") (Star Wars) (45)
* Persuasion by L.A. Carr (Star Wars) (60)
*Writer's Block by Rodney Ruff ("Science fiction writer Walter Stock has a bad case of "writer's block"—and more unwelcome visitors than he can handle as he seeks a cure.") (Multimedia) (61)
*The Great Chocolate Chip Cookie Caper by Mary Robertson (Simon and Simon) (95)
* Rick! by L.A. Carr (Simon and Simon) (102)
* Loose Ends by Kathie Hughes ("Vincent and Catherine are torn apart when a conscientious police officer decides Vincent is a loose end in an unsolved homicide.") (Beauty and the Beast) (103)
*Survive the Alliance, Pt. 4 by Lisa Mudano (Battlestar Galactica/V): The Series (125) (See NOTE in previous issue)
*From Deep Space (159)
*Acknowledgments (160)
File:Osirisfiles2-1.jpg|from issue #2, Delphyne Mori
File:Osirisfiles2-2.jpg|from issue #2, Karen River -- Indiana Jones
File:Osirisfiles2-3.jpg|from issue #2, sample text
File:Osirisfiles2-4.jpg|from issue #2, Pat Posadas
File:Osirisfiles2-5.jpg|from issue #2, Pat Posadas
File:Osirisfiles2-6.jpg|from issue #2, Kate Soehnien? -- Magnum, P.I.
File:Osirisfiles2-7.jpg|from issue #2, Toni Hardeman (Doctor Who/Star Trek TOS)
File:Osirisfiles2-8.jpg|from issue #2, Gennie Summers -- Simon and Simon
File:Osirisfiles2-9.jpg|from issue #2, unknown, (Beauty and the Beast (TV))
File:Osirisfiles2-10.jpg|from issue #2, Barbara Fister-Liltz -- Battlestar Galactica 
==Issue 3==
The Osiris Files 3 has a cover by Sandra Santara. The zine was published in May 1989 and contains 158 pages.
From a flyer: 
From the editor: 
*From the Wolf's Den Editor's Desk: Something Dreadful (focus on the importance of literacy) (3)
* Guest Editorial: On Coming Out (proud to be a pagan) by Lisa M. Mudano (5)
*The Writer's Challenge (6)
*Saved by a Pawn by L.A. Carr ("McCall receives a menacing telephone call, and Vincent intervenes in an apparent mugging.") (Beauty and the Beast/The Equalizer) (7)
* Musings of a Country Doctor by Mary Robertson (Star Trek (TOS)) (40)
*The Price of Survival by Jeannie Webster (Indiana Jones) (41)
* Blue Monday by Mary Robertson (Simon and Simon) (50)
*Forget Me Not, Sucker by Joyce Ashcroft ("Colonel Decker resorts to truth drugs, and someone else is out to get the A-Team.") (The A-Team) (51)
* Images Art Portfolio by Delphyne Mori (Blade Runner) (87)
* Plague Bullet by Linda Ruth Pfonner ("The KGB hunts Hawke as he flees with a Russian scientist who possesses the antidote to a lethal plague.") (Airwolf) (97)
*Damned If I Do by Beth Bowles (Star Trek (TOS)) (113)
*Damned If I Don't by Beth Bowles (Star Trek (TOS)) (113)
*Writer's Cramp by Rodney Ruff ("Walter Stock is back, with enough ideas to keep any author busy for a lifetime; but his computer is quite literally possessed, and his latest crop of visitors include a demon assassin, a hologram, a paranoid mutant, and the police.") (Multimedia) (114)
*Official Guide-Lines for OSIRIS Publications (156)
*From Deep Space (157)
*Acknowledgments (158)
File:Osirisfiles3-1.jpg|from issue #3, Sandra Santara
File:Osirisfiles3-2.jpg|from issue #3, Sandra Santara
File:Osirisfiles3-3.jpg|from issue #3, Delphyne Mori
File:Osirisfiles3-4.jpg|from issue #3, sample poem
File:Osirisfiles3-5.jpg|from issue #3, Toni Hardeman
File:Osirisfiles3-6.jpg|from issue #3, Kate Soehnien
File:Osirisfiles3-7.jpg|from issue #3, sample text
File:Osirisfiles3-8.jpg|from issue #3, Delphyne Mori
==Issue 4==
The Osiris Files 4 was published in May 1990 and contains 138 (plus eight pages of flyers) pages. Delphyne Mori did the front and back covers.
From a flyer: 
*From the Wolve's Den Editor's Desk: Of Joy and Sorrow (An update on the editor's activities with the Timber Wolf Preservation Society, and about her dog.) (3)
*Great Scotts by Mary Robertson ("Jean-Luc Picard meets a potentially dangerous youngster named Jimmy.") (Star Trek: TNG) (5)
* Monologue, poem by Mary Robertson (Star Trek: TOS) (9)
*The Big Bad Wolfe by Joyce Ashcroft ("Little Orphan Murdock and his invisible dog Sandy join the rest of the A-Team to take on a dishonest construction company.") (The A-Team) (10)
*Heritage by Mary Robertson (Battlestar Galactica) (41)
*Ransom Demand by Linda Ruth Pfonner ("Hawke is kidnapped by a chemist with a lethal new drug, and a band of terrorists threaten the entire state of California.") (Airwolf) (43)
*Share the Night by Mary Robertson (Beauty and the Beast) (92)
*Writer's Workshop by Rodney Ruff ("Walter Stock returns; his novel finished, he has a blind date with a woman who is tall, lovely, and green—then his other visitors begin to arrive!") (Multimedia) (94)
* Stars and Sand, poem by Mary Robertson (Star Wars) (134)
*Editor's Afterward (136)
*Submission Guidelines (139)
File:Osirisfiles4-1.jpg|from issue #4, Airwolf, Delphyne Mori
File:Osirisfiles4-2.jpg|from issue #4, A-Team, Delphyne Mori
File:Osirisfiles4-3.jpg|from issue #4, {{, Delphyne Mori
File:Osirisfiles4-4.jpg|from issue #4, Beauty and the Beast, Delphyne Mori
File:Osirisfiles4-6.jpg|from issue #4, sample text, Delphyne Mori
File:Osirisfiles4-5.jpg|from issue #4, Star Wars, Delphyne Mori 
===Reactions and Reviews: Issue 4===
==Issue 5 ==
The Osiris Files 5 was published in May 1991 and contains 104 pages and has a front cover by Holly Bird.
From a flyer: 
*The Demon by Lisa Golladay ("A Warrior takes a wrong turn late one night, and ventures into...not the Twilight Zone, but a mad, drunken tale of offended territorial imperative.") (Battlestar Galactica) (5)
*Hopes and Fears of All the Years by Mary Robertson ("Sam is a priest, and it's Christmas.") (Quantum Leap) (10)
*Will You Steele Need Me? by Louann Qualls ("Daniel Chalmers remembers his first, long-ago meeting with Steele.") (Remington Steele) (25)
*Overdue by Mary Robertson ("Late library books make a waterlogged hero out of Rick.") (Simon and Simon) (58)
* Writer's Style by Rodney Ruff ("Walter Stock is guest of honour at a science fiction convention—and faces a raucous room party, an obnoxious roommate, pizzas, panthers, strange women in towels.") (Multimedia) (61)
==Issue 6==
The Osiris Files 6 was published in May 1992 and contains 109 pages. Cover art is by Holly Bird; interior art is by Holly Bird, Dorinda Francis, Karen River, and delphyne joan woods.
It premiered at the 1992 MediaWest*Con.
From a flyer: 
*The Domino Effect by Joyce E. Ashcroft Long retired from the spy business, Alexander Scott is reunited with an old friend—and a deadly enemy.") (I Spy) (7)
*Red Tape by Mary Robertson ("Rick explains a case's expenses to an exasperated AJ.") (Simon and Simon) (33)
*Kindred Spirits by Mary Robertson ("Jonathan McKensie and Benny hunt a killer ghost, one whose haunts are painfully close to home.") (Shadow Chasers) (37)
*Zena's Diary: Starbuck by Lisa Mudano Dalton ("An Academy friend of Starbuck reminisces about Starbuck's romantic misadventures.") (Battlestar Galactica) (52)
*Prince of Thieves Art Portfolio by Del Woods (Robin Hood) (61)
* Dinosaurs Don't Dance by Mary Robertson ("Sam helps an old man keep the most important promise of his life.") (Quantum Leap) (67)
*Writer's Vacation by Rodney Ruff (Multimedia) (74)
*Hell Hath No Fury by L.M. Dalton ("Vincent and Catherine confront a satanic spectre, with the aid of a visitor from the books of Mercedes Lackey.") (Beauty and the Beast/Diana Tregarde) (75) (March 10, 2016) 
==Issue 7==
The Osiris Files 7 was published in May 1993 and contains 105 (plus ten pages of flyers) pages. Cover art is by Marianne Howarth; interior art is by Wes Fallon, Barbara Fister-Liltz, Marianne Howarth, and delphyne joan woods.
This issue contains the Osiris Press Open Letters.
From the lengthy editorial (that's mostly about wolves and pet dogs: 
 
*Mixed Doubles by Joyce Ashcroft (I Spy/The Avengers) (9)
* Twins by Lisa M. Dalton ("Psychic twin teenagers are caught in the middle of an assault on Life Center.") (Battlestar Galactica) (40)
*Men: A Study in Similar Contrasts by Lisa Dalton ("When the Millennium Falcon rendezvouses with the Fleet, Cassiopeia and Leia have their own encounters with Han and Starbuck. ") (Star Wars/Battlestar Galactica) (49)
*Links to the Past by Lisa M. Dalton ("Han tells Leia the story of how he earned his Corellian Bloodstripe.") (Star Wars) (52)
*Commercial Enterprise by Rodney Ruff ("An alien virus causes chaos on the Enterprise when it causes the crew to start mimicking twentieth century commercials.") (Star Trek: TOS) (57)
*Once Upon an Enterprise by Mary Robertson ("Picard and Data explore a malfunctioning holodeck program where the original Enterprise crew have been blended with characters from children's literature.") (Star Trek: The Next Generation) (89)
*Alliances by Joy Harrison ("Morgan receives some possibly-divine assistance when rescuing a lost child." Previously appeared in slightly altered format in The Deryni Archives #13 under the title "Strange Alliances".) (Deryni) (96)
File:Osirisfiles7-1.jpg|from issue #7, Marianne Howarth, portrays characters from I Spy/The Avengers (TV)
File:Osirisfiles7-2.jpg|from issue #7, Marianne Howarth, portrays characters from I Spy/The Avengers (TV)
File:Osirisfiles7-3.jpg|from issue #7, artist not known
File:Osirisfiles7-4.jpg|from issue #7, Barbara Fister-Liltz, portrays Han Solo
File:Osirisfiles7-6.jpg|from issue #7, Marianne Howarth
=== The Osiris Press Open Letters===
This issue starts with two long, long two-page open letters. The first is dated March 1992 and a two-page follow-up is dated November 1992. They detail an altercation between two fans that involve the alleged theft and/or destruction of zines and other fanworks that involved law enforcement and legal proceedings. The first letter begins with: 
 
Image:osirisletter1.jpg|first page of the first letter, some redactions 
Image:osirisletter2.jpg| second page of the first letter, some redactions 
Image:osirisletter3.jpg|first page of the second letter, some redactions 
Image:osirisletter4.jpg| second page of the second letter, some redactions 
==Issue 8==
The Osiris Files 8 was published in May 1994.
*Realms of Possibility by Mary Robertson (The Real Ghostbusters)
*other unknown content
==References==
Category:Multimedia Gen and Het Zines
Category:1987 Zines
Category:1980s Zines
Category:1990s Zines