Pros in a crossover zine: Revolution

[moonlightmead]

Revolution is a zine novel by Madelein Lee. It is a four-way crossover between Star Trek, S&H, Pros and a fandom known as Tris and Alex: Tris and Alex are two rock gods with a remarkable resemblance to Robert Plant and Jimmy Page, a resemblance I know about because the covers have very lush art by Suzan Lovett

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[shooting2kill]

Thanks so much for all these posts! I love knowing about zines and the contents of zines almost as much as reading them (same goes for books). I've only been able to skim through your posts but I look forward to reading them properly and at leisure.

Thanks again.

[moonlightmead]

You're very welcome! I think my new year's resolution may have to involve more zine chat.

You're in the UK, aren't you? If you ever want to borrow any of these, let me know.

[shooting2kill]

Oh, that's very kind of you, thanks a lot.

[sc_fossil]

Can't say I'd read this but I like hearing your opinions and plot points. Thanks!

[moonlightmead]

You're welcome - and oh, right! I had wondered if you might have, because of the S&H connection (however brief!)

[miwahni]

This actually sounds like something I'd like to read, thanks for the write-up. I'll look out for this zine. Star Trek was my first fandom (hugs the shiny) and I still have a huge soft spot for it. And I fell for S&H long before I'd seen Pros... and Led Zep was my teenage-angst-revolution band of choice.
Isn't it funny, though, how you can read something in a genre that you usually hate, and end up loving it to bits. I don't like AU but this does sound interesting - and one of my favourite Pros fics - Harlequin Airs - just happens to be an AU! Go figure.

[moonlightmead]

Oh wow, it does sound right up your street, yes!

If you were in the UK, I'd cheerfully sling it in the post, but I seem to remember you're not. We can talk about it, but I suspect postage will be a monster.

Also, I don't generally read the Trek listings on zinelist etc but I imagine that it's a bigger fandom and there are likely to be more copies of specific zines floating around than there are for Pros, so you may be in luck?

(ETA: Just spotted your icon - heh!)

[miwahni]

You remember well - I'm on the other side of the planet. No worries, I shall keep an eye out for it on the second hand sites. Sooner or later it will turn up.

[gilda_elise]

I read this zine before I even knew who Bodie and Doyle were. I'd bought it as a K/S zine, since at the time it was my only slash fandom. So I went into it not knowing anything about them or the Tris and Alyx characters (I knew about Starsky and Hutch, at least! *g*) Actually, I thought Tris and Alyx were from yet another unknown program, so thanks for straightening me out about that.

As far as the zine itself, it's been awhile, but I think I remember enjoying it. Mirror stories can be dicey, as the characters are often portrayed as extremely violent, especially Kirk. To the point that you wonder how Kirk manages the discipline needed to be a starship captain. Anyway, I'll have to pull it out and reread it. Thanks for bringing it to mind. :-)

Oh, and the other terms aren't exactly Trek. But there is a tendency in K/S to "futurize" or "alienize" words, so that's what is going on with that. :-)

[moonlightmead]

I like your icon - very apt!

One of the Concupiscence zines has a Tris/Alyx story and I really enjoyed it, but did wonder, if I had bought this zine back then, would I have known who they were meant to be? Then I thought, well, probably, if I had bought it when it came out, then I would have had to be involved in slash circles even to know about its existence, so probably I'd have heard about them via that.

I didn't know that about other mirror stories. Interesting. I think this is very different, then: the author goes to some pains to justify the thing with Pike, and a lot of the story is Kirk discovering new feelings within himself.

Thanks for the explanation about the futurizing: that fits in very well.

I hope that if you do re-read it, you will come back and add comments, or post something yourself? It would be nice to hear how it works for someone who actually knows the fandom!

[gilda_elise]

Sure, I'll at least add something, if not post myself.

And the icon did seem appropriate given your comment. *g*