Kind of like Grandma's featherbed -

[kyburg]

Old school fan fiction. REALLY old school fan fiction.

Star Trek fan fiction I read when I was in high school. Like, 1972. (I got my hands on it when I was 15, about 1976....)

Jackie is looking really old these days. What the heck is it with women that they lose their ability to discern flattering from downright frumpy as they add years? I don't mind the aging process - but come on, I think I'd be happier if she had retained her long hair and simply pulled it back.

Oh, and made some changes in eyewear choices.

But all the names are there. I grew up with these women. It's frightening to find them again, in a way.

Joan Winston is a first-class nutball. If she's still writing, I wanna read -

Jean Lorrah once wrote me a 7 page letter giving me advice on what I should do when deciding to go to college after high school. I might find it packed away someday - I hope it's survived the trip. I took the advice. It was good advice!

The website suffers from non-update-itis and there are a lot of broken links, but it's wonderful to find so much in one place.

The first time I read Kraith, it was a photocopy of a reduced - MUCH reduced - mimeograph photo-stenciled fanzine. Computers were something that used punchcards. You heard about modems, but they were the things that the phoneset cradled in. Go back and watch Wargames again. 300 baud, and you were doing well.

Like a land very far away, not visited in a long time. No men. Go ahead, find one. I dare you. It'll be a son or a husband. Not a contributor. For the longest time, I didn't know a single male that wrote fan fiction. I come across anime fandom, and whammo. What a difference!

Kind of like going home to visit with the aunties.

Comments

[mactavish.livejournal.com]

I didn't know about fan fiction until the last decade or so, but I was reading James Blish's Trek novels in '76 or '77 . . . that's not quite as cool. ;)

[sisterdark.livejournal.com]

Back in the early 90's I was using a 2400 baud modem to get on local BBS's...then I spent almost $400 on a 14.4 modem and it was light speed compared to the other...I can't imagine using such an archaic speed now. Amazing how much changes in so little time...

[sputnik.livejournal.com]

I am ancient too. I remember putting the phone in the modem cradle and having to wiggle it in to make sure it connected well. The other thing is that this was with a teletype terminal. A friend of mine wrote software to simulate a star wars type fighter game on the teletype at 110 baud. Not only was it difficult to play, it took forever to get through more than a few turns.

[lordindra.livejournal.com]

When I was in elementary school the library had a copy of a book that was basically a compilation of fan fic. One interesting story was the crew of the Enterprise swapped with the actors on Star Trek, and both groups had to cope with being out of their element.

[kyburg.livejournal.com]

There were two stories, actually - and I have both of them, I think - somewhere in storage...one from the point of view of the actors, and one on the part of the characters.

Elementary school....