Fannish Fifty #4: Haven Zine Review!

 

A very handsome, thick zine with a black-and-white portrait of Riker on the cover, illustrated by BEKi. 

This is a very straightforward, no-nonsense zine in terms of presentation. We don’t have the wacky foldouts, jokes, or limericks seen in other zines, and it isn’t stuffed with fun ads or tricky pre-InDesign layout -- you know, no pop-out boxes, no font changes, no creative stuffing of poems into one page. The stories are full page (no columns), wide-spaced, with sparse but beautiful illustrations, and occasional less-beautiful comics drawn by a different artist.

There’s definitely a Riker and Troi bias in this one, which is why I picked it up! But our first -- and longest -- story focuses on Data.

( Things We Leave Behind )

( Special Mission )

( A Little Spark of Heaven )

( The Once and Future Captain )

( No Small Trust )

( Conversation in a Doorway )

( You Can't Judge a Book )

( Hair of the Dog )

( The Road Home )

( Yesterday's Ghost )

 

( The Ten-Forward Tattler )

 

And now we have a poem in memory of Gene Roddenberry, by the same author who wrote the Tasha Yar story, "Conversation in a Doorway."

( The Great Bird Passes )

And the book ends with two ads, one for David Lawrence's amazing portraiture zines, and one for...well...

( Would you buy a used starship from this man? )