It was in a school computer room that I first encountered a piece of fanfiction. It must have been around 2001 and screens definitely weren’t for reading on, which is how I came to have it printed out, in my…
Our crew reviews Margaret Wander Bonanno’s 1985 Star Trek novel Dwellers in the Crucible, which has maintained a cult following due to its representation of a Kirk/Spock-like relationship between two women characters: a human and a Vulcan. Content note: includes…
The crew is joined by Erica Massey, a PhD student studying modern literature and pop culture, to discuss pre-internet Star Trek fanfiction. We discuss the fanzine production process, the culture of the early fanfic community, and debates around “slash” fic.…