Star Trek to Star Wars: Fanfiction History 1960-1999

I love these videos so much, please keep them coming!!! You have such a wonderful way of summing things up!

Lynoth

RIP Starbase Gallifrey 🙏🤣🤣🤣

CatSubstrate

I heard Anne McCaffery politely but firmly decline to read fans' Pern fiction for contractual reasons at Norwestcon in 1986. She seemed happy for them to write it, though.

CatSubstrate

I heard my hubby explain usenet to our son (born 2004) a couple of days ago. I joined to reminisce about alt.bondage particle_physics and alt.ensign.wesley.die.die.die. (Note: its been so long since people wrote about these things that Google Keyboard just "fixed" my grammar 15 times in that sentence.)

CatSubstrate

"Yeah... It's gonna be fun." Ruh-roh, Raggy...

ShdwWolf

I remember the X-Files usenet group well, as well as its offshoot, X-Ville, where people took characters from pretty much anything & told their adventures in the X-Filesesque setting of X-Ville. It was quite a ride...

wiredwizard42

Jill and Bill Wurtz team-up to describe the history of various things when 😁

Jesse Thompson

That'll do, Jill. That'll do.

Graham William Kidd

Collating and stapling home made magazine, now that takes me back!

Alex B

Bren Sci Fi Heroine fan fic "tentacle monster forced intrusion" story is more popular (¥) than all the other stories combined. Humans are disturbing. (¥:) More hits than the other stories combined, and most kudos, but not more kudos than the other stories combined.

Ekij

Home PCs occurred long before people had dial up internet. The ZX Spectrum, commodore 64 etc were early 1980s but very very few of them were connected to the internet.

Ekij

Hi Ann, I was in high school when the original came out, so I got to stay up to watch. The whole family loved it. It was shown on Friday nights. Which was when the high school football games were played. I was in the band, so I had to go to the games. Our band director was a HUGE Star Trek fan and I can still hear him loudly encouraging us to hurry up cuz he was locking up the band room, cuz Star Trek is about to start and he wasn't going to miss it because we were taking our sweet time putting our instruments away. I also didn't miss those episodes because of him. Thank you, Mr. Workman, wherever you are.

Donna Flood

Cyn Virtue

I don't think Mary Sue is necessarily a self-insert; I think self-insert was the explanation for why so many fan fics had a Mary Sue character (brilliant, loved by all, always wins etc), which justifies the wider use 9even given that the term is still abused). Simply being a self-insert isn't sufficient or even necessary.

Jonathan Campbell

There are several authors I was introduced to when Andre Norton and Anne McCaffrey chose them as co-authors. I know Mercedes Lackey did fanfic; I don't know about Elizabeth Moon and the other authors I can't remember at the moment!

Ann Brookens

I was in 5th grade when Star Trek first aired. I was really excited by it but it was on at 10 PM and I was a kid: my parents sent us to bed by 9! I saw very little Star Trek. In 9th grade, I discovered Andre Norton. And in the backs of her books were ads for fanzines. For a poor rural kid in the 60's, that was interesting but ultimately unattainable. Somehow, I feel like I failed as a fan! No fanzines, no conventions. I eventually watched every episode of OG Star Trek, STtNG, Deep Space 9, every movie, read the books Roddenberry had published of the making of Star Trek and the episodes aired... That was how I showed my fan status

Ann Brookens

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Jill Bearup

I went to the trektennial in '75 @ the NY Hilton. I think there were a dozen of us in one hotel room. Cast and other writers (squee to Ben Bova) were very approachable.

Shlom

Born in 1962, so this was a fun "wayback machine" for me. I could almost smell the mimeograph and hear it churning away. I never had the pocket money to get a fanzine, and my older siblings tended to buy records, though sometimes comics. I remember going to Star Wars, I believe I was 15, with my best friend & her mom. It was almost sold out, so we had to sit separately. I was in the front row and got a sore neck from looking up. I think that was the newest "big screen" rolled out specifically for Star Wars.

Margaret MacLellan

We *really* need to see your self-insert Harry Potter fanfiction.

Anders

Ohhh, I’m excited!! I’ve recently been reading a lot of books about Anne McCaffrey and her relationship to fanfic, and science fiction writers of America… and the early writer’s conferences in Milford PA where Anne McCaffrey, and Isaac Asimov, and Andre Norton (I think), and Judy Del Ray, and more … just hung out in a little conference room for a weekend, and like… shaped the modern sci-fi genre. (I think that was in the 60s or 70s, before Anne moved to Ireland) All that to say, I’m VERY excited to watch this video! Starting… NOW!

Janellea Macbeth