WANTED: Authors from old fanzines

by **chrisbishop** » Thu Aug 17, 2006 1:47 am

Some of you might remember - or have seen - the Fan Fiction zine produced by Fanderson in the 90s. It was called "21st Century Fiction" and it featured many of your favourite Gerry Anderson characters in fan stories. And that, of course, included Captain Scarlet.

The zine lasted three issues in all. And I am fortunate to have those three issues (thanks Hazel for providing the one I didn't have until recently!)

But I would like to get in touch with the authors who provided the stories in this zine. Most particularly the authors of the Captain Scarlet stories. I would like to ask them if they would be interested in seeing their stories posted on the Spectrum HQ site, and so sharing their stories with all the fans who have not been fortunate enough to get hold of the 21st Century Fiction zine.

The site already has Mary J. Rudy's "Moonlight Rhapsody", that she wrote for Issue 3 (Mary also provided all of her other fan fic for this site). But I don't know how to get hold of the other authors. So I'm making a call through this forum to try to find them. Either they will read these lines - or maybe someone they know will.

Those writers I'm trying to find are:

- Pam Brown (author of "Scarlet's woman" , Issue 1, and "Loving the alien", Issue 3)
- John A. Mariani (author of "The Last Captain Scarlet story", Issue 1)
- Keith Martin (author of HQ Hijack, Issue 3)
- Colin Taylor (author of the long story "Crisis" in Issue 2)

Please contact me through e-mail at spectrum_hq@hotmail.com. If you know the authors, tell them I'm looking for them. If you are one of the author - well, just write me a line, either you want to have your story - or stories - published or not.

by **hazel** » Thu Aug 17, 2006 8:06 pm

I believe that Pam Brown is a friend of Doc Denim's, so she may be able to put you in touch. I see Colin Taylor at cons occasionally, and will make a note for myself to mention that you're tying to contact him.

by **Doc Denim** » Mon Aug 21, 2006 4:21 am

I believe that Pam Brown is a friend of Doc Denim's

Doc Denim responds: Guilty as charged! (and pleased to be able to say so)

Message relayed, awaiting response...

Doc Denim

by **shaqui** » Mon Aug 21, 2006 6:37 am

Silly question but has anyone tried contacting the editor of the magazine? I know it's some years back but you never know...

by **hazel** » Mon Aug 21, 2006 6:53 pm

Yes, I did. No response, I'm afraid.

by **chrisbishop** » Wed Aug 23, 2006 1:48 am

Following my earlier request, one of our members contacted me to suggest two other writers' names to be added to our 'Wanted' list. I am not sure of the fanzine(s) in which these authors published their stories - I think it's Shockwave (Correct me if I'm wrong, Elentari...)

The autors are as followed:

Hilary Perry, who wrote "Resurrection".
Lee C. Highway, who wrote "Working Relationship".

With a little luck, I may be able to find Lee C. Highway. But any information is welcomed!

Thanks to everyone for trying.

Chris

P.S.: Shaqui, thanks for the information you provided. We'll look into it.

by **chrisbishop** » Wed Aug 30, 2006 5:01 pm

One of the wanted writers has been found and has accepted to see her story posted on the website.

Thanks to Kathy Bleathman for her help in locating Hilary Perry.

"Resurrection" will be posted on the website at some point during the following weeks.

by **chrisbishop** » Sat Sep 23, 2006 4:13 pm

Thanks to Doc Denim for her help to locate Pam Brown - who wrote a little note in the 'Guests' section of this forum, giving this site permission to post her stories. Thank you 'Ironwolf'!

The story "Scarlet's Woman", by Pam Brown, which first appeared in 21st Century Fiction has just been posted on Spectrum Headquarters. To be followed in a few days by "Loving the Alien". Sadly, those are the only stories by Pam that I have at the moment. I don't have other stories that had been written under the name 'Rennells'. If someone can provide with those stories - in whatever format, I would be graceful.

Also to be posted during the "Halloween Challenge" - to show you that the subject doesn't have to be specific to Halloween (wonderfully weird or horrific will do very well) - is the story by Hilary Perry, "Resurrection". Thanks to Hilary to allow this site to publish her story online.

We are still trying to locate Lee C. Highway (the last efforts weren't conclusive), John A. Mariani, Keith Martin and Colin Taylor. IF anyone can help us in reaching them, please contact the webmaster of this site through a post, PM or e-mail (spectrum_hq@hotmail.com). We really want to get in touch with these people.

Also to add on the list of author to find:

Jack Heston, who wrote, amongst other stories, "Mandalay" (for the fanzine Syndicated Images), and "The Final Illusion". There might be other stories by Jack, but those are the only ones I have.

If you have other authors to suggest to add to this list - who had written Captain Scarlet stories in the past in fanzines - or elsewhere, who knows, maybe fansites which might have disappeared?), please feel free to mention them or contact me.

by **hazel** » Sat Sep 23, 2006 5:31 pm

It's a bit of a long shot, but you might be able to get in touch with Jack Heston via this link:
http://www.dream-craft.com/redalert/home1.htm The Red Alert zine is defunct (shame), but the site is still active, and it's owned by the same people who published Syndicated Images.

by **hazel** » Sun Sep 28, 2008 1:45 pm

chrisbishop wrote:Those writers I'm trying to find are:

- Pam Brown (author of "Scarlet's woman" , Issue 1, and "Loving the alien", Issue 3)
- John A. Mariani (author of "The Last Captain Scarlet story", Issue 1)
- Keith Martin (author of HQ Hijack, Issue 3)
- Colin Taylor (author of the long story "Crisis" in Issue 2)

Sorry for necro-posting, but I've just noticed that Colin Taylor is a member of the Fanderson Yahoo group. Did you manage to get in touch with him, or would you like me to drop him a line via the group?

by **Mary** » Sun Sep 28, 2008 2:19 pm

hazel wrote:
chrisbishop wrote:Those writers I'm trying to find are:

- Pam Brown (author of "Scarlet's woman" , Issue 1, and "Loving the alien", Issue 3)
- John A. Mariani (author of "The Last Captain Scarlet story", Issue 1)
- Keith Martin (author of HQ Hijack, Issue 3)
- Colin Taylor (author of the long story "Crisis" in Issue 2)

Sorry for necro-posting, but I've just noticed that Colin Taylor is a member of the Fanderson Yahoo group. Did you manage to get in touch with him, or would you like me to drop him a line via the group?

I think Colin Taylor is already a member here, by the username of "Colin," but contact him anyway as the website link Colin has in his profile http://cmtaylor.members.beeb.net/ is no longer valid.

Chris - Since we have already found some of these authors perhaps you'd like to start a new thread listing the names we still haven't managed to contact? Then we can delete this one.

by **chrisbishop** » Mon Sep 29, 2008 3:17 am

I would prefer NOT to delete this one, because some of these people didn't contact us directly, and it will show them that we had been trying for some time to get a hold of them.

We might also consider closing it, but if we keep it open, we might have contact from these people eventually... and they might have something to offer us, who knows? Them - or someone else entirely.

I would say - keep the topic alive and open.

by **Mary** » Mon Sep 29, 2008 11:05 pm

OK, fine, then how about posting an update so we know who is still MIA? The original thread is over two years old now.

by **Colin** » Tue Oct 07, 2008 10:07 pm

Hi, did someone knock?

by **chrisbishop** » Tue Oct 07, 2008 11:15 pm

Hello Colin! How are you? I was wondering if you were still around (even though your name is on the memberlist) because your registration to this forum coincided with problems we had with the forum some times ago!

Mary had rightly stated in an earlier post that this topic is over two years old, and in the meantime, we have taken the liberty of including your wonderful story "Crisis" - which had appeared long ago in the pages of 21rst Century Fiction. You might have found it already, with a note acknowledging where it was coming from and also addressing you. If not, check this page:

http://www.spectrum-headquarters.com/fanfic/crisis.htm

By posting this story, we hoped to attract your attention, so that you will eventually contact us. We did the same with other writers as well (Jack Heston and Mike Adamson come to mind - and they had also made contact we us) and we are pleased to now see, not only appear, but becoming a member of our forum!

So I will welcome you to our forum, and will hope that you will continue to interact and have some fun with us here!