-2- T-Negative 30/31, March 1976, from Ruth Berman, 5620 Edgewater Boulevard, Minnea­ polis Minnesota 55417. Comes out irregularly, and see page 3. probable reasons for the arrival of this in your mail-carrier's pack: (^)l felt llke sendinS it (S) You contributed You paid money at the rate of $1/2 or $2.50/slx, and your subscription is currently due to end: issue issue #35 & see page 3 for issue #30 x issue #31 h*—\ what else I owe you send $2.50\__ / send $2.00v__ / if renewing if renewing Back issues are 75//one or $2.5O/four. At present #'s 1-14, 22-29 are available. I plan eventually to reprint all the missing Issues. contents cover: Gee Moaven Vulcan Couple, by Shirley Meech 2 matters editorial by Ruth Berman 3 lino by Anne Braude G Above High C3 by Phyllis Ann Karr 4 illustrations: Janice p. 3; Puzzle (& solution to puzzle in T-N 26) . 12 Bunnie Jackson p. 4; Gennle by Jackie Franke Summers pp. 5, 11; D.L. Eye-Opener by Ruth Berman 13 Collin p. 7; Rae Ladore p. 9; The Birthday Gift by Melisa Michaels 17 Rosalind Ludwig p. 12; Connie Music (theme associated with Scott transcribed 18 Faddls p. 14; Gary Hawfitch by Donald Koch and a tune to "Fragment of p. 16; Heather Firth p. 25; a Klingon Chantey" by Amy Falkowitz Wendy Lindboe T-Mlnus p. 5; T-Waves: letters (including Hucksters) 19 Alan Andres T-Mlnus p. 4; List of ST zines received 24 Anita Nordstrom p. 22. Some "Genesis II" reviews 27 Melisa Michaels p. 13. T-Mlnus 30 and counting by Paula Smith bacover by D.L. Collin Brag Department: I had a poem, "Winter Solstice," In Green's Magazine, Vol IV No. 2 Winter 1976 ($1.50> Box 313 Detroit MI 48231); a story’ by me, "Visit to a Weird Planet Re-visited," reprinted from Spockanalla 5, and a story by me and Eleanor Arnason, "The Face on the Bar-room Floor," reprinted from T-Negatlve 18, are in gtarTrek: The New Voyages, ed. Sondra Marshak & Myrna Culbreath (Bantam #X2719; $1’,Y5). Also reprinted rrom T-N in this collection: "Intersection Point" by Juanita Coulson" and "Sonnet from the Vulcan: Omicron Ceti Three" by Shirley Meech. Most of the other story-contrlbuters have also had stories or letters In T-N. Oh, and another poem, "Spinster," in Bitterroot, Autumn 1974 ($1-50, Blythebourne Station Box 51 Brooklyn NY 11219). Vulcan Couple by Shirley Meech The dark fire smoulders as your eyes meet mine; Our minds reach out, embrace, enfold, entwine. The humans say, "See how they stand apart -- It's plain these aliens are cold of heart." Poor humans — so Imprisoned, so confined, To never know the Joining of the mind! For all their touching, they can never be So closely held and truly loved as we. -3- //Z atters editorial As you've probably noticed, I've And speaking of ceasing publication been running off two issues of T-N at a — I've received several letters from time in order to save on postage and friends complaining about not receiving envelopes. The new changes in book fanzines ordered and wondering what to do rate vs. printed matter postage are when a fanzine ceases publication without such that 1 can balance out part of the returning subscription monies. So I sus­ new postage raise by paginating and pect it's a widespread problem and such stapling the two Issues as a single advice as I have to offer may be helpful. double-size issue big enough to mail as a book. As for the rest of the postage First, allow about a year to be sure raise -- in switching the subscription that the fanzine has really stopped. rates over to even numbers, I'm making (Perhaps even more for the type of large, a small raise. To wit: $l/double issue infrequent zine that only comes out once instead of 50^/issue; $2.50/six (three a year or so.) Then write a couple of doubles) instead of $2/flve; back times (allowing a month or so between issues $2.5O/four instead of $2/three letters) to ask for an estimated date-of- (that one, however, works out a bit next-publicatlon or the return of your cheaper for you, as a consolation). money -- AND ENCLOSE A RETURN ENVELOPE . AND POSTAGE. Then if there's no response, Unfortunately, I've been finding try locating a friend or relative nearby the work of putting out T-N getting to who could phone or visit on your behalf. be a bit too much for me. I plan to Or try writing the community's Better put out four more issues (two doubles) Business Bureau and ask it to enquii'e on to use up material on hand, and then your behalf. Falling all that -- your cease publication. However, I will money is probably lost. continue reprinting the out-of-print issues and plan to keep all the issues But why do fanzine editors pull such in print indefinitely. For those of an unfriendly trick on their readers, you whose subscriptions run further ask a couple of my correspondents? Not ahead than #35, I plan to send you the out of intentional dishonesty, I'm sure following back issues: -- the money involved isn't enough to abscond to Rio and live on it. The usual reasons are illness, love, a new school, I'll send these issues with the next or a new job. That's to say, anything T-N or as soon thereafter as I get demanding enough to stop the editor from them reprinted. If you already have putting out the zine in the first place all the issues of T-N (or if your sub is probably also troublesome enough to is for more than the back Issues you keep the editor from getting around to lack), I plan to send you: returning subscriptions. (The defaulting editor is probably still holding hopes of I'll send the money with or shortly getting around to it Real Soon Now, or after the last T-N. If you'd rather even holding on to the money in hopes of have money instead of back issues, or getting out an issue ... someday. ) It's would rather have extra back Issues foolish, rude, and Immoral, but all too than money, please let me know. human. In one case that I've heard of, the editors have arranged to have some other fans bring out a large ''farewell" issue to be distributed to those with sub­ scriptions yet to be filled -- that's the newsletter Star-borne, which was put out by the Star Trek Association for Revival. (The editorial staff was hit with illness and school, I believe.) So I'd imagine that a sensible procedure in this case would be to wait another year before send­ ing any query letters. (My Information is secondhand, but such as it is there it is.) Mira -4- "Star Trek" characters copyright by Paramount "Asterix" characters copyright by Dargaud and Brockhampton Press (/ABOVE HIGH C by Phyllis Ann Karr Captain's Log, Star Date 56^4/7. calls began reaching the bridge from crew The landing party has Just beamed up members asking whether this was a test of from the surface of the planet Glisson some new alarm system or only another im­ 4 in the Sigmato~n~Earl cluster. After mediately impending catastrophe; and the qur help in ridding the planet1s sur- powdered non-dairy creamer in Kirk's face of a strange swarm of deadly giant coffee curdled. One young crewman, an Flectlbus Orpati of a type previously assistant in the engine-room, was later reported nowhere else in the galaxy reported as having enjoyed the sound, but, except on Garbarlsh b in the Dimterion as Chief Engineer Scott observed in his Omegan nebula , 10,007 TTght""years away, gentle burr, "He's an excellent lad and a the Gllssonlans insisted on our accept­ fine worker, but he has a verra strange ing a large crystalline specimen, one ear." of the ancient treasure’s of their civilization... "There!" exclaimed helmsman Sulu, pointing. Between the control panel and "All the same, we shouldn't've the chair in which Spock sat examining taken it, Jim," said Dr. Leonard McCoy. the Gllssonian crystal, the air was waver­ "It's like robbing their temple, taking ing into an elusive outline. Spock's away the cornerstone of their religion eyebrow shot up. "Obviously a kind of or something." beaming device," he said, "but why here rather than in the transporter room?" "I know, Bones, but they didn't give us much choice, did they? I al­ The outline solidified into a blond most got the impression High Priest be-mustached character wearing a checked Zamrod was going to ram it down our tunic and poising one hand over the throats if we didn't accept it." strings of a small lyre. "Fascinating," remarked Spock. "A Gaulish Celt, if I'm "Fascinating," said First Science not mistaken, from your First or Second Officer Spock, gazing into the depths century B.C." of the large, many-faceted orange crys­ tal threaded with greenish metallic The Gaul swept his eyes round the strands which crossed and recrossed at bridge. They naturally came to rest upon its heart. "Granted that we saved Mr. Spock, with his pointed ears and their underground city-state from al­ slanting brows. "Are you Toutatis or most certain extinction at the pincers Belenos?" inquired the Gaul.