From: Bizarro7@aol.com
littles@lycos.co.uk writes:
<< H/c didn't originate from B7. It appears, and correct me if I'm wrong,
to
have originated in Star Trek fandom, years before B7 was written. So regardless of whether British people wrote B7 H/C, its origins were transatlantic.<<
The discussion topic was H/C in B7 fandom. Since the first place B7 was
shown
was the U.K., and the first zines that came out were indesputably British, and many of them were H/C, by no stretch of the imagination can American
B7
fans be blamed for H/C in B7.
Very true, but I think it's reasonable to posit that at least some of those early British B7 writers were familiar with American Trekfic and hence, by that route, the h/c approach. That is not to say that UK writers were incapable of spontaneously creating their own native h/c slant as well. I really don't think this is a national culture thing. UK writers might tend to write h/c in a particular way, and US writers might also tend to write their own h/c in their own particular way, but there is a large area of common ground and I doubt if it would be possible to pin any one story to a UK or US (or Australian/NZ/other) source through the way it is written.
Neil