Julia wrote >> Believe it or not, there *are* people out there for whom it is significantly cheaper to buy zines than to buy Internet access. I know - I was one of them when I first started reading fanfic five or six years ago.

Nico > I can see that, but for those of us on the other side of the world (well, here in NZ anyway), it's impossible to find zines which aren't sold on the net, and very expensive to buy them too, as P&P is usually as much as if not more than the price of the zine.

(snipped thought unavailable, love more, 2nd-hand book shops)

David writes I know a contact in New Zealand who is thinking of setting up a Lending Library of B7 Zines. He already has a handful of items to lend.

The Library would buy the occasional new item and would buy away from the net, but mainly it would buy second-hand and in bulk, thereby reducing costs.

It only takes two or three members, and the Library would be considered a lending concern. Why, there might even be half a dozen members by year-end (Dec '02).

Nico > I anvy you your access to zines! But I suppose we all have to accept there are a lot of stories we'll never read and enjoy, :-(

David Let's try and get some of the stories. Put onto a list, you and any other New Zealanders so motivated, the names of five or ten zines you would like access to in the next months. Put on it also any details of where to obtain the thing. And let us pool our resources and buy a heap of zines in the New Year. If any NZ'ers are interested, send the list you have written to the above email address before February '02 and I will pass it along the relevant channels.

As for my fic, you won't see it on paper. It is strictly web-based because it is a lot of work printing onto paper. The internet in general will save many a tree, moreover.

I write mainly about the B7 women. There is a mythical Post-GP story at the first link below. It has a Jenna and a Cally but no living Avon nor a live Blake, so it is not to the majority's taste. Blake's burial is at the second link. An unfinished story on Rashel is at the third link.

DC

http://www.gaudaprime.com/Calenna/FromGPToCJ43.html http://www.gaudaprime.com/BlakeWake/Wake.html http://www.gaudaprime.com/Rashel/index.html (Links expire 2-2-2.)