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  FANZINES from CORNER TO CORNER 5 PORTALS Volume 3 Number 2 Overall Issue 6. DOCTOR WHO, BLAKE’S 7, STAR TREK and other fan fic No year is stated by the editor, the nice Maryann Johanson, signs it with the year 1988 so I guess it is from 1988.   The cover is nice. Let me start by stating that all of the stories here are well written. That written, most of them, probably all of them, are just no longer my cup of tea and I’m not sure they ever really were. I bought it because I loved and still love the character of Adric and there’s a story here where Doctor 6 and Peri are drawn toward the Freighter that blew up with Adric on it (supposedly, there are numerous stories, both fan made and professionally released that dispute that; one an audio from Big Finish is awful; the other from the FASA role playing game has a far better outcome). In any case, the Sixth Doctor meets Adric but still lets him die anyway. That story is AFTERSHOCK by Michael S. Lucart, who also writ...

  THE EXILE WRITER-WILLAM REED WOODFIELD DIR-JAMES GOLDSTONE MUSIC-PAUL SAWTELL   TEASER October 3rd, 1974 (and AFTER the second season episode AND FIVE OF US ARE LEFT-circa--Nov. 16, 1973--!!!!???!!!): a dictator of the People's Republic is about to be shot (the country is it---China? Nope. Russia? Seems like it? Some other country? Fictional one? We are not told and this time, it may be a good thing we are not--it is better left to the imagination). Dictator Alexi (or Alexis) Brynov is to be shot, "Today my comrades kill me--tomorrow I kill them."    A man leads the execution. This same man, Josip, who asked Alexi if he wanted a blindfold (he did not want one!) and who Alexi spit on before the shooting due to this question, has set up this escape and told him to be steady. The firing squad is shot by men on the roof of the nearby building. Josip spirits Alexi away.      ACT ONE We see the teletype and the camera zooms in and out. Ne...