I realized, while shaving yesterday, that it was ten years ago, this very week, that I discovered online Star Trek fandom.
And it was a very narrow part of fandom that I found.
It was Star Trek novels fandom. On the old Pocket Books Bulletin Board.
A bunch of people I “met” ten years ago this week. Jim McCain. Alex Rosenzweig. David Henderson. Corey Tacker. Bob Manojlovich. John “JJ” Ordover. Within a year, people like Baerbel, and Gillian, and authors like Susan Shwartz. And in April ’98 I picked up a novelization of a FOX television movie called Gargantua.
Ten years. Star Trek fandom.
Things change in ten years. Things change a lot in ten years.
Raise a glass. 🙂
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A writer, editor, journalist, sometimes coder, occasional historian, and all-around scholar, Allyn Gibson is the writer for Diamond Comic Distributors' monthly PREVIEWS catalog, used by comic book shops and throughout the comics industry, and the editor for its monthly order forms. In his over ten years in the industry, Allyn has interviewed comics creators and pop culture celebrities, covered conventions, analyzed industry revenue trends, and written copy for comics, toys, and other pop culture merchandise. Allyn is also known for his short fiction (including the Star Trek story "Make-Believe,"the Doctor Who short story "The Spindle of Necessity," and the ReDeus story "The Ginger Kid"). Allyn has been blogging regularly with WordPress since 2004.
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