1968
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1968 is a year of modern fan fiction infancy. Events with lasting repercussions that will be for felt years and years did not seem to be happening. The Star Trek community will produce a few zines. These are, according to Joan Marie Verba in Bolding Writing, ST-Phile 1 which went to press in January and had permission to publish from Gene Roddenberry, and Spockanalia 2 which was published in April, which had several letters from the cast. The latter zine is notable because it contained a piece of fan fiction by Lois McMaster Bujold who would later go pro and win a Hugo award for her writing. Spockanalia 3 came out in September. ST-Phile 2 would be published in November.
At the same time that these Star Trek fanzines were being published, the other parts of the Star Trek community were still heavily involved in the existing science fiction community. Members attended science fiction conventions, helped to run conventions, and published and contributed to science fiction fanzines. This relationship of the two existing in the same community space would continue for a number of years.
The Sherlock Holmes community would continue on with its various activities, clubs and discussions. Their practices and fan fiction culture, which they called pastiche, would remain far removed from media based fan fiction for almost 30 years before beginning to integrate into, on minimal level, the larger fan fiction community. This separation was most likely the result of this community seeing its practices as part of a long standing literary tradition.
In canon universes, Star Trek was still on the air, Man from U.N.C.L.E. was in its last season, Captain Scarlet and the Mysterons is in its first and only year on television and Dark Shadows was still on the air.
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