The Black Box
Welcome to The Black Box, a multifandom slash novel zine originally published in November 1982.
The import of these fanzine works to the AO3 was approved by the OTW Open Doors Committee in 2025 as a part of the Fan Culture Preservation Project.
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The Black Box by AO3_Fanzine_Scan_Hosting_Project, theficklepickle
Fandoms: Multi-Fandom
01 Nov 1982
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Summary
by Stuartsky with random contributions from others
The ultimate crossover; a legend in its own lunchtime! This is definitely a case of 'you had to be there'; a madcap mélange of images from fandom as it was in the early Eighties, long before slash dared to Speak Its Name. A product of our massive excitement at being able to interact with one another, with fan fiction, and with fandom as a whole. In the decades since it was completed a lot of the people mentioned in it have died, three have been accused of unspeakable crimes, and One has even been crowned King. Seen as an artefact, this is now a derelict building with 1970s wallpaper slowly peeling off the walls: it was the exuberance of another time.
DEDICATION
For one good friend of this publication the fun ended rather suddenly in August 1982.
It is to the memory of Anne Lewis, and to the recollection of the good times we shared, that this story is dedicated.
If you laugh at this story, please spare a thought for Anne. She laughed, too.