I did know about Lee Burwasser! In fact, I think it was Theodosia who recognized the name when I mentioned it, and said she'd been in fandom longer than I'd been alive.

Suela, I want to see those boxes some day. Not just for the coinage of terms, but because I bet one could work up a social history of plot development from them and from later archives.

I bet one could work up a social history of plot development from them and from later archives.

And who says time is wasted on fanfic and college degrees? From such small beginnings are great sociological theories born.

Nutty, I'd love to spend a day poking through them with you, unfortunately you'd have to get out here soonish. They were donated for the Save the Children project Fi's putting together, and I'm inventorying them for auction.

Still, Lois Bujold! Heh. And I had no idea Lee had been around that long. Quite interesting. One of the stories I saw by her was called "The Hoplite" and it was... Bible-fic? I guess. Although weren't Hoplites Greek? Huh. Anyway, it seemed unrelated to Trek but there it was in an old copy of Spockanalia.

There's some great stuff in those collections, though, including some stories I remember reading in The New Voyages compilations.

Hoplites were heavy infantry, yes, and they were Greek.

Make copies before you give them away!

Okay, I am an obsessive archivist. Not everybody is like that.

I have a rec!

Impact, by Silver. It's a time-travel story about Cordelia, set in AtS S1 and S4. Great characterization, Cordy has her snark on, and it has a sniffly-happy ending.

Mosca rec'ed me.

Linguistic update: I have found print sources from 1984 (Leslie Fish, and a couple of others), so it may be possible to "chain" backwards through their citations to find an earlier print use of the word "slash". Less luck with the "K/S", although I found evidence that "Kirk/Spock" was in use in 1975, as used in a fanzine essay quoted by Camille Bacon-Smith. (I'll have page refs when I get home; they're all marked, but I didn't bring the books to work with me.)

I also found that the coining of "Mary Sue" as a noun was very soon after the first Mary Sue story was widely published. By 1974 the term was well-known and seemed to need no explanation.

I love this stuff. It's so cool.

You know what? Michele, you might have your linguist friend try contacting Camille Bacon-Smith directly. I know she's online and still in fandom (I've been on some listservs with her) and I bet she probably still has a lot of the old-style contacts who (a) were actually into K/S in the 70s and (b) still have print fanzines lying around in collections.

Me, I've never even seen a print fanzine.

Go SA! That's cool!

Go Nutty! That's cool stuff!

Go Fandom. Fandom is cool.

Signed, everything is so cool today I think I may have sucked one too many icecubes.

Me, I've never even seen a print fanzine.

Hubby has an old one with some Kirk/Uhura plus a "McCoy goes home on shoreleave and meets up with old flame while dealing with assorted shenanigans" plus a fun but truly silly "incredibly sexy female ambassador/entire male command staff on sucessive nights." Kirk gives it the trademark Starfleet try, Spock fakes her out with a nerve pinch and post-hypnotic type suggestion, McCoy goes all Southern gentleman, Chekhov is just grateful as hell, and Scotty is thinking, "Finally! My turn! Let me show you what a Starfleet engineer can do!" Truly, truly silly, not explicit, but funny.

SA and Am-Chou, I found y'all both rec'ed at Blue Laces it's in the 22. For Fastlane and MASH.