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Slow Train to Immortality

Claire Brialey & Randy Byers & Mark Plummer

First published 2010
Format A4
Type Nonfiction
Cover art D. West
Pages 98

  • A collection of British fan writing and art, 1995-2009, produced for Corflu Cobalt, Winchester, England, March 2010.
  • Cover art is titled "W. Heath Robinson Discovers Fanzines".
  • Binding is glue, not staples.

Page Title Author(s) Type
5 In Praise of Baad Grrls Randy Byers Essay
6 Fanzine Time? Mark Plummer Essay
7 Because We Can Claire Brialey Essay
9 Slow Train to Nirvana Paul Kincaid Essay
12 Evolution in Action Steve Davies Essay
13 'Tommy Who?' Mark McCann Essay
18 Guinness Is Good for You Alison Scott Essay
18 Losing Mars Sue Jones Essay
21 Women Behaving Indecorously Yvonne Rowse Essay
22 State of the Nation: A Pre-Corflatch, Post-Millennial UK Fandom Round Up Lilian Edwards Essay
26 Mutate - Activate - Deviate! Sandra Bond Essay
29 The Myth of the British Fanzine Convention Christina Lake Essay
31 Sloughing It in Leicester Dave Hicks Essay
33 Mimeomento Alison Freebairn Essay
44 The Time Traveller Returns David Redd Essay
46 Left on the Shelf: Personal Experiences of the Public Library Ron Bennett Essay
47 The Fanzine as Beermat Tony Keen Essay
48 The Other White Meat Giulia De Cesare Essay
49 He Remembered My Name Max Essay
51 A Plan for the Assassination of Ian Sorensen Considered as a Downhill Bicycle Race Nic Farey Essay
52 A Sick Mind Cheryl Morgan Essay
53 The Trouser Press Incident Douglas Spencer Essay
54 Peer Groping on the Campaign Trail James Bacon Essay
56 Wallowing in Memory and Sentiment Again Greg Pickersgill Essay
57 Torching John Brosnan Dave Langford Essay
61 Stepping Twice in the Same Stream ... Maureen Kincaid Speller Essay
62 Premature Burial Steve Green Essay
64 Journal of Recursive Studies Gene Melzack Essay
65 An Abecediary of Book-Thinning Tanya Brown Essay
69 Running Up That Hill: or, Life with the Brunners John Nielsen Hall Essay
77 An Old Cat in Texas Graham Charnock Essay
81 We're Jammin' Ang Rosin Essay
84 Ten Things I Learned from the Arthur C. Clarke Award Niall Harrison Essay
86 Plokta People Mike Scott Poem
87 You: Cider: Ian Sorensen Doug Bell Essay
90 In Pursuit of Immortality Peter Weston Essay