Slow Train to Immortality

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Slow Train to Immortality was a 2010 fanthology (subtitled "Collection of British Fanwriting and Art 1995-2009") sponsored by Corflu 27 and edited by Claire Brialey, Randy Byers and Mark Plummer. It had 98 pages, A4 perfect bound with pale blue covers.

The content was intended to cover the period from the Timebytes fanthologies produced for Intersection, the 1995 Worldcon, to Corflu 27. The title is derived from a literal description of the contents, from Paul Kincaid's 'Slow Train to Nirvana' to Peter Weston's 'In Pursuit of Immortality?'. Content was selected by the editors who acknowledged suggestions from Doug Bell, Kim Huett, Christina Lake, Robert Lichtman, Ian Maule, Mike Meara and Greg Pickersgill.

Author Title Source
D. West Cover: 'W Heath Robinson Discovers Fanzines' Attitude #12, October 1997
Randy Byers 'In Praise of Baad Grrls' Editorial
Mark Plummer 'Fanzine Time?' Editorial
Claire Brialey 'Because We Can' Editorial
Dave Hicks 'The European Standard Fan' (art) Empties #16, November 1995
Paul Kincaid 'Slow Train to Nirvana' Waxen Wings and Banana Skins #3, Summer 1996
Steve Davies 'Evolution in Action' Plokta v1 #3 (#3), August 1996
Mark McCann 'Tommy Who?' Götterdämmerung #8, January 1997
Harry Turner 'Pulsar' (art) Banana Wings #5, February 1997
D. West 'M C Escher Discovers Conventions' (art) Attitude #12, October 1997
Sue Jones 'Losing Mars' Tortoise #2, Winter 1998
Alison Scott 'Guinness is Good for You' Plokta v4 #2 (#14), June 1999
Yvonne Rowse 'Women Behaving Indecorously' Barmaid #7, July 1999
Lilian Edwards 'State of the Nation: a pre-Corflatch, post-Millennial UK fandom round up' The Wrong Leggings (#5), February 2000
Sandra Bond 'Mutate – Activate – Deviate! Quasiquote #2, April 2000
Christina Lake 'The Myth of the British Fanzine Convention' Head! #2, September 2000
Dave Hicks 'Sloughing it in Leicester' Gloss #2, November 2000
Alison Freebairn 'Mimeomento' Shebang, April 2001.
D. West 'The Horror, The Horror' (art) Head! #4, October 2001
Alison Scott 'Middle Plokta' (art) Plokta v7 #4 (#25), January 2002
Dave Hicks 'Dave and Jim' (art) Banana Wings #17, May 2002
Dave Hicks 'Dress D. West!' (art) Floss #2, May 2002
David Redd 'The Time Traveller Returns' Banana Wings #17, May 2002
Ron Bennett 'Left on the Shelf: personal experiences of the public library' Banana Wings #18, October 2002
Tony Keen 'The Fanzine as Beermat' Bogus #7, March 2003
Giulia De Cesare 'The Other White Meat' Plokta v8 #1 (#29), April 2003
Max 'He Remembered My Name' They Made Us Do It #3, Spring 2003
Nic Farey 'A Plan for the Assassination of Ian Sorensen Considered as a Downhill Bicycle Race' Head! #6, July 2003
Cheryl Morgan 'A Sick Mind' Emerald City #97, September 2003
Douglas Spencer 'The Trouser Press Incident' Banana Wings #19, April 2004
James Bacon 'Peer Groping on the Campaign Trail' Chunga #8, February 2005
Greg Pickersgill 'Wallowing in Memory and Sentiment Again' Banana Wings #21, February 2005
Dave Langford 'Torching John Brosnan' Chunga #10, June 2005
Maureen Kincaid Speller 'Stepping Twice in the Same Stream…' Zoo Nation #6, June/July 2005.
Steve Green 'Premature Burial' Zoo Nation #6, June/July 2005
Gene Melzack 'Journal of Recursive Studies' Meta #2, August 2005
Tanya Brown 'An Abecediary of Book-Thinning' Banana Wings #30, May 2007
John Nielsen Hall 'Running Up That Hill: or, Life with the Brunners' Prolapse #7, June 2007
Graham Charnock 'An Old Cat in Texas' Inca #2, June 2007
Ang Rosin 'We're Jammin' ' Banana Wings #31, August 2007
Harry Bell Cover (art) Inca #3, April 2008
Niall Harrison 'Ten Things I Learned From the Arthur C. Clarke Award' Banana Wings #34, May 2008
Mike Scott 'Plokta People' Plokta v14 #1 (#39½), January 2009
Doug Bell 'You: Cider: Ian Sorensen' Head! #8, March 2009.
Peter Weston 'In Pursuit of Immortality?' Relapse #15, Autumn 2009

Additional artwork by Jim Barker, Dave Hicks, Andrew Hogg, Steve Jeffery, Sue Jones, Sue Mason, Alison Scott, John Toon and D. West.


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