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.
| Publication | 2010 |
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