Someone recently gave me a copy of Camille Bacon-Smith's monograph Enterprising Women, which is about early Star Trek fandom. Around the middle of the book there's a scan from a fanzine, the caption for which reads, I shit you not, "Beverly Zuk's illustration for Lois Welling's The Displaced shows Spock with Susan, and Spock's five children by three partners." Apparently this sort of thing has roots.

I've also been having trouble with YA fiction. The last YA book I read was Rainbow Rowell's Fangirl, which was described to me as "a landmine of Harry Potter fandom feels." Like an idiot I took the bait, but I ended up disappointed. My impressions were something along the lines of, "I remember there being more drinking, these children are in college, why aren't they drinking." It's strange; YA fiction seems to be very open about teenage sex and nontraditional relationships these days, but Cthulhu forbid anyone is shown having a glass of wine with dinner or smoking up in the woods behind someone's house.