Beverly Zuk

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Name: Beverly Zuk
Alias(es): Bev Zuk, Beverly C. Zuk, Catherine Clair
Type: fanwriter, fanartist, convention organizer
Fandoms: Star Trek: TOS, Buck Rogers
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Beverly Zuk was a Star Trek: TOS fanartist and fanwriter.

Beverly died in August 2009. From her memorial page:

Bev was mostly a Trek fan, writing several novels, several of which are still available today. She particularly liked McCoy, who appealed to her sense of humor. She was one of the original members of the Trek Mafia, and helped with many SF and Media cons thru the years. [1]

In Memory

Bev was the first writer I met in fandom, and I pubished her first couple of novels on my Gestetner mimeo machine. The Trek Mafia had such a good time together, and made such fabulous true close friends. We were and are truly blessed to have had that opportunity. ~ MELISSA BAYARD CLEMMER[2]

Bev was one of my first friends in fandom. I met her through the round-robin when you sent one of my pieces around on it. She and several others stayed at my house one night after a con in NYC, and on my wall is a pen-and-ink drawing of Richard as a Vulcan child. ~ JUDY SEGAL [3]

I have fond memories of her, though I haven't been in touch with her in many many years. I think Richard will still remember her and I will pass the news along to him.[4]

I remember her as being bright, capable,and very nice to deal with.[5]

She was good fun, and highly creative, and somewhat of a costumer. [6]

In Her Own Words: 1981

From a letter to Interstat #50, see I'd like to comment, yet again, on fans and their relation to the stars. for more:

I'd like to comment, yet again, on fans and their relation to the stars. You know in an era when it's unfashionable to knock a person's race, and declasse to bring up religion, it's becoming quite the thing, especially in the media to raise issue with how a person chooses to socialize. For instance: "The brains. Goodie-goodies. Weiners. Geeks. They were different, defiantly so. They got excellent grades, even though everyone else knew better, but never let anyone copy." Just a bit of the condescension ladled out to science fiction fans by Barbara Brotman in her article "Fantasy film buffs eye future - and find it fandom-tastic", Chicago Tribune, October 11, 1981.

Which oddly enough, calls to mind the concept of IDIC. That is, the right to be different; to have a different world view; a right to have different likes and dislikes; and a right to air those different opinions. The right to differ is of course embedded in the Constitution of the United States. Why then did Mr. Roddenberry feel it necessary to take that embedded ideal out of its setting, so to speak, and placing it against the black velvet of drama, expose its many facets to the glare of public opinion? Was it perhaps, because he'd just lived through the "be like the Jones, 50s', when the great social sin was to be different or eccentric? And so Mr. Roddenberry asked a question: "What's so bad about being different?"; also, "What's so bad about being smart?"; and "What's so bad about not following the herd?" Spock was, of course, the major vehicle for those questions.

Well, it seems to me that a lot of persons heard those questions, and decided there was nothing very wrong with any of those things. A lot of those people happened to be women. By an odd twist, I believe Mr. Roddenberry did more for women's lib than Gloria Steinem. He made women accept their right to be different.

In Her Own Words: 1982

In 1982, she was nominated for a FanQ award and submitted the following bio to The Annual Fan Q Awards Nominations Booklet:

"Bev Zuk has been in fandom about six years--STAR Trek-- and has stayed mostly in that area, though she's done occasional pieces for DRACULA and STAR WARS stories. She's done illustrations and covers for many ST zines and written for some--mostly R & R under the name of Catherine Clair. She now has her own zine, THE HONORABLE SACRIFICE, written under her own name. She's been recently involved with R & R (all covers),MASIFORM D, GALACTIC DISCOURSE, GUARDIAN, THE DISPLACED, PERN PORTFOLIO, SAHSHEER, and OBSC'ZINE. She's currently studying commercial art and photography in college.... She has recently completed two projects that she is very proud of. The first was the cover and all the interior·art for Lois Welling's new zine, TRANSITIONS. And then there was her new zine, THE THIRD VERDICT, which she wrote and illustrated. Still under wraps but coming soon are publication of the cover of OBSC'ZINE 5 and interior art for ORGANIA."

A Fan's Comments

The following three zines are novels written and illustrated by the late Beverly Zuk, included [on my "zine keeper list"] because they have The Whole Package—external plots appropriate to the fictional universe (with three-dimensional characters, both established and original, and well-thought out settings) and an exploration of characters and relationships based on a genuine understanding of same and arising organically out of the plot.

The Honorable Sacrifice (1981)

The Third Verdict (1982)

Lifeboat (1989) [7]

Zine Contributions

Accumulated Leave | The Adult Kirk | Archives | Continuum | The Displaced | Diverse Dimensions | Don't! Tell It to the Captain | Dracula | Eel-Bird Banders' Bulletin | Enter-comm | Enterprise Incidents (US) | Galactic Discourse | Guardian | Grup | The Honorable Sacrifice | Lifeboat | LoneStar Trek | Masiform D | Mind Meld | Nome | Obsc'zine | The Other Side | Odyssey | Organia | Pegasus | Pern Portfolio | R & R | Rigel (Star Trek: TOS zine) | Sol Plus | Stellar Gas | Time Warp | The Third Verdict | Transition | TREKisM at Length | Vault of Tomorrow | Warped Space

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