TSV 45

September 1995

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TSV 45
Published September 1995

Editor
Paul Scoones
Assistant Editor
Nicholas Withers
Layout Assistants
Daniel Spragg, Matthew Dentith
Front cover art
Alistair Hughes
Back cover art
Paul Potiki
Regular Contributors
Peter Adamson, Graham Howard, Jon Preddle, Alistair Hughes, Graham Muir
Printing
New Zealand Typewriters Ltd

Comments

The Key to Time theme, (linking in with the release of Season 16 on video), was fine in theory but a nightmare to coordinate. Each story review was by a different writer, some of who delivered on time and others - for the best of reasons - were so late that it looked for a time as if only part of the season would be covered. The issue met with criticism from those who felt that the theme was too overpowering, leaving little content for those not interested in the Key to Time adventures. Kate Orman provided an article on the writing of Set Piece, and Andrew Cook and Peter Adamson created the comic strip Sums Over Histories. TSV moved to a quarterly schedule, a change forced by editor Paul Scoones starting a new job. The issue was hastily completed with the assistance of Nicholas Withers over two twelve-hour sessions. The experience gave rise to a new desk-top publishing approach to producing the issue in 1996...

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