In 2000, I decided to scale down the size and number of pages of Ntzeon, so that it would form a nice little pocket-book and also not be so costly to print. What I created was a new project I called "Blue-Star Science Fiction Digest", and it was roughly half the size of Ntzeon and 40 to 60 pages in length. At the time, I thought it would have a better chance of selling due to the lower cost of production, but I never was a very good salesman and never found anyone willing to sell it for me.

  But lack of sales didn't stop it, at least not until I realized it was an impractical waste of my time, and so I managed to publish 4 issues between 2000 and 2004. I really liked the pocketbook quality of Blue-Star and the fact that it was so easy to carry about, in my pocket, everywhere I went. It was nice to have some easy reading material while traveling on the bus and waiting in places like the bus station and waiting rooms for doctors or dental appointments, etc...

  I terminated work on Blue-Star in 2004 after I realized that my time was better spent working with animation and because animation was a very time-consuming process, I really had no time left for much of anything else. I had wanted to continue making books, but the simple fact was, as it remains today, it isn't a practical way to spend my time, because there was no money in it whatsoever. I only sold a few books in the decade ('94 to 2004) in which I worked with desk-top publications, and never made much more than a micro-fraction of the money I invested in it.

  This article is merely a footnote to point out a short-lived fact and that is that I did desk-top publish Blue-Star and there are 4 issues of it somewhere in my records, despite the fact that it did not go anywhere further than a few dozen trips in my pocket on the bus and through a few stuffy waiting rooms to nowhere.

Nick Zentor, 10/15/06