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Ntzeon
Science Fiction and Fantasy Digest
In 1995, after a good friend gave me a used computer (old 80s IBM) which didn't even have internet capacity and only a monochrome monitor, I realized the word-processor provided me with one of the most efficient tools for creating my own books that i had ever owned. It made my old electric typewriter obsolete and opened up my ability to practice desk-top publishing for the first time in my life. I looked over all the short-stories and novels I had created with the old electric typewriter and decided I had enough to work with to publish a "zine" and so tried my hand at it. I desk-top published the first issue of "G-Minus" sci-fi and fantasy digest in January of 1996, and before the year was over, had 6 issues complete. But before 1997, I decided that the "G-Minus" title didn't work well for me (my step-brother tried to steal credit simply because his name began with the letter "G"!). So I changed the name to "Ntzeon", because it was a word which has its roots with the Martians included in the second book to the Lost Planet Trilogy, The 4D Earth War, and refers to an intersection between universes or bridge across the multiverse. Ntzeon replaced G-Minus and Ntzeon became the working title of the digest from issues 6-14, until I decided to give it a rest in 2004, with the realization that it wasn't selling and I had to get some more practical priorities in order. The main point of this page is to simply record the fact that I did, in fact, publish many of my stories and the first book of The Lost Planet trilogy (in serial form) in Ntzeon Science Fiction and Fantasy digest, from the years 1996 to 2004. During that time, I also used several different pseudonyms, to experiment with different bi-lines and to add some diversity to the zine, because it was seriously lacking in contributions from other writers and artists. List of
Pseudonyms
Here is a list of most of the pseudonyms I used more than once. Nick Zentor: my main pseudonym, presently chosen to be the only one for now on, as it was the first and has been used with all of my novels and most of my best hard science-fiction short-stories. Ray K'Shenz was a shtick inspired by Catch-98 and the Tem-Space Variant, after I wrote Catch-98 in 1997 and completed it in 98. I was getting a second-wind at that time and felt a new pseudonym could be helpful. D. Seroux was a favorite for some of my sci-fi short-stories, the ones that didn't connect to any of my serials. C. Tenrut was another used for non-serial connected shorts. It was a variable anagram of my legal "real" name. Konwell Zintree was my sci-fi/fantasy pseudonym, the one inspired by Alfred Bester and Robert Sheckley. Zintree was the name I attached to some of my zaniest sci-fantasy short-stories, such as "The Guardian of Dis" and "Demon School". These stories are by no means strict "hard" science-fiction by a long shot. They dwell into fantasy themes such as magic, teleportation, telekinesis, and lots of other very "unscientific" notions. I enjoy writing fantasy now and then, its lots of fun, but I refuse to confuse it with my hard science-fiction, so using a special pseudonym for it was essential. Z. Rem is a rather unique pseudonym which I chose for some of the most important of my works, specifically short-stories that carried powerful messages. Rem is the most enlightened thinker that I carry around inside me. Rem shies away from public and social situations because people are too often cruel, insensitive, and ignorant. Rem only seems to come around when I am secure and it is usually to help me put together an important piece of work. R. Kelly was keen to the realistic and practical scientific field, specifically the space program and the whole idea of the problems presented by space-travel in outer space. He wrote a piece for Ntzeon about "Alternate Methods of Space-Travel" or AMST, and discussed the space program in general. T. Gratune was specifically reserved for book reviews. Ed Torin was the pseudonym applied to the first editor of Ntzeon. Sabrina Holten was a highly experimental attempt to determine whether or not females were being given special attention as sci-fi writers simply because they were female. The results were inconclusive. It is my hope that my admission to using all these pseudonyms during my early years as a desk-top publisher may be understood in the context that i did so with the sincere ambition that the Ntzeon zine would eventually attract other contributors who would serve well to replace most of these pseudonyms which I worked so hard to develop. Unfortunately, Ntzeon did not evolve the way I hoped it would and it received no contributions other than a few not done by myself; the vast percentage of the work in Ntzeon was mine and mine alone. After 14 issues, in 2004, all 99.999 percent my own work, with no other regular contributors, I decided the zine was a waste of my time. Nick Zentor, 9/28/2006 |
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