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...