This is a page all about us and our site, a few links we like and suchlike. It is very much our space. Not that our heads are in any way bigger than yours.
Contact us!!
For anything at all relating to this site including contributions, offers of help, queries, comments, legal or technical issues or the price of fish: hello@livefrommars.co.uk
For anything relating to the fanzine This Way Up including comments, contributions, mailing issues: zine@livefromars.co.uk
We don’t check these mailboxes every day so be patient- of course if you know us please use our own email addresses, Facebook pages etc. See below for submissions info.
This Way Up Submissions Guidelines
If you’d like to contribute to This Way Up, then please get in touch via zine@livefrommars.co.uk
We’re especially looking for people who can write interesting, informative and entertaining features about both current and archive TV that could best be described as unusual or innovative. That’s the TV not the reviewer.
Submissions should be copy ready (spellchecked etc) and on a Word document in Arial font cos we like it the best. Much better than Times New Roman. And don’t get us started on Courier…
Anything submitted may be edited for size, content, legal or other reasons.
Live From Mars Submissions Guidelines
Please do send us stuff and help by following these guidelines. All contribs to be emailed to hello@livefrommars.co.uk
General:
Anything submitted should not currently be on another site or blog or previously have been published in a fanzine or magazine less than a year ago. But anything published 366 days earlier is absolutely fine.
Submissions should be copy ready (spellchecked etc) and on a Word document in Arial font. Anything submitted may be edited for size, content, legal or other reasons.
Reviews:
Max. 1,000 words. Can be of any new or recent TV programme, music, film, play, book or event including dvd releases or downloads.
Interviews:
If you interview anyone interesting we’d love to add it onto the site (or even the zine) if they agree.
Legal Stuff
Live From Mars is an amateur non profit making (in fact probably loss making) site.
No attempt is made to supercede anybody’s copyright but if we do please let us know.
Views and opinions expressed are solely those of the credited writer and not necessarily of anyone else.
All non credited material is written by members of the site team.
Nothing from this site may be copied in whole or part except for excerpts for review purposes.
Technical Stuff
We know nothing about this. There is a lab and we’re not allowed in. The site is hosted by 1and1 whose hosting service we can highly recommend. Check them out at www.1and1.co.uk
If you spot a link that doesn’t work or any other technical glitch please contact us in the first instance and our team of highly trained web frogs will sort it out.
Fringeworld : A Brief History Of Ourselves…
Fringeworld have been publishing fanzines since 1992 when TOP was launched. A fun zine which attempted to mould `Smash Hits` (remember that?) with Doctor Who , it ran for 9 issues and what it lacked in production values made up for in boundless energy. These were the days of glue stix and tippex so things always looked a bit ropey.
In 1995 its successor FAZE began and went on to become, arguably, the last great paper Doctor Who zine. It was there in 1996 for the whole TV Movie hoopla publishing full reviews before any other zine and soaking up the whole Paul McGann `era` such as it was. FAZE was more than just the Time Lord however. Over the course of its five and a half years there was in depth coverage of shows like Lois and Clark, Babylon 5, Star Trek: Voyager and it was one of the first to pick up on Buffy the Vampire Slayer and probably the only zine that covered Third Rock From The Sun. FAZE ran for 24 issues and in that time included contributions from some of the best known fan writers.
In 2002, THIS WAY UP started and was unique from the start due to being offered free, the first time we know of that a proper full size zine had done this. The aim was to directly compete with the then burgeoning number of webzines as they liked to call themselves. The intention had been to produce a mostly non Doctor Who zine exploring the places other zines and websites seldom visited. Topics as diverse as Isaac Newton, Pluto’s demotion from being a planet , the successor to the world wide web, cheating in exams and the X Prize have been covered. We’ve also included some in depth music articles on major albums and little explored topics such as lost Fleetwood Mac guitarist Danny Kirwan and also what is known as cult tv such as The Ghosts of Motley Hall and The Feathered Serpent . Yet Doctor Who was present too thanks to the return of the show in 2005 and THIS WAY UP was thus plunged back into the path of the Time Lord. Much of the archive content of this site is taken from THIS WAY UP, hopefully keeping the excellent material published in the public domain permanently. The zine straddles the divide between printed and electronic fan media with, we like to think, style and content.
In 2009 after a hiatus of 18 months, during which the team experimented with three other differently titled issues, THIS WAY UP returned with each issue available for a limited period in PDF format from this site as well as the traditional paper version. This was an experiment to pave the way for our move in September 2009 to a fully electronic version from issue 24 onwards. The move has rapidly increased readership by making the zine more easily viewable by a larger number of people.
THIS WAY UP has been edited by John Connors from the start. From 2004-7 Oliver Wake was the production editor, a role currently filled by Richard Farrell. Not a very interesting story of course, but then we haven’t told you about the time a giant…(oops, out of space)