- Author: Taral Wayne Author Record # 118749
- Legal Name: MacDonald, Wayne
- Birthplace: Toronto, Ontario, Canada
- Birthdate: 12 October 1951
- Deathdate: 31 July 2024
- Language: English
- Webpages: Facebook, Fancyclopedia 3, furaffinity.net, p-synd.com, taralwayne.deviantart.com, Wikipedia-EN
- Used These Alternate Names: Taral Wayne MacDonald, Saara Mar, Taral
- Note: Date of death from obituaries at https://locusmag.com/2024/08/taral-wayne-1951-2024/ and at https://file770.com/taral-wayne-1951-2024/.
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Collections
- Old Toys: A Taralable Collection (2002)
- The Great White Zine (2012)
- Broken Toys
- Broken Toys - 2012 (2012)
- Broken Toys - 2013 (2013)
- Broken Toys - 2014 (2014)
- Broken Toys - 2015 (2015)
- Broken Toys - 2016 (2016)
- New Toy
- New Toy - 1986 (1986)
- New Toy - 1988 (1988)
- New Toy - 2010 (2010)
- The Great Blue Zine, or Bob & Doug McKenzie Review Yer Fanzines (1982)
- Fan Loon's Lives (1986)
- Mything Persons (1986)
- Interview with Rocky the Flying Squirrel (1988)
- Last Rights (1988)
- Roach Motel (1988)
- Scenic Rout (2002)
- The Merchant of Hogtown: A Lost Manuscript by the Bard, Stvn. Baldasspeare (2009)
- Cave Hirsvitvs Canem (2010)
- A Close Shave (2010)
- An Alternative Future (2010)
- Vaster Than Empires (2010)
- The Fabulous 'Nufties (2011)
- God, the Devil and an Irishman (2011)
- Customer Satisfaction (2012)
- Dance Cats Bomb at Altar: Feline Falling Out Nixes Nuptual (2012)
- Conquest of the East Pole (2012)
- First Names (2013)
- Warming Up to a Good Book (2013)
- Fly on the Wall: A Story About Fandom (2014)
- These Goodly Gifts I Will Give to Thee ... (2014)
- Song of Saara (2014) [only as by Saara Mar]
- High Plains Halfling (2015)
- All Fraggles, Now and Then (2015)
- Fire Sale! (2015)
- Every Good Neighborhood Has One (2015)
- The Canaries in the Dark (2015)
- Rock & Yule: A Christmas Story (2015)
- Lebcon (2016) [only as by Saara Mar]
- Nothing Like the Sense of Wonder (1988)
- Nudes (2012)
- Trinka's Lament (2013)
- Faneds (2013)
- The Devil's Riddle (2014) with Walt Wentz
- Same As It Ever Was
- Toronto the Not-So-Good, One Vice Leads to Another (1981)
- Parade of Canadian Fanartists, Part 1 (1982)
- Regional Fandoms: A Balkanized Fanscape (1984)
- OSFiC: The Success of Failure? (1984)
- The Day Torcon 3 Began, Spoofing Fan Politics (1985)
- Parade of Canadian Fanartists, Part 2 (1985)
- The Canadian Science Fiction Association: CSFA (1985)
- Canadian APAs: Grim Travelers in Dawn Skies (1988)
- Letter (Starship, Summer 1979) (1979) [only as by Taral]
- Letter (Starship, Summer 1980) (1980) [only as by Taral Wayne MacDonald]
-
A Burden of Gilt (1982)
also appeared as:
- Translation: Un Fardeau Argenté [French] (2009)
- A Bout Faces (1986)
- The Ghost on My Bed (1986)
- The Taraltorial Imperative (1986)
-
Letter (File 77 #62) (1986)
only appeared as:
- Variant: Letter (File 770, November 1986) (1986) [as by Taral]
- Off the Cuff: (A True History of the Fund) (1988)
- Taraltorial Imperative (1988)
- Same As It Ever Was (1988) [only as by Taral]
- Future Recall (1989)
- White Badge of Courage (1989)
- Letter (From Scratch 4) (1995)
- The Demeaning of Christmas (2005)
- Letter (Trap Door, February 2008) (2008)
- Throwing the First Stein (2008)
- Cheng Ho Discovers America! (2009)
- Henry & Claude (2009)
- Letter (WCSFAzine, January 2009) (2009)
- Letter (Banana Wings 38) (2009)
-
Better Than Life: (A Too Long to Be Short Bio by Taral Wayne) (2009)
also appeared as:
- Translation: Mieux Qu'En Vrai: (Une Courte Bio Un Peu Trop Longue, Par Taral Wayne) [French] (2009)
- Never the Cool Kid (2010)
- Down in Fraggle Rock (2010)
- In the Balance (2010)
- Let Me Entertain You (2010)
- Letter (Banana Wings 43) (2010)
- LoCal Colour (2010)
- Roll Up to Win! (2010)
- Who Wouldn't Hate Monday? (2010)
- Notes on This Issue's Cover (2010)
- Bird Lady of Parkdale (2010)
- Letter (Trap Door, December 2010) (2010)
- Fanatical Fanniche Fables: Herbie (2011)
- Histronic History Stuff: A Pocket Full of Histories: Coin Notes (2011)
- Letter (The Space Cadet Gazette, January 2011) (2011)
- Made in Canada (2011)
- The Numbers Game: The Whole OSFiC Bibliography (2011)
- Don't Tell, Don't Ask (2011)
- Letter (Journey Planet 8) (2011)
- Come the Revolution: A Revisionist Memoir (2011)
- Letter (Journey Planet 10) (2011)
- Phosphor Dot Nights (2011)
- Letter (Chunga 18) (2011)
- Letter (Trap Door, December 2011) (2011)
- The Adventure of the Empty Page (2012)
- A Pocket Full of Histories: Coin Notes (The Space Cadet Gazette, January 2012) (2012)
- All Good Things, Even Furry (2012)
- Another New Start (2012)
- On the Head of a Pin (2012)
- Rotsler Goes West (2012)
- Unfinished Business (2012)
- The Key to Canvention 8: A Sort of Report on Keycon 5 Only 23 Years Too Late (2012)
- And the Devil Looks After His Own (2012)
- Antipodal Bride (2012)
- Best of the West (2012)
- Editorial (The Great White Zine) (2012)
- Forgotten Glory (2012)
- Letter (Banana Wings 49) (2012)
- His Famous Last Words (2012)
- Taken for Granted? (2012)
- Vini, Vidi, Texti (2012)
- An End to Definitions (2012)
- Anything for a Buck (2012)
- Mars Needs Brains (2012)
- Screen Captures (2012)
- Tough Room (2012)
- False Dawn (2012)
- Hugo, No Go (2012)
- An Old Muse and Tired (2012)
- I May Not Know Art, But I Know What to Buy (2012)
- Letter (SF Commentary 83) (2012)
- Not Fandom As I Know It (2012)
- The Man on the Moon: Neil Armstrong, 5 August 1930 – 25 August 2012 (2012)
- Confession (2012)
- Dave Locke, b. 1944, d. Halloween 2012 (2012)
- In a Corporate Board Room, Far, Far Away (2012)
- Not on My Watch (2012)
- The Real Story (2012)
- Editorial (Broken Toys 10) (2012)
- Editorial (Broken Toys 11) (2012)
- Three's the Charm (2012)
- To Write Or Not to Write (2012)
- Trading Spaces (2012)
- Puss & Wings (2013)
- The Ghost in the Typer (2013)
- The Odd Kipple (2013)
- The Week Is Too Short (2013)
- Bob and Doug Conquer Mars! (2013)
- It Doesn't Take a Crystal Ball – TaralTorial (2013)
- Saara's Icebox (2013)
- Why I Don't Write Con Reports (2013)
- Letter (Flag 2) (2013)
- A Star in the Making (2013)
- Cold Cuts (2013)
- Coming Out (2013)
- Hold That Pose! (2013)
- A Has-Been, Once More (2013)
- I'm Not Dead Yet (2013)
- I, Cookie Monster (2013)
- Mars Needs Dope! (2013)
- Maybe 100 Really Was Too Many? (2013)
- Also in the News ... (2013)
- Drink Tank 340 (2013)
- Elephant in a Room Party (2013)
- Faith Healing (2013)
- Gotta Have Them All! (2013)
- Pay More and Save! (2013)
- Play to Win (2013)
- Quo Vadis, Fandom? (2013)
- Tricky Dicks (2013)
- What Does It Take to Get a Laugh Around Here? (2013)
- You Can Take It With You (2013)
- A Day in a Million (2013)
- Dream a Little Dream (2013)
- Emotorial (2013)
- In Defiance of the Received Wisdom of Ayn Rand (2013)
- Steve Stiles: Worth Every Cent You Never Paid Him! (2013)
- Work, a Four-Letter Word (2013)
- Letter (Flag 6) (2013)
- Another Emotorial (2013)
- Censored (2013)
- Enditorial? (2013)
- It Was a Dark and Stormy Night (2013)
- Modern Mysteries Solved! (2013)
- Notional Holiday (2013)
- A Good Idea & a Loonie (2013)
- A Loonie in Change (2013)
- Entropy (2013)
- Fandom Now and Then (2013)
- In Praise of Ferengi (2013)
- Letter (Flag 8) (2013)
- Lou Scarborough, Animator: 1953-2013 (2013)
- Nothing New Under the Rainbow (2013)
- TAFF Touch-Down! (2013)
- The Man with Ultra-Voilet Eyes! (2013)
- Not Rocket Science: The Hugos (2013)
- Small Matters (2013)
- Written in Stone (2013)
- Letter (SF Commentary 85) (2013)
- The October Country (2013)
- The Undigitalized Man (2013)
- Timor Mortis Conturbat Me (2013)
- Walking with Spirits (2013)
- Crew Mates (2013)
- Emotorial – It Can't Get No Wurse! (2013)
- King of the Grill (2013)
- Late Middle Age Crisis, Or Early Old Age Senility? (2013)
- Paying the Troll (2013)
- Canary Song (2013)
- Letter (Flag 11) (2013)
- Letter (Trap Door, December 2013) (2013)
- So Now It Is Christmas (2013)
- T'Is the Season (2013)
- The Bag Lady of Rochdale College (A Worm's Eye View?) (2013)
- The Greening of the Conservative Party? (2013)
- The Road to Boskone (2013)
- True Dreams Do Lie (2013)
- A Pocket Full of Histories: Coin Notes (The Space Cadet Gazette, January 2014) (2014)
- Letter (Raucous Caucus 3) (2014)
- Letter (The Space Cadet Gazette, January 2014) (2014)
- Man Without a Country (2014)
- The World Begins Anew (2014)
- Twice Upon a Time: Two Stories: Frankenweenie & ParaNorman (2014)
- The Tsaddik of the Seven Wonders (Phyllis Gotlieb) (2014)
- Kneecapping the FAANs (2014)
- Passing the Torch (2014)
- Perchance to Dream (2014)
- The Glass Eye Blinks (2014)
- A Pocket Full of Histories: Coin Notes (The Space Cadet Gazette, April 2014) (2014)
- From Sound Stage to Holodeck (2014)
- Letter (The Space Cadet Gazette, April 2014) (2014)
- New Tucker Hotel (2014)
- Sticks at Nothing (2014)
- The Colour Out of Lovecraft (2014)
- There Can Only Be One Ending (2014)
- Working Against the Gain (2014)
- A Dance in the Old Dame Yet (2014)
- A Time to Reflect (2014)
- Sailor's Final Voyage (2014)
- The Shabby Bard of Yonge Street: Crad Kilodney (2014)
- What Are the Odds? (2014)
- Letter (Flag 15) (2014)
- Dinner Après the River (2014)
- Picking Huck Finn's Pocket (2014)
- Walter Weight Champion (2014)
- A Life Misspent (2014)
- The Montreal Screwjob! (2014)
- What the Past Became (2014)
- Did It Ever Really Happen? (2014)
- Not All Holes (2014)
- Notional Enquirer Exposes Hidden Hugo Cache (2014)
- Sussing Zelazny (2014)
- Do Not Watch These – Ever! (2014)
- Halloween Not (2014)
- Taking Stock (2014)
- A Switch in Time: Mr. Peabody & Sherman (2014)
- Just So You Know ... (2014)
- Seasons Gleanings (2014)
- The Company I Keep (2014)
- The Game Is Up (2014)
- Thor About Thomething! (2014)
- View of a New Ocean (2015)
- Winter Blahs (2015)
- Editorial (Broken Toys 36) (2015)
- Editorial (Broken Toys 37) (2015)
- No Furry Like the Readers Scorned (2015)
- The Fifty-Cent Monster (By an Old Crank) (2015)
- Alternate Endings (2015)
- Black & White Into Space (2015)
- Cos' I Don't Cosplay, That's Why! (2015)
- Big Hero Nix (2015)
- Editorial Mutters (2015)
- Fair Day's Drive (2015)
- Doug Winger: Fallen Sparrow (2015)
- Editorial Confessions (2015)
- The TAFF and I (2015)
- Editorial Jive (2015)
- Posterity for Today! (2015)
- Seussing It Out (2015)
- Life in Free Fall (2015)
- Ned Brooks (1938-2015): He Passes Away (2015)
- Rosetta Rocks the Press! (2015)
- The Director's Cut (2015)
- Christmas Begins in October (2015)
- Democracyland! Wish You Were Here! (2015)
- The Blank Sheet (2015)
- The Long Wait for Bragging Rights (2015)
- Exogamy (2015)
- Flickering Lights: A Dim View of the Aurora Awards (2015)
- Letter (File 770, December 2015) (2015)
- Red Letter Days (2015)
- Secret Ballot (2015)
- The Rotsler Winners: Personal Musings (2015)
- Where There's No Smoke (2015)
- Season's Bleatings (2015)
- File Still Open: A Celebration of a Newsletter (2016)
- Letter (BCSFAzine, January 2016) (2016)
- One Man's Canned Fish (2016)
- Anti-Theft Device Included (2016)
- Faith and Fantasy (2016)
- Grace Notes (2016)
- FAAning the Flames (2016)
- Letter (The White Notebooks 4) (2016)
- The Slan of Baker Street (2016)
- Letter (Flag 17) (2016)
- Conflicting Issues (2016)
- Kill the Fuckers! Fanzine Reviews and Brit Fandom (2016)
- My Name in Lights (Odditorial) (2016)
- Overselling ... a Dream (2016)
- The Sealed Envelope Please ... (2016)
- File Still Open: A Celebration of a Newsletter (2016)
- All Things Must Pass: The Matter with Furry Cons (2016)
- Editorial (Broken Toys 50) (2016)
- Goin' Home Again ... (2016)
- If It's Saturday, It Must Be the TAFF Party (2016)
- Joyce Katz, 1939-2016 (2016)
- Let the Fraggles Sing! (2016)
- Life and Death of a Great Canadian Fanzine ... (2016)
- Prose & Cons (2016)
- Pulling Strings (2016)
- Talk to the Hat (2016)
- View from the Top (2016)
- Visitation Rights (2016)
- Letter (Banana Wings 64) (2016)
- Letter (Flag 18) (2016)
- Letter (Banana Wings 67) (2017)
- Peace in My Time (2018)
- The Bag Lady of Rochdale College (A Worm's Eye-View?) (2018)
- A Small Affair in Toronto: Corflu 35 (2018)
- The Last Moon (2019)
- Letter (Flag 22) (2020)
- DPG: Sweet and Sour (2022)
- New Toy, #1 (1986)
- File 770, November 1986 (1986) [only as by Taral]
- Torus, October 1987 (1987) [only as by Taral]
- New Toy, #2 (1988)
- Torus, April 1988 (1988)
- Torus, December 1990 (1990)
- File 770, Fall 1997 (1997)
-
Old Toys: A Taralable Collection (2002)
also appeared as:
- Interior Art: Old Toys (cover) (2002)
- Planetary Stories, January 2009 (2009)
- New Toy, #3 (2010)
- Exhibition Hall, #13 (2010) with Joshua W. Kennedy
- The Great White Zine (2012)
- Broken Toys, #10 (2012)
- File 770, December 2013 (2013) [only as by Taral]
- Broken Toys, #36 (2015) with Ken Fletcher
- Broken Toys, #40 (2015)
- File 770, July 2016 (2016) [only as by Taral]
- Broken Toys, #50 (2016)
- The Humanoids (1977) [only as by Taral Wayne MacDonald]
-
File 770 #1 (1978)
only appeared as:
- Variant: File 770, January 6, 1978 (1978) [as by Taral]
- Iguanacon Logo (1978) [only as by Taral]
- Random Factors: Letters (1979) [only as by Taral Wayne MacDonald]
- Cartoon: "No wonder he's not getting through ... that's no Ansible ... just some antique duper he found." (1980) [only as by Taral]
- Cartoon: "New Canadian Fandom, Eh?" (1982)
- Cartoon: "Fan Regions of North America" (1983)
- Cartoon: "And now it's time for – TAFF Race 2000!" (1983)
- Ansible 39, August 1984 (1984) [only as by Taral]
- Cartoon: "Gentlefen, I propose the existence of a parallel universe in which Dave Langford did not win TAFF!" (1985) [only as by Taral]
- Cartoon: "Ansible" (Ansible 43) (1985) [only as by Taral]
- Cartoon: "Ansible" (Ansible 43) [2] (1985) [only as by Taral]
- Cartoon: "Ansible" (Ansible 44) (1985) [only as by Taral]
- A Bout Faces (1986)
- Cartoon: "Kjola have more fun ..." (1986) with Jerry Collins and Marc Schirmeister
- Cartoon: no caption (1986)
- Fan Loon's Lives (1986)
- The Ghost on My Bed (1986)
- Cartoon: no caption (Science Fiction Chronicle #81) (1986) [only as by Taral]
- Cartoon: "In Plain Brown Wrappers" (1987)
- Cartoon: "Hugo Award" (1988)
- Cartoon: " Photo of Lt. Mizusako Usagi's Ki.84 Hayate "Frank" in flight" (1988)
- Cartoon: "Calico Bar & Grill" (1988)
- Cartoon: "Interview with Rocky" (1988)
- Cartoon: "Interview with Rocky: 1934" (1988)
- Cartoon: "Interview with Rocky: 1942" (1988)
- Cartoon: "Rare publicity "blooper" from Goldfinger (1988)
- Cartoon: "Rocky the squirrel tattle-tail" (1988)
- Cartoon: "The sky is also mine: Taral as himself" (1988)
- Cartoon: "Ward & Cast on set" (1988)
- Cartoon: no caption (New Toy 2) (1988)
- Cartoon: no caption (New Toy 2) [2] (1988)
- Industry's Way of Telling Us We're Obsolete (1988) [only as by Taral]
- Nothing Like the Sense of Wonder (1988)
- 1989 Hugo Award Nominees (1989)
- untitled (Twink #18, July 2000) (2000)
- Spaceland (2002)
- Cartoon: "Army Daze" (2002)
- Cartoon: "Bergeron" (2002)
- Cartoon: "Walt Disney's Uncle $crooge" (2002)
- Cartoon: no caption (Old Toys) (2002)
- Cartoon: no caption [2] (Old Toys) (2002)
- Cartoon: no caption [3] (Old Toys) (2002)
- Cartoon: no caption [4] (Old Toys) (2002)
- Cartoon: no caption (Dancing and Joking) (2005)
- Corflu 2006 (cover) (2006)
- A Burden of Gilt (2009)
- A Short History of Québec Fandom (2009)
- Askance 9 (cover) (2009)
- Banana Wings (cover) (2009)
- Cartoon: Here Comes CHEVIE (2009)
- Casino Royale (cover) (2009)
- Challenger 25 (cover) (2009)
- Complete Energumen & Xenium (2009)
- Convention Committee (2009)
- File 770 (cover) (2009)
- File 770 (cover) [2] (2009)
- From the First Issue of "Beatrix", Published by Mu Press (2009)
- Mainstream 14 (cover) (2009)
- Mythologies 19 (cover) (2009)
- New Canadian Fandom, Eh? (cover) (2009)
- Pawz 79 (cover) (2009)
- Planetary Stories 13 (cover) (2009)
- Rowrbrazzle 93 (cover) (2009)
- Space Flight (cover) (2009)
- Taral "Off-Colour" (2009)
- The Word for the World Is Twilt One (cover) (2009)
- Toronto the Ghood (2009)
- Yhos 51 (cover) (2009)
- Cartoon: no caption (Exhibition Hall 2) (2009)
- Cave Hirsvitvs Canem (2010)
- An Alternative Future (2010)
- Cartoon: no caption (New Toy 3) (2010)
- The Sunday Pages – Tales On the Run (2010)
- Come the Revolution: A Revisionist Memoir (2011)
- Phosphor Dot Nights (2011)
- And the Devil Looks After His Own (2012)
- Cartoon: "Same As It Ever Was" (2012)
- Cartoon: no caption (Broken Toys 3) (2012)
- Cartoon: "Late Night TV" (2012)
- Cartoon: "Why So Serious?" (2012)
- Cartoon: no caption (Broken Toys 4) (2012)
- Cartoon: no caption (Broken Toys 5) (2012)
- Cartoon: no caption (Broken Toys 6) (2012)
- Story Musgrave (2012)
- Cartoon: "Unca Scrooge: The Wheel of Utzamata" (2012)
- Cartoon: no caption (Broken Toys 9) (2012)
- Cartoon: no caption [2] (Broken Toys 9) (2012)
- Bob and Doug Conquer Mars! (2013)
- Cartoon: no caption (Broken Toys 14) (2013)
- Cartoon: "Sadie Hawkins Day 2805 AD" (2013)
- Drink Tank 340 (2013)
- Trinka's Lament (2013)
- Cartoon: "More Fraggle Lore" (2013)
- Cartoon: "Saara Mar" (2013)
- Cartoon: "Darl's Hole" (2013)
- Cartoon: "Oh wow! A vacuum tube!" (2013)
- Cartoon: no caption (Broken Toys 20) (2013)
- Cartoon: "The Digital Imp" (2013)
- Cartoon: "Aw, c'mon! It's 157 pages ..." (2013)
- Cartoon: "THE COIN MADE ME DO IT!" (2013) [only as by Taral]
- Hot Buttered Mice (2013)
- Hot Buttered Mice [2] (2013)
- Hot Buttered Mice [3] (2013)
- Hot Buttered Mice [4] (2013)
- Hot Buttered Mice [5] (2013)
- Hot Buttered Mice [6] (2013)
- Hot Buttered Mice [7] (2013)
- Hot Buttered Mice [8] (2013)
- True Dreams Do Lie (2013) [only as by Taral]
- Cartoon: Nirvana beans (2014)
- Letter (The Space Cadet Gazette, January 2014) (2014)
- Letter (The Space Cadet Gazette, April 2014) (2014)
- New Tucker Hotel (sketch) (2014)
- The Mockingmouse (2014)
- Cartoon: "I know it's hard to believe, but one day you will be a Fraggle ..." (2014)
- These Goodly Gifts I Will Give to Thee ... (2014)
- Cartoon: "You pedal it ..." (2014)
- Song of Saara (2014)
- Buy the Book! (2014) [only as by Taral]
- Cartoon: no caption (Broken Toys 33) (2014)
- News of Fandom (2014) [only as by Taral]
- The Fanivore (2014) [only as by Taral]
- Smurfette (2015)
- Cartoon: "Darl Fraggle" (2015)
- Cartoon: "Kiki Fraggle" (2015)
- Cartoon: "Raddish coffee is no substitute for the real brew ..." (2015)
- Cartoon: no caption (Broken Toys 36) (2015)
- Cartoon: no caption (Broken Toys 36) [2] (2015)
- Cos' I Don't Cosplay, That's Why! (2015)
- Cartoon: "Modest Medusa" (2015)
- Modest Medusa (2015)
- Cartoon: "Taral 4 TAFF!" (2015)
- Vonda N. McIntyre Bibliography (2015)
- Rock & Yule: A Christmas Story (2015)
- One Man's Canned Fish (2016)
- Cartoon: "Enjoy-your-meal-sir ..." (2016)
- Cartoon: "HOBORG CREATES KLAYMISS" (2016) [only as by Taral]
- File Still Open: A Celebration of a Newsletter (2016) [only as by Taral]
- On the Saturn Run: An Interview with Ctein About His New (and first fiction) Book with John Sandford (2016) [only as by Taral]
- The Fanivore (File 770, July 2016) (2016) [only as by Taral]
- Lebcon (2016)
- The Digital Imp (2017) [only as by Taral]
- Cartoon: no caption (Portable Storage 4) [2] (2020) [only as by Taral]
- Untitled (Portable Storage 4) (2020) [only as by Taral]
- DPG: Sweet and Sour (2022)
- Operation Motorman Derry City 1972 (2023)
- The Furry Future: 19 Possible Prognostications (2015) by Fred Patten
- Mars (2016) by Ben Bova