Where no fan has gone before

The title story in Kelly Link's collection Magic for Beginners is about the ultimate cult TV series, and by "cult TV" I mean in all senses of the phrase. For followers of The Library, the TV screen that separates fiction from fact, characters from audience members, may be as porous as Alice's looking-glass. Link's story may be more realistic than you think. This article from the December issue of Wired magazine reports that some Star Trek fans, after years of devotion and study, have themselves been fully initiated into the Mystery; now they are the TV series.