LEXICON NOTE:
This interview was written some time in 1998.

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1. What is your name/nick?

Joona Palaste

2. What is your E-mail address?

palaste@cc.helsinki.fi

3. How old are you?

21

4. Are you female or male?

Male

5. What is the name of your home page name and its URL?

The muchly spooky domain of the infamous Joona "I" Palaste

www.helsinki.fi/~palaste

6. What Transformers fanfics have you written?

Messages from the Past, The Rotten Branch, The Lithonian Empire, A Decepticon in Moominvalley, Voyage of Mystery, Who's the Bravest?, Beastie Weasties! the Fanfic, and Floating through Time.

7. Where can your Transformer fanfics can be found?

http://www.helsinki.fi/~palaste/tf.html

8. Which Transformers fanfic that you have written is your favorite and why?

I don't really know.

9. Which is your favorite Transformers fanfic written by someone else and why?

Cause of Madness by Robert Jung, because it's an excellent continuation to the post-movie cartoon.

11. What influences you to write Transformers fanfic the way you do?

My ways of thinking?

12. What inspired you to write Transformers fanfics?

Transformers stories.

13. What drew you to Transformers in particular?

The toys, and the TV show, back in the 1980's.

14. Who is your favorite Generation 1 or Generation 2 Transformers character (fan-created or official) and why?

Starscream, because he is so devious.

15. What do you like most about the official Generation 1 and Generation 2 canon?

That there are so many characters.

16. Who is you favorite Beast Wars character (fan-created or official) and why?

Rattrap, because he has an attitude.

17. What do you like about the Beast Wars canon the most?

That it's Transformers?

21. Have you had any interesting feedback as a result of your Transformers fanfics?

Some... most recently from EmarZero.

22. Have you any other comments to make about Transformers fanfic?

There should be more posts on alt.toys.transformers.fanfic, both fanfics and other stuff too.

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