Hi there! I know you're disoriented at the moment, but hang in there and I'll do my best to help you get your bearings. Where are you? Well, that's a tricky one. We call it the Waiting Room.

Okay, I admit it. You're not really in the Waiting Room at Project Quantum Leap in Stallion's Gate, NM, looking up at Verbeena Beeks from inside the illusion of the physical aura of Dr. Sam Beckett. It's just a metaphor. This is actually the home page of the fan club Project Quantum Leap, not the fictional Project. The home page is called The Waiting Room because even the fastest browsers seem to take forever to load anything!

What is Project Quantum Leap?

Project Quantum Leap is the main US-based club for the 1989-1993 tv series, with members literally all over the world. Your initial membership fee ($17 US, $19 Mexico/Canada, $25 overseas; US dollars only) is good for three 40 pg issues of The Observer, featuring interviews, a seriously in-depth episode guide, etc. Please specify which three issues you want to start with; otherwise your subscription will begin with the current issue. Membership also includes the following premiums:

• 4 buttons.
• 2 bumper stickers.
• a wallet-sized publicity photo of Scott and Dean from the first season of the series.
• membership in a regional chapter if available and desired.
• Members with current subscriptions to The Observer also receive the monthly newsletter Coming Attractions at no additional cost.
• a custom "pass" to the "real" Project in New Mexico*.

*The last item on the above list needs some explaining, so here goes. The concept is this: if you worked for Admiral Calivicci and the long-absent Dr. Sam Beckett, what would you want your job to be?  Would you be working in the medical department or the motor pool?  Would you be a physicist, a programmer, a security guard, or one of the many research assistants?  Think it over, and tell us your preferred department (Imaging Control, Research, Holography, Programming, Administration, Coding, etc.) and title (Assistant, Specialist, or whatever; be creative!) for your pass.  Other information to send us along with your check is as follows:

• Your name (real names only, please; nicknames acceptable (Suzy, Billy, Stretch, etc.) but no outright pseudonyms (Sam Beckett, Mighty Thor) please.
• Your mailing address.
• Your e-mail address (optional).
• Your preferences as to which issues of The Observer you want, what department and title you want on your pass, and whether you wish to join your regional chapter. If you'd like to volunteer to be a Local Project Observer, please tell us that, too.

Each club chapter is administered by a Local Project Observer, a volunteer chosen by our National Project Observer to photocopy and distribute Coming Attractions and to arrange local "Leaps" (get-togethers and video-dubbing parties) for interested chapter members.  All member information is held confidential; it will not be sold, distributed, or given to anyone except our National and Local Project Observers.  There are now chapters overseas, and every member worldwide has been placed in a chapter.

Membership renewals and back issues of The Observer are available for $5.00 per issue (Canada/Mexico add $.50 per issue, overseas add $2.00).  To join Project Quantum Leap, order back issues or renew your membership, make check or money order payable to Project Quantum Leap, and send it with your membership application info to:

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Now what do we play?

That's up to you.  Here's a quick guide to the rest of this web site.  At any given time, some but not all of the following material will be available from this page:

• FAQ: Other Voices in Quantum Leap Fandom (includes links to other QL web pages)
• An Index to The Observer  - articles, interviews, etc.
• FAQ: Answers to Common Questions about Quantum Leap. (42 questions in 8 categories, not all of which are online yet).
• Karen Funk Blocher's personal home page, Credos & Curios

Note: This web site has been superceded by a new official web site for PQL, maintained by Donna Dickenson. Here's the link: . The new site has far more up to date info than mine. You can email Donna (projectquantumleap@yahoo.com) with your suggestions about the new site. You can also e-mail me about my Answers to Common Questions and so on.

Surprises of the Season

Here are a few of the illustrations from The Observer #16 cover story, in which I detail my quest to find the "real" Stallion's Gate, New Mexico:

Forgotten Face

DISCLAIMER: This web site is published by and for fans of Quantum Leap, who are solely responsible for its content. The copyright in the series Quantum Leap and its components is owned by Universal City Studios, Inc., which reserves all rights therein. This publication does not intend to infringe upon said copyright, nor any copyright owned by Belisarius Productions, Universal Television, Universal Pictures, Universal City Studios, Inc. or National Broadcasting Company, Inc., none of which has any responsibility for this publication or for the fan club which publishes it. All other material © 1996-1999 Project Quantum Leap and its respective writers, artists, and photographers.

Updated (finally!) 7/13/00

	Answers to Common Questions about Quantum Leap
	Index to The Observer
	Other Voices in Quantum Leap fandom
	Karen Funk Blocher's Credos and Curios, with links to other non-Leap pages