Anna has turned up some new boxes of stuff, so some of us are sorting, winnowing, and filing; and some of us are transcribing. Here’s a rather nice-looking SwanCon 2000 souvenir book, 70pp, approx 20cm x 20cm pages, perfect-bound with a yellow cover with Shaun Tan art: a Shaun-Tan-esque tram all covered in rivets and tubes and advertising signs, with a large placard drawn above: “TODAY IS THE TOMORROW YOU WERE PROMISED YESTERDAY.”
Page 1 declares:
AS THE PRESS POUR FORTH
PROFUSION, THE LITERARY
MULTITUDE EAGERLY RECEIVE
ITS LAVISH OFFERINGS…
– Elizabeth Barrett Browning
The contents page says:
Convenor’s Welcome Candice Schilder
Introduction The Editors (the byline on the article itself goes into more detail: Anna Hepworth, John Parker, Grant Watson)
Millennial Hype, Millennial Hope Damien Broderick
Ghost of a Day Sean Williams
Bellwether Excerpt Connie Willis
Millennium Hype Robin Hobb
Cookie Boy Paul Kidd
Night Voyager Paul Collins
Way Down Upon the Swanee… Grant Stone
Incident on Woolfe Street Janeen Webb
Golden Age? Who, Us? Dave Luckett
Thanking the Wizard Grant Watson
My New Really Epic Fantasy Series Garth Nix
Untitled Ian Nichols
A Gift of Eagles Jack Dann
Mitch Danny Heap
Terry Dowling & Blackwater Days Terry Dowling
Charles N. Brown – A Hard Life Marianne S. Jablon
Down These Mean Streets a Pig Must Go Peter Nicholls
Accidentally in Transit Cathy Cupitt
Fairytale Quartet Tess Williams
Sojourner Stephen Dedman
The Map Table Meredith Costain
Coelacanth Soup Robin Pen
Bios