SwanCon XV Program Book – Pages 8-9 – The XV Committee: A Field Guide

Transcribed by Elaine Walker who has endeavoured to maintain all typographical errors and bad latin. WHAT THE WILD THINGS ARE DON GRIFFITHS, CO-ORDINATOR (Lecturous tenurious) Easily identified by his devilish looking glasses, his habit of lapsing into cyberspace without notice, and the trail of business cards left in his wake. An excellent co-ordinator, and a… Continue reading SwanCon XV Program Book – Pages 8-9 – The XV Committee: A Field Guide

SwanCon XV Program Book – Page 7 POLICY STATE

Transcribed by Chris Creagh, all typos carefully reproduced. MEMORISE THIS PAGE, THEN EAT IT AUCTION: If you want to sell anything at the Auction, get it to the Registration Desk and complete the appropriate form provided, by Saturday at 3:00PM. The auctioneers reserve the right to refuse items considered inappropriate. The Con will take 10%… Continue reading SwanCon XV Program Book – Page 7 POLICY STATE

Swancon XV, PR2: W.A. Clubs in brief

Pages 7-9 of the Swancon XV Progress Report 2 have a summary of contemporary clubs. The first of these has the ‘running head’ ‘Various Indecent Obsessions The Gamer’s Guild Saturday, 12:30pm. A young man in a worn leather jacket and lugging an ominous-looking bag bearing the curious emblem “Mobil HDT” makes his way up Hay… Continue reading Swancon XV, PR2: W.A. Clubs in brief

SwanCon XV, Progress Report 2 — page 13

Page 13 of the SwanCon XV Progress Report 2 has ‘More of what it’s all about’ as the ‘running head’, and then the following: Hear Ye! Hear Ye! This is of vast importance – it involves your inner (wo)man (person?). It involves feeding your face most delightfully. Of course, we mean the … Swancon Banquet… Continue reading SwanCon XV, Progress Report 2 — page 13

SwanCon XV Progress Report 2: page 12

page 12 of the SwanCon XV Progress Report 2 has the ‘running head’ of ‘Programming of Another Kind’, and two sections: Videocon (A Preview of the Video Stream) by Stephen Dedman based on a story by Robin Pen A brand new, never-seen-before-by-human-eyes, earth-shattering feature of SwanCon XV will be a formal, genuinely organised Video, Film… Continue reading SwanCon XV Progress Report 2: page 12

Games without Frontiers

Being the 14th and 15th pages of the SwanCon XV Progress Report 3. Running head on page 14 reads “And you thought you might get some sleep!”. Transcription by Anna Hepworth and Elaine Walker (because reasons). Typoes faithlessly transcribed. Games without Frontiers “Big Blue is Watching You” Life is tough for the small software house… Continue reading Games without Frontiers

A Timely Look At Grant Stone

From the SwanCon XV program book, page 16. Transcribed by Doug. The page-top header says “THE MAN WHO’S ON EVERYONE’S PANEL (THANKFULLY)”. A TIMELY LOOK AT GRANT STONE By Stephen Dedman The actual evidence for Grant Stone being an explorer/anthropologist from the far future is, I concede, mostly circumstantial, and might have been dismissed as… Continue reading A Timely Look At Grant Stone

SwanCon XV Progress Report 3 – Videocon II

Being the 12th page of the SwanCon XV Progress Report 3. Running head reads “Shocking Secrets from the Vaults”. Transcription by Anna Hepworth. Typoes faithlessly transcribed Videocon II by Robin Pen Brief notes on things that might just happen to be shown at the Con, but about which the Committee know nothing in any official… Continue reading SwanCon XV Progress Report 3 – Videocon II

Sn ANATIDAE

Being the 16th page of the SwanCon XV Progress Report 3. Running head reads “Personally, I’m Waiting for the Bribes”. Transcription by Anna Hepworth Sn ANATIDAE More Details about WA’s Own Ditmars The Tin Ducks have gone unmentioned since PR1. We still intend to award them this year (they’ve not been awarded for quite some… Continue reading Sn ANATIDAE

SwanCon XV – Progress Report Three – Page 6 – True Confessions II

Transcribed by Elaine Walker, who has done her best to accurately reproduce all typos. An Almost-True Story TRUE CONFESSIONS II: Some Things Even Your Best Friends Won’t Tell You! Dear Madame Palm, One Friday night (last March), most of my friends disappeared. I was terribly upset and embarrassed and spent nearly a week wondering where… Continue reading SwanCon XV – Progress Report Three – Page 6 – True Confessions II