Synopsis by Elaine Walker Festive happenings is the programme booklet for Swancon 22 giving the schedule of the events, any screenings and synopses of panels. I shall be including a small selection of panels from each day. All typos reproduced as faithfully as possible The cover page had the title (festive happenings) with each letter… Continue reading Swancon 22 – Festive Happenings
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swancon 22 – PR4 – pages 11 onwards
Pages 11 and 12 cover the fascinating topics of ‘panels’ and ‘video’. It would appear that the author of the latter had *slightly more* to say on their topic, as the former has enough white space for another of the indescribable doodles that grace the pages of this progress report. panels Time catches up to… Continue reading swancon 22 – PR4 – pages 11 onwards
swancon 22 – PR4 – pages 7 to 10
Gaming being page 7 Well it’s only three months from the con and gaming looks likely to be the best we have had for a long time (boast, boast). To date both the Magic™ and Battletech™ tournaments are being organised, along with two freeforms. Many thanks to Len Henderson, Mark Suaddaby and Derek Bazen respectively.… Continue reading swancon 22 – PR4 – pages 7 to 10
swancon 22 – PR4 – pages 3 to 6
Focus On Sean Williams being the numbered pages 3 and 4 In the last PR, we promised to provide indepth info on one of our guests in this edition. Rather than say it ourselves, and maybe make some of it up, we decided to get the info from the horse’s mouth, so to speak. Without… Continue reading swancon 22 – PR4 – pages 3 to 6
swancon 22 – PR4 – cover to page 2
The SwanCon 22 Progress Report 4 is a 16 pages + foldalope, A5, folded 80 GSM bond white paper booklet. The cover has a repeated motif diagonally across the front cover – we suspect that it was the logo, but the rest of the SwanCon 22 materials are inconveniently in the file out of reach.… Continue reading swancon 22 – PR4 – cover to page 2
SwanCon 22 – PR1 – the last page
The last page (p8) of the SwanCon 22 Progress Report 1 is laid out in two columns. On the left is ‘Programme’, credited to David Yeates (Co-convenor), a copyright notice reading “Copyright for all contributions remains with the contributors © Panic Productions 1996 for SwanCon 22”, a short blurb about the Swancon Mailing list [yes,… Continue reading SwanCon 22 – PR1 – the last page
Swancon 22 – PR3 – September 1996
Two A4 sheets folded down the middle to make effectively 6 inside A5 pages plus cover and back page. The one I am looking at is buff, but there is another one in the pile that is blue so the colour may be fairly random. There is an insert fold-a-lope with a membership form on… Continue reading Swancon 22 – PR3 – September 1996
Swancon 22 Progress Report 5 – January 1997
transcribed by Chris Creagh This progress report was designed to be delivered to your home by a representative of Australia Post. It is an A5 sized 12 page booklet which folds to A6 postcard size for posting.There are two centre pull-out A4 pages. One page is for listing your items for sale on a special… Continue reading Swancon 22 Progress Report 5 – January 1997
SwanCon 22 – PR2 – some extracts
Previously, one of our less obsessive contributors gave an overall description of the SwanCon PR2, with commentary on the various sections. Here, some selections are presented verbatim, for those of us who like to see how things change, and how things stay the same…. Again, Welcome… Just a short report this time, to let you… Continue reading SwanCon 22 – PR2 – some extracts
SwanCon 22 – PR1 – “Howard Who?”
Being a semi-faithful transcription of pages 4 of the SwanCon 22 – Festival of the Imgination 1997 – Progress Report 1. Page 5 contains an excerpt of Howard Waldrop’s 1987 story, “Night of the Cooters”, which has not been transcribed. Howard Who? “Howard Waldrop is a very strange man. He fishes a lot, lives in… Continue reading SwanCon 22 – PR1 – “Howard Who?”