Mos' Eastly Con

This is a media con run by Devra Langsam, Joyce Yasner, and others. It was one of a series of cons which eventually became Media West in 1981.
"The name, Mos' Eastly Con, showed the growing influence of Star Wars. Organizers evenly split the panels between Star Trek and Star Wars; the remaining panels covered general topics (such as "the art of editing").from Boldly Writing
Each con had precisely one panel that specifically addressed slash (1980: "K/S: Do They or Don't They?"; 1985: "Why are "/" Stories So Popular?", 1990: Male Bonding in Media Universes: Need It Always Lead to "/"?, 1991: Male Bonding: Need It Always Lead to Slash?); all other panels and programming were gen.
In 1991, Joyce Yasner wrote about the history of this con and its origins in Fannish Roots.
In 2010, Paula Smith talked about these cons in A Conversation with Paula Smith.
==Cons in the Series==
* Kwest*Con (1974)
* ReKWest*Con (1975)
* SeKWester*Con (1976)
* SeKWester*Con, Too (1977)
* T'Con (1978) 
* 2'Con (1979)
* Mos' Eastly Con (1980-1991)
==Other Cons that Riffed on the Name==
There was also a Starsky and Hutch (and other fandom?) con called Mos Westly Con, mentioned in a 1980 issue of S and H. There is mention of "MediaWestEast*Con" in issue #21 of S and H. It is unclear if they are related.
==Some History==
"This January, Anne Elizabeth Zeek, Joyce Yasner, Lee Orlando and I and a cast of thousands -- well, dozens -- ran Mostly Eastly Con (The Third in a triumphant line, the first two having been Most Eastly and More Eastly... Previously, we had run the Eastly cons once every five years: the first replaced MediaWest in 1980, and the second one was given in 1985, the year Worldcon was in Australia. Worldcon is in Holland this year, and we'd planned to run our Eastlycon on Labor Day Weekend... but things got weird, so we chose Martin Luther King Day as a substitute... So, we're running Mostly Eastlycon Release 4.0 (The User Friendly, Interactive Media Con) on January 18–20, 1991." from Masiform D #17
==1980==
Mos' Eastly Con was the first con. It is sometimes referred to as "Mos Eastly," as well as a number of other variations. It was held May 23–36, 1980 at the Sheraton Inn near LaGuardia in New York City. It "replaced" MediaWest that year. The organizers, Devra Langsam and Joyce Yasner described it as "fifth in a series of Star Trek-what-have-you relaxacons."
In September 1979, Lori Chapek-Carleton addressed fans comments regarding the move from Michigan to New York: 
Some details about the con:
* Linda Deneroff (Fan Q Awards), Hans Dietrich (t-shirt, program book, progress report), Theresa Renner (art show), Allyson Whitfield (dealer's room), Steve and Elyse Rosenstein (lent the stapler)
 
* there were 300 names listed in the con program as "attending" and 22 names listed as "supporting members"
* the program book listed all of the nominees for the Fan Q Awards
* Code 7 was "conceived" here: Karen B wrote of this zine's beginnings in the program guide for CopCon (1983): "I met [Jean C.] and [Pam J] at Mos' Eastley Con, and the three of us clicked and formed BOUND IN LEATHER PRESS. I'd been wanting to do an S/H zine for some time, and at that convention, CODE 7 was born."
===Programming (Mos' Eastly - 1980) ===
* "Starting a Fanzine" 
*"Politics in Star Wars" 
*"The Art of Editing" 
*"Role-Playing in Star Wars" 
*"Antifeminism in Treklit" 
*"Fringe Fandoms" (Starsky and Hutch, Space: 1999, Battlestar Galactica, The Man from U.N.C.L.E., The Man from Atlantis, Dracula, and Doctor Who)
* "Erotic Literature (Airing Your Naughty Bits with Panache)"
*"How Not to Take Star Trek Too Seriously"
* "What's a Jedi Knight?"
* "K/S: Do They or Don't They?" 
*"Who's a Mary Sue?"
* "Pro-Publishing" 
*"Medicine in SF" 
*"Star Trek's Attitude Toward Mechanical Intelligence"
===Con Reports (Mos' Eastly - 1980)===
Devra Langsam announced that the annual convention for fanzine readers, editors and contributors would leave Michigan in 1980 and take place instead in New York (where it remained for one year). It was to be sponsored by Devra, Joyce Yasner and Elyse Rosenstein.from Masiform D #9 (August 1979)
Fandoms and the Fan Q Award: "Organizers evenly split the panels between Star Trek and Star Wars; the remaining panels covered general topics (such as "the art of editing"). The Fan Q award winner for best author was Mary Lee Cascio and Lois Welling for "Executive Privilege," a Star Trek story; best artist award went to Hans Dietrich, and Lori Chapek-Carleton won the award for best editor. In the Fan Q discussion afterward, participants reached a consensus to add even more categories, and to change 'best' as in 'best author' to 'favorite' as in 'favorite author.' Many fans also wanted to divide the awards into genre categories (Star Trek, Star Wars, etc.) because many fans only read one genre of fanzine, but Fan Q administrators did not implement that idea until later." from Boldly Writing
Some Events: Another event at Mos'Eastly featured a discussion of Star Trek: The Motion Picture. Peter David, Martynn, and Trinette Kern were among the panelists, and Joan Verba. Verba writes that all of them disapproved of the movie but that when the audience was asked their opinion, about half gave it a thumbs up.from Boldly Writing Verba also remembers, "Back at the convention [after an bus expedition to see The Empire Strikes Back], Peter David wrote and starred in a tremendously funny satire of Star Trek: The Motion Picture, presented as a one-act play after the Saturday banquet. P.S. Nim put on a slide show of her story, "Spock's Second Childhood [from Menagerie #15]." Another notable feature of the convention was that the K/S panel ("Do They or Don't They?") and the adult literature panel were deliberately scheduled at the same time, so that the discussion of adult literature would not turn into a K/S debate, as it had at the convention the year before." from Boldly Writing
A Space:1999 fan wrote: 
==1985==
More Eastly was the second. It was held August 30-September 2, 1985 at the Sheraton LaGuardia Hotel, and was run by Devra Langsam, Joyce Yasner and Linda Deneroff. Also, Pat 'Neill and Karen River (art show), Lee Shenker (video room), Robert Rogow (dealer's room), Lori Dell and Lois Indelicato (registration), Susan Rotellini, (con zine sales service), Leah Rosenthal and Nancy Stasulis (artists), Mary Otten, Sharane McCurry, Joanne Belton, and Vanessa Bailey (refreshments)
* the con skit was called "Dark Side Story," and it was a fannish musical retelling of "Return of the Jedi" based on "West Side Story" and there was showing of Visitors: A Puppet Opera (though according to its creator, this last thing did not occur)
 
* there is an obituary for Sara Jane Campbell
* there were about 230 names listed as "attendees"
=== Programming (More Eastly - 1985)===
* "The Future of Fanzines" 
*"Why is Media Fandom Overwhelmingly Female?"
* "ST: The Early Years"
* "Realism and Surrealism: What's the Appeal of Miami Vice?"
* "Really Off Broadway: Fannish Productions"
* "Coping with Mundane Attitudes, or Isn't that Dr. Spock?"
* "British Television: What's the Appeal?"
* Remington Steele: Teasers, Tags and Character Development"
* "Dr. Who's Companions: How Do They Affect the Series?"
* "The Use of Religion and Myth in Current Media SF"
* "Why are "/" Stories So Popular?"
* "Where are the Post-Jedi Stories?"
* "Hurt/Comfort: What Do We Have Against the Poor Shnooks?"
* The Future of Star Trek"
* "Doctor Who, Who Are You?"
* "The Darker Side of Fandom: Why are the Bad Guys Always so Good?"
* "Odd Couples: Why are We So Fascinated by Teams?"
* "Fanzine Etiquette"
* "Who's Scruffy Lookin?: Hunks Past, Present, and Future"
* "Keeping Zine Prices Down or, I Did't Know There Was a Staple Shortage"
* "Has Science Caught Up with Science Fiction?"
* "Where Do We Go from Here?: New Television Trends"
* "The Use/Misuse of Violence"
===Con Reports (More Eastly - 1985)===
==1990==
Mostly Eastly was the third con. It was held in January 12-15, 1990. There were 250 attendees, had an art show, a dual-video rooms, and panels.
There were 180 attendee names printed in the 25-page program book. 
 
From the program book: "Bootlegged zines will not be tolerated. If anyone is found selling bootlegged material, they will be asked to remove it from their table. Weapons must be peace-bonded at all times. NO FOOD, DRINK, OR SMOKING in the Art Show, Dealers' Room, or Fanzine Library at any time. Please!"
From the program book: "Our tee-shirt, peach with black lettering--XXL ash with black—which reproduces the cover of the program book, is available at the Registration table. XXL shirts cost $11.50, all other sizes cost $10. We have printed only 50 shirts. However, if there is enough interest, we might consider a reprint. In that case, there would be a $2 charge for postage."
Organizers:
* Chairpeople: Devra Langsam, Lee Orlando, Joyce Yasner, Anne E. Zeek 
* Con Staff: Dealers' Room - Roberta Rogow
* Video Programs - Sheryl Adsit
* Filk Programing - Jean Stevenson
* Gopher Marshals - Pat Nolan, Kathi Spivey 
* Hospitality Suite - Joanne Helton, Sharane McCurry (FIAWOL) 
* Registration (at Con) - Lori Dell
* Art Show - Mary Otten
* Con Artist - Nancy Stasulis
* Assistants - Lois Indelicato, Andrea Senchy
* Guest Art Show Auctioneer - S. Hellinger
 Image:mosteastly1990-1.jpg| inside page from the 1990 program book, a hello from the concom of Orbit, a Blake's 7 con that took place a few months after this "Most Eastly Con." 
 Image:mosteastly1990-2.jpg| inside page from the 1990 program book 
 
Image:mostlyeastly1990flyer.jpg|a flyer
===Programming (Mostly Eastly - 1990)===
Friday:
* The Care and Feeding of Home-Grown Videos (Adsit, Blish, Dunlop, Korszniak, Mangan)
* Name That Tune: SF and Media Themes Through the Ages (Nachman)
* Welcome to the Village: Reality and Metaphor (Beck, Hotaling, J. McDonnell, P. McDonnell)
* The Aliens of Star Trek: Have They Improved With Age? (Welsh, Senchy, Storey, Shanler, Juda)
* Letterzines: Fandom's (Im)Purest Form of Expression (Nussman, Dickenson, Wells, Lay)
* Building a Filk With Brick and Mortar (Stevenson, Rogow, Willis)
* Yes, But Can She Bake a Cherry Pie? Fans and New Technologies (Agel, Berzansky, Klein, Stringari, Wortham)
* Filking Practice (Stevenson and company)
* Up-and-Coming-Fandoms: Do Old Fandoms Ever Die? (Palmaccio, Epenshade, Boudreau)
 
Saturday:
*Is This What They Meant by "Burnt Sienna"? (Otten, Spivey, Bloemker, Gerstner)
* A Legend Re-Written: Can (Should) the Beast Survive Without His Beauty? (Yasner, McCurry, Clark, Storey, Indelicato)
* Partners in Crime: Are Twosomes Always More Fun? (Tanksley, Carlin, McHenry, Smith)
* Must an Original Character Be a "Mary Sue"? And Why Not Use One in a Media Story Anyway? (Agel, Adsit, Horsman, Schuldes)
* Damn, Where's the Sticky Tape, My Costume's Falling Off! (seminar) (Rogow, Lay, Salemi, Coleman, Palmer, Moore, Sneed)
* Nothing is Ever Forgotten: Remnants of the Old Religion in Robin of Sherwood (Salicrup, Stefan, Brin, Blish)
* The Loner as Hero: The Saint, Bergerac, McGyver [sic], Midnight Caller, Wiseguy, Gideon Oliver (Blog, Ford, Klein, Kay, Dunlop)
* The Vodka is Strong, Bu the Meat is Rotten: Problems in Translation from One Medium to Another (Beck, Geller, Klopf, Miller)
* A View of Two Federations: Star Trek and Blake's Seven (Rosenthal, McDonnell, Juda, Dunlop, Flanagan)
* Batman's Hidden Agenda: Did It Work? (Orlando, Brin)
* Custer's Revenge: Can (or Should) War of the Worlds Survive Without Norton and Ironhorse? (Wells, Dickenson, Crater, Flanagan)
* New Dimensions in Brit TV (Morales, Lay, Brin, Indelicato)
* No Holds Barred: Martial Arts Workshop (Welsh, Yasner, Blish, Stefan, Eads)
* Matting for the 34th Century, workshop (Otten)
* The Splintering of Fandom: + or - For the Future? (Sleeman, Altman, Wardell, Wilson)
* Alien Nation: Bringing SF Down to Earth (Rosenthal, McCurry, Adsit, Stasulis)
* In from the Cold: The Lure of the Spy (Garrett, Dunlop, Dickenson, Tanksley, Jamieson)
* Only in the First Person: Views of Revolution (Treason?) in Media Universes (Tetreault, Espenshade, Schissler, Welsh, Tripp)
* British Takeaway: British Detective Shows (Morales, Hartel, Curley, Hotaling)
* Sam and Al's Awesome Adventures: Quantum Leap as Fun as (Re)Told History (Jamieson, J. Wells, G. Wells, Nachman)
* Hysterical Friction: The Importance of Accuracy (Research!) in Period Pieces (Nolan, Nussman, Langsam, Morales, Coleman)
* Paradise: Doing the Western Up Right (Stevenson, J. Wells, G. Wells, Ford)
* Consistency in Building (or Stealing!) Your Universe: Why Some Shows (And Stories) Fail (Yasner, Espenshade, Garrett, Swanson)
* At Loggerheads: The Editor/Artist Relationship: Need It Always Be Adversarial? Or Is It So? (Langsam, Stasulis, River, Nazzaro)
* You've Come a Long Way, Baby!: Love and Sex in TV-SF from Star Trek to Alien Nation (Scheffler, Dunn, Sobel, Bloemker)
* Male Bonding in Media Universes: Need It Always Lead to "/"? (Agel, Crater, Swoboda, Flanagan)
* The Nostalgia Craze: Where the Shows of Our Youth Really That Good? (Blish, Palmaccio, Tanksley, Crowley)
* Ethics in Fandom: Bootlegging, Profiteering, and Ripping Off Your Friends (Garrett, Curley, Dell, Rogow)
* A Guy's Best Friend is His Gun: Does "Grit" Really = Reality? (Orlando, Berzansky, Frank, Batterby)
* Amid the Alien Corn: Are THEY Already Among Us? (Hudes, Johnson, Strong, Black)
* Song Fest and Celebration (Stevenson and company)
* The VCR: Would Fandom Be Different Today if We Had Them Twenty Years Ago? How? (Langsam, Blish, Conner, Stefan, Thomas)
* Fans and Print Media: What Books Do Media Fen Read, and Why? (Langsam, Palmaccio, Morales, Lineaweaver)
* Necking Makes Strange Bedfellow: The Vampire in Fact and Fiction (Garrett, Geller, Salicrup, Johnson)
* Tortured Love: The Many Incarnations of The Phantom of the Opera (Nachman, River, Orlando, Sharpe)
* Fannish Lore and History (Langsam, Rogow, Hitchcock, M. Basta)
* The Lure of the Exotic: Why Are Aliens (Spock & Co) Such Automatic Turn-Ons? (Geller, Espenshade, Flanagan)
* Be Still My Beating Hearts! -- The Purple Prose Panel (various)
Sunday:
* Death and Taxes: Turning Your FanAc Into a Real Business (Langsam, McCurry, Rogow, Rudow, Eads)
* I'll Peels His Spots: Belieable (!) Aliens on TV (Scheffler, Espenshade, Adsit, Callejas)
* The Fine Art of Illustration (River, Rosenthal, Palmer, Stasulis, Mosil)
* The (Un)Holstered Gun: The Old West Re-Vistied (Espenshade, McLevey, Dulap)
* The Many Worlds of Star Trek (Presgrove, Cruickshank Rasmussen, Scheffler)
* Where're You Taking That Thing? -- Aliens in Star Trek (Rosenberg, Yasner, Salemi, Sharpe, Francis)
* Tunnel Survival: Skills and Crafts for a New World (Otten, Kay, Spivey, Salemi)
* As the Worlds Turn: Ethical Response to Change in Various Guises (role-playing panel) (Stevenson, Yasner, McCurry, Crater, Juda, Rosenthal, Sharpe)
* (Re)Fighting the Battle: The Lure of the Military Show (Agel, Wortham, Nolan, Rosenberg)
* Fan Writer's Workshop (Batterby, Nissan, Garrett, Hitchcock, Kay, Rose, Berzansky, Brin)
* Are Fans Really The "Lowest Common Denominator"? (Wells, Wright, From, Hartel)
* Exploring Space and Time with the Doctor(s) (Beck, Jamieson, Blog, Korszniak, Sneed)
* Horror on Television: Too Much Too Soon? (Blog, Maroon, Rathgeb, Sullivan)
* With the New Season: Are the Changes in Beauty and the Beast Justified? (Orlando, Bailey, Carlin, Siefan, Stasulis)
* The Missing Generations: 85 Years of Untold Trek History (Swoboda, Moore, Adams, Sleeman, Basta)
* Eye of the Beholder: Why I Kept Watching War of the Worlds in Spite of the Gore (Dickenson, Wells, Crater) 
* Design and Layout: An Often Overlooked Side of Zining (Blog, Blish, Ford, Bloemker, Geller)
* Movies and the Creation of the New Myth: Beyond Star Wars (Stevenson, Salicrup, Hotaling, Rose)
*The New TV Shows: An SF Renaissance or Tomorrow's Duds? (Giordano, Palmaccio, Barnes, Moore)
* Editor's Choice: Editing vs. Publishing, Does the Consumer Lose? (Blog, Beck, Batterby, Clark)
* MUNCLE vs. Sandbaggers: Is There Truth to Either? (Nissan, Morales, Tanksley, Laymon)
* Han Solo Meets Dracula: Keeping the Tie-Lines Straight in a "Crossed" Universe (Agel, Espenshade, Johnson, Stevenson, Laymon)
* KD: Word Processing Programs as an Aid to Writing and Editing (Garrett, Clark, Curley, Wortham, Eads)
* The British Are Coming, The British Are Coming! -- Is Brit TV More Than Just a Cult Craze? (Korsniak, McDonnell, Bailey)
* Killing Off Major Characters in Canon and FanFic: Is It Ever Really Justified? (Stringari, Webster, Espenshade, Wells)
* Not in MY Fanzine You Don't!!! -- The Editor's Role: Censorship vs Responsibility (Langsam, Nussman, Rogow, Wardell)
* Hurt/Comfort: A Path to Catharsis, Or ---? (Crater, Rosenthal, Kadushin, Schissler)
* SF+TV: Can Small Screens Do Credit to SF Themes? (Beck, Geller, Chanson, Senchy, Yasser)
* Look What They Done to My Song, Ma! -- Creativity by Committee: Fans, The Networks, and Second Seasons (Rose, Woolvertan, Carlin Papatheodoraoa)
* Beyond the Pale: Media Fen as Second-Class Citizens (Nachman, M. Basta, Peck, Torres)
* Public Domain and Historical Figures in FanFic (Garrett, Langsam, Rogow, Salicrup, Morales)
* The Many Faces of Sherlock Holmes (Curley, McCurry, Sneed, Klein)
* The Traffic Goes Both Ways: How Fandom, In and Of Itself, Affected the Shows We Watch? (Rose, Bloemker, Case, Gordon)
Monday:
* Voices in the Wilderness: Fan Fiction Post-Star Trek and Post-Star Wars -- What Are the Differences? (Stevenson, Hitchcock, Adams, Wardell)
* The Lure of the Unleashed Lion: The Dangerous Man Stalks the City -- Miami Vice, The Professionals, Wiseguy, The Equalizer (Batterby, Berzansky, Orlando, Willis)
* Orphan Fandoms: Where Do We Go For Our Fix? (Agel, McDonnell, Palmaccio, Sneed)
* Fandom and Reality: Must They Always Conflict? (Salicrup, Orlando, Eads)
* The Brits and the Yanks Look Back at Crime: Dempsey and Makepeace vs .Remington Steele, The Professionals vs Miami Vice and Houston Knights (Batterby, Curley, Nissan, Beck, McLevy)
* Classic Fantasy and/or Science Fiction: Books and Movies from the 30's Through the 60's (Palmaccio, Moore, Wells, Rancourt)
===Con Reports (More Eastly - 1990)===
==1991==
Most Eastly (Mostly Eastlycon Release 4.0) was the fourth con. It was held January 18-20, 1991 at the Westchester Marriott Hotel in Tarrytown, NY.
The cost was $36.80, higher at the door. The checks were to be made out to Poison Pen Press.
There were 130 attendee names in the program book, the vast majority of them with New York and Maryland addresses.
The 24-page program book also contains an essay by Joyce Yasner called Fannish Roots.
*Chairpeople: Devra Langsam, Lee Orlando, Joyce Yasner, Anne E. Zeek
*Con Staff: Dealers' Room - Roberta Rogow
*Video Progranming - Sheryl Adsit
*Filk Progranming - Jean Stevenson
*Gopher Marshals - Pat Nolan, Kathi Spivey 
* Hospitality Suite - Joanne Belten, Sharane McCurry (FIAWOL) 
*Art Show - Andrea Senchy (in the program guide there is a thank you to "Mediawestcon Art Show, from whom we stole the rules.")
*Big Oops - Juanita Salicrup
*Logistics - Mary Otten
*Tee Shirt Co-ordinator - Lois Indelicato
From the program book: "Bootlegged zlnes will not be tolerated. If anyone is found selling bootlegged material, they will be asked to remove it from their table. Weapons must be peace-bonded at all times. NO FOOD, DRINK, OR SMOKING in the Art Show or Dealers' Room at any time. Please! Please do not affix anything to hotel surfaces. It is against NYS law to serve alcohol to minors. Please, no alcohol at open parties! Please don't disconnect the TV in your room without notifying the Front Desk—they get upset. No pets or naked ladies in function rooms or public areas, please. (Naked men, now—)."
A War of the Worlds fan wrote of her excitement about the panels: 
===Programming (Mostly Eastly - 1991)===
Friday:
* Star Trek: Looking to the Future From the Past (Star Trek, in all its manifestations, always provided a vehicle from which to observe and comment on our present. As it approaches its 25th year, does this continue?)
* Caveat Emptor: Judging Bootlegs By Their Cover (You just paid $100 for that copy of Spock Enslaved; was it worth it? Maybe not. Bootleg zines, music tapes, and prints are appearing at conventions; how can the purchaser protect herself and what can editors do to stop the situation?)
* What Makes a Fan a Fan? (You husband plays golf and your sister is a bridge champ. Why do you prefer to spend your extra-curricular hours with a good fanzine or at cons such as this?)
* Old Fandoms Never Die: Keeping the Faith (Seems like there are just as many MUNCLE fans as ever... not to mention fans of Air Wolf, Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea, Shadow Chasers, B7, etc. What's so special about these shows that fans keep the flames burning brightly [after] they've gone?)
* A Different POV: Brits & Yanks Look at Cops & Spies (More than the toff accent sets British cops and spies (Makepeace, Bodie & Doyle, Emma Peel, etc.) apart from Americans (Tubbs & Crockett, Napoleon Solo) but what?)
* Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea Pool Party (There's a pool and a jacuzzi, and a lot of old-time favorites that are literally "all-wet." So come, enjoy, share the fun with Mark Harris and the crew of the Seaview -- and watch out for sea monsters!)
* New Kid on the Block (Wiseguy, Paradise, War of the Worlds. Did they all forget the first rule of editing? "If it ain't broke don't fix it?" Do editorial efforts to fix an already popular product ever work well? And what kind of battle do the "new guys" have to [do] to be accepted.)
* Memories of Eld: The Old Religion in Media (Science fiction and fantasy books and films have recently shown a marked increase in topics arcane and esoteric. Is the interest genuine and based on a desire for knowledge -- or will any old Halloween mask do to titillate the masses?)
* The More the Merrier (Batman and Robin, Sundance and Butch, Three Musketeers and the Merrie Men. Is action-adventure really more fun when it's doubled, or even tripled?)
* Portrait of a Hero (What are the prime ingredients needed to make a fannish hero... and are there any differences between a fannish hero and a popular (mundane) hero?)
* Media Fen vs. the World (The title says it all, din't it?)
* In the Beginning Was the Word: Fannish History (Media fandom is 25 years young, but even in that short time, it has accumulated a history... not to mention legends. From the mouthes of those who created it, our history.)
* One from Column A... Crossing Universes Safely (Han Solo meets Dracula. Great story concept, or turkey idea. It's all in the execution.)
Saturday:
* You Can't Tell the Players Without a Scorecard (A current TV show and a recent pilot (She-Wolf of London and Nick Knight) turned the horror images inside out by making, respectively, a werewolf and a vampire respectable... and white hatted "good guys." Does it work? Especially now that Barnabas Collins is back in town?)
*Revving Up the Oater (Long before Kevin Costner made Westerns respectable, TV fans were enjoying a Renaissance with Paradise and Young Riders. Will the rest of the world be joining us soon?)
* Realpolitak in Fan Fiction (Politics are inescapable in the real world, how do fen deal with the realities of political structures in fan fiction? Does the nature of the fan universe affect the political structure envisioned?)
* No Job for a Lady (Are women losing the fight for equality in science fiction and action-adventure shows?)
* We Spy & Co: Spies and the Fan in the Age of Glastnos (Has the thaw in the Cold War changed the nature of spy shows?)
* Don't Confuse Me With the Facts (The difficulties of dealing with historical subjects in media and fanzines. Where to go for the facts, ma'am, just the facts.)
* Writing is a Gold Fish Bowl: Writing Workshop
* Form and Substance: Zines, Quality and DTP (With computerization, it's easier than ever to produce a great looking fanzine. How do we ensure that the quality matches the appearance?)
* Every Word a Pearl: Editing Workshop
* Bring on the Second String (Why are the "second bananas" (Spock, Data, Kerr Avon, Vila, Paul Ironhorse, Ham Tyler, etc.) sometimes as popular, or even more popular than the main star?)
* DB Cooper, Alien FBI agent (Is it just imagination? Or did Agent Cooper come here looking for an alien murderer just a few years ago? [In] The Hidden.)
* To Boldly Go (Picard & and Co. have now shipped out for a longer span of years and a larger number of adventures than Kirk's Krew. Is it time to forget sibling rivalry and examine each series on its own merits, and weaknesses?)
* Fatal Attraction (The editor/contributor relationship frequently ends in bloodshed. What can be done to ease and improve the situation?)
* Actions Speak Louder Than Words (Are letter-writing campaigns losing their effectiveness? And if they are, what options do we have to save our favorite shows?)
* Through an Imaging Chamber Brightly (Would you really want Sam around to "make it all better"? And, without Ziggy, how do we recognize "better" in the first, er, second place?)
* Golden Oldies (Were the shows of your youth as wonderful... or as bad as we remember?)
* (In)Compatible Data Transfer (Why is it so hard to go from one medium to another? Book to TV, book to movie, movie to TV, TV to movie, "novelizations," etc. seldom give equivalent products. Why? And are the differences qualitative? Or of degree?)
* The Man at the Typewriter: Stephen J. Cannell (From the sublime to the ridiculous, from critically acclaimed to top-top ten in popularity: the many universes of Stephen J. Cannell fill this wide spectrum. But are there any common threads or themes in his works?)
* Hero Without a Gun (McGyver still doesn't carry a gun, but what happened to all the nifty-keen scientific tricks he used to pull? Are we as enthralled by his adventures now that he's just another "knock-about" hero?)
* The Collector: Archiving Artwork (You paid for it, let's make sure it's safe.)
* From Manuscript to Postscript (Seeing a manuscript through its paces, from submission to final printing, and the computer programs that can help.)
* Who's That Caped Crusader? (Makeup and costuming secrets from fandom's experts.)
* Beating the Drum (How the editor/publisher can use adzines to increase sales and contribution, while the consumer can use them to cut down on the "Russian roulette" aspect of buying zines through the mail.)
* Making Ms. Right (Isn't it time we learned the difference between "Mary Sue" and "fan-created female character"? How do we keep our original characters from slipping over the edge? How can we tell when we have, and just as importantly, how do we keep others from calling every non-on-screen character a Mary (or Maury) Sue?)
* Picking up the Pieces (Fan writers deal with the inconsistencies in War of the World and other shows. How? And why should we have to?)
* The Wisdom of the Orient (A survey of the films of Akira Kurosawa, and his influence on fandom.)
* Zan! Pow! Pop! (A survey of the movies of James Cameron, George Lucas, and Steven Spielberg; they talk our breath away, but give us food for thought, too.)
* Moriarty's Nemesis: The Lure of Mr. Holmes (A look at the many interpretations of Sherlock Holmes, and an examination of why he continues to move us.)
*Music Hath Charms: Filk Concert by Jean Stevenson and Fern Marder
* The Care and Feeding of Fringe Fandoms (There are no major umbrella fandoms anymore. How to keep interest in our favorite shows alive in a shifting marketplace?)
* The Sound of One Fan Clapping (You aren't even involved in a fringe fandom! What to do when you are the only fan you you with the intelligence and perspicacity to appreciate the biting social commentary in your favorite show? Can we keep fannish fires in a vacuum?)
* Ten Forward: Kzinti Reception: Hall Costume Judging and Con Suite Party
* Get A Life! (Juggling franc and the world.)
* High Tech Terror (Judging by today's headlines, truth can be stranger than fiction. Has reality finally surpassed our imaginations?)
* Demon Lovers (Dracula, The Phantom of the Opera, Barnabas Collins, Vincent... What is the fascination surrounding these, and other, dangerous men?)
* The Girl in His Arms (Catherine Chandler was one of the few on-screen lovers widely accepted in fandom. Why? What qualities did the Beauty and the Beast love affair have that set it apart? And are there lessons here for other on-screen love affairs?)
* Male Bonding: Need It Always Lead to Slash? (Just where do women fit into the world of male partners?)
Sunday:
* Something More Than Culture (Why do the Brits handle life among the upper classes so well (I Claudius, Poldark, Brideshead Revisited) while all we have to offer are the Ewings and the Carringtons?)
* Throwing a Party for 500 of Your Best Friends (The whys and wherewithals of running a con.)
* Myths for the Modern Man (Man does not live by bread along. Where will the myths to guide him come from in this humdrum workaday world?)
* The Fifth Season (Blake's 7 and the fans.)
* The Well-Read Fan ('Nuf said, no?)
* Through Space and Time with the Doctor (Keeping track of the Doctor and his incarnations.)
* The Shifting Face of the 'Other' (Projections of Good and Evil onto the alien (Starman, Spock and Data in Star Trek, The Newcomers in Alien Nation, the aliens in War of the Worlds, etc.) .. what do those fantasies say about us?)
* Looking Ahead (Where are the new fandoms coming from?)
* Fan Awards: A Necessary Evil? (Too often, fan excellence awards become mere popularity contests or political battlefields. How can we honor our best without showing our worst?)
* The Purists' Revenge: The Death of Alien Nation
* Against the Fall of Night (Why is the future envisioned by so many of today's movies and TV shows (Superforce, Batman, Max Headroom, Flash, Blade Runner, War of the Worlds, Captain Power, etc.) so dark and hopeless? Remember -- with lead time, most of the shows were conceived before the current MidEast crisis!)
* Hold the Pain and Go Right to the Comfort! (Too many fans forget one major point.... namely, pain HURTS. Just what is the attraction in a bleeding near-corpse, anyway?)
* Back to the Future, Pt XII (TV has discovered the benefits of recycling. Is this a blessing for the fen... or is it just another cop-out by media's creative leaders?)
==Photographs==
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