Stephen Gunnell
Participates in 6 items
Sessions in which Stephen Gunnell participates
3:00 PM
3:00 PM
- Cyberpunk 2020 in the rearview mirror Duxton Hotel - Duxton 1
- 3:00 PM - 4:00 PM | 1 hour
- Cyberpunk 2020 is now not only retrofuturism, but also counter-history.Looking at what it got right (credsticks) and what it got wrong (neural i...
7:30 PM
7:30 PM
- The Evolution of Conventions Duxton Hotel - Duxton 3
- 7:30 PM - 8:30 PM | 1 hour
- Conventions are always changing. Things that were "Rock Solid, Must Have" fall by the wayside and new things replace them. We look at examples of t...
9:30 PM
9:30 PM
- Obsolete Technologies: Gasification Duxton Hotel - Duxton 1
- 9:30 PM - 10:00 PM | 30 minutes
- Gasification was the process used to turn coal into natural gas. It was the light source and heat source for the early days of the Industrial Re...
2:00 PM
2:00 PM
- Fountain Pens - Show and Tell with SteveG and Leece Duxton Hotel - Duxton 2
- 2:00 PM - 3:00 PM | 1 hour
- Is the pen mightier than the sword? We think these ones are :-)Steve Gunnell and Leece demonstrate their collection of fountain pens...
8:30 PM
8:30 PM
- Obsolete Technologies: Steam Engines Duxton Hotel - Duxton 2
- 8:30 PM - 9:30 PM | 1 hour
- Steam Engines are a lot more complex than you'd expect, deliver a level of performance that is phenomenal of the underlying required technology, an...
1:00 PM
1:00 PM
- Pern Free: Anne McCaffery outside of the Pern Universe Duxton Hotel - Duxton 2
- 1:00 PM - 2:00 PM | 1 hour
- Anne McCaffery is probably most famous for her "Pern" novels full of SF Dragons and interesting characters, but that's not the only stories she wro...
Sessions in which Stephen Gunnell attends
10:00 AM
10:00 AM
- Opening Ceremony Duxton Hotel - Duxton 1
- 10:00 AM - 10:30 AM | 30 minutes
- Are you ready??? Meet this year’s team, meet the guests, and get the lowdown on all things Swancon 2020.Welcome to Country ceremony will be...
- Keynote
10:30 AM
10:30 AM
- Welcome to your First Con Duxton Hotel - Duxton 1
- 10:30 AM - 11:00 AM | 30 minutes
- So you've managed to make it to your first SwanCon and you have no idea what to do, what the rules are and what you should do next. Stick around fo...
- Panel
11:00 AM
11:00 AM
- OH & S are NOT impressed with your Deathstar Duxton Hotel - Duxton 1
- 11:00 AM - 12:00 PM | 1 hour
- Seatbelts on the Enterprise, Handrails on the Deathstar, Mollyguards on pretty much every control surface, ever.What other (apparently) forgotte...
- Panel
7:30 PM
7:30 PM
- Tin Ducks Awards Duxton Hotel - Duxton 1
- 7:30 PM - 8:00 PM | 30 minutes
- Panel