Swagazine #2

Editorial  by Zeylan
The time has come for issue #2 of the Swagazine. It's been almost 2 years since anyone has seen an issue, online or otherwise. Swagazine #1 was printed as a hard copy in limited quantities, mostly for the contributors only. It was put online as an E-zine later the following year.

We had been waiting for a published (paperback hard copy) version of the second issue for almost two years. I took the submissions I had and passed them on to Colin (our usual editor), but other projects had kept him busy and the printed version has arrived late without his involvement (you can still order a copy). Swagazine is now primarily an E-zine, to be published in paperback only when the gods smile upon us.

The Swagland BBS, which served as the home to Swagazine, is now gone... Swagman decided he didn't want to be a sysop any more. So for a while the Swagazine was sort of like the swagmen themselves: lively, yet without a real place to call home.

The previous issue had a theme -- astronomy -- even though a lot of the articles had little to do with it. This second issue had no intended theme, but I think one is there anyway. A sense of something dark and remorseful lingers over many of the articles in this issue. It's almost a fitting atmosphere to coincide with the disappearance of the BBS which started it all. This issue is an appropriate eulogy for the meeting place we knew as Swagland.

So I've taken a chance and a few liberties to present the new 'zine without consultation from Colin or Swagman, in a new format which works nicely for the material. I think there are enough good pieces here to make a solid issue. I hope you enjoy it.


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