Swill 2014

Author: Neil Williams

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SWILL was fan magazine created in February 1981 in response to the controversy created with in Ontario science fiction fandom by a fake boycott poster distributed at the 1979 Maplecon by Neil Williams. Because of this controversy, the SWILL was published during 1981. A successor magazine; Daughter of Swill, Mother of Scum was published in 1984 and 1985. The twentieth anniversary was marked by the publication of the online magazine SWILL Online in 2001. The magazine was revived in 2011 for the thirtieth anniversary and continues to be published (with some publication hiatuses). The most current issues are available online and the publisher's website.

SWILL 2014 has not been previously published in book form. SWILL 2014 contains issues #23 through #26 of SWILL.

About the Author

Neil Williams was born in Montreal, QC and lived his first decade in Quebec, however Neil has lived most of his life in southern Ontario. He has also lived in Vancouver, British Columbia, the U.K., and has the dubious notoriety of being kicked out of Romania for being "a purveyor of anti-social hooliganism" (I was a distributor for Canadian alternative rock labels and I didn't always use the official distribution channels). Neil has worked in radio where he wrote and produced radio drama, though most of his work was in writing and producing alternative rock band biographies. Neil has postgraduate degrees in Anthropology and in Sociology and he taught in the Ontario community college system for 26 years. He is now officially semi-retired and continues to teach part-time. This does give him more time for writing...