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Zparkz

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I recently got a request from a guy downloading the HIWG CD from my site, www.travellerfreeport.com which was interested in getting copies of AAB Proceedings, the HIWG newsletter. As the editor of this fanzine, Clayton Bush, has passed away.

In this regard I would like to get in touch with Mike Mikesh, Bryan Borich or any other prominent former HIWG memner to discuss if it could be possible to host those files on my site. I know that Clay did not want to see his work appear on the net, but this fanzine may hold interest to other ex members of HIWG and Traveller fans.

I think I have most of the fansines in my collection and can easily get them scanned at work and place them on the net within short time.

You may get in touch with me through this page: http://www.travellerfreeport.com/ContactAdministration.html
 
Not a HIWG alum here. But I would like to second the motion, wholeheartedly, that if there were any way possible to make the AAB Proceedings and the HIWG Newsletters available to the Traveller Community, I would be extremely grateful.

I have spent many months trying, unsuccessfully, to track down copies of these items. Granted I have no real idea of the content - I have never seen even an index or a rough rundown of even a portion of what they contain. However, I have had the privilege of downloading the HIWG CD from www.travellerfreeport.com, and if the Proceedings and Newsletter contain anything near the quality of material that can be found on the archive then their release would be yet another great boon to the community.


Jerry
 
AABP took over as the HIWG newsletter after Tiffany Star which Mike Mikesh was the editor of.

Most of the content to AABP was HIWG matters and discussions about what to do next. For game related material Signal GK (HIWG UK) and Terran Traveller Times (Mark 'Geo' Gelinas) contains much more game related material. However, reading AABP and Tiffany Star (which I also have a sizeable number of issues of) I can also publish if I can get the neccesary permissions. However I have not been able to track down Mike Mikesh.
 
Wow. Ask and things happen. Speaking as the person inquiring on Traveller Freeport about these issues, I'm impressed with the follow up. I would love to see the Tiffany Star issues too as well as the Signal GK beyond issue 4.

As far as posting on the web, I'm a little unclear - do you need permission to post if you are not charging for the material? Fanzines by nature were for public dissemination, so do copyright rules apply? Of course, if these fanzines were sold then that is a different matter...

Anyway, thanks for the prompt attention to this matter and hopefully you can get this material out here!

Drew
 
Let me say a "me too" when it comes to Signal GK. Of course I would like to see the others make it to the web as well as I only have a handful each of the Tiffany Star and Traveller Times.

As for the AAB and Newsletter, now that I understand what exactly they are, I am even more interested in seeing them. There must be some great history contained therein not to mention just being able to see the background of the creative process that went into the HIWG. Those would definitely be interesting reads.

Jerry
 
I was a member from 89 or 90 to about 94 or there about.
Andrew, do you got any contact information on Mike or Bryan?
And do you have any oppinion about the legalities about publishing TS and/or AABP on the net?

I would prefer the original editors to have a say in this, but in Clays case, it is not possible.
 
Zparkz said:
IAndrew, do you got any contact information on Mike or Bryan?
And do you have any oppinion about the legalities about publishing TS and/or AABP on the net?

I would prefer the original editors to have a say in this, but in Clays case, it is not possible.
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Bryan used to be on the TML. I got the HIWG CD ROM from him a few years ago per an e-mail to the TML.

Mike
 
I have tried to get hold of Mike Mikesh, Bryan Borich, Rob Prior and a few others I was in frequent contact with, but without any luck.
Either way, I have startet to scan AABP and Tiffany Star and expect them to be available just after easter on my site.
I do also have a few other fanzines as Starship, Starports and Vehicles (Bryan Borich) and Starburst (HIWG Australia) I am considering scanning these also to publish them on the net.
 
Some of HIWG Australia are still around. They did Yiklerzdanzh Sector back in the day, and all of that is currently living on the web.
 
As a progress report.
I have scanned those issues of Tiffany Star I got. There are some holes and I miss at least the 12 first issues. If someone could scan those I don't have and send them to me I would be grateful. All issues will be available on my site.

AABP is in progress. most is canned, just a few left to go. I do even miss a few issues here too.

In addition I'll iclude my own HIWG fanzine 'kfan Uzangou'. I gave out 5 issues of this fanzine, however I miss the originals to the first. I would like to get a scanned copy (300DPI) if someone out there have it.

If there is other HIWG fanzines out there that you want to see online, please send me a note.
 
Zparkz said:
In addition I'll iclude my own HIWG fanzine 'kfan Uzangou'. I gave out 5 issues of this fanzine, however I miss the originals to the first. I would like to get a scanned copy (300DPI) if someone out there have it.
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I may have kU #1, since I was a Sector Analyst in your neighborhood. I know I have at least a couple issues...

I don't have much of Tiffany Star, and only a scattering of AABP. The other fanzines I was aware of with HIWG affiliations are already online.
 
Jame said:
I'd wondered why the HIWG site wasn't updating.
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HIWG went into a holding pattern when TNE replaced MT, and effectively died with GDW five years later. The purposeful obfuscation of prior Canon in (and subsequent utter failure of) T4, Loren not needing any help with the timeline variant of GURPS:Traveller, and the spawning of the WWW (and related death of most print magazines) were all coffin nails. The ongoing schism in the fanbase over TNE's Virus didn't help. Clay's death last year was the last nail, I suspect. I haven't heard anything from the other principles in years.
 
My memory may be selective and colored by my opinnion. HIWG was quite strong under TNE, but not the same as under MT where HIWG first appeared, formed by Mike Mikesh and Ed Edwards sometime in the 80ies.

However the appearance of the net made it slightly difficult to maintain a member base as the www made it easy to communicate with other Traveller fans. T4 was probably the real beginning of the end of HIWG. I remember there was much discussion about what was canon and not on the HIWG mailing list. I was honestly disgusted by T4 and resigned from HIWG as I thought that it was time to put Traveller to its final rest. (luckily it is still here)

As for the HIWG site not being updated may be that I was the HIWG web editor at the time. Now it is the Downport.com staff that run those pages. Probably for the best as it seems that all the prominent members of the HIWG has dissapeared off the earth. I am then thinking about Mike, Rob, Bryan, Harold and a few others. I have however managed to track down and are in contact with Terry McInnes and mark 'Geo' Gelinas.
 
GypsyComet said:
Some of HIWG Australia are still around. They did Yiklerzdanzh Sector back in the day, and all of that is currently living on the web.
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Much of the work that the NZ-HIWG (New Zealand branch) has worked its way into FSpace...I am sure that product is also a by product of Traveller groups in Australia, as well. The kanga on the cover sort of gives it away.
 
As he had quite a few articles in various publications I suspect he was afraid that his work would be misused by others.
When I look at the later issues compared to those from about issue 12 to thirty something the AABP issues contained quite a lot of discussions among members and future plans. Then by 1996 and onwards it became more of an ordinary fanzine containing modules, designs and similar stuff.
 
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