How did Shockwave get started?
Shockwave was started by three programmers at KFAI, Charles E. Hamilton III, Everett Forte and Chris Dronen. At the time, the station was only a year old and was very small, broadcasting a 10-watt mono signal “exclusive to parts of South Mpls”. After a few weeks of playing sf music, Chris and Everett came to a local con and asked if anyone was interested in helping out. The next week I and a few other fen showed up. Though Chris and Everett remained engineers for many years, they never produced another show. • What did the science fiction fans do when they took over? Very quickly, Shockwave started developing a future history, with such things as the St. Paul Spaceport (78% of the former state of Wisconsin), Time In A Spraycan, Preconceptions: News of the Future, Top 11 Lists, and so on. Of course, what was the far future in 1980 is the forseeable future in 1995. You’re Riding the Shockwave, the 1995 Minicon Stage Show adresses some of those issues. • I see in the tape credits menitons
