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Tag Archives: Perth
Festival of The Imagination 1996 – Neil Gaiman, Robin Pen
Page 5 of the SwanCon/Festival of the Imagination 1996 January 1996 Newsletter has brief (one paragraph) bios on guests Neil Gaiman and Robin Pen. There is also a selected bibliography for Neil Gaiman, which has been omitted on the principle … Continue reading
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Tagged conventions, Perth, progress report, SwanCon, The Festival of The Imagination 1996
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SwanCon 17 Progress Report July 1991 – Details front cover
Transcription and commentary by Chris Creagh The A4 buff coloured booklet front cover has a central image of radiating lines overlaid with the impossible triangle (apex downwards) overlaid with a clear silhouette of a young adult in the style of … Continue reading
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Tagged GoH, Perth, progress report, SwanCon, Swancon 17
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Festival of The Imagination 1996 – Hotel, Gaming Programme, Fundraiser Quiz
Being pages 8 & 9 of the December 1995 newsletter. As ever, transcription done as faithfully as we can manage The Hotel Not many rooms are left at the Kings, so get your bookings in now. There has been some … Continue reading
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Tagged conventions, newsletter, Perth, SwanCon, Swancon 21, The Festival of The Imagination 1996
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SwanCon 17 – Progress Report January 1992 – Orion advert
Page 14 of the SwanCon 17 January 1992 progress report was a full page advert for ‘Orion’. The top three-quarters of the page are the text reproduced below; the bottom quarter contains a graphic element consisting of the word ‘Orion’ … Continue reading
Posted in Books, Fan production, fanzines, Progress reports, SwanCon
Tagged advertising, Fiction, Perth, progress report, SwanCon, Swancon 17
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Swancon 17 – July 1991 Progress Report – Dreamers in the Net (part I)
Being page 13 of the SwanCon 17 July 1991 Progress Report. Part II will be posted in the near future. This page features a faux newspaper clipping about ‘The Urban Outback’ (which requires a bit of a content warning for … Continue reading
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Tagged cyberpunk, Festival of the Imagination 1992, gaming, parsec, Perth, progress book, Swancon 17, Western Australia
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SwanCon 17: July 1991 PR – PARSEC
Pages 12 through 15 of the SwanCon 17 July 1991 progress report are a detailed presentation on ‘PARSEC – The Perth and Regional Simulation Entertainments Convention’. This post attempts to transcribe the text, and summarise the visual elements, which might … Continue reading
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Tagged Festival of the Imagination 1992, gaming, parsec, Perth, progress report, Swancon 17, Western Australia
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Swancon seventeen – November report – The Mediaeval Faire
OK, that’s not how I spell “medieval“, but it’s how they spelled it, so that’s what I’m going with. This is the bottom half of page 8 of the November 1991 PR for “swancon seventeen”, as it is styled on … Continue reading
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Tagged Festival of the Imagination 1992, Medieval, Perth, SCA, SwanCon, Swancon 17
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SwanCon 17 – January 1992 progress report – Starfleet Battles Tournament
Pages 12-13 of the SwanCon 17 January 1992 progress report was dedicated to details of the Starfleet Battles Tournament scheduled to run during the convention. Some of the sections are overly detailed, and have not been reproduced here, but typographical … Continue reading
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Tagged games, Perth, progress report, Starfleet Battles, SwanCon, Swancon 17, tournaments
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Swancon seventeen – November report – Hello Again
Transcription of pages 3-4 of the Swancon 17, Festival of the Imagination, November Progress Report. Which is apparently the one after the July Progress Report. This is one of the reports made out of folded A4 sheets. This is the … Continue reading
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Tagged intro, Perth, progress report, SwanCon, Swancon 17
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SwanCon 17 – Anime Matsuri
page 9 of the SwanCon 17 Progress Report (unnumbered; dated July 1991) features details of the video stream. At the top, there is a logo containing some Japanese calligraphy and the word ‘ANIME!’; to the right of this are the … Continue reading
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Tagged Perth, SwanCon, Swancon 17, Western Australia
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