An A5, 8 page booklet, stapled together. The following covers page 1, and the very top of page 2. Transcription: Anna Hepworth The “Perth In ’80 Bid Committee; A History. At the end of WAYCON ’79 there was a small group of people sitting at an airport table waiting for Leigh Edmond’s and Peter Toluzzi’s… Continue reading SwanCon 5: Bidding for the 1980 National SF Convention (page 1)
Month: October 2015
Swancon 5 Progress Report No. 3
blogged by Doug Burbidge Here’s digging back through our archive — a progress report from Swancon 5, dated “June 80”. It’s rather letter-paper-shaped: a bit shorter and a bit wider than A4. 14 pages, made of whatever double letter paper size is called (ledger or tabloid, Google tells me), folded and staple-stitched. The cover is… Continue reading Swancon 5 Progress Report No. 3
‘Star Wars’ Fraternity by Mark Skulley
Transcribed by Chris Creagh This is a newspaper clipping from The West Australian Friday August 15, 1980. Have you ever wanted to own a facsimile script of “The City on the Edge of Forever” an early “Star Trek” episode? If you spend any time at Swancon 5, you could start wanting, and buying, things like… Continue reading ‘Star Wars’ Fraternity by Mark Skulley
Beer Coaster
I guess this SwanCon (36) was thirsty six work!
Swancon 18 – miscellanea
by Doug Burbidge I’ve got various pieces of paper here from Swancon 18. Let’s see: there’s an A4 quiz night flyer. 7pm, August 7, $7 per head, tables of… 6. Broke their run of sevens, there. And another thing, which is A4, double-sided, with each side broken into two A5’s. One plugs the quiz night,… Continue reading Swancon 18 – miscellanea
SwanCon 18 – “Ditmars, the care and feeding of”
being page 2 (inside front cover) of ‘Progress Report the Last (March 1993)’ for SwanCon 18. SF fandom is fond of silly traditions, tradition being defined as any event that has happened twice. Some of them have no known origin, like the habit of putting the letter “h” in words just for the fun of… Continue reading SwanCon 18 – “Ditmars, the care and feeding of”
SwanCon 18 – Progress Report the last
Dated ‘March 1993’, the final progress report for SwanCon 18 is 2 double sided A4 pages, folded to make an 8 page A5 booklet; black on white; approximately 80 gsm bond – you know, the standard we know and expect from this era of SwanCons. The front cover features the convention’s turtle logo, some basic… Continue reading SwanCon 18 – Progress Report the last