Month: March 2016

The Ditmar Reporter – V1, #2 – December 1995

In all our our collections of Australian fannish ephemera, we appear to have a single issue of ‘The Ditmar Reporter’. Why this is issue 2 (of volume 1), and no issue 1 exists in the collection, one can only blame the vagaries of haphazard archiving. A quick search on google brings no clarity as to… Continue reading The Ditmar Reporter – V1, #2 – December 1995

SwanCon 22 – PR2 – July 1996

SwanCon 22’s second progress report is dated July 1996. It’s on two very very yellow sheets of A4, folded into an A5 booklet. The centre sheet is a “Foldalope”, meaning that the PR itself is a single sheet. The front cover says SWANCON 22 THE FESTIVAL OF THE IMAGINATION 1997 Inside we reveal our hotel,… Continue reading SwanCon 22 – PR2 – July 1996

SwanCon 22 – PR1 – Introduction

Being a semi-faithful transcription of page 3 of the 8 page Progress Report 1 from SwanCon 22, dated April 1996. All caps are exhausting, we ignored those; typos on the other hand, are music to our pedantic little souls. -AH For those not quite sure what conventions (cons) are (including many regular attendees), they are… Continue reading SwanCon 22 – PR1 – Introduction

SwanCon 22 – Progress report 1 – April 1996

According to our files, SwanCon 22 had 5 progress reports. The first of these is an 8 page booklet, A5 folded-but-not-bound-in-any-way. The outer page of the copy we have is bright blue, but it may be that there were multiple versions (we have two variations for PR3). The cover consists of basic con information, with… Continue reading SwanCon 22 – Progress report 1 – April 1996

SwanCon 5: Bidding for the 1980 National SF Convention (middle pages)

A booklet of 2 A4 sheets in A5 pages, stapled together. The following covers the unnumbered middle pages. Transcription: Elaine Walker. Across both pages there is a line drawing with what appears to be an Explorer in pith hat with some equipment in what looks like some ruins with some sort of mechanical travel machine… Continue reading SwanCon 5: Bidding for the 1980 National SF Convention (middle pages)

SwanCon Twenty3 Con book 01: Readme.txt pp4-5

Pages 4 and 5 of the Swancon Twenty3 con book part one (Readme.txt) is the “Rules of the Convention”. Some of these will be quite familiar to regular con-goers; others are a little bit on the, shall we say, unique side. Please read the following rules and guidelines for the convention. They exist to ensure… Continue reading SwanCon Twenty3 Con book 01: Readme.txt pp4-5

SwanCon Twenty3 Con book 01: Readme.txt pp1-3

SwanCon Twenty3 separated out the various common items of program books into several A5 saddle-stapled booklets. [At this remove, while I remember being part of the decision making, I don’t remember why we did this. -AH]. The general con information is included in a 16pp booklet with a vaguely planet + moon image on the… Continue reading SwanCon Twenty3 Con book 01: Readme.txt pp1-3