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Swancon 17 – Festival of the Imagination 1992 – Programme Book – Raiding the Illusion Chest

This was from the souvenir book from the Festival of the Imagination 1992 – Swancon 17. Pages 56-57. Attempted to maintain all and any typos. Some hyphenation may be end-of-line but has been included where it was not obvious as … Continue reading

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SwanCon 21 – Souvenir book page 63. The Rationalist's One-Stop Guide to Sc-fi/Action/Horror Movie Traits

This is Robyn’s work and therefore I have not transcribed it in full, just the introductory sentence and headings. The full text is well worth writing up if we ever seek and get permission to print it. Chris Creagh Robin … Continue reading

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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

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Swancon 14, Programme book — a summary

Descriptions and transcriptions by Anna Hepworth. As ever, typos faithfully replicated, and layouts and formats approximated only as much as can be done with trivial amounts of html. The Programme Book for Swancon 14 was 48 pages (plus yellowish card … Continue reading

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Swancon Twenty3 – 04 Video Programme

This booklet is in keeping with the rest of the series, A4 folded to A5 and stapled along the spine, yellow cover with black writing and textured graphic. Inside there are effectively 15 pages of short summaries of films and … Continue reading

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SwanCon 21 – Souvenir book – summary

The SwanCon 21–Festival of the Imagination souvenir book is an understated ~A4 perfect bound book with black cover and dark grey stripe down the middle of the front cover. A lighter grey copy of the somewhat mosquito-esque logo is towards … Continue reading

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FANDATA Publications 1995 Post Card Pack Part 1

Now this is a cute idea. It is a book of postcards which are 9.2 cm high by 21.6cm wide including the end stubs (vendor business card) that connect them into the booklet. It comes from America but I found … Continue reading

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SwanCon XI – Posh Nosh

Being page 31 of the SwanCon XI Con Book. Transcription by Anna Hepworth, with all variations faithfully reproduced. Whilst visiting Perth, why not try some of Perth’s better restaurants, many of which have not only an interantional flavour but also … Continue reading

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SwanCon 18 (1993) Souvenir Book – The Best Bits

by Chris Creagh  The first page contains words from the Con Chair (Dave Luckett): For reasons that nobody can ever explain, words from the Con Chair have always been thought essential for the Program book of a SwanCon. I don’t … Continue reading

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Where are they now? – George Turner Shortlist – 2000

by Elaine Walker 2000 was the final year that the George Turner appears to have been awarded. So a final look at what has happened to the nominees of this prize since then. The nominations for that year were: Spook … Continue reading

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