Post by Doug Burbidge I was in Las Vegas for four years, so I’m missing Swancon badges from 1997 to 2000. (This is also the reason I don’t have my 20th badge yet.) If anybody has badges from these years, feel free to send us a scan or a pic, via email, flickr, or any… Continue reading Swancon 2001 badge
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The Festival Of The Imagination 1996 badge
Post by Doug Burbidge Clearly the problem with previous Swancons was that their names were not long enough, and The Festival Of The Imagination rectified this problem in spades. (Swancon 17 was also subtitled The Festival Of The Imagination, so really it’s more of A Festival Of The Imagination.) The art on the left of… Continue reading The Festival Of The Imagination 1996 badge
Swancon 95 badge
Post by Doug Burbidge Swancon 95, the twentieth Swancon, and the first one I’ve written about here that doesn’t have a page on the SF wiki. Feel free to go and create a page, after you have wrestled with the following thorny question: should the page be called “Swancon 95” or “Swancon 20”? (We originally… Continue reading Swancon 95 badge
Confusion (Swancon 19) badge
Post by Doug Burbidge Confusion was originally conceived as not-a-Swancon, but the two wound up merging. It was at the Perth International Hotel; as is the common fashion with hotels, the building still exists but that hotel has moved out and another moved in — it’s now the Mercure. The con reg desk was up… Continue reading Confusion (Swancon 19) badge
Swancon 18 badge
Post by Doug Burbidge SwanCon 18: many memories, but because it was at the same venue as Swancon 17, some get mixed together in my head. Terry Pratchett and Robert Jordan. (Robert Jordan was free, because his costs were fully paid for by his publisher. Some dispute that at this price, he was value for… Continue reading Swancon 18 badge
Swancon 17 badge
Post by Doug Burbidge You’re probably starting to spot a theme to my posts. Swancon 17, or as it was officially known, The Festival of the Imagination. At the Ascot Inn. (In Ascot. Not in the city.) Terry Dowling and the highly entertaining Nick Stathopolous. Membership $40 (hotels were much cheaper then!), which I made… Continue reading Swancon 17 badge
Swancon 16 badge
Post by Doug Burbidge I must have had a Swancon 15 badge once; but apparently no longer. Swancon 16 then: The Freeway Motel, in South Perth. Barbara Hambly. There was a wedding halfway through the convention. Not two of us getting married, so we lost our main programming room for a few hours. The traditional… Continue reading Swancon 16 badge
Swancon 14 badge
Post by Doug Burbidge Swancon 14 was at the King’s Ambassador on Hay Street (more recently known as The King’s). It was the first convention for a whole bunch of Curtin Imagination Association people (including me), because Cindy Clarkson came and recruited us. But I’m supposed to be talking about the badge. Back then we… Continue reading Swancon 14 badge