SwanCon 21 Souvenir Book – Neil Gaiman

Being page 6 of the SwanCon 21, Festival of the Imagination souvenir book. Typos and interesting punctuation faithfully replicated. Neil Gaiman, creator/writer of the monthly cult DC comics horror-weird series, Sandman, is one of the top writers in modern comics. He is also a best-selling novelist and acclaimed short story writer. Sandman has won Neil… Continue reading SwanCon 21 Souvenir Book – Neil Gaiman

SwanCon 21 Souvenir Book – Welcome to the Festival

Being page 5 of the SwanCon 21, Festival of the Imagination souvenir book. Welcome to the Festival of the Imagination 1996, the joint Australian Science Fiction Convention and Australian Science Fiction Media Convention. This convention is worth making a fuss over for a number of reasons. This year we celebrate the 21st consecutive Swancon, the… Continue reading SwanCon 21 Souvenir Book – Welcome to the Festival

SwanCon 2000 souvenir book

Anna has turned up some new boxes of stuff, so some of us are sorting, winnowing, and filing; and some of us are transcribing. Here’s a rather nice-looking SwanCon 2000 souvenir book, 70pp, approx 20cm x 20cm pages, perfect-bound with a yellow cover with Shaun Tan art: a Shaun-Tan-esque tram all covered in rivets and… Continue reading SwanCon 2000 souvenir book

SynCon 88 – Conviction – Program book: Jeanne Robinson

transcription by Anna Hepworth and Elaine Walker. Mix of American and Australian spellings as per original text. Jeanne Robinson In the panegyric which you have just read (did you know that if you sprinkle panegyric on cigarettes and smoke them, you can get high?), John Varley expresses the hope that someone else has been assigned… Continue reading SynCon 88 – Conviction – Program book: Jeanne Robinson

Swancon 2010 Chair’s Welcome

Chair’s Welcome On behalf of WASFF and Parasol Corporation I would like to welcome you to the 35th Annual Western Australian Regional Science Fiction Convention. This year the committee have worked hard to bring you a wide and diverse variety of topics, discussions and guests. Each year, after the conventions, it is always heartening to… Continue reading Swancon 2010 Chair’s Welcome