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Tag Archives: Swancon 17
SwanCon 17 – Progress Report January 1992 – PARSEC & sponsorship adverts
Page 10 of the SwanCon 17 January 1992 progress report was dedicated to ‘Parsec’. It isn’t exactly clear from the context whether this was part of the convention, or an entirely separate event. Equally, it isn’t clear whether the set of … Continue reading
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SwanCon 17 – January 1992 progress report – Starfleet Battles Tournament
Pages 12-13 of the SwanCon 17 January 1992 progress report was dedicated to details of the Starfleet Battles Tournament scheduled to run during the convention. Some of the sections are overly detailed, and have not been reproduced here, but typographical … Continue reading
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Swancon seventeen – November report – Hello Again
Transcription of pages 3-4 of the Swancon 17, Festival of the Imagination, November Progress Report. Which is apparently the one after the July Progress Report. This is one of the reports made out of folded A4 sheets. This is the … Continue reading
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SwanCon 17 Programme Leaflet
(StudlyCaps convention titles: positively correlated with British spelling of “Programme”.) This is a single A3 sheet on a heavy paper stock. The paper is off-white, with a slightly greenish hue and a very slight texture. It’s folded in six: first … Continue reading
SwanCon 17 – Anime Matsuri
page 9 of the SwanCon 17 Progress Report (unnumbered; dated July 1991) features details of the video stream. At the top, there is a logo containing some Japanese calligraphy and the word ‘ANIME!’; to the right of this are the … Continue reading
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SwanCon 17 – Hotel and Venue
Pages 10 and 11 of the SwanCon 17 Progress report (unnumbered; dated July 1991) contain information about the venue, and a full page map of the venue, including accommodation areas, pool, and location of the river. Halfway down the page … Continue reading
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SwanCon 17 – Progress Report Jan 1992 – page 8
Transcribers notes: There’s some pretty dodgy stuff in this one. I’m happy to say that the WA fannish community has become more generally accepting of diversity, so please don’t take anything here as indicative of current attitudes. More Rules to … Continue reading
SwanCon 17 – Progress Report July 1991 – Preliminary Social Programme
The SwanCon 17 Progress Report (unnumbered; dated July 1991) devoted half of page 6 and all of page 7 to the Preliminary Social Programme. Other than some rather bog-standard clip-art of a cocktail (with olive-onna-stick) and what are presumably party … Continue reading
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SwanCon 17 Progress Report July 1991 Back Cover
Transcribed by Chris Creagh AFTERWORD: Although the “committee” for next year’s convention will play a much less prominent role in the actual events themselves (we see our role as “organisers” and not “principal attendees”, so you’ll see less of us … Continue reading
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SwanCon 17 Progress Report July 1991 Page 18
Copied (without the fancy layout) by Chris Creagh Paid Advertisement for… EIDOLON The Journal of Australian Science Fiction and Fantasy ISSUE 6 – October 1991 FICTION BY Simon Brown (“Cannibals of the Fine Light”) Terry Dowling (“Roadsong”) Rosaleen Love (“Blue … Continue reading
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