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Category Archives: Books
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
Posted in Books, Con books, Conventions, SwanCon
Tagged essay, Festival of the Imagination 1992, programme book, SwanCon, Swancon 17, visual sf
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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
Posted in Artwork, Books, Con books, Conventions, SwanCon
Tagged conventions, Fan Production, souvenir book, The Festival of The Imagination 1996
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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
Posted in Books, Fan production, fanzines, Progress reports, SwanCon
Tagged advertising, Fiction, Perth, progress report, SwanCon, Swancon 17
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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
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
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
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