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Category Archives: Conventions
Festival of the Imagination 1996 March 1996 Newsletter – The Chair Speaks
We’ve already summarised this newsletter, but here’s its page 3: The Chair Speaks Welcome to the last newsletter before the Festival. This newsletter will primarily cover the programme and the voting for the Ditmars and Asfmas. I will however be … Continue reading
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Swancon 17 – progress report November 1991 – Lace & Steel part 2
This is part 2 of the rules summary for the Lace & Steel RPG on pages 16-18 of the progress report. It covers most of the combat related rules summaries. All typos are faithfully reproduced. Combat Lace & Steel uses … Continue reading
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Festival of The Imagination 1996 – Programming
Being page 6 of the December 1995 Newsletter. Faithfully transcribed by Anna Hepworth. Programming The spectrum of science fiction has continually widened to encompass an impressive range of sub-genres. Science fiction no longer represents a restrictive type or mode of … Continue reading
Festival of the Imagination 1996 July 1995 Newsletter – Neil Gaiman
Pages 6 and 7 of this newsletter are dedicated to a biography of Neil Gaiman “The Perfect Guest?” written by David Cake. At the bottom of page 7 is a selected bibliography which is presumably well out of date, and … Continue reading
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Festival of the Imagination 1996 December 1995 progress report: The Dealers Room
Huh. Dealers’ tables are a thing that haven’t changed price much over time. The text uses “Dealers”, no apostrophe, throughout. The Dealers Room This is also known as a trader, merchant or hucksters room, where people gather to buy and sell … Continue reading
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SwanCon 17 – November 1991 Progress Report – Lace & Steel – Part 1
According to the table of contents of this progress report the summary of the rules for Lace & Steel start on page 14 of this progress report, and continue until page 18. In order to keep this post reasonable I … Continue reading
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Festival of the Imagination 1996: July 1995 Newsletter
Page 14 WASFF REPORT The West Australian Science Fiction Foundation (WASFF) is working well with the 1996 convention committee and our hope is that the convention will be both well presented and well attended. Most importantly we hope that all … Continue reading
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Swancon 17 Souvenir Book: Anime Matsuri
Here is page 38 and part of 39 of the Festival of the Imagination 1992 souvenir book. Swancon 17 Souvenir Book: Anime Matsuri All of page 38 and the top and bottom of page 39 contain cute frames from Totoro. … Continue reading
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Festival of the Imagination 1996 – April 1995* Newsletter – Awards
In theory, the last of our posts from this particular newsletter. Previous posts can be found by clicking the relevant tags, and having a bit of a hunt. (*)The actual newsletter says 1996 but this is a “known” typo and … Continue reading
SwanCon 17 November Report – Short Story Competition
Page 12 of the SwanCon 17 November Progress report details the ‘SwanCon 17 – the Seventeenth Annual Western Australian Science Fiction and Fantasy Festival Short story Competition’. That text alone takes the top third of page 12, and no attempt … Continue reading