Category Archives: Miscellaneous

SunCon ’91, PR2 – snippets

Posted on 8 August, 2014 by australian sf-history

The SunCon ’91 Progress Report 2 is a 6 double-sided A4 page booklet, stapled in the top left corner. There are any number of interesting bits scattered throughout [the 6th page will be featured in a later post, being about … Continue reading →

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THE DAILY SINGNUS: SynCon 92 – No 3 – 20th April 1992

Posted on 5 August, 2014 by australian sf-history

Transcribed by Chris Creagh This issue of The Daily SinGnus was a single A4 page (single-sided), with a second (double-sided) page containing the Ditmar voting breakdown stapled to the back. At Last The End Is Near This is the final … Continue reading →

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Danse Macabre Art Show Poster and General Application Form

Posted on 25 July, 2014 by australian sf-history

Front page poster. Caricature of a “typical” left-handed bipedal alien with an artists paintbrush, smock and large intent eyes on the right side of the page. On the left… Display Your Art! The  Danse Macabre Art Show 13th to 16th … Continue reading →

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The Daily Sinews – SynCon 92 – Newsletter No. 2 Sunday 19 April 1992

Posted on 22 July, 2014 by australian sf-history

Transcription of the second newsletter for SynCon 92 which was printed on fairly thick paper that appears to be from the hotel. The back has ‘The Shore Inn Hotel’ with logo and address on the back. This is the second … Continue reading →

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The St Valentine’s Feast

Posted on 11 July, 2014 by australian sf-history

Yellow A5 flyer, single-sided, stapled to the front of the Suncon ’91 Progress Report 3. Entire border of page is Victorian-style line-art, potentially clip art (no obvious signature). STAR WALKING Inc. – The Second Convention and SUNCON Proudly Present The … Continue reading →

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The St Valentine's Feast

Posted on 11 July, 2014 by australian sf-history

Yellow A5 flyer, single-sided, stapled to the front of the Suncon ’91 Progress Report 3. Entire border of page is Victorian-style line-art, potentially clip art (no obvious signature). STAR WALKING Inc. – The Second Convention and SUNCON Proudly Present The … Continue reading →

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SUNCON and MEDTREK IV presents the May Day Ball, Banquet and Dance

Posted on 8 July, 2014 by australian sf-history

Stapled to the front of SunCon ’91’s Progress report 2 is a bright yellow A5 (one-sided) flyer: SUNCON and MEDTREK IV presents the May Day Ball, Banquet and Dance, on Saturday, May 5th, 1990 at the Royal Parade Motor Inn, … Continue reading →

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Suncon Raffle #1 ticket

Posted on 10 June, 2014 by australian sf-history

Ah, the ephemera that makes its way into our collection:           SUNCON RAFFLE #1   Number of tickets, 250   $5.00 EACH Prize; $1000 worth of Airfare to Brisbane. or a Video Recorder to the value … Continue reading →

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Stocktaking and Inventory

Posted on 7 January, 2014 by australian sf-history

We’ve been stocktaking here at ASFDAP. You’d think that would entail most of the people interacting with the physical objects; but in fact only half of us stooped so low, while the other half of us stayed in the more … Continue reading →

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Skribe – September ’93 – The Zone 3 Experience and October ’93 – In Search of Quasar

Posted on 17 December, 2013 by australian sf-history

Transcribed by Elaine Walker. Since Doug has been doing some writing on the current laser tag type games, we thought it would be nice to put up some articles he wrote on the topic in earlier times. The Zone 3 … Continue reading →

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