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SwanCon 5: Bidding for the 1980 National SF Convention (middle pages)

A booklet of 2 A4 sheets in A5 pages, stapled together. The following covers the unnumbered middle pages. Transcription: Elaine Walker. Across both pages there is a line drawing with what appears to be an Explorer in pith hat with some equipment in what looks like some ruins with some sort of mechanical travel machine… Continue reading SwanCon 5: Bidding for the 1980 National SF Convention (middle pages)

SwanCon 5: Bidding for the 1980 National SF Convention (pp 3-4)

A booklet of 2 A4 sheets stapled together to produce 8 A5 pages, though only 6 of them have page numbers. The following covers a section that starts on page 3, skips the middle pages and goes onto page 4 which is on the other side of those pages. Transcription: Elaine Walker. And Just What… Continue reading SwanCon 5: Bidding for the 1980 National SF Convention (pp 3-4)

SwanCon 5: Bidding for the 1980 National SF Convention (pp 2-3)

An A5, 8 page booklet, stapled together. The following covers pages 2 and half of 3. Transcription: Anna Hepworth Functions and Fortunes When the original Committee emerged it was neccessarily[sic] formed along the lines of the previous type as it had no other precedent at the time. It was created as a fully fledged Convention… Continue reading SwanCon 5: Bidding for the 1980 National SF Convention (pp 2-3)

SwanCon 5: Bidding for the 1980 National SF Convention (page 1)

An A5, 8 page booklet, stapled together. The following covers page 1, and the very top of page 2. Transcription: Anna Hepworth The “Perth In ’80 Bid Committee; A History. At the end of WAYCON ’79 there was a small group of people sitting at an airport table waiting for Leigh Edmond’s and Peter Toluzzi’s… Continue reading SwanCon 5: Bidding for the 1980 National SF Convention (page 1)