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Swancon 17 – Festival of the Imagination 1992 – Programme Book – Raiding the Illusion Chest

Posted on 31 December, 2019 by australian sf-history

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 →

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Swancon 16 Program Leaflet

Posted on 14 August, 2018 by australian sf-history

Transcribed by Doug. This is a gloss piece of paper, 4/3rds of A4 size, landscape, folded in four. When you see it in the folded position, it looks like an A4 sheet folded in thirds: the usual 210mm or so … Continue reading →

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SwanCon XV: More lies about swans and iron

Posted on 10 August, 2018 by australian sf-history

Page 31 of the SwanCon XV Program Book has the running head of ‘Don’t worry, Get Stuffed is not eligible’. Partway down the page on the right is a line drawing of a bipedal figure in what can best be … Continue reading →

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SwanCon XV: The Dark Future and RPGs

Posted on 31 July, 2018 by australian sf-history

Pages 29 and 30 of the SwanCon XV Program book contains an article by Lev Lafayette (as Anthony Anderson). Running head on page 29 is “Personally, Nothing Tops Metamorphosis Alpha”. In a fairly similar development to that of literature, a … Continue reading →

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Swancon XV program book – The Third Stream

Posted on 24 July, 2018 by australian sf-history

Page 26 of the SwanCon XV program book has the running head “Just when you thought it was safe to go back to bed”… (All typography faithfully reproduced, except SHOUTY CAPS) The Third Stream Besides the Primary, panel-oriented steam and … Continue reading →

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Swancon XV Con book — Videocon III

Posted on 20 July, 2018 by australian sf-history

Page 18 of the SwanCon XV souvenir book has the running head “What? And Miss the Panels?”… Videocon III by Robin Pen Information about those bit square things with moving pictures on them sitting in the corner of dark rooms. … Continue reading →

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SwanCon XV Program Book – Pages 8-9 – The XV Committee: A Field Guide

Posted on 12 June, 2018 by australian sf-history

Transcribed by Elaine Walker who has endeavoured to maintain all typographical errors and bad latin. WHAT THE WILD THINGS ARE DON GRIFFITHS, CO-ORDINATOR (Lecturous tenurious) Easily identified by his devilish looking glasses, his habit of lapsing into cyberspace without notice, … Continue reading →

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SwanCon XV Program Book – Page 7 POLICY STATE

Posted on 29 May, 2018 by australian sf-history

Transcribed by Chris Creagh, all typos carefully reproduced. MEMORISE THIS PAGE, THEN EAT IT AUCTION: If you want to sell anything at the Auction, get it to the Registration Desk and complete the appropriate form provided, by Saturday at 3:00PM. … Continue reading →

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SwanCon XV Progress Report 2: page 12

Posted on 18 May, 2018 by australian sf-history

page 12 of the SwanCon XV Progress Report 2 has the ‘running head’ of ‘Programming of Another Kind’, and two sections: Videocon (A Preview of the Video Stream) by Stephen Dedman based on a story by Robin Pen A brand … Continue reading →

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Crystal Balls and Other Unlikely Prosthetics IV

Posted on 6 February, 2018 by australian sf-history

Being a transcription from page 5 of the SwanCon XV Program Book. Transcribed by Doug THE EPIC SERIES CONCLUDES Crystal Balls and Other Unlikely Prosthetics IV: (Time to Murder and Create) by Stephen Dedman One of the nicest things you … Continue reading →

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