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Swancon seventeen – November report – Hello Again

Posted on 13 November, 2018 by australian sf-history

Transcription of pages 3-4 of the Swancon 17, Festival of the Imagination, November Progress Report. Which is apparently the one after the July Progress Report. This is one of the reports made out of folded A4 sheets. This is the … Continue reading →

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SwanCon 17 – Hotel and Venue

Posted on 9 October, 2018 by australian sf-history

Pages 10 and 11 of the SwanCon 17 Progress report (unnumbered; dated July 1991) contain information about the venue, and a full page map of the venue, including accommodation areas, pool, and location of the river. Halfway down the page … Continue reading →

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SwanCon 17 – Progress Report Jan 1992 – page 8

Posted on 5 October, 2018 by australian sf-history

Transcribers notes: There’s some pretty dodgy stuff in this one. I’m happy to say that the WA fannish community has become more generally accepting of diversity, so please don’t take anything here as indicative of current attitudes. More Rules to … Continue reading →

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SwanCon XV Progress Report Three

Posted on 2 October, 2018 by australian sf-history

Let’s wrap up what’s left of this PR. We’ve already done pages 3, 4, 5, 6, 8-9, 12, 13, 14-15, 16, 17, so that leaves front cover, inside cover, page 7, 10-11, 18, 19, and back cover. The front cover … Continue reading →

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SwanCon 17 – Progress Report July 1991 – Preliminary Social Programme

Posted on 21 August, 2018 by australian sf-history

The SwanCon 17 Progress Report (unnumbered; dated July 1991) devoted half of page 6 and all of page 7 to the Preliminary Social Programme. Other than some rather bog-standard clip-art of a cocktail (with olive-onna-stick) and what are presumably party … Continue reading →

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Swancon 16 Progress Report 3 – Covers and Miscellany

Posted on 17 August, 2018 by australian sf-history

Progress Report 3 was 4 A4 sheets of white paper, printed so that they could be folded in half and the A5 pages thus produced printed on. There was also a generic application form for convention membership and hotel booking. … Continue reading →

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Swancon 16 Progress Report 1 – Covers and Miscellany

Posted on 7 August, 2018 by australian sf-history

This post will cover the parts of this progress report that haven’t been covered yet, including the front and back covers. It is noted that this progress report didn’t actually have page numbers so some of the other posts may … Continue reading →

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SwanCon 17 Progress Report July 1991 Back Cover

Posted on 3 August, 2018 by australian sf-history

Transcribed by Chris Creagh AFTERWORD: Although the “committee” for next year’s convention will play a much less prominent role in the actual events themselves (we see our role as “organisers” and not “principal attendees”, so you’ll see less of us … Continue reading →

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Swancon XV Progress Report 3 – Pages 8-9 – Program Highlights

Posted on 27 July, 2018 by australian sf-history

Transcribed by Elaine Walker. As best as I could I matched all text precisely. Page running head reads: Just So You’ll Know Where Not to Be Program Highlights By Jeremy G Byrne While this may be double-dipping for Program space, … Continue reading →

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Swancon XV PR2 page 14 – What Happened There

Posted on 17 July, 2018 by australian sf-history

I think this is the last bit of this PR that we haven’t blogged yet. Here we go: What Happened There by Jeremy G. Byrne On Thursday the twenty eighth of September quite a lot of nice people got together … Continue reading →

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