by Chris Creagh At SwanCon 2015 a rare copy of the convention book associated with SwanCon 1 came up for auction and as a member of ASFDAP I felt it was important that I acquire it. There were several other people with the same desire but when we realised we all wanted it for the… Continue reading SWANCON 1 Cygnetures
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Steveg Reminiscing About SwanCon 1
by Chris Creagh At GenghisCon 2014 we had a display of past SwanCon and GenghisCon t-shirts. This got people musing about past conventions and I was lucky enough to record, with permission, Steveg talking remembering the first few SwanCons. The following .mp3 is 9.8 MB and about 10 minutes long.
SwanCon 1 – Cygnetures – Impressions: a blurry-eyed conreport – Clifford R Wind
Transcribed by Elaine Walker. All idiosyncracies of type faithfully reproduced Impressions:a blurry-eyed conreport I refuse to start at the beginning. To do that would require, if not my whole fannish history (such as it is), at least an explanation of why a homebody Yank like myself should hie himself out beyond the black stump to… Continue reading SwanCon 1 – Cygnetures – Impressions: a blurry-eyed conreport – Clifford R Wind
SwanCon 1 – Cygnetures – Will The Horse Replace Science Fiction
Where as science fiction is a nebulous animal who in its sentience refuses to be fitted into any sort of category. The horse is an easily identifiable beast. handwritten: (INCOMPLETE – R. MCG.)
SwanCon 1 – Cygnetures – untitled piece
In the beginning there was darkness. This prevailed until the dawn, when over the horizon there appeared the first beginnings of true intelligence. This small force grew and continued to grow, it got bigger, more powerful until it was so strong it burst through the fabric of the unreal to the real. At first it… Continue reading SwanCon 1 – Cygnetures – untitled piece
SwanCon 1 – Cygnetures – Roy Ferguson
Transcribed by Elaine Walker. Any and all typos faithfully reproduced. I can’t remember when I started reading science fiction but I was very young. At that stage naturally I was reading children’s type SF, which was available in the children’s section of the local library. I also read a lot of older children’s type of… Continue reading SwanCon 1 – Cygnetures – Roy Ferguson
SwanCon 1 Cygnetures – Dungeons & Dragons – Judith Hanna
This review was originally printed in SwanCon 1 – Cygnetures, from the collection of Steve Gunnell, and has been reproduced faithfully, with as many of the original typographic conventions (and errors) as possible. Transcribed by Anna Hepworth and Elaine Walker. THE LURE I joined the Sydney Uni Tolkien Society because I liked hobbits and elves,… Continue reading SwanCon 1 Cygnetures – Dungeons & Dragons – Judith Hanna
SwanCon 1 – Cygnetures – Man Hunt for the Toy Town Escapees
MAN HUNT FOR THE TOY TOWN ESCAPEES. Transcribed by Chris Creagh. All typographical errors faithfully preserved. The desert, lonely, lifeless and partched; But what’s that ahead? A town, a small town, bustling with life. Quick, I must rush, must get there fast, need water, food, must get there or perish. The town, all quiet, deadly… Continue reading SwanCon 1 – Cygnetures – Man Hunt for the Toy Town Escapees
SwanCon 1 – a review by Robert McGough
This review was originally printed in SwanCon 1 – Cygnetures, from the collection of Steve Gunnell, and has been reproduced faithfully, with as many of the original typographic conventions (and errors) as possible. Hidden in a dark corner of my local Second-Hand bookshop was a small (foolscap size) poster announcing, quietly, a small gathering of… Continue reading SwanCon 1 – a review by Robert McGough
SwanCon 1 – Cygnetures – Prose by Graham Gough
From Cygnetures. All typos faithfully reproduced. Why do sci fi fans take it so seriously? As a person who reads sci fi whenever I get the opportunity, which with two kids, a wife, one cat and a house to look after does not leave much time available. I thought I was fairly devoted sci fi… Continue reading SwanCon 1 – Cygnetures – Prose by Graham Gough