Tag Archives: SwanCon related ephemera

SwanCon XV PR2 – Vice is My Life

Posted on 2 February, 2018 by australian sf-history

Page 6 of the SwanCon XV Progress Report Two has a Garfield theme. At the top left there is a small rectangle containing a line drawing of Garfield with the words ‘Vice is My Life’ (this is approximately the heading … Continue reading →

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Swancon 14 – Progress report 3 – page 6

Posted on 25 July, 2017 by australian sf-history

Transcribed by Chris Creagh. The Urban Spaceman Now, in the last PR there was an attempt to explain the idea of the Urban Spaceman. John Richards, Terry Chilvers and Gina Goddard all had a go, in response to a query … Continue reading →

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Swancon 14 – Progress report 2 – Convention news and information (part 2 of 3)

Posted on 11 July, 2017 by australian sf-history

being a sequence of small news articles, covering page 3 of the second official progress report for Swancon 14. As ever, typos faithlessly reproduced Swancon Port. We will once again be offering bottles of Swancon Commemorative Port. Bottled by Gallifrey Wines … Continue reading →

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Swancon 14 – Progress report 2 – Convention news and information (part 1 of 3)

Posted on 4 July, 2017 by australian sf-history

being a sequence of small news articles, covering page 2 of the second official progress report for Swancon 14. As ever, typos faithlessly reproduced Millenium : The Movie We reported in our last PR that John Varley had been working on … Continue reading →

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Swancon 14 – Progress report 3 – summary

Posted on 20 June, 2017 by australian sf-history

Description and transcriptions by Anna Hepworth. As ever, typos faithfully replicated, and layouts and formats approximated only as much as can be done with trivial amounts of html. As with the second progress report for SwanCon 14, the third progress … Continue reading →

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Swancon 14 – Progress report 1 – inside front cover

Posted on 30 May, 2017 by australian sf-history

Transcription by Anna Hepworth. The editors of ASFDAP would like to point out that the initial 3 progress reports and the ‘regular one- to two-page flyers’ mentioned below are items that we do not have in our archive, and if … Continue reading →

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SwanCon 21 – Souvenir book – summary

Posted on 6 May, 2016 by australian sf-history

The SwanCon 21–Festival of the Imagination souvenir book is an understated ~A4 perfect bound book with black cover and dark grey stripe down the middle of the front cover. A lighter grey copy of the somewhat mosquito-esque logo is towards … Continue reading →

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1993 Swancon Newspaper Clipping – part 1

Posted on 5 April, 2016 by australian sf-history

Digested by Chris Creagh “Swathed in overcoat and scarf against the minus 12C cold outside, the latest wizard of the fantasy novel sat snowed in at home and carried on writing on a battery-powered laptop computer.” With an Easter trip … Continue reading →

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SF Convention Register postcard for ConFusion

Posted on 1 December, 2015 by australian sf-history

OK, this is interesting. It’s a postcard-sized object, but on lighter card stock, and is typed upon in fairly small type (approx 9-point). It’s got lots of ASCII typesetting with lines consisting of dashes, slashes, etc. ASCII typesetting not faithfully … Continue reading →

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Steveg Reminiscing About SwanCon 1

Posted on 20 November, 2015 by australian sf-history

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 … Continue reading →

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