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SwanCon XV Science Fiction Quiz

Here’s page 15 from SwanCon XV’s PR2. The page header text says “PITIFULLY EASY! (WHIMPER)”. SCIENCE FICTION QUIZ Subtitled “You’ll have to speak up, the acrostics are terrible”, the following mindshatteringly difficult mini-quiz was designed by Stephen Dedman for the … Continue reading

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SwanCon XV PR2 – Con Closed by Hotel Management (News)

Page 5 of PR2 for SwanCon XV, it is related to the desire for Incorporation that was covered in a previous post on page 4 of the same PR. Transcribed by Elaine Walker CON CLOSED BY HOTEL MANAGEMENT News from … Continue reading

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Welcome to SwanCon XV

Transcribed by Doug   WELCOME TO SWANCON XV By Don Griffiths B-) The Fifteenth Western Australian Science Fiction and Fantasy Convention. Fifteenth? Already? Time flies when you’re having fun… Seriously though, I have been attending SF conventions for 13 years, … Continue reading

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Swancon XV – Progress Report 3 – Editorial

being page 5 of the Swancon XV Progress Report 3. The Header here says ‘Editorial’, but the actual heading says ‘Potentially Dangerous Visions’. The editor/author in question is Jeremy Byrne Transcription by Anna Hepworth. As ever, typos faithlessly reproduced Well, … Continue reading

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SwanCon XV PR2 – INCORPORATION

It’s titled in all caps, so you know it must be important. Transcribed by Doug. INCORPORATION by Don Griffiths B-) I’m taking the occasion of the second progress report for SwanCon XV to raise a very serious proposal for the … Continue reading

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SwanCon XV presents: The Best of Progress Report 2

transcribed and described by Anna Hepworth Amongst the other SwanCon XV ephemera is a single (double-sided) A4 sheet that claims to be the best of Progress Report 2. It starts: Copies of this mini-report are being sent to everyone on … Continue reading

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SwanCon XV, program book – Editorial (Jeremy G Byrne)

Transcribed from pp.6 and 7 of the SwanCon XV Program Book. All typos faithlessly reproduced. [page header: Where I get to Totally Abuse My Editorial Privilege] Editorial Jeremy G Byrne This and the page following are a sort of catch-all … Continue reading

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SwanCon XV January 26 to 29, 1990 Progress Report Two page 16 – The Nanocons

Transcribed by Elaine Walker. All typos should match the text as given. Page title: THE CON YOU HAVE… THE NANOCONS A Personal Recollection by Colleen Jenkins It was April. It was November. We had lots of people. No, only ten … Continue reading

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SwanCon XV January 26 to 29, 1990 Progress Report Two, Front cover & Page 3

by Chris Creagh A right eye stares out at you from a cut-out in the front cover. The skin around the eye merges into an electronic circuit board and the cut-out is in a night silhouette of city office blocks … Continue reading

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SwanCon XV January 26 to 29, 1990 Progress Report Two, Front cover & Page 3

by Chris Creagh A right eye stares out at you from a cut-out in the front cover. The skin around the eye merges into an electronic circuit board and the cut-out is in a night silhouette of city office blocks … Continue reading

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