Perth, WA
Perth is the capital of the state of Western Australia and its main fannish hub.
A prominent early Australian fan living in Perth was Roger Dard. He was the Australian representative of Operation Fantast, had a fanzine, Star Rover, and made contact with Eastern States fans. He is known to have attended the fourth Australian Natcon, held in Sydney in 1955.
An early club was the Western Australian Science Fantasy Society.
Grant Stone and Anthony Peacey met at the first Australian Worldcon, Aussiecon, held in Melbourne in 1975, and, the following year, with some help from Clifford R. Wind, organised the first Western Australian regional convention, Swancon.
A club, the Western Australian Science Fiction Association, resulted, and its members were active in organising early Swancons. Swancon has now been held annually since 1976. It is Australia's oldest annual regional convention, its nearest rival being Brisbane's Conquest, which was first held in 1982. Numerous fans have been awarded 20 Year Badges, in recognition of their having attended twenty Swancons, and a few have been awarded 33 Year Badges.
+ A Brief Chronology
| Date | Event |
|---|---|
| 1950, Nov | Star Rover (fanzine) published |
| ca. 1953 | Perth Science Fiction Group formed |
| 1976, Oct 9-11 | Swancon 1 (first Swancon) |
| 1978 | UniSFA founded (at UWA) |
| 1979 | Westrek founded |
| 1980, Aug 15-18 | Swancon 5 (Perth's first Australian Natcon) |
| 1980, Aug | Tin Duck Awards first presented, at Swancon 5 |
| 1983 | The West Lodge founded |
| 1984 | The Space Merchants bookshop opened |
| 1985 | Supanova Books shop opened |
| 1986, Mar 28-31 | Swancon XI (Natcon) |
| 1986, Mar | First Silver Swan Award presented at Swancon XI |
| 1987 | CIA founded (at Curtin University of Technology) |
| 1988 | A Touch of Strange bookshop opened |
| 1988, Jan 8-10 | Who Con 4 |
| 1988, Feb | Murdoch Alternative Reality Society formed (as Murdoch University Gamer's Club) |
| 1989, Mar 23-27 | Swancon 14 (Natcon) |
| 1990, May | Eidolon magazine first published |
| 1990 | JAFWA formed |
| 1991, Jan | Marge Hughes Award first presented at Swancon 16 |
| 1992, Jan | WASFF formed, at The Festival of the Imagination |
| 1993, Apr 8-12 | Swancon 18 (Natcon) |
| ca. 1993 | WASFF incorporated |
| 1995 | MAd (Murdoch Anime Directive) formed |
| 1996 | Ticonderoga Publications began publication |
| 1996, Apr 4-8 | Festival of the Imagination 1996 (Natcon and Media Natcon) |
| 1998, Aug | JAFWA incorporated |
| 1999, Mar 8 | A Touch of Strange bookshop moved from Subiaco to the city |
| 2000 | A Touch of Strange bookshop closed |
| 2000, Apr | Eidolon magazine last published |
| 2000, Apr 20-24 | Swancon 2000 (Natcon) |
| 2000, Apr | First Gynaecon (at Swancon) |
| 2001, Apr 12-16 | Swancon 2001: Masquerade (Natcon) |
| 2001, Nov 24-25 | Borderlands: The World Within convention |
| 2002 | First GenghisCon |
| 2002, Sept 7-8 | Borderlands: That Which Scares Us convention |
| 2003, Apr 17-21 | Swancon 2003 (Natcon) |
| 2003, Aug 23-24 | Borderlands: Trilogy convention |
| 2003, Apr | Borderlands magazine first published |
| 2004, Oct 9-10 | WasteLand convention |
| 2005 | Supanova Books shop closed |
| 2005, Aug 21 | Fantastic Planet bookshop opened |
| 2005, Nov 19-20 | Fandomedia 2005 convention |
| 2006, Sept 29 - Oct 1 | Fandomedia 2006 convention |
| 2007, Nov 10-11 | Night's Edge convention |
| 2008 | Twelfth Planet Press began publication. |
| 2008, Mar 20-24 | State of the Art: Swancon 2008 (Natcon) |
| 2008, Oct 18-19 | Wasteland II convention |
| 2009 | Borderlands magazine last published |
| 2010 | FableCroft Publishing began publication |
| 2011, Apr 21-25 | Swancon Thirty Six | Natcon Fifty |
| 2011, Oct 1-2 | VillainCon |
| 2012 | FableCroft Publishing re-located interstate |
| 2013, Oct 4-6 | FurWAG: The Maiden Voyage |
| 2015, Apr 2-6 | Swancon 40 (Natcon) |
| 2018, Apr 1 | Van Ikin won Peter McNamara Achievement Award |
| 2020, Mar 9 | Cancellation of Swancon 2020 announced. (It was to have been held Apr 25-27.) |
| 2021, Nov 25 | Jeremy Byrne died |
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