Bofcon
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| Name: | Bofcon |
| Dates: | 13 - 15 August 1976 |
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| Location: | Noah's Palm Lake Motor Inn, Melbourne, Australia |
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| Focus: | Science Fiction, Australian National Science Fiction Convention |
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| Founding Date: | 1976 |
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Bofcon was the 15th Australian National Science Fiction Convention, held in Melbourne, Australia, during August 1976, with Carey Handfield being the 'Boss of Bofcon'.[1]
It had some noble ambitions:
BOFCON - August 13 - 15, 1976. THE 15th AUSTRALIAN SF CONVENTION. From the ultra-grandoise to the outback-funky in one fell swoop. BOFCON will be held in Melbourne from Friday, 13th August to Sunday, 15th August. Interviews, lectures, and panels on sf, science and the teaching of sf are prigrammed, along with an art show, a science display, a wargames room, a Masquerade, films, group discussions on various topics and replaying selected items from last year's Worldcon video coverage. Membership rates are $7.50 until July 1st and $10 from then on.[2]
Recipients for the Ditmar Awards at this convention were
- Leigh Edmonds for Fanew Sletter (Best Australian Fanzine); and.
- George Turner for Paradigm and Pattern; Form and Meaning in The Dispossessed (William Atheling Jr Award). NOTE: This convention was the first time this award was ever presented.
Gallery
All photos (below) were supplied from the Merv Binns Collection and used with his family's permission. Photographer/s unknown - photos were in an album that appears to have been a gift to Merv from the Melbourne Science Fiction Club.
Fan outside the Palm Lake Motel, Bofcon, 1976
Some of the attendees at Bofcon
Bruce Gillespie and Leigh Edmonds are among the speakers
Con program noticeboard displays the level of technological sophistication in 1976
Program at Bofcon
Jeff Harris from Adelaide
Chris Johnson, Leigh Edmonds, Robin Johnson, Christine Ashby, Derrick Ashby and Don Ashby
Merv Binns caricature
Background includes John Bangsund, Ann Sydenham, Andrew Brown and John Breden
Noticeboard advertises the 'Alternative Program'
Con noticeboard for registration plus room parties etc
'SF Horror Film Computer' helps write a plot for that next big SF movie
Don Ashby and Mervyn Binns
Dinner at Bofcon
References
- ^ 'Bofcon', Fancyclopedia 3
- ^ 'Quidnunc's Page: Major Science Fiction Conventions', Noumenon #1, March 1976, p. 3.