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Grant Stone is an Australian librarian. He was the founder of
Swancon SwanCon is a science fiction convention held in Perth, Western Australia. It is Australia's longest-running science fiction convention, and probably the longest-running in the southern hemisphere. It was founded in 1975 by Grant Stone, with th ...
. He was a radio presenter on the radio station RTRFM of the ''Faster Than Light Radio Show'', as well as being the main force in the
Murdoch University Murdoch University is a public university in Perth, Western Australia, with campuses also in Singapore and Dubai. It began operations as the state's second university on 25 July 1973, and accepted its first undergraduate students in 1975. Its n ...
library special collections of popular culture material. In 1996 he was the recipient of the
Chandler Award The Chandler Award is presented by the Australian Science Fiction Foundation for "Outstanding Achievement in Australian Science Fiction". It is named in recognition of the contribution that science fiction writer A. Bertram Chandler made to Aust ...
for Australian science fiction. He has been involved with laughter yoga for some years.


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