Grant Stone

{{short description|Australian librarian}}

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Grant Stone is an Australian librarian.Leigh Edmunds lists: Grant Stone is an archivist, bibliographer, collector, librarian, organiser, publicist, publisher, reviewer and critic, fan and professional... a botanist by training, a librarian by profession, a collector by inclination and a new renaissance person because he can't help himself from in http://asff.org.au/chandler-award-1996-grant-stone.htm

He was the founder of Swancon.{{Citation | author1=Australian National Science Fiction Convention (1986 : Perth, W.A.) | author2=Strong, Caroline | author3=Stone, Grant | title=Swancon XI : the 1986 Australian National Science Fiction Convention, Miss Maud's Functon Centre, Perth, Easter, 1986 | publication-date=1986 | publisher=The Convention? | url=https://trove.nla.gov.au/work/12849529 | access-date=18 May 2018 }}

He was a radio presenter on the radio station RTRFM of the Faster Than Light Radio Show,The Faster Than Light Radio Show regularly on RTR-FM since the 1970s. as well as being the main force in the Murdoch University library special collections of popular culture material.{{Cite web|url=http://library.murdoch.edu.au/Our-services/Support-for-researchers/Special-Collections/|title=Special Collections}}

In 1996 he was the recipient of the Chandler Award for Australian science fiction. He has been involved with laughter yoga for some years.{{cite web| url = http://www.abc.net.au/gnt/people/Transcripts/s1158659.htm| url-status = dead| archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20041124234657/http://www.abc.net.au/gnt/people/Transcripts/s1158659.htm| archive-date = 2004-11-24| title = Grant Stone and the Laughter Club| website = Australian Broadcasting Corporation}}