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Marcon is a full-spectrum fantasy and science fiction convention based in Columbus, Ohio, and was on Easter weekend in 2013 but moved to Mother's Day weekend starting in 2014. [1] It is now operated by the Columbus-based Science Oriented Literature, Art, and Education Foundation, a non-profit educational corporation. [2]
This is a list of notable science fiction conventions, as distinct from anime conventions, comic book conventions, furry conventions, gaming conventions, horror conventions, and multigenre conventions. In the "type" column, "general" means the entire science fiction and fantasy culture; "literature", "media", etc. modify that.
The 24th World Science Fiction Convention , also known as Tricon, was held on 1–5 September 1966 at the Sheraton-Cleveland in Cleveland, Ohio, United States. Officially, the convention was hosted by three cities in the region: Cincinnati, Ohio , Cleveland, Ohio , and Detroit, Michigan ; hence the name "Tricon".
Harlan Jay Ellison (May 27, 1934 – June 28, 2018) [3] was an American writer, known for his prolific and influential work in New Wave speculative fiction [4] and for his outspoken, combative personality. [5]
The small tasting room has an elegant blend of art deco and sci-fi details that feels completely out of place near the intersection of FM 32 and FM 12, a few miles from the Devil’s Backbone dive ...
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The inaugural event took place in November 2018. [19] Two recent conventions, Animate! Florida (formerly known as Animate! Miami) and Paradise City Comic Con (formerly known as Magic City Comic Con [20]), were discontinued in 2018 so Super Conventions could concentrate on their three Supercon events. [2] [3] Both of those had taken place in Miami.
The Royal Albert Hall has asserted that the Vril-Ya Bazaar and Fete, a charitable event held at the Hall in 1891, was the world's first science fiction convention.The event was a multi-day fundraising bazaar themed around the popular 1871 science fiction novel The Coming Race by Edward Bulwer-Lytton, which involves the Vril-Ya, a subterranean race of winged superhuman beings. [1]