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51st World Science Fiction Convention

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The 51st World Science Fiction Convention (Worldcon), also known as ConFrancisco, was held September 2–6, 1993, at the ANA Hotel, Parc Fifty Five, and Nikko Hotels, and the Moscone Convention Center in San Francisco, California, United States. [1]

63 relations: A Fire Upon the Deep, Alex Raymond, Alicia Austin, Andrew I. Porter, Anthony J. Lumsden, California, Connie Willis, Crown (headgear), David Langford, David Worth Clark, Dick Lynch, Dinotopia, Discontinued Hugo Awards, DNA Publications, Don Maitz, Doomsday Book (novel), Even the Queen, Fantasy, Flash Gordon, Futurist architecture, Gardner Dozois, Guy Gavriel Kay, Harry Warner Jr., Hugo Award, Hugo Award for Best Dramatic Presentation, Hugo Award for Best Fan Artist, Hugo Award for Best Fan Writer, Hugo Award for Best Fanzine, Hugo Award for Best Novel, Hugo Award for Best Novelette, Hugo Award for Best Novella, Hugo Award for Best Professional Artist, Hugo Award for Best Professional Editor, Hugo Award for Best Related Work, Hugo Award for Best Semiprozine, Hugo Award for Best Short Story, Hugo Gernsback, James Gurney, Jan Howard Finder, Janet Kagan, John W. Campbell Award for Best New Writer, Larry Niven, Laura Resnick, List of Worldcons, Litter (vehicle), Lucius Shepard, Mark Twain, Mimosa (magazine), Moscone Center, Orlando, Florida, ..., San Francisco, San Francisco Marriott Marquis, Science fiction, Skyscraper, Star Trek: The Next Generation, Takumi Shibano, The Inner Light (Star Trek: The Next Generation), The Nutcracker Coup, Vernor Vinge, Winnipeg, Worldcon, 50th World Science Fiction Convention, 52nd World Science Fiction Convention. Expand index (13 more) »

A Fire Upon the Deep

A Fire Upon the Deep is a science fiction novel by American writer Vernor Vinge, a space opera involving superhuman intelligences, aliens, physics, space battles, love, betrayal, genocide, and a conversation medium resembling Usenet.

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Alex Raymond

Alexander Gillespie "Alex" Raymond (October 2, 1909 – September 6, 1956) was an American cartoonist, best known for creating Flash Gordon for King Features in 1934.

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Alicia Austin

Alicia Austin (born 1942) is a US fantasy and science fiction artist and illustrator.

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Andrew I. Porter

Andrew Ian Porter, (born March 24, 1946), is an American editor, publisher and active science fiction fan.

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Anthony J. Lumsden

Anthony John Hale Lumsden (May 16, 1928 – September 22, 2011) was an American architect most noted for his sculptural and often "futuristic" designs.

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California

California is a state in the Pacific Region of the United States.

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Connie Willis

Constance Elaine Trimmer Willis (born December 31, 1945), commonly known as Connie Willis, is an American science fiction and fantasy writer.

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Crown (headgear)

A crown is a traditional symbolic form of headwear, or hat, worn by a monarch or by a deity, for whom the crown traditionally represents power, legitimacy, victory, triumph, honor, and glory, as well as immortality, righteousness, and resurrection.

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David Langford

David Rowland Langford (born 10 April 1953) is a British author, editor and critic, largely active within the science fiction field.

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David Worth Clark

David Worth Clark, aka D. Worth Clark (April 2, 1902June 19, 1955), was a Democratic congressman and United States Senator from Idaho.

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Dick Lynch

Richard Dennis Lynch (April 29, 1936 – September 24, 2008) was an American football defensive back in the National Football League for the Washington Redskins and the New York Giants.

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Dinotopia

Dinotopia is a fictional utopia created by author and illustrator James Gurney.

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Discontinued Hugo Awards

The Hugo Awards are presented every year by the World Science Fiction Society for the best science fiction or fantasy works and achievements of the previous year.

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DNA Publications

DNA Publications was an American publishing company which existed from 1993 to 2007 and was run by the husband-and wife team of Warren Lapine and Angela Kessler, who met at a science fiction convention in Virginia.

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Don Maitz

Don Maitz is an American science fiction, fantasy, and commercial artist.

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Doomsday Book (novel)

Doomsday Book is a 1992 science fiction novel by American author Connie Willis.

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Even the Queen

"Even the Queen" is a science fiction short story by Connie Willis, exploring the long-term cultural effects of scientific control of menstruation.

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Fantasy

Fantasy is a genre of speculative fiction set in a fictional universe, often without any locations, events, or people referencing the real world.

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Flash Gordon

Flash Gordon is the hero of a space opera adventure comic strip created by and originally drawn by Alex Raymond.

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Futurist architecture

Futurist architecture is an early-20th century form of architecture born in Italy, characterized by strong chromaticism, long dynamic lines, suggesting speed, motion, urgency and lyricism: it was a part of Futurism, an artistic movement founded by the poet Filippo Tommaso Marinetti, who produced its first manifesto, the Manifesto of Futurism in 1909.

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Gardner Dozois

Gardner Raymond Dozois (July 23, 1947 – May 27, 2018) was an American science fiction author and editor.

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Guy Gavriel Kay

Guy Gavriel Kay (born November 7, 1954) is a Canadian writer of fantasy fiction.

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Harry Warner Jr.

Harry Warner Jr. (December 19, 1922 – February 17, 2003) was an American journalist.

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Hugo Award

The Hugo Awards are a set of literary awards given annually for the best science fiction or fantasy works and achievements of the previous year.

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Hugo Award for Best Dramatic Presentation

The Hugo Award for Best Dramatic Presentation is given each year for theatrical films, television episodes, or other dramatized works related to science fiction or fantasy released in the previous calendar year.

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Hugo Award for Best Fan Artist

The Hugo Awards are presented every year by the World Science Fiction Society for the best science fiction or fantasy works and achievements of the previous year.

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Hugo Award for Best Fan Writer

The Hugo Award for Best Fan Writer is the Hugo Award given each year for writers of works related to science fiction or fantasy which appeared in low- or non-paying publications such as semiprozines or fanzines or in generally available electronic media during the previous calendar year.

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Hugo Award for Best Fanzine

The Hugo Awards are given every year by the World Science Fiction Society for the best science fiction or fantasy works and achievements of the previous year.

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Hugo Award for Best Novel

The Hugo Award for Best Novel is one of the Hugo Awards given each year for science fiction or fantasy stories published in English or translated into English during the previous calendar year.

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Hugo Award for Best Novelette

The Hugo Award for Best Novelette is one of the Hugo Awards given each year for science fiction or fantasy stories published in English or translated into English during the previous calendar year.

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Hugo Award for Best Novella

The Hugo Award for Best Novella is one of the Hugo Awards given each year for science fiction or fantasy stories published in English or translated into English during the previous calendar year.

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Hugo Award for Best Professional Artist

The Hugo Awards are given every year by the World Science Fiction Society for the best science fiction or fantasy works and achievements of the previous year.

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Hugo Award for Best Professional Editor

The Hugo Awards are given every year by the World Science Fiction Society for the best science fiction or fantasy works and achievements of the previous year.

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Hugo Award for Best Related Work

The Hugo Awards are given every year by the World Science Fiction Society for the best science fiction or fantasy works and achievements of the previous year.

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Hugo Award for Best Semiprozine

The Hugo Awards are given every year by the World Science Fiction Society for the best science fiction or fantasy works and achievements of the previous year.

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Hugo Award for Best Short Story

The Hugo Award for Best Short Story is one of the Hugo Awards given each year for science fiction or fantasy stories published in English or translated into English during the previous calendar year.

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Hugo Gernsback

Hugo Gernsback (born Hugo Gernsbacher, August 16, 1884 – August 19, 1967) was a Luxembourgish-American inventor, writer, editor, and magazine publisher, best known for publications including the first science fiction magazine.

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James Gurney

James Gurney (born June 14, 1958) is an artist and author best known for his illustrated book series Dinotopia, which is presented in the form of a 19th-century explorer’s journal from an island utopia cohabited by humans and dinosaurs.

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Jan Howard Finder

Jan Howard Finder (March 2, 1939 – February 26, 2013) was an American academic administrator, career counselor, science fiction writer, filker, hostelling tour guide, cosplayer, and fan.

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Janet Kagan

Janet Kagan (born Janet Megson, April 18, 1946 – February 29, 2008) was an American author.

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John W. Campbell Award for Best New Writer

The John W. Campbell Award for Best New Writer is an award given annually to the best new writer whose first professional work of science fiction or fantasy was published within the two previous calendar years.

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Larry Niven

Laurence van Cott Niven (born April 30, 1938) is an American science fiction writer.

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Laura Resnick

Laura Resnick (born 1962 in Chicago, Illinois) is an American fantasy writer.

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List of Worldcons

This World Science Fiction Convention (Worldcon) list includes prior and scheduled Worldcons.

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Litter (vehicle)

The litter is a class of wheelless vehicles, a type of human-powered transport, for the transport of persons.

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Lucius Shepard

Lucius Shepard (August 21, 1943 – March 18, 2014) was an American writer.

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Mark Twain

Samuel Langhorne Clemens (November 30, 1835 – April 21, 1910), better known by his pen name Mark Twain, was an American writer, humorist, entrepreneur, publisher, and lecturer.

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Mimosa (magazine)

Mimosa was a science fiction fanzine edited by Richard Lynch and Nicki Lynch.

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Moscone Center

The George R. Moscone Convention Center (popularly known as the Moscone Center, pronounced) is the largest convention and exhibition complex in San Francisco, California.

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Orlando, Florida

Orlando is a city in the U.S. state of Florida and the county seat of Orange County.

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San Francisco

San Francisco (initials SF;, Spanish for 'Saint Francis'), officially the City and County of San Francisco, is the cultural, commercial, and financial center of Northern California.

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San Francisco Marriott Marquis

The San Francisco Marriott Marquis is a 39-story skyscraper in the Financial District of San Francisco, California.

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Science fiction

Science fiction (often shortened to Sci-Fi or SF) is a genre of speculative fiction, typically dealing with imaginative concepts such as advanced science and technology, spaceflight, time travel, and extraterrestrial life.

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Skyscraper

A skyscraper is a continuously habitable high-rise building that has over 40 floors and is taller than approximately.

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Star Trek: The Next Generation

Star Trek: The Next Generation (abbreviated as TNG and ST:TNG) is an American science-fiction television series in the Star Trek franchise created by Gene Roddenberry that ran from 1987 to 1994.

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Takumi Shibano

was a Japanese science-fiction translator and author.

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The Inner Light (Star Trek: The Next Generation)

"The Inner Light" is the 125th episode overall and the 25th episode of the fifth season of the American science fiction television series Star Trek: The Next Generation.

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The Nutcracker Coup

"The Nutcracker Coup" is a 1992 science fiction short story by Janet Kagan.

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Vernor Vinge

Vernor Steffen Vinge (born October 2, 1944) is an American science fiction author and retired professor.

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Winnipeg

Winnipeg is the capital and largest city of the province of Manitoba in Canada.

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Worldcon

Worldcon, or more formally the World Science Fiction Convention, the annual convention of the World Science Fiction Society (WSFS), is a science fiction convention.

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50th World Science Fiction Convention

The 50th World Science Fiction Convention (Worldcon), also known as MagiCon, was held September 3–7, 1992, at the Clarion Hotel, The Peabody Orlando, and the Orange County Convention Center in Orlando, Florida, United States.

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52nd World Science Fiction Convention

The 52nd World Science Fiction Convention (Worldcon), also known as ConAdian, was held 1–5 September 1994 at the Crowne Plaza, Place Louis Riel, and Sheraton hotels, and the Winnipeg Convention Centre in Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/51st_World_Science_Fiction_Convention

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