North American Science Fiction Convention

NASFiC, a.k.a. the North American Science Fiction Convention, is a science fiction convention scheduled only during years where the Worldcon is being held outside the North American continent.[1] NASFiC bids voted on by the Worldcon (or NASFiC if one exists) membership the year after a non-North American Worldcon site has been selected. As of 2014, this is one year in advance of a potential NASFiC.[2]

"NASFiC" redirects here. For the first convention of this series, see NASFiC (1975).
NASFiC
StatusActive
GenreScience fiction
Location(s)North America (to date, all have been in the United States)
Inaugurated1975
Websitenasfic.org

History

Activities at a NASFiC parallel those seen at Worldcon, but may differ with each convention committee. The convention may be held as an individual event or in conjunction with another convention. It generally occurs near the time of the Worldcon, but not in direct competition with it. Eleven NASFiCs have occurred to date. The name NASFiC is owned by the World Science Fiction Society (WSFS).

The late Robert Sacks led a movement to separate NASFiC from the World Science Fiction Society, similar to Eurocon, but WSFS has chosen to keep NASFiC under its own aegis.[3][4]

Conventions

This is a list of the NASFiCs held, or scheduled, so far:

Year Name City Guests of Honor Size
1st1975 NASFiC[5] Los Angeles, California Harlan Ellison 1,100
2nd1979 NorthAmeriCon '79 Louisville, Kentucky Frederik Pohl
George Scithers		 2,000
3rd1985 LoneStarCon 1 Austin, Texas Jack Vance
Richard Powers
Joanne Burger		 2,800
4th1987 CactusCon[6] Phoenix, Arizona Hal Clement
Marjii Ellers		 3,000
5th1990 ConDiego San Diego, California Samuel R. Delany
Ben Yalow		 3,000
6th1995 Dragon*Con 1995 Atlanta, Georgia George Alec Effinger
Harlan Ellison
Timothy Zahn
Michael Whelan
Bjo Trimble		 14,312
7th1999 Conucopia Anaheim, California Jerry Pournelle
Ellen Datlow
Richard Lynch
Nicki Lynch		 1,734
8th2005 Cascadia Con[1][7] Seattle, Washington Fred Saberhagen
Liz Danforth
Toni Weisskopf
Kevin Standlee		 1,785 / 2,014
on site/total
9th2007 Archon31/Tuckercon[8] Collinsville, Illinois Barbara Hambly
Darrell K. Sweet
Kevin Murphy
Bill Corbett
James Ernest
Elizabeth Covey
Barry Childs-Helton
Sally Childs-Helton
Nancy Hathaway
Lani Tapu
Richard Hatch		 1,950
10th2010 ReConStruction[9] Raleigh, North Carolina Eric Flint
Brad W. Foster
Juanita Coulson
Toni Weisskopf		 ~750 / ~900
on site/total
11th2014 Detcon1[10] Detroit, Michigan Steven Barnes
John Picacio
Bernadette Bosky, Arthur D. Hlavaty, and Kevin J. Maroney
Helen Greiner
Bill and Brenda Sutton
Roger Sims and Fred Prophet[2]		 1450 / 1628
on site/total
12th2017 NorthAmeriCon '17[11] San Juan, Puerto Rico Daina Chaviano
Tobias S. Buckell
George Perez
Paula Smith
Guy Consolmagno
Javier Grillo-Marxuach
 ~200 / ~575
on site/total
13th2019 SpikeCon[12] Layton, Utah David Weber
Laurell K Hamilton
Susan Chang
Vincent Villafranca
Linda Deneroff
Dragon Dronet
Bjo & John Trimble		 TBC

References
  1. Martin, Jessica (August 29, 2005). "Science fiction Canadian style". SF Crowsnest. Retrieved August 14, 2009. Cascadia Con is the 8th North American Science Fiction Convention (NASFiC) in 30 years. A NASFiC is only held when the Worldcon for that year is outside of North America. In 2005 the Worldcon will be in Scotland and Seattle will host the NASFiC.
  2. Pho, Diana M. (July 9, 2014). "SciFi in the Motor City: An Interview with the Committee of Detcon1". Tor.com. Retrieved July 16, 2014.
  3. McMurray, Pat (June 1998). "Minutes of the Business Meeting 1993". The World Science Fiction Society. Worldcon.org. Retrieved August 11, 2009.
  4. McMurray, Pat (2000). "Minutes of the Business Meeting 1987". The World Science Fiction Society. Worldcon.org. Archived from the original on June 7, 2011. Retrieved August 11, 2009.
  5. Morrison, Patt (September 7, 1975). "Sci Fi Confab Draws 'em All". Los Angeles Times. p. CS1. Retrieved August 14, 2009. The acronym sounded OK--but you got the feeling that if any of the guys at the four-day North American Science Fiction Convention at the Marriott Hotel [...]
  6. Martin, Sue (April 23, 1987). "Many Resources for Fans of Fantasy and the 'Far Out'". Los Angeles Times. Retrieved July 16, 2014. Phoenix will also host the Cactuscon/North American Science Fiction Convention (Sept. 3-6) at the Phoenix Hilton, Civic Plaza Convention Center and Hyatt Regency.
  7. Chansanchai, Athima (September 1, 2005). "Sex in space? Sci-fi convention aims to please; Cascadia says it has something for every fan". Seattle Post-Intelligencer. Retrieved August 14, 2009. If you have any interest in science fiction at all, you'll find something at Cascadia Con, an official North American Science Fiction Convention held only seven times since 1975. This makes eight, and for the first time, it's in the Seattle area. The five-day event, which begins today, is expected to draw 3,500 fans.
  8. Schlueter, Roger (August 2, 2007). "Archon 31 promises a science fiction bonanza". Belleville News-Democrat. Retrieved August 14, 2009. This year's Archon simply has to be bigger and better, say the organizers, St. Louis Science Fiction Ltd. Not only is it serving as St. Louis' annual sci-fi-fantasy confab, but it is doubling as the 2007 North American Science Fiction Convention (NASFiC), because the world convention was awarded to a non-North American site (Yokohama, Japan).
  9. "ReConStruction official website". ReConStruction. Retrieved August 13, 2009.
  10. "Detcon1 official website". Detcon1. Retrieved September 1, 2013.
  11. "North Americon '17 official website". NorthAmericon17. Retrieved 2016-08-25.
  12. "Layton, Utah to host 2019 NASFiC". North American Science Fiction Convention. Retrieved 2018-09-05.
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