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- The 2nd World Science Fiction Convention (Worldcon), also known as Chicon I, was held on 1–2 September 1940 at the Hotel Chicagoan in Chicago, Illinois...8 KB (573 words) - 20:38, 1 February 2025
Science fiction (sometimes shortened to sci-fi or abbreviated SF) is a genre of speculative fiction which typically deals with imaginative and futuristic...158 KB (13,389 words) - 04:29, 24 February 2025- The 1st World Science Fiction Convention (Worldcon) was held on 2–4 July 1939 in the Caravan Hall in New York City, United States, in conjunction with...10 KB (799 words) - 11:18, 1 February 2025
- The 3rd World Science Fiction Convention (Worldcon), also known as Denvention I, was held on 4–6 July 1941 at the Shirley-Savoy Hotel in Denver, Colorado...3 KB (148 words) - 03:59, 4 March 2025
- The Australian National Science Fiction Convention or Natcon is an annual science fiction convention. Each convention is run by a different committee...19 KB (618 words) - 00:49, 24 October 2024
- Science fiction is an important genre of modern Japanese literature that has strongly influenced aspects of contemporary Japanese pop culture, including...33 KB (3,651 words) - 01:49, 2 January 2025
Jerry Siegel (category United States Army personnel of World War II)somewhat active in science fiction fandom after starting work for DC. He attended Chicon, the 1940 2nd World Science Fiction Convention, and appeared in...34 KB (3,811 words) - 07:24, 27 February 2025- This is a timeline of science fiction as a literary tradition. While the date of the start of science fiction is debated, this list includes a range of...127 KB (1,447 words) - 15:34, 21 February 2025
- The New Wave was a science fiction style of the 1960s and 1970s, characterized by a great degree of experimentation with the form and content of stories...62 KB (8,413 words) - 23:43, 14 October 2024
Costume party (section Conventions)From the 2nd World Science Fiction Convention (1940) in Chicago, masquerade balls were a traditional feature of the convention. Fan conventions, often abbreviated...14 KB (1,709 words) - 16:47, 8 February 2025- NASFiC, an abbreviation for North American Science Fiction Convention, is a science fiction convention scheduled in North America during years when a...14 KB (780 words) - 18:59, 5 December 2024
- became active in science fiction fandom. He and a friend drove to Chicago to attend Chicon, the 2nd World Science Fiction Convention, and in November...29 KB (3,868 words) - 18:18, 12 August 2024
- a science fiction writer. Ellison, a fervent proponent of writers embracing more literary and modernist directions, broke out of genre conventions to...28 KB (2,242 words) - 19:10, 27 February 2025
The literary genre of science fiction is diverse, and its exact definition remains a contested question among both scholars and devotees. This lack of...88 KB (10,669 words) - 23:16, 3 March 2025- authors of speculative fiction and their role in science fiction fandom. Regarding authorship, in 1948, 10–15% of science fiction writers were female. Women's...28 KB (3,379 words) - 03:35, 20 November 2024
- Feminist science fiction is a subgenre of science fiction (abbreviated "SF") focused on such feminist themes as: gender inequality, sexuality, race, economics...71 KB (8,528 words) - 02:45, 17 February 2025
- Together with then-boyfriend Ackerman, she attended the 1939 1st World Science Fiction Convention (Nycon or 1st Worldcon) in New York City dressed in "futuristicostumes"...8 KB (803 words) - 18:02, 7 August 2024
- frequently used in science fiction or related genres. Such elements may include depictions of realistic sexual interactions in a science fictional setting...60 KB (8,648 words) - 06:26, 17 January 2025
Seiun Award (redirect from Federation of Science Fiction Fan Groups of Japan)presented by the members of the World Science Fiction Society, in that all of the members of the presenting convention are eligible to participate in the...151 KB (1,118 words) - 23:08, 28 February 2025- List of Worldcons (redirect from List of World Science Fiction Conventions)World Science Fiction Convention (Worldcon) list includes prior and scheduled Worldcons. The data is maintained by the Long List Committee, a World Science...23 KB (301 words) - 18:57, 21 September 2024
- World Science Fiction Convention And as we go to press, word comes in from the Colorado Fantasy Society that the World's Science Fiction Convention—sponsored
- Battlestar Galactica is not. Gene Wolfe, Aussiecon Two (43rd World Science Fiction Convention) Guest of Honor speech (August 1985), as published in Gene Wolfe
- Arabic the bulk of the available Persian, Greek, Roman and Sanskrit non-fiction and the classics of literature. This flowering of Islamic learning ceased