<![CDATA[A History Of The Science Fiction Convention - io9 Comments]]> <![CDATA[A History Of The Science Fiction Convention - io9 Comments]]> <![CDATA[A History Of The Science Fiction Convention]]> The bunch of guys went from NYC to Philadelphia, not the other way around.

The first comic-Con was in NYC in 1965. I ran off the program on my ditto machine. There have been numerous comic-cons since, much earlier than you apparently believe.

In 1964, Walter Breen had not yet married MZ Bradley.

Your knowledge about early SF and comics cons is laughable, really.

Gernsback2001

]]> <![CDATA[A History Of The Science Fiction Convention]]> Actually, that's Ray Bradbury at the far _right_ end of the back row.

Jophan

]]> <![CDATA[A History Of The Science Fiction Convention]]> @Cacafuego: Yikes.

Kevin Kelly

]]> <![CDATA[A History Of The Science Fiction Convention]]> You left out the part when the Worldcon committee back in the early-mid 1960s tried to ban Walter Breen, the husband of Marion Zimmer Bradley, from attending the comvention simply because he was, you know, a convicted child molester. This caused a group of fans to get up all in arms and DEMAND that Breen be allowed to attend the Worldcon. There was a lot of vitriol thrown around, all in the defense of a man who was convicted child molester (and would later die in prison in the 1990s following yet another aggravated child molestation conviction), with the upshot being Breen was basically allowed to attend conventions for the rest of his (free) life even though everyone knew he had multiple convictions for child molestation, simply because no one wanted to raise a stink and make sci-fi fandom look "weird" to outsiders.

Cacafuego

]]> <![CDATA[A History Of The Science Fiction Convention]]> @KernelM:  I was going to mention that!  Futurians against The New Fandom!

femto

]]> <![CDATA[A History Of The Science Fiction Convention]]> "on the top row on the far left is Ray Bradbury"
Really?  I don't see it.
 
@92BuickLeSabre: 1) So which Con's Connage is the Cannon Connage?
-Best line today!





Epaminondas

]]> <![CDATA[A History Of The Science Fiction Convention]]> And with the first convention came wank! [www.journalfen.net]

KernelM

]]> <![CDATA[A History Of The Science Fiction Convention]]> I still have questions:

1) So which Con's Connage is the Cannon Connage?
2) Why have SF geeks always looked like SF geeks?
3) Is there anything that wasn't suspended between 1941-1946?
4) Can we refer to this as a Connage Industry?
5) How many people go to a Filk Convention?
6) How does something called Filk not refer to something NSFW?
7) Does 20 people really qualify as a convention?
8) Does it qualify because Clarke counts as 400 regular people?
9) Can I start using scientifiction to refer to things again?
10) Does Bi-Mon-Sci-Fi-Con refer to a bi-monthly event, or is this about sexually flexible members of the Mon tribe of Burma?
11) If it is the latter, how many SF stories include the Mon?

92BuickLeSabre

]]> <![CDATA[A History Of The Science Fiction Convention]]> I love the word "scientifiction" -- it makes science fiction sound cooler.

NefariousNewt

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