Genericon

A convention run since 1985 by the RSFA, the Rensselaer Science Fiction Association, at the Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in Troy, New York. It has become primarily an Anime convention. The website has a very impressive complete set of programme books to download.

Convention	Dates	GoHs
Genericon I	March 22-24, 1985	Hal Clement, Phil Foglio, Jan Howard Finder
Genericon II	April 4-6, 1986	Samuel Delany, Hal Clement, Mark Rogers, Marty Gear, Jack Dann, Chuck Rothman
Genericon III	April 3-5, 1987	Joan Vinge, Dawn Wilson, Jack Dann, Bruce Evry
Genericon IV	April 8-10, 1988	Pamela Sargent, George Zebrowski, Charles Pellegrino, Hal Clement, Jack Dann, Alan Meltzer
Genericon V	April 7-9, 1989	Janny Wurtz, Don Maitz, David Kyle, Hal Clement, Susan Shwartz, Alan Meltzer
Genericon VI	January 26-28, 1990	Barry B. Longyear, Pat Morrissey, Esther Friesner, Jeffery Carver, David Kyle, Chuck Rothman, Sue Rothman
Genericon VII	1991	David Kyle, Hal Clement, Janice Eisen, Chuck Rothman, Sue Rothman, Alan Meltzer, Thomas Zane
Genericon VIII	January 24-26, 1992	Craig Shaw Gardner, Dean Morrissey, Loyd Blankenship
Genericon IX	March 1-3, 1996	Christopher Golden
Genericon X	February 28 - March 2, 1997	No guests
Genericon XI	March 20-22, 1998	No guests
Genericon XII	January 22-24, 1999
Genericon XIII	January 21-23, 2000
Genericon XXIV	January 19-21, 2001
Genericon XV	January 25-27, 2002
Genericon XVI	January 24-27, 2003
Genericon XVII	January 16-18, 2004
Genericon XVIII	January 28-30, 2005
Genericon XIX	January 27-29, 2006
Genericon XX	January 26-28, 2007
Genericon XXI	January 25-27, 2008
Genericon XXII	January 23-25, 2009
Genericon XXIII	February 12-14, 2010
Genericon XXIV	February 11-13, 2011
Genericon XXV	March 2-4, 2012
Genericon XXVI	March 1-3, 2013
Genericon XXVII	February 28 - March 2, 2014
Genericon XXVIII	March 13-15, 2015	Tristan MacAvery, Uncle Yo, Antipode
Genericon XXIX	March 4-6, 2016
Genericon XXX	March 3-5, 2017
Genericon XXXI	March 2-4, 2018	Masahiko Otsuka, Kazuya Masumoto, Takafumi Hori, Ian Rubin
Genericon XXXII	February 22-24, 2019
Genericon XXXIII	March 21-22, 2020	Cancelled because of the Covid-19 epidemic.

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