Novacon

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The UK's oldest regional convention, founded in 1971. It is run each November by the Birmingham Science Fiction Group. It was founded by the University of Aston Science Fiction Group at a time when Eastercon was the only regular convention in the UK, but since Novacon 2 has been run by the Birmingham Science Fiction Group.

Novacon used to present the annual Nova Awards.

Convention	Dates	GoHs	Att.
Novacon 1	November 13-14, 1971	James White	144
Novacon 2	November 4-5, 1972	Doreen Rogers	190
Novacon 3	November 2-4, 1973	Ken Bulmer	146
Novacon 4	October 25-27, 1974	Ken Slater	211
Novacon 5	November 7-9, 1975	Dan Morgan	272
Novacon 6	November 5-7, 1976	David Kyle	317
Novacon 7	November 4-6, 1977	John Brunner	278
Novacon 8	November 3-5, 1978	Anne McCaffrey	309
Novacon 9	November 2-4, 1979	Christopher Priest	290
Novacon 10	October 31 - November 2, 1980	Brian W. Aldiss	495
Novacon 11	October 30 - November 1, 1981	Bob Shaw	362
Novacon 12	November 5-8, 1982	Harry Harrison	373
Novacon 13	November 4-6, 1983	Lisa Tuttle	339
Novacon 14	November 9-12, 1984	Robert Holdstock	333
Novacon 15	November 1-3, 1985	James White, David Langford	340
Novacon 16	October 31 ‑ November 2, 1986	E. C. Tubb, Chris Evans	257
Novacon 17	October 30 - November 1, 1987	Iain M. Banks	315
Novacon 18	November 4-6, 1988	Garry Kilworth	336
Novacon 19	November 17-19, 1989	Geoff Ryman	303
Novacon 20	November 9-11, 1990	Jack Cohen	330
Novacon 21	November 1-3, 1991	Colin Greenland	200
Novacon 22	November 6-8, 1992	Storm Constantine	300
Novacon 23	November 5-7, 1993	Stephen Baxter	243
Novacon 24	November 4-6, 1994	Graham Joyce	214
Novacon 25	November 3-5, 1995	Brian Aldiss, Bob Shaw, Harry Harrison, Iain Banks (special guest)	338
Novacon 26	November 8-10, 1996	David Gemmell	281
Novacon 27	November 14-16, 1997	Peter F. Hamilton	277
Novacon 28	November 13-15, 1998	Paul J. McAuley	265
Novacon 29	November 5-7, 1999	Ian Stewart	239
Novacon 30	November 10-12, 2000	Christopher Priest, Rog Peyton (special guest), David A. Hardy (guest artist)	224
Novacon 31	November 9-11, 2001	Gwyneth Jones	219
Novacon 32	November 1-3, 2002	Ian McDonald	252
Novacon 33	November 7-9, 2003	Jon Courtenay Grimwood	203
Novacon 34	November 5-7, 2004	Ian Watson	217
Novacon 35	November 11-13, 2005	Alastair Reynolds	216
Novacon 36	November 10-12, 2006	Ken MacLeod	212
Novacon 37	November 2-4, 2007	Charles Stross	208
Novacon 38	November 14-16, 2008	Ian R. MacLeod, Vernon Brown (Fan Guest)	177
Novacon 39	November 13-15, 2009	Justina Robson	210
Novacon 40	November 12-14, 2010	Iain M. Banks, Brian W. Aldiss (special guest)	262
Novacon 41	November 11-13, 2011	John Meaney	tbc
Novacon 42	November 9-11, 2012	Jaine Fenn	tbc
Novacon 43	November 8-10, 2013	Jo Walton	tbc
Novacon 44	November 14-16, 2014	Kari Sperring, John Gribbin
Novacon 45	November 13-15, 2015	Anne Nicholls, Stan Nicholls
Novacon 46	November 11-13, 2016	Juliet McKenna
Novacon 47	November 10-12, 2017	Adrian Tchaikovsky
Novacon 48	November 9-11, 2018	Chris Beckett
Novacon 49	November 8-10, 2019	Mike Carey
Novacon 50	November 13-15, 2020	Chris Priest, Fangorn, Emma Newman, Claire North

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