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	Venue	GoHs	Att.
Novacon 1	Nov 1971	Imperial Centre, Birmingham	James White	144
Novacon 2	Nov 1972	Imperial Centre, Birmingham	Doreen Rogers	190
Novacon 3	1973	Imperial Centre, Birmingham	Ken Bulmer	146
Novacon 4	Oct 25-27, 1974	Imperial Centre, Birmingham	Ken Slater	211
Novacon 5	Nov 7-9, 1975	Royal Angus Hotel, Birmingham	Dan Morgan	272
Novacon 6	1976	Royal Angus Hotel, Birmingham	David Kyle	317
Novacon 7	Nov 4-6, 1977	Royal Angus Hotel, Birmingham	John Brunner	278
Novacon 8	Nov 3-5, 1978	Holiday Inn, Birmingham	Anne McCaffrey	309
Novacon 9	Nov 2-4, 1979	Royal Angus Hotel, Birmingham	Christopher Priest	290
Novacon 10	Oct 31-Nov 2, 1980	Royal Angus Hotel, Birmingham	Brian W. Aldiss	495
Novacon 11	Oct 30-Nov 1, 1981	Royal Angus Hotel, Birmingham	Bob Shaw	362
Novacon 12	Nov 5-8, 1982	Royal Angus Hotel, Birmingham	Harry Harrison	373
Novacon 13	Nov 4-6, 1983	Royal Angus Hotel, Birmingham	Lisa Tuttle	339
Novacon 14	Nov 9-12, 1984	Grand Hotel, Birmingham	Robert Holdstock	333
Novacon 15	1985	De Vere Hotel, Coventry	James White, David Langford	340
Novacon 16	1986	De Vere Hotel, Coventry	E. C. Tubb, Chris Evans	257
Novacon 17	Oct 30 - Nov 1, 1987	Royal Angus Hotel, Birmingham	Iain M. Banks	315
Novacon 18	1988	Royal Angus Hotel, Birmingham	Garry Kilworth	336
Novacon 19	1989	Excelsior, Solihull	Geoff Ryman	303
Novacon 20	1990	Excelsior, Solihull	Jack Cohen	330
Novacon 21	1991	Forte Poste House, Solihull	Colin Greenland	200
Novacon 22	1992	Royal Angus Hotel, Birmingham	Storm Constantine	300
Novacon 23	1993	Royal Angus Hotel, Birmingham	Stephen Baxter	243
Novacon 24	November 4-6, 1994	Royal Angus Hotel, Birmingham	Graham Joyce	214
Novacon 25	1995	Chamberlain Hotel, Birmingham	Brian Aldiss, Bob Shaw, Harry Harrison, Iain Banks (special guest)	338
Novacon 26	1996	Hotel Ibis, Birmingham	David Gemmell	281
Novacon 27	November 14-16, 1997	Abbey Hotel, Great Malvern	Peter F. Hamilton	277
Novacon 28	1998	Britannia Hotel, Birmingham	Paul J. McAuley	265
Novacon 29	1999	Britannia Hotel, Birmingham	Ian Stewart	239
Novacon 30	2000	Britannia Hotel, Birmingham	Christopher Priest, Rog Peyton (special guest), David A. Hardy (guest artist)	224
Novacon 31	2001	Quality Hotel, Walsall	Gwyneth Jones	219
Novacon 32	2002	Quality Hotel, Walsall	Ian McDonald	252
Novacon 33	Nov 2003	Quality Hotel, Walsall	Jon Courtenay Grimwood	203
Novacon 34	2004	Quality Hotel, Walsall	Ian Watson	217
Novacon 35	Nov 11-13, 2005	Quality Hotel, Walsall	Alastair Reynolds	216
Novacon 36	2006	Quality Hotel, Walsall	Ken MacLeod	212
Novacon 37	Nov 2-4, 2007	Quality Hotel, Walsall	Charles Stross	208
Novacon 38	Nov 14-16, 2008	Quality Hotel, Walsall	Ian R. MacLeod, Vernon Brown (Fan Guest)	177
Novacon 39	Nov 13-15, 2009	Park Inn, Nottingham	Justina Robson	210
Novacon 40	Nov 12-14, 2010	Park Inn, Nottingham	Iain M. Banks, Brian W. Aldiss (special guest)	262
Novacon 41	Nov 11-13, 2011	Park Inn, Nottingham	John Meaney	tbc
Novacon 42	Nov 9-11, 2012	Park Inn, Nottingham	Jaine Fenn	tbc
Novacon 43	Nov 8-10, 2013	Park Inn, Nottingham	Jo Walton	tbc
Novacon 44	Nov 14-16, 2014	Park Inn, Nottingham	Kari Sperring, John Gribbin
Novacon 45	Nov 13-15, 2015	Park Inn, Nottingham	Anne Nicholls, Stan Nicholls
Novacon 46	Nov 11-13, 2016	Park Inn, Nottingham	Juliet McKenna
Novacon 47	Nov 10-12, 2017	Park Inn, Nottingham	Adrian Tchaikovsky
Novacon 48	Nov 9-11, 2018	Park Inn, Nottingham	Chris Beckett
Novacon 49	Nov 8-10, 2019	Mercure, Nottingham	Mike Carey
Novacon 50	2021 (postponed from 2020)	Mercure, Nottingham	Chris Priest, Fangorn, Emma Newman, Claire North

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