1972
| Easter | Chessmancon |
| July 12 | Minneapa founded |
| September 1-4 (Labor Day) | L.A.con I |
| December 14 | Apollo 17 lifts off from the Moon's surface, ending the real world travel of men to the Moon |
| St. Louis SF Society founded | |
| DUFF started: Lesleigh Luttrell (South) | |
| NESFA Press started | |
| First BYOB-Con | |
| First Eurocon |
Births and Deaths:
Adrian Tchaikovsky - Andy Weir - Charles Schneeman - China Miéville - Chris McGrath - Dirce S. Archer - Fran Wilde - Fredric Brown - Graham Sleight - Joshua Palmatier - K. J. Bishop - Laurence Manning - N. K. Jemisin - Noel Jenkin - Norman Knight - Paolo Bacigalupi - S. P. Meek - Sarah Pinborough - SunnyJim Morgan - Tad Dembinski - Tammy Coxen - Ted Carnell - The Turd - Thelma J. Kelly - Thomas Calvert McClary - Una McCormack
Convention series started or ended:
Onetime conventions:
Bids:
Publications started or ended:
1220 - 4 Poems - 4M - 99 Bottles of SAPS on the Wall - A Little Music, A Little Magic - A Silly Millimeter Longer - AFricAN - Aberration - Adzine for Addicts - Amon Din - Amon Hen - An - An Urgent Plea - Anduril - Arctic Village Echoes - Ashes to Ashes - Awry - BSFA Bulletin - BeABohema - Binary - Bletherings - Braynwod - Bundalohn Quarterly - But Doreen!! - Chunder! - Contact - Correlate - Cozine - Dallascon Bulletin - Don't Give Me THAT Bull, Pasiphae! - Eternity Science Fiction - Ethil The Frog - FIAWOL - Fanthology 64 - Finders Keepers - Focal Point - Fouler - Foundation - Fredric Brown - Free Orbit - Gallimaufry - Gambit - Gamma - Gamma - Gates of Eden - Greatest Sensation of the Century - Green Dragon - Gross-Out - HPL - Horrible Stories - Hot Shit - Idiocy Couchant - Iseult - It Comes in the Mail - John W. Campbell -- An Australian Tribute - Kwalhioqua - Kyben - Little Shoppe of Horrors - Lurk - Macrocosm - Madame Frog's Catalogue of the Occult - Madcap - Malfunction - Maule's Well - Mdrgl - Mechta - Midword - Mythcon II Proceedings - Nadir - Natterings - Nazgûl - Nemesis - Nutterings - OAFS - OMPA Combozine - OSFIC Quarterly - One Big Step for Dave Chamberlain - Organlegger - Pablo - Paranoid - Paradox - Penultimate Blimp - Phoenix - Potlatch - Private Cellar Club - Rally 'Round the Flag, Boys! - Rave Review - Rotsler's Rocks - Rubber Duckie - SF Arena - Sanders - Sfären - Siddhartha - Something Else... - Strawberry Funnies - Swingline - Sword of Soloman - Terran Times - The Fanarchist - The Gemini Problem: A Study in Darkover - The Great Horned Toad - The Incompleat Terry Carr - The Legal Rules - The Lesser Typewriter - The Media - The Turning Worm - Time Is Short and the Sun Also Rises - Title - Travels with Chalker - Turkish Delights - Unabashed Plug - Viewpoint - Wabbit Twacks - We Grock You, S.F.P.A. - X-Ray Delta 1
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Fanhistory:
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Miscellaneous:
Asia:
Australia:
Britain:
1220 - 4M - Adrian Tchaikovsky - Amon Hen - Anduril - Ashes to Ashes - BSFA Bulletin - Binary - Bletherings - Chessmancon - China Miéville - Contact - Ethil The Frog - Fouler - Foundation - Free Orbit - Gambit - Gamma - Graham Sleight - Idiocy Couchant - Iseult - Ken McIntyre Award - Lurk - Macrocosm - Madcap - Malfunction - Maule's Well - Mdrgl - Milford - Nadir - Nazgûl - Novacon 2 - OMPA Combozine - Pablo - Paranoid - SF Arena - Sarah Pinborough - Siddhartha - Speculation Conferences - Ted Carnell - The Turning Worm - Una McCormack - Viewpoint
Canada:
Europe:
Ireland:
New Zealand:
US:
4 Poems - 99 Bottles of SAPS on the Wall - A Change of Hobbit - A Little Music, A Little Magic - A Silly Millimeter Longer - APA-π - Aberration - Academy of Science Fiction, Fantasy, and Horror Films - Adzine for Addicts - AggieCon III - Amon Din - An Urgent Plea - Andy Weir - Arctic Village Echoes - Awry - BYOB-Con 1 - BYOB-Con 2 - Balticon 6 - BeABohema - Boskone 9 - Braynwod - Bubonicon 4 - But Doreen!! - ChambanaCon 2 - Charles Schneeman - Chris McGrath - Con-Fusion - ConQuesT - Contact - Correlate - Cozine - DUFF - Dallascon Bulletin - DeepSouthCon 10 - Destiny - Dirce S. Archer - Disclave 16 - Don't Give Me THAT Bull, Pasiphae! - Equicon '72 - Eternity Science Fiction - FIAWOL - Fan Expo Chicago - Fantasy Films International - Fanthology 64 - Finders Keepers - Focal Point - Fran Wilde - Fredric Brown - Fredric Brown - Gallimaufry - Gates of Eden - Greatest Sensation of the Century - Green Dragon - Gross-Out - HPL - Horrible Stories - Hot Shit - It Comes in the Mail - Joshua Palmatier - Kwalhioqua - Kyben - L.A.Con I - Fred Pohl's LAcon I Reminiscence - LA in '72 - Lexicon - Little Shoppe of Horrors - Lunacon 15 - Madame Frog's Catalogue of the Occult - Marcon VII - Mechta - Mid-America Con 1 - MidAmerica-Con 2 - Midwestcon 23 - Midword - MileHiCon 4 - Milford - Minicon 6 - Minneapa - Mythcon II Proceedings - Mythcon III - N. K. Jemisin - Natterings - Nemesis - Noel Jenkin - Norman Knight - Norwestercon II - Nutterings - OAFS - One Big Step for Dave Chamberlain - Organlegger - Ozarkon VII - Paolo Bacigalupi - Pecon - Pecon 3 - PgHLANGE IV - Philcon 1972 - Phoenix - Potlatch - PulpFest - Pulpcon 1972 - REHUPA - Rally 'Round the Flag, Boys! - Rave Review - Rotsler's Rocks - Rubber Duckie - S. P. Meek - S.T.A.R. - Sanders - Science Fiction Book Review Index - Secondary Universe V - St. Louis SF Society - Strawberry Funnies - SunnyJim Morgan - Swingline - Sword of Soloman - Tad Dembinski - Tammy Coxen - The Gemini Problem: A Study in Darkover - The Great Horned Toad - The Incompleat Terry Carr - The Legal Rules - The Media - The Turd - Thelma J. Kelly - Thomas Calvert McClary - Time Is Short and the Sun Also Rises - Title - Tolkien Society of America - Travels with Chalker - Turkish Delights - Unabashed Plug - United Fanzine Organization - UpperSouthClave II - Wabbit Twacks - We Grock You, S.F.P.A. - Westercon 25 - X-Ray Delta 1
Rest of the World:
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