1987
| Easter | BECCON '87 |
| April 7 | Terry Carr dies |
| June 12 | First Rubble Award given out |
| August 27 -- Sept 1 | Conspiracy '87 (Worldcon) |
| September 3--7 Labor Day | CactusCon (NASFiC) |
| September 28 | HRSFA first meeting |
| December | Pass-Along Funds started at Smofcon |
| First LibertyCon | |
| Jeanne Gomoll TAFF trip | |
| DUFF: Lucy Huntzinger (South) | |
| FFANZ: Lyn McConchie (West) | |
| GUFF: Irwin Hirsh (North) |
Births and Deaths:
Alden H. Norton - Alfred Bester - Anna Krenzel - Bea Mahaffey - Beatrice Unger - C. L. Moore - Cliff Dunn - Dave Elder - Dick Wilson - Doc Barrett - Donald Wandrei - Frank Edward Arnold - Franklin Lee Baldwin - James Tiptree, Jr. - Lauren Raye Snow - Lynn Bridges - Mari Beth Wheeler - Nigel Rowe - P. Howard Lyons - Polly Freas - Randall Garrett - Ray J. Sienkiewicz - Richard Delap - Roger Lancelyn Green - Ron Smith - Terry Carr - Theodore R. Cogswell - Vern Coriell - Virginia Anderson
Convention series started or ended:
BECCON - CastleCon - Dragon Con - Eastercon - Eclecticon - Hexacon - LibertyCon - Ozarkon - Readercon - SerCon - Triangulum
Onetime conventions:
Bids:
Publications started or ended:
A Fandom Sampler - A Free Lunch - Abattoir - Advocatus Diaboli - BECCON '87: The Other Press Report - Balloons Over Bristol - Big Sleaze - Bobbing for Golden Apples - Candiru - Chimay Chimay Ko Ko Bop - Chunder! - Civilisation Reviewed - Collectors Item No. 1 - Conspiracy Theories - Constellation of Kasterborus - Creature of Habit - Critical Wave - Dare to be Stupid - Deadloss - Deja Vu - Dtrs - Eat That Duck - Embryonic Journey -- From Leeds to Leeds in 50 Years - Entropion - F-Words - FAPA Festival Fanzine - Faceless Bureaucrat - Fanfoodery: or The Plain Fan's Guide to Happy Eating - Fanpublishing Symposium - Fantasy Review - Feast of Friends - February FAPAC - First Solo - Flash Point - Flick the Bogey - Floatin' Cheese - From the Cockpit III - Garden of Entropic Delights - Godzilla's Dental Floss - Gonzo - Guerilla Arts - Hyphen - Illyria - Impressions from the Ditto Masters - International Conspiracy Journal - Izzard - Jesting Pilate - Kwazar - Meep - NESFA Hymnal - Nine Innings - Now Read On -- A Collection of Recent British Fanwriting - Nowhere Fast - Omega Science Digest - Out of the Woodwork - Penseroso - Performance - Phenotype - Platen Stories - Plot - Quincunx - Remember Lindisfarne - SF Eye - Say the Name - Screwed Up Letters - Secant - Secondhand Goods - Sferical Aberration - Siattiese Standpipe Number 62 - Spung - Still Life - Strange Perversions and Literary Lunches - Summa - TAFFluvia - Taffiles - The Annex - The Bad Brie Party - The Bagabash Papers - The Best of Conrunner - The Bovo No-No - The House of the Hidden Poet - The Island of Dr. Gernsbach - The LibertyCon Newsletter - The Reader and Accumulator - The Science Fact & Fiction Concatenation - The Story So Far - Trending - Undulant Fever - Vile Anchors - W.A.S.T.E. Paper - Wahrscheinlichkeits Rechnung - We Remember Terry Carr - Weird Smut Romance - World SF Journal - Xanxia
Publishers founded or closed:
Awards made, started or ended:
Stores opened or closed:
Clubs founded or disbanded:
Fanhistory:
New fanspeak coined:
Miscellaneous:
Asia:
Australia:
Britain:
4UK - A Fandom Sampler - A Free Lunch - Albacon 87 - Arthur C. Clarke Award - BECCON - BECCON '87 - BECCON '87: The Other Press Report - Balloons Over Bristol - Britain in '87 - Civilisation Reviewed - Collectors Item No. 1 - Conception - Connote8 - Conspiracy '87 - David Kyle's Conspiracy '87 Reminiscence - Conspiracy Theories - Critical Wave - Deadloss - Eat That Duck - Embryonic Journey -- From Leeds to Leeds in 50 Years - Entropion - Fanfoodery: or The Plain Fan's Guide to Happy Eating - Fanpublishing Symposium - Fantasycon XII - First Solo - Flick the Bogey - Floatin' Cheese - Frank Edward Arnold - Garden of Entropic Delights - Glasgow Science Fiction Writers Circle - Gonzo - Hilton Birmingham Metropole - Hyphen - Illyria - International Conspiracy Journal - Meep - Metropole Hotel - Microcon 7 - Nicon 87 - Nigel Rowe - Novacon 17 - Now Read On -- A Collection of Recent British Fanwriting - Nowhere Fast - Out of the Woodwork - Oxonmoot 1987 - Performance - Picocon 5 - Platen Stories - Plot - Roger Lancelyn Green - Rubicon II - SASS - Screwed Up Letters - Secondhand Goods - Sferical Aberration - Shoestringcon 9 - Still Life - Strange Perversions and Literary Lunches - The Best of Conrunner - The Science Fact & Fiction Concatenation - The Story So Far - Vile Anchors - Who's Hugh?
Canada:
Europe:
New Zealand:
US:
13th World Fantasy Convention - 1987 NASFiC Site Selection - Abattoir - Advocatus Diaboli - AggieCon XVIII - Alden H. Norton - Alfred Bester - Alternacon - Anna Krenzel - Archon 11 - ArmadilloCon 9 - Asimov's Science Fiction Readers Award - Atlanta Fantasy Fair 1987 - Balticon 21 - Baycon '87 - Bea Mahaffey - Beatrice Unger - Bobbing for Golden Apples - Boskone 24 - Bubonicon 19 - C'ntraction - C. L. Moore - CactusCon - Capricon 7 - CastleCon - ChambanaCon 17 - Chattacon XII - Cliff Dunn - Coastcon X - Con*Stellation VI - Con*Tretemps 6 - ConChord 3 - ConClave XII - ConFusion 12 - ConQuesT 18 - ConQuistador IV - ConTact 5 - Concave 8 - Contex 1987 - Contradiction 7 - CopperCon 7 - Corflu 4 - Costume-Con 5 - Costumer's Guild West - Creature of Habit - Dare to be Stupid - Darkover Grand Council 10 - Dave Elder - DeepSouthCon 25 - Deja Vu - Dick Wilson - Disclave 12 - Disclave 31 - Doc Barrett - Donald Wandrei - Dracula Society's Children of the Night Award - Dragon Con - Dreamcon 2 - Dtrs - Earthcon VII - Eclecticon - Episode XXXX - Equicon '87 - F-Words - FAPA Festival Fanzine - Faceless Bureaucrat - Fantastic Fiction Club - Fantasy Review - February FAPAC - Flash Point - Fourth Street Fantasy 1987 - Franklin Lee Baldwin - From the Cockpit III - Gaylactic Network - Genericon III - Guerilla Arts - Hexacon - Hexacon 9 - I-Con VI - ICFA 8 - ICON 12 - InConJunction VII - Izzard - James Tiptree, Jr. - Jesting Pilate - Kubla Quinze - Kwazar - LA in '87 - LA in '87 - Lauren Raye Snow - LepreCon 13 - LibertyCon - LibertyCon 1 - Life, the Universe, & Everything 5 - Loscon XIV - Lunacon 30 - Lynn Bridges - Marcon XXII - Mari Beth Wheeler - MidSouthCon 6 - Midwestcon 38 - MileHiCon 19 - Millennicon -14 - Minicon 22 - MisCon 2 - Moonstone Bookcellar - MosCon IX - MuseCon - Mythcon XVIII - NESFA Hymnal - NJAC 3 - Necon 7 - Necronomicon '87 - Newfangled Contraption - Nigel Rowe - Nine Innings - Norwescon 9.5 - OKon 10 - OVFF 3 - Oakland in '87 - Octocon 24 - Off Centaur Publications - Omacon 7 - Orlando Area Science Fiction Society - OryCon '87 - Ozarkon - Penseroso - Phenotype - Philcon 87 - Phoenix in '85 - Phoenix in 1987 - Phoenixcon 2 - Polly Freas - Pulp Era Amateur Press Society - Pulpcon 16 - Quincunx - Randall Garrett - Ray J. Sienkiewicz - Readercon - Readercon 1 - Richard Delap - Rise and Fall of the Giant Boskones - Rivercon XII - Roc*Kon 12 - Ron Smith - Rubble Award - Rustycon 4 - SF Eye - San Diego in '87 - Say the Name - SerCon - Sercon 1 - Siattiese Standpipe Number 62 - Smofcon 4 - SoonerCon 3 - Spung - Stark Raving ConFusion - StellarCon XII - TAFFluvia - Taffiles - Terry Carr - The Annex - The Bad Brie Party - The Bagabash Papers - The Bovo No-No - The House of the Hidden Poet - The Island of Dr. Gernsbach - The LibertyCon Newsletter - The Reader and Accumulator - The Tale That Wags the God - Theodore R. Cogswell - Theodore Sturgeon Memorial Award - Trending - Triangulum - Triangulum 1987 - Tropicon VI - TusCon 14 - Undulant Fever - Unicon 87 - UpperSouthClave 17 - Valleycon 12 - Vern Coriell - Vikingcon 8 - Virginia Anderson - W.A.S.T.E. Paper - Wahrscheinlichkeits Rechnung - We Remember Terry Carr - Weird Smut Romance - Wild Cards - Windycon XIV - WisCon 11 - X-Con 11 - Xanadu 4 - Xanxia
Rest of the World:
| 1986 | 1987 | 1988 |
