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 - K. J. Bishop - Laurence Manning - N. K. Jemisin - Noel Jenkin - Norman Knight - Paolo Bacigalupi - Sarah Pinborough - Tad Dembinski - Ted Carnell - Thomas Calvert McClary - Una McCormack
Convention series started or ended:
Onetime conventions:
Bids:
Publications started or ended:
4 Poems - 4M - A Little Music, A Little Magic - AFricAN - Aberration - Amon Hen - An - Anduril - Arctic Village Echoes - Ashes to Ashes - Awry - BSFA Bulletin - BeABohema - Binary - Bletherings - Chunder! - Correlate - Eternity Science Fiction - FIAWOL - Fanthology 64 - Finders Keepers - Focal Point - Fouler - Foundation - Free Orbit - Gallimaufry - Gamma - Gannet Science Fiction Review - Gates of Eden - Greatest Sensation of the Century - Green Dragon - Gross-Out - HPL - Horrible Stories - Hot Shit - Idiocy Couchant - Iseult - John W. Campbell -- An Australian Tribute - 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 - Nazgul - Nemesis - Nutterings - OAFS - OSFIC Quarterly - Organlegger - Pablo - Paranoid - Phoenix - Rats! - Rotsler's Rocks - SF Arena - Sanders - The Great Horned Toad - The Incompleat Terry Carr - The Legal Rules - The Media - Viewpoint
Publishers founded or closed:
Awards made, started or ended:
1972 Best Dramatic Presentation Hugo - 1972 Best Fan Artist Hugo - 1972 Best Fan Writer Hugo - 1972 Best Fanzine Hugo - 1972 Best Novel Hugo - 1972 Best Novella Hugo - 1972 Best Professional Artist Hugo - 1972 Best Professional Magazine Hugo - 1972 Best Short Story Hugo - 1972 Hugos - Best Professional Magazine Hugo - European SF Award - Prix Apollo - Saturn Award
Stores opened or closed:
Clubs founded or disbanded:
Fan History:
Miscellaneous:
Asia:
Australia:
Britain:
4M - Adrian Tchaikovsky - Amon Hen - Anduril - Ashes to Ashes - BSFA Bulletin - Binary - Bletherings - Chessmancon - China Miéville - Fouler - Foundation - Free Orbit - Gamma - Gannet Science Fiction Review - Graham Sleight - Idiocy Couchant - Iseult - Lurk - Macrocosm - Madcap - Malfunction - Maule's Well - Mdrgl - Nadir - Nazgul - Novacon 2 - Pablo - Paranoid - SF Arena - Sarah Pinborough - Speculation Conferences - Ted Carnell - Una McCormack - Viewpoint
Canada:
Europe:
An - Eurocon - Eurocon 1 - European SF Award - Italcon - Prix Apollo - SfanCon 3
Ireland:
New Zealand:
US:
4 Poems - A Change of Hobbit - A Little Music, A Little Magic - APA-Pi - Aberration - AggieCon III - Andy Weir - Arctic Village Echoes - Awry - BYOB-Con - BYOB-Con 1 - BYOB-Con 2 - Balticon 6 - Baycon II in '72 - BeABohema - Boskone 9 - Bubonicon 4 - ChambanaCon 2 - Charles Schneeman - Chris McGrath - Con-Fusion - ConQuesT - Correlate - DUFF - Dangerous Visions - DeepSouthCon 10 - Destiny - Dirce S. Archer - Disclave 16 - Equicon '72 - Eternity Science Fiction - FIAWOL - Fantasy Films International - Fanthology 64 - Finders Keepers - Focal Point - Fran Wilde - Fredric Brown - Gallimaufry - Gates of Eden - Greatest Sensation of the Century - Green Dragon - Gross-Out - HPL - Horrible Stories - Hot Shit - 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 - MidAmerica-Con - MidAmerica-Con 2 - Midwestcon 23 - Midword - MileHiCon 4 - Minicon 6 - Minneapa - Mythcon II Proceedings - Mythcon III - N. K. Jemisin - Natterings - Nemesis - Noel Jenkin - Norman Knight - Norwestercon II - Nutterings - OAFS - Organlegger - Ozarkon - Ozarkon VII - Paolo Bacigalupi - Pecon - Pecon 3 - PgHLANGE IV - Philcon 1972 - Phoenix - Pulpcon - Pulpcon 1972 - Rats! - Rotsler's Rocks - Sanders - Saturn Award - Science Fiction Book Review Index - Secondary Universe V - Tad Dembinski - The Conan Grimoire - The Great Horned Toad - The Incompleat Terry Carr - The Legal Rules - The Media - The Turd - Thomas Calvert McClary - UpperSouthClave II - Westercon 25
Rest of the World:
1971 | 1972 | 1973 |