1982
| March | 1st Tropicon held |
| Easter | Channelcon |
| July 16-19 | First Con*Stellation held |
| August 20-22 | First MidSouthCon held |
| September 2-6 (Labor Day) | Chicon IV (Worldcon) |
| October 29-31 | First Necronomicon held |
| Kevin Smith TAFF trip | |
| DUFF: Peter Toluzzi (North) |
Births and Deaths:
Convention series started or ended:
Onetime conventions:
Brandycon - CONgestion - Fencon - Jerucon - LEXICON - Smoffcon 1 - Summercon 82
Bids:
Publications started or ended:
Amazing Adventures (Postovit) - Arena SF - Arvernian Newsletter - Barddoni - Bobolings - Calaban - Can't Think of a Name So We Called It This - Complete Quandry - Crab Droppings - Crickhollow Gazette - Crux - Dark Winds - Don't Think Once - Drifting Soul - Drilkjis - Ele: Leaves from Forlond - Ennui - Epiphany - Extro - Fanac - Forth - Forty-Two - From the Rim - Galah Performance - Gambit - Inscape - Interzone - It's Only Talk - Izzard - KTF Xmas Card - Longbottom Leaf - Mathom - Meet on the Ledge - Microphones in Middle Earth - Microwave - Mimosa - Mince - More Beans - Morlug - Not Science Fantasy News - Nova - Omega - Orgone Accumulator - Orion - Overmatter - Pig on the Wall - Pink Fluffy Bedsocks - Proton - Quartz - Rhetorical Device - SCIFI and 1.37 - Sci-Fi Club Bulletin - Science Fiction Digest - Second Hand Wave - Shallow End - Shards of Babel - Shotgun - Supernova - Tappen - Telos - The Australasian Doctor Who Fan Club -- Sydney Outer Western Local Group Newsletter - The Best of Susan Wood - The Cacher of the Rye - The Leaf - The Westmarch Messenger - This Never Happens - Titan - Twilight Zine - When Yngvi Was a Louse - Wide Eyed in Babylon - Wiz - Years of Light
Publishers founded or closed:
Awards made, started or ended:
1982 Best Dramatic Presentation Hugo - 1982 Best Fan Artist Hugo - 1982 Best Fan Writer Hugo - 1982 Best Fanzine Hugo - 1982 Best Novel Hugo - 1982 Best Novelette Hugo - 1982 Best Novella Hugo - 1982 Best Professional Artist Hugo - 1982 Best Professional Editor Hugo - 1982 Best Short Story Hugo - 1982 Campbell Award - 1982 Hugos - Incon - Ken McIntyre Award - Pat Terry Award for Humour in SF - Prometheus Hall of Fame Award - Science Fiction Chronicle Awards - Science Fiction Chronicle Reader Award
Stores opened or closed:
Clubs founded or disbanded:
Fan History:
Miscellaneous:
Asia:
Australia:
Britain:
Arena SF - Arvernian Newsletter - Barddoni - Calaban - Channelcon - Crab Droppings - Crickhollow Gazette - Cymrucon 1982 - Dartford Tolkien Society - Don't Think Once - Drifting Soul - Drilkjis - Edmund Cooper - Ele: Leaves from Forlond - Extro - Faircon '82 - Fencon - Forth - Interzone - Jomsborg in Exile - KTF Xmas Card - Ken McIntyre Award - LEXICON - Longbottom Leaf - Mathom - Meet on the Ledge - Microcon - Microcon 1 - Microphones in Middle Earth - Microwave - Mince - More Beans - Morlug - Mythcon - Not Science Fantasy News - Novacon 12 - Omega - Orgone Accumulator - Overmatter - Oxonmoot 1982 - Pig on the Wall - Pink Fluffy Bedsocks - Preston Speculative Fiction Group - Proton - Quartz - Second Hand Wave - Shallow End - Shoestringcon 4 - Silicon 6 - Supernova - Tappen - The Leaf - The Westmarch Messenger - This Never Happens - Titan - Tol-en-Estel - Twilight Zine - Unicon 3 - Westmarch - When Yngvi Was a Louse
Canada:
Ad Astra II - Boréal '82 - Galah Performance - Halcon 5 - Hen Flanders - Noncon 5 - Orion - Rain Fore - Torque - Torque 3 - V-Con 10 - Years of Light
Europe:
Ireland:
New Zealand:
US:
AggieCon XIII - Alva Rogers - Amazing Adventures (Postovit) - Ambercon - Ambercon 4 - Apricon 5 - Archon 6 - ArmadilloCon 4 - Atlanta Fantasy Fair - Atlanta Fantasy Fair 1982 - Avalon - Ayn Rand - Balticon 16 - BayFilk - BayFilk I - Baycon '82 - Baycon - Bobolings - Boskone 19 - Brandycon - Bubonicon 14 - CONgestion - Capricon 2 - ChambanaCon 12 - Chattacon VII - Chicon IV - Dave Kyle's Chicon IV Reminiscence - Coastcon '82 - Codclave VIII - Complete Quandry - Con - Con 1982 - Con*Stellation I - Con*Tretemps - ConClave VII - ConFusion 11 - ConQuesT 3 - Conebulus - Contradiction 2 - CopperCon 2 - Dark Winds - Darkover Grand Council V - DeepSouthCon 20 - Detroit in '82 - Disclave 26 - Don Miller - Earthcon II - Eaton Con 4 - Electracon - Electracon II - Ennui - Epiphany - Fantasy Faire 12 - FilkCon 4.2 - Forty-Two - Frank Pipes - From the Rim - Gambit - Hexacon 4 - Hexacon 5 - Hubert Rogers - I-CON - I-Con I - ICFA 3 - ICON 7 - Icarus - InConJunction II - Incon - Inscape - It's Only Talk - Izzard - Joan Hunter Holly - Kubla Khan Tenuum - LASTCon Too - LepreCon 8 - Life, the Universe, & Everything 2 - Loscon 9 - Lothlorien - Lunacon 25 - Marcon XVII - Meg Elison - MidSouthCon 2 - Midwestcon 33 - MileHiCon 14 - Mimosa - Minicon 14 - MosCon IV - Munchcon II - MysteryKon 7 - MystiCon II - Mythcon 1982 - Mythcon XIII - Nargothrond - Necon 3 - Necronomicon - Necronomicon 1 - New Orleans in '82 - New York University Science Fiction Society - Norwescon V - OKon 5 - Octocon - Octocon IV - Omacon 2 - OryCon '82 - Over My Shoulder - Paracon V - Philip K. Dick - Phoenix in '82 - Plergbcon - Prometheus Hall of Fame Award - Pulpcon 11 - REHUPA - Rachel Swirsky - Reed Crandall - Rhetorical Device - Rivercon VII - Roc*Kon 7 - Rovacon 7 - Rudolph Castown - Russ Manning - SCIFI and 1.37 - SF Con V - Sci-Fi Club Bulletin - Science Fiction Chronicle Awards - Science Fiction Chronicle Reader Award - Science Fiction Digest - Skycon 2 - Spacecon 4 - St. Ghu in '82 - Stanton A. Coblentz - StellarCon VII - Stipple-APA - Summercon 82 - Swampcon III - Telos - Texarkon - Texarkon 1982 - The Best of Susan Wood - The Boogie Knights - The Cacher of the Rye - The Greatest Gondorian Hero - The Kemp Fund - The Last Alliance - Tropicon - Tropicon I - TusCon 9 - Twaci Index - URCON - URCON IV - Unicon - Unicon I - Unicon 82 - UpperSouthClave XII - Valleycon 7 - Vikingcon 3 - Wail Songs - Westercon 35 - Wide Eyed in Babylon - Windycon IX - WisCon 6 - Wiz - World Fantasy Convention '82 - X-Con 6
Rest of the World:
| 1981 | 1982 | 1983 |
