1985
| February 1 | Walt Liebscher dies |
| Easter | Yorcon III |
| July 21 | Jack Gaughan dies |
| August 22-26 | Aussiecon Two (Worldcon) |
| August 30-September 2 Labor Day | LoneStarCon (NASFiC) |
| September 15 | New Southern Friends in Space first meeting |
| Patrick & Teresa Nielsen Hayden TAFF trip. | |
| DUFF: Marty & Robbie Cantor (South) | |
| FFANZ: Nigel Rowe (West) | |
| SFSFS organized |
Births and Deaths:
Convention series started or ended:
Advention - August Party - Contraption - Empiricon - Eucon - Genericon - Hatcon - Istacon - Lazlar Lyricon - LoneStarCon - Not Just Another Con - Nova - Panopticon West - Polcon - Silicon - Treasurecon - Whatcon
Onetime conventions:
Bids:
Publications started or ended:
A Floor So Cunningly Laid That No Matter Where You Stood It Was Underneath Your Feet - A Foreign Fanzine - Acrylic - BECCON: The Fanzine - Beyond - Cast Iron - Clear Ether! - Conrunner - Crank - Dreddnaught - Duffbury Tales - egoscan - Epsilon - Eternity Road - Ethel the Aardvark - FTT - Foetus - For Paranoids Only - From the Cockpit 2 - Gallimaufry - Genre Plat - Gloria Mundi - Ichthyosaurus - Illyria - It Goes on the Shelf - Jane's Fighting Smofs - Kantele - Legend - Mathom - Mathom - Microwave - Mince - Mirror Crack'd - Mythos - Parasite - Patchin Review - Pig on the Wall - Plastic Rubble - Potsherd - Psychedelic Fruit Juice - Quaint - Raa - Rem - Right Up There! - SFSFS Shuttle - Skel's A Poppin - Spung - Taffeta - Taffluvia - That Was the Year That Was - The Naked Id - The Rubber Fanzine - The Southern Star - The Transatlantic Hearing Aid - Tiger Tea - To Craunch the Marmoset - Warhoon - Worm Cravings
Publishers founded or closed:
Awards made, started or ended:
1985 Best Dramatic Presentation Hugo - 1985 Best Fan Artist Hugo - 1985 Best Fan Writer Hugo - 1985 Best Fanzine Hugo - 1985 Best Novel Hugo - 1985 Best Novelette Hugo - 1985 Best Novella Hugo - 1985 Best Professional Artist Hugo - 1985 Best Professional Editor Hugo - 1985 Best Short Story Hugo - 1985 Campbell Award - 1985 Hugos - Chesley Award - (Coveted) Balrog Award - Silver Swan Award - Writers of the Future
Stores opened or closed:
Clubs founded or disbanded:
Miscellaneous:
Asia:
Australia:
Britain:
Acrylic - Albacon 85 - BECCON '85 - BECCON: The Fanzine - Beccon Publications - Camcon - Cast Iron - Conrunner - Dartford Tolkien Society - Dragoncon 3 - Dreddnaught - Epsilon - FTT - Falkon '85 - Fantasycon X - Foetus - For Paranoids Only - Gloria Mundi - Ichthyosaurus - Illyria - Lazlar Lyricon - Lazlar Lyricon I - Legend - Mathom - Microwave - Mince - Mirror Crack'd - New Southern Friends in Space - Novacon 15 - Oxonmoot 1985 - Picocon Pi - Pig on the Wall - Plastic Rubble - Psychedelic Fruit Juice - Raa - Shoestringcon 7 - Silicon - Silicon 9 (UK) - Silicone - Skel's A Poppin - Spock in Manacles - Spung - Tamsyn Muir - The Southern Star - The Transatlantic Hearing Aid - Tiger Tea - To Craunch the Marmoset - Yorcon III
Canada:
Ad Astra V - Boréal '85 - Con-Version II - Genre Plat - Halcon 8 - Keycon 2 - Maplecon 7 - VCON 13
Europe:
Ireland:
New Zealand:
US:
1985 NASFiC Site Selection - 1985 World Fantasy Convention - A Floor So Cunningly Laid That No Matter Where You Stood It Was Underneath Your Feet - APA:Tax - Abby Lu Ashley - Abner J. Gelula - AggieCon XVI - Albuquerque in '85 - Alti-Ego's - Archon 9 - ArmadilloCon 7 - Atlanta Fantasy Fair 1985 - August Party - Austin in '85 - Balticon 19 - Baycon '85 - Beresford Smith - Beyond - Bill Evans - Boskone 22 - Breckenridge in '85 - Bubonicon 17 - Capricon 5 - Capriconwest - ChambanaCon 15 - Chattacon X - Chesley Award - Chimeracon - Clear Ether! - Coastcon VIII - Columbus in 1985 - Con*Stellation IV - Con*Tretemps 4 - ConChord 2 - ConClave X - ConQuesT 16 - ConQuistador II - ConTact 3 - Concave 6 - Contraption - CopperCon 5 - Corflu 2 - Costume-Con 3 - (Coveted) Balrog Award - Crank - Darkover Grand Council 8 - Dave Clements - Decadent ConFusion - DeepSouthCon 23 - Detroit in '85 - Disclave 29 - Duffbury Tales - Earthcon V - egoscan - Empiricon - Empiricon 6 - Equicon '85 - Eternity Road - Eucon - Eucon '85 - Fantasy Worlds Festival '85 - From the Cockpit 2 - Gallimaufry - Genericon - Genericon I - Hatcon - Hatcon 3 - Hexacon 8 - I-Con IV - ICFA 6 - ICON 10 - InConJunction V - Indianapolis in '91 - Intercourse - International Costumers' Guild - Istacon - Istacon 2 - It Goes on the Shelf - Jack Gaughan - Jane's Fighting Smofs - Jim Martin - Kantele - Kubla the 13th - LASTCon T'ree - Larry Shaw - LepreCon 11 - Life, the Universe, & Everything 3 - LoneStarCon - Loscon 12 - Lunacon 28 - Marcon XX - MidSouthCon 4 - Midwestcon 36 - MileHiCon 17 - Minicon 20 - Molt Brothers - MosCon VII - MystiCon Pi - Mythcon VI - Mythcon XVI - Mythos - Nashville in '91 - Necon 6 - Necronomicon '85 - Norwescon VIII - Not Just Another Con - Not-Anokon '85 - Nova - Nova 10 - OKon 8 - Octocon 22 - Omacon 5 - Orson Welles - OryCon '85 - Panopticon West - Parasite - Patchin Review - Paul Ernst - Potsherd - Pulpcon 14 - Quaint - Rem - Right Up There! - Rivercon X - Roc*Kon 10 - Roc*Kon 9 - Rustycon 2 - S. A. Chakraborty - SFSFS - SFSFS Shuttle - Sacramento in '85 - Smofcon 2 - Spawncon - Spokon '85 - StellarCon X - T. L. Sherred - Taffeta - Taffluvia - Take My Con...Please - That Was the Year That Was - The Naked Id - The Rubber Fanzine - Theodore Sturgeon - Treasurecon - Treasurecon 3 - Triangulum - Tropicon IV - TusCon 12 - Unicon 10 - UpperSouthClave 15 - Valleycon 10 - Vikingcon 6 - Walt Liebscher - Walter Gibson - Warhoon - Westercon 38 - Whatcon - Whatcon III - Wigwam Village - William Timmins - Windycon XII - WisCon 9 - Writers of the Future - Xanadu II
Rest of the World:
| 1984 | 1985 | 1986 |
