1993
| January 26 | West Coast Science Fiction Association incorporated. | |
| March 5-7 | First ConDor in San Diego | |
| Easter | Helicon | |
| May 10 | Lester del Rey dies. | |
| September 2-6 (Labor Day) | ConFrancisco (Worldcon) | |
| Abigail Frost TAFF trip. | ||
| DUFF: Dick Smith & Leah Zeldes Smith (South) | ||
| FFANZ: Ian Gunn & Karen Pender-Gunn (East) |
Births and Deaths:
Anthony Burgess - Avram Davidson - Bill Austin - Chad Oliver - Chris Steinbrunner - Drew Whyte - Ella Parker - Gerry de la Ree - H. P. "Sandy" Sanderson - Jean Bogert - Keith Laumer - L. Jerome Stanton - Lester del Rey - Nancy Moore - Richard Sale - Rose Alberti - Scott Meredith - Tom Clareson - Walter Breen - Walter Kubilius
Convention series started or ended:
ANZAPACon - Baltcon - Circulation - ConDor - Conterpoint - Crackercon - Diversicon - Harmonicon - Helicon - Hubcon - HurriCon - I-Con - Lucon - NecronomiCon Providence - Phoenixcon - Roc*Kon - Silvercon - Supercon - UpperSouthClave
Onetime conventions:
Bids:
Publications started or ended:
Artychoke - Bandersnatch - Black Hole - Blackbird's Egg - Born in the UK - Cactus Times - Challenger - Consenting Adults of Darkover - DUFFacto - Drivel and Drool - FFANZ Across the Water - Fantasy Collector - Figment - Filklore - From the Prying FFANZ into the Foyer - Galacto-Celtic Newsflash - Horrorshow - Incompleat Burbee - Les Souris Dansent - Let's Fanac - Light Stuff - Monkey Mind - Never Quite Arriving - Nexus - Platypus - Pulphouse Magazine - Quipu - Rastus Johnson's Cakewalk - Riverside Quarterly - Sirius Visions - Snarkin' Surfari - Startled Bunny - Stratus SF SIG News - The Bleary Eyes - The Brentford Mercury - The Esoteric Order of Dagon - The Fanzine Sampler - The Misanthropic Digest - The Wollongong Pig Breeders' Gazette - Tom Digby Along Fantasy Way - Vanamonde - Wild Heirs - Wing Window
Publishers founded or closed:
Awards made, started or ended:
1993 Best Dramatic Presentation Hugo - 1993 Best Fan Artist Hugo - 1993 Best Fan Writer Hugo - 1993 Best Fanzine Hugo - 1993 Best Non-Fiction Book Hugo - 1993 Best Novel Hugo - 1993 Best Novelette Hugo - 1993 Best Novella Hugo - 1993 Best Original Artwork Hugo - 1993 Best Professional Artist Hugo - 1993 Best Professional Editor Hugo - 1993 Best Semiprozine Hugo - 1993 Best Short Story Hugo - 1993 Campbell Award - 1993 Hugos
Stores opened or closed:
Clubs founded or disbanded:
Fan History:
Miscellaneous:
Asia:
Australia:
Britain:
Acnestis - Anthony Burgess - ArmadaCon V - Black Hole - Blackbird's Egg - Born in the UK - Cactus Times - Drivel and Drool - Ella Parker - Fantasycon XVIII - Filklore - H. P. "Sandy" Sanderson - Hamilton Hall - Helicon - Horrorshow - Light Stuff - Lucon - Lunicon - Masque II - Mexicon 5 - Microcon 13 - Midnight Rose - Never Quite Arriving - Nexus - Novacon 23 - Oxonmoot 1993 - Pentatonic - Picocon 11 - Platypus - Rastus Johnson's Cakewalk - Smofcon 10 - Startled Bunny - The Bleary Eyes - The Brentford Mercury - The Fanzine Sampler
Canada:
Europe:
Ireland:
New Zealand:
US:
1993 World Fantasy Convention - APA-TECH - APA-V - AggieCon XXIV - Arcana 23 - Archon 17 - Arisia '93 - ArmadilloCon 15 - Astronomicon 2 - Avram Davidson - Balticon 27 - Baycon '93 - Bill Austin - Boise Fantasy Arts Convention - Boskone 30 - Bubonicon 25 - CONduit 3 - Capricon 13 - Chad Oliver - Challenger - ChambanaCon 23 - Chattacon XVIII - Chris Steinbrunner - Coastcon XVI - Con*Stellation XII - Con-Dor 1 - Con-Troll - ConChord 9 - ConClave 18 - ConDor - ConFrancisco - ConTact 11 - Concat 5 - Concave 14 - Conflation - Confluence '93 - Congenial V - Consenting Adults of Darkover - Consonance 1993 - Conterpoint - Conterpoint 1993 - Context VI - Continuity '93 - Contradiction 13 - CopperCon 13 - Corflu 10 - Costume-Con 11 - Crackercon - Crackercon 2 - Czarkon 10 - DUFFacto - Darkover Grand Council 16 - DeepSouthCon 31 - DefCon - DemiCon 4 - Disclave 37 - Ditto 6 - Diversicon - Diversicon 1 - Dreamcon 8 - Drew Whyte - DucKon II - Fantasy Collector - Figment - Flowinglass Music - Foundation Trilogy - Gerry de la Ree - H. P. "Sandy" Sanderson - Harmonicon - Harmonicon I - Hubcon - HurriCon - HurriCon 1 - I-Con XII - ICFA 14 - ICON 18 - InCon '93 - InConJunction XIII - Incompleat Burbee - Interfilk - Jean Bogert - Keith Laumer - Khumming of Age - L. Jerome Stanton - LepreCon 19 - Lester del Rey - Let's Fanac - LibertyCon 7 - Life, the Universe, & Everything 11 - Loscon 20 - Love Song Productions - Lunacon 36 - MUSFS - Magic Carpet Con - Magnum Opus Con 1 - Magnum Opus Con 8 - Marcon 28 - MidSouthCon 12 - Midwestcon 44 - MileHiCon 25 - Millennicon -8 - Minicon 28 - MisCon 8 - Monkey Mind - Musicon 2 - Mythcon XXIV - NJAC 9 - Nancy Moore - Necon 13 - NecronomiCon Providence - NecronomiCon, 1st Edition - Necronomicon '93 - Neocon 4 - New Orleans SF & Fantasy Festival '93 - Nocon - Norwescon XVI - OASIS 6 - OVFF 9 - Octocon 30 - Once Around the Bloch: an Unauthorized Autobiography - OryCon 15 - Owlswick Press - Philcon 1993 - Phoenix in '93 - Phoenixcon - Phoenixcon 8 - Potlatch 2 - Proceedings of the Institute for Twenty-First Century Studies - Pulpcon 22 - Pulphouse Magazine - Quipu - RadCon 1A - Readercon 6 - ReinCONation 3 - Richard Sale - Rivercon XVIII - Riverside Quarterly - Roc*Kon - Roc*Kon 17 - Rose Alberti - Rustycon 10 - S. T. Con 93 - San Francisco in '93 - Scott Meredith - Silvercon - Silvercon 2 - Sirius Visions - Smofcon 11 - Snarkin' Surfari - SoonerCon 9 - Stargazing Contraption - StellarCon 17 - Stratus SF SIG News - Supercon - Supercon 2 - Technicon 10 - The Misanthropic Digest - The Recent Future - The Secret Garden - Tom Clareson - Tom Digby Along Fantasy Way - Transcendental ConFusion - Travelling Fete III - Tropicon XI - TusCon 20 - UpperSouthClave - UpperSouthClave 23 - Valleycon 18 - Vanamonde - Vikingcon 14 - Walter Breen - Walter Kubilius - Westercon 46 - Wild Heirs - Windycon XX - Wing Window - WisCon 17 - Xanadu VII
Rest of the World:
| 1992 | 1993 | 1994 |
