NASFiC

NASFiC, the North American Science Fiction Convention, was added to the WSFS Constitution in the mid 1970s. It was intended to legitimatize the inevitable major convention in North America when the Worldcon was held in other parts of the world, without encouraging the development of an American natcon, which would become a competitor to Worldcon.

The first NASFiC was held in Los Angeles in 1975 when Aussiecon was in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia. The second NASFiC (NorthAmericon '79) was in Louisville, Kentucky, in 1979 when Brighton, England, was selected for the Worldcon. Pemmi-con in 2023 was the first NASFiC held in Canada.

NASFiCs are usually not held directly opposite the overseas Worldcon, enabling ambitious (and prosperous) fen to attend both. Site selection is administered by WSFS at the Worldcon the preceding year or at a NASFiC if there happens to be one.

The idea of a US Natcon had been bubbling in fandom for a long time, and the Committee to Investigate the Idea of a National Convention established by Baycon seems to have played a significant role in establishing it, though in the process the idea of a US Natcon morphed into a North American convention. The initialism "NASFiC" was coined by Tony Lewis.

• Website.
• The Long List of NASFiCs.

See also: Noncon.

No.	Convention	Dates	Location	GoHs, Notes
1	NASFiC 1	August 29-September 1, 1975	Los Angeles, CA	Harlan Ellison
2	NorthAmericon '79	August 30 - September 3, 1979	Louisville, KY	Frederik Pohl, George Scithers
3	LoneStarCon	August 30 - September 2, 1985	Austin, TX	Jack Vance, Richard Powers, Joanne Burger
4	CactusCon	September 3-7, 1987	Phoenix, AZ	Hal Clement, Marjii Ellers
5	ConDiego	August 31-September 3, 1990	San Diego, CA	Samuel R. Delany, Ben Yalow
6	NASFiC 6	July 13-16, 1995	Atlanta, GA	George Alec Effinger, Harlan Ellison, Timothy Zahn, Michael Whelan, Bjo Trimble
7	Conucopia	August 26-29, 1999	Anaheim, CA	Jerry Pournelle, Ellen Datlow, Richard Lynch, Nicki Lynch
8	CascadiaCon	September 1-5, 2005	Seattle, WA	Fred Saberhagen, Liz Danforth, Toni Weisskopf, Kevin Standlee
9	Tuckercon	August 2-5, 2007	Collinsville, IL	Barbara Hambly, Darrell K. Sweet, Kevin Murphy, Bill Corbett, James Ernest, Elizabeth Covey, Barry Childs-Helton, Sally Childs-Helton, Nancy "Cleo" Hathaway, Lani Tupu, Richard Hatch
10	Reconstruction	August 5-8, 2010	Raleigh, NC	Eric Flint, Brad Foster, Juanita Coulson
11	Detcon1	July 17-20, 2014	Detroit, MI	Steven Barnes, John Picacio, Bernadette Bosky, Arthur D. Hlavaty, Kevin J. Maroney, Helen Greiner, Bill Sutton, Brenda Sutton
12	NorthAmeriCon '17	July 6-9, 2017	San Juan, Puerto Rico	Daína Chaviano, Tobias S. Buckell, Guy Consolmagno, Javier Grillo-Marxuach, George Perez, Paula Smith
13	Spikecon	July 4-7, 2019	Layton, UT	David Weber, Laurell K. Hamilton, Vincent Villafranca, Dragon Dronet, Susan Chang, Linda Deneroff, Bjo &John Trimble
14	Columbus 2020 NASFiC	August 20-23, 2020	Columbus, OH (Held online due to the Covid-19 epidemic)	Brian Herbert, Kevin J. Anderson, Stephanie Law, Christopher J. Garcia, Marc Millis, Sue & Steve Francis
15	Pemmi-con 2023	July 20–23, 2023	Winnipeg, MB, Canada	Dr. Philip J. Currie, Julie Czerneda, John Mansfield, Waubgeshig Rice, Nisi Shawl, katherena vermette and Lorna Toolis (ghost)
16	Buffalo NASFiC 2024	July 18–21, 2024	Buffalo, NY	Alan Dean Foster, Nilah Magruder, Kaja and Phil Foglio, Suford and Tony Lewis

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