Loscon

Loscon is an annual Los Angeles-area SF convention sponsored by LASFS since 1975; it started with LA 2000, celebrating the LASFS's 2,000th meeting. Since the early 1980s, it has been held over Thanksgiving weekend. Membership is typically about 1,000.

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Prime Time Party

Lamenting that all of the parties at the 1999 Loscon XXVI had shut down by midnight, John Hertz, Becky Thomson and Tom Veal decided to do something about it. The following year, they founded the Prime Time Party, which opens at 1:00 a.m. Saturday night (or, to be technical, Sunday morning) and continues nominally until 7:00 a.m. (actually, until the room is empty, which is often later than seven). The event has become a minor Loscon tradition.

List

Con	Date	GoHs	Notes
LA 2000	December 5–7, 1975	none
Loscon 2	October 15–17, 1976	none
Loscon 3	April 1–3, 1977	none
Loscon 4	November 4-6, 1977	Jerry Pournelle
Loscon 5	November 3-5, 1978	Robert Bloch
Loscon 6	November 10-12, 1979	A. E. van Vogt
Loscon 7	November 28-30, 1980	Larry Niven, Alva Rogers
Loscon 8	November 6-8, 1981	William Rotsler, Len Moffatt & June Moffatt
Loscon 9	November 26-28, 1982	Poul Anderson, Milt Stevens
Loscon 10	November 25-27, 1983	Chelsea Quinn Yarbro, Fuzzy Pink Niven, John Myers Myers
Loscon Eleven	November 23-25, 1984	Curt Siodmak, Forrest J Ackerman, Bill Warren
Loscon 12	November 29 – December 1, 1985	Robert Silverberg, Terry Carr, Daniel Pinkwater
Loscon 13th	November 28-30, 1986	John Brunner, Bruce Pelz & Elayne Pelz
Loscon XIV	November 27-29, 1987	C. J. Cherryh, Tom Whitmore
Loscon Fifteen	November 25-27, 1988	Vonda McIntyre, Stan Woolston, Patricia Davis
Loscon Sixteen	November 24-26, 1989	Spider Robinson & Jeanne Robinson, Erin McKee,John Trimble, Bjo Trimble
Loscon 17	November 23-25, 1990	Barry B. Longyear, Reed Waller & Kate Worley, Ben Yalow, George Alec Effinger
Loscon 18	November 29 – December 1, 1991	Mike Resnick, Brad Foster, Allan Rothstein
Loscon 19	November 27-29, 1992	Barbara Hambly, Don Maitz, David Hartwell, Mike Glyer
Loscon 20	November 26-28, 1993	Roger Zelazny, Rick Sternbach, Paul Turner
Loscon 21	November 25-27, 1994	Lois McMaster Bujold, Alicia Austin, Kristine Kathryn Rusch, Robbie Cantor, Julius Schwartz
Loscon 22	November 24-26, 1995	Bob Shaw, Lubov, Larry Stewart
Loscon XXIII	November 29 – December 1, 1996	Harry Turtledove, Vincent Di Fate, Bob Null
Loscon XXIV	November 28-30, 1997	S. M. Stirling, Mitchell Davidson Bentley, Geri Sullivan, J. Michael Straczynski
Loscon 25	November 27-29, 1998	David Brin, Sue Dawe, Marjii Ellers
Loscon XXVI	November 26-28, 1999	Connie Willis, Alex Ross, Joe Siclari
Loscon 27	November 25-27, 2000	Orson Scott Card, Bob Eggleton, Harry Knowles, Robert Hewitt Wolfe, Frank Kelly Freas, Craig Miller & Genny Dazzo
Loscon 28	November 23-25, 2001	Patricia C. Wrede, Chris Butler, Lynn Gold
Loscon 29	November 29 – December 1, 2002	David Weber, Nene Thomas, Patty Wells, Nichelle Nichols
Loscon 30	November 28-30, 2003	Fred Saberhagen, Teddy Harvia, Jack L. Chalker, Armin Shimmerman
Loscon 31	November 26-28, 2004	Tim Powers, Wendy Pini, James Stanley Daugherty, Kathryn Daugherty, David Gerrold
Loscon 32	November 25-27, 2005	Steven Brust, Rowena Morrill, Bruce Farr
Loscon 33	November 24-26, 2006	William Tenn, Bernie Wrightson, Fred Patten
Loscon 34	November 23-25, 2007	Robert J. Sawyer, Theresa Mather, Capt. David West Reynolds, Dr. James Robinson
Loscon 35	November 28-30, 2008	John Scalzi, Gary Lippincott, Michael Siladi
Loscon 36	November 27-29, 2009	Steve Barnes & Tananarive Due, Tim Rickard, Christian B. McGuire
Loscon 37	November 26-28, 2010	Emma Bull, Phil Foglio, Kim Brown & Jordan Brown
Loscon 38	November 24-27, 2011	John DeChancie, Rick Serfoss, Aldo Spadoni, John Hertz
Loscon 39	November 23-25, 2012	Vernor Vinge, Alan White, Mela Hoyt-Heydon, Lloyd Penney & Yvonne Penney
Loscon 40	November 29 – December 1, 2013	Catherynne M. Valente, Betsy Mitchell, Sarah Clemens, Mike Donahue
Loscon 41	November 28–30, 2014	J. Michael Straczynski, Richard Hescox, Shawn Crosby & Colleen Crosby
Loscon 42	November 27–29, 2015	David Mattingly, Bobbi Armbruster, Jim C. Hines, Douglas Adams, Cal Cotton
Loscon 43	November 25-27, 2016	David Gerrold, Peri Charlifu, Nick Smith
Loscon 44	November 24–26, 2017	Carrie Vaughn, Jane Espenson, Kevin Roche, Andrew Trembley
Loscon 45	November 23–25, 2018	Seanan McGuire, R. K. Milholland, Taliesin Jaffe
Loscon 46	November 29 – December 1, 2019	Howard Waldrop, Edie Stern, Moshe Feder
Loscon 47	November 27–29 2020 November 26–28, 2021	Gregory Benford, Jeff Sturgeon, Dennis Cherry, Kristine Cherry	postponed due to Covid-19
Loscon 48	November 25–27, 2022	Tanya Huff, Dave Kellett, Alexander James Adams, Susan Fox & Gene Turnbow
Loscon 49	November 24-26, 2023	Peter S. Beagle, Echo Chernik, Elayne Pelz
Loscon 50	November 29-December 1, 2024	Larry Niven, Laura Brodian Freas Beraha, Frank Kelly Freasm Kathy Mar, Genny Dazzo, Craig Miller

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