Novacon

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The UK's oldest regional convention, founded in 1971. It is run each November by the Birmingham Science Fiction Group. It was founded by the University of Aston Science Fiction Group at a time when Eastercon was the only regular convention in the UK, but since Novacon 2 has been run by the Birmingham Science Fiction Group.

Novacon used to present the annual Nova Awards.

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Convention	Dates	Venue	GoHs	Att.
Novacon 1	November 13-14, 1971	Imperial Centre, Birmingham	James White	144
Novacon 2	November 4-5, 1972	Imperial Centre, Birmingham	Doreen Rogers	190
Novacon 3	November 2-4, 1973	Imperial Centre, Birmingham	Ken Bulmer	146
Novacon 4	October 25-27, 1974	Imperial Centre, Birmingham	Ken Slater	211
Novacon 5	November 7-9, 1975	Royal Angus Hotel, Birmingham	Dan Morgan	272
Novacon 6	November 5-7, 1976	Royal Angus Hotel, Birmingham	David Kyle	317
Novacon 7	November 4-6, 1977	Royal Angus Hotel, Birmingham	John Brunner	278
Novacon 8	November 3-5, 1978	Holiday Inn, Birmingham	Anne McCaffrey	309
Novacon 9	November 2-4, 1979	Royal Angus Hotel, Birmingham	Christopher Priest	290
Novacon 10	October 31-November 2, 1980	Royal Angus Hotel, Birmingham	Brian W. Aldiss	495
Novacon 11	October 30-November 1, 1981	Royal Angus Hotel, Birmingham	Bob Shaw	362
Novacon 12	November 5-7, 1982	Royal Angus Hotel, Birmingham	Harry Harrison	373
Novacon 13	November 4-6, 1983	Royal Angus Hotel, Birmingham	Lisa Tuttle	339
Novacon 14	November 9-11, 1984	Grand Hotel, Birmingham	Robert Holdstock	333
Novacon 15	November 1-3, 1985	De Vere Hotel, Coventry	James White, David Langford	340
Novacon 16	October 31 - November 2, 1986	De Vere Hotel, Coventry	E. C. Tubb, Chris Evans	257
Novacon 17	October 30 - November 1, 1987	Royal Angus Hotel, Birmingham	Iain M. Banks	315
Novacon 18	November 4-6, 1988	Royal Angus Hotel, Birmingham	Garry Kilworth	336
Novacon 19	November 17-19, 1989	Excelsior, Solihull	Geoff Ryman	303
Novacon 20	November 9-11, 1990	Excelsior, Solihull	Jack Cohen	330
Novacon 21	November 1-3, 1991	Forte Poste House, Solihull	Colin Greenland	200
Novacon 22	November 6-8, 1992	Royal Angus Hotel, Birmingham	Storm Constantine	300
Novacon 23	November 5-7, 1993	Royal Angus Hotel, Birmingham	Stephen Baxter	243
Novacon 24	November 4-6, 1994	Royal Angus Hotel, Birmingham	Graham Joyce	214
Novacon 25	November 3-5, 1995	Chamberlain Hotel, Birmingham	Brian Aldiss, Bob Shaw, Harry Harrison, Iain Banks (special guest)	338
Novacon 26	November 8-10, 1996	Hotel Ibis, Birmingham	David Gemmell	281
Novacon 27	November 14-16, 1997	Abbey Hotel, Great Malvern	Peter F. Hamilton	277
Novacon 28	November 13-15, 1998	Britannia Hotel, Birmingham	Paul J. McAuley	265
Novacon 29	November 5-7, 1999	Britannia Hotel, Birmingham	Ian Stewart	239
Novacon 30	November 10-12, 2000	Britannia Hotel, Birmingham	Christopher Priest, Rog Peyton (special guest), David A. Hardy (guest artist)	224
Novacon 31	November 9-11, 2001	Quality Hotel, Walsall	Gwyneth Jones	219
Novacon 32	November 1-3, 2002	Quality Hotel, Walsall	Ian McDonald	252
Novacon 33	November 7-9, 2003	Quality Hotel, Walsall	Jon Courtenay Grimwood	203
Novacon 34	November 5-7, 2004	Quality Hotel, Walsall	Ian Watson	217
Novacon 35	November 11-13, 2005	Quality Hotel, Walsall	Alastair Reynolds	216
Novacon 36	November 10-12, 2006	Quality Hotel, Walsall	Ken MacLeod	212
Novacon 37	November 2-4, 2007	Quality Hotel, Walsall	Charles Stross	208
Novacon 38	November 14-16, 2008	Quality Hotel, Walsall	Ian R. MacLeod, Vernon Brown (Fan Guest)	177
Novacon 39	November 13-15, 2009	Park Inn, Nottingham, UK	Justina Robson	210
Novacon 40	November 12-14, 2010	Park Inn, Nottingham, UK	Iain M. Banks, Brian W. Aldiss (special guest)	262
Novacon 41	November 11-13, 2011	Park Inn, Nottingham, UK	John Meaney	tbc
Novacon 42	November 9-11, 2012	Park Inn, Nottingham, UK	Jaine Fenn	tbc
Novacon 43	November 8-10, 2013	Park Inn, Nottingham, UK	Jo Walton	tbc
Novacon 44	November 14-16, 2014	Park Inn, Nottingham, UK	Kari Sperring, John Gribbin
Novacon 45	November 13-15, 2015	Park Inn, Nottingham, UK	Anne Nicholls, Stan Nicholls
Novacon 46	November 11-13, 2016	Park Inn, Nottingham, UK	Juliet McKenna
Novacon 47	November 10-12, 2017	Park Inn, Nottingham, UK	Adrian Tchaikovsky
Novacon 48	November 9-11, 2018	Park Inn, Nottingham, UK	Chris Beckett
Novacon 49	November 8-10, 2019	Mercure, Nottingham, UK	Mike Carey
Novacon 50	November 13-15, 2020 November 12-14, 2021	Mercure, Nottingham, UK Palace Hotel, Buxton	Chris Priest, Fangorn, Emma Newman (did not attend), Claire North
Novacon 51	November 11-13, 2022	Palace Hotel, Buxton	Gareth L. Powell
Novacon 52	November 10-12, 2023	Palace Hotel, Buxton	Jen Williams
Novacon 53	November 8-10, 2024	Palace Hotel, Buxton	Allen Stroud

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