ISFiC

ISFiC, Inc. (the rarely used expansion of the initialism is "Illinois Science Fiction in Chicago") was founded in 1973 as a coalition of various Chicago area science fiction clubs to sponsor Windycon and prepare Chicago fandom to run a Worldcon. Its governing body is a self-perpetuating board of nine directors, elected for staggered three-year terms.

For many years, it operated as a legal "social club" but is now a section 501(c)(3) tax-exempt organization. In theory, members of Windycon become members of it, but it’s in no way a social group. Meetings of the ISFiC board are normally held at Windycon and Capricon.

In addition to being the parent organization for an annual convention, it was intended to serve as a clearing house for fan activities in Illinois. The founders of the organization included Larry Propp, Mark Aronson and Lynne Aronson, Ann Cass, Jon Stopa and Joni Stopa and Mike Resnick and Carol Resnick.

Each summer, ISFiC holds a small picnic, named Picnicon.

ISFIC was the sponsoring body for three Worldcons: Chicon IV, Chicon V, and Chicon 2000.

In conjunction with Windycon, ISFiC sponsors an annual writing contest for new authors. The first winner of the ISFiC Writers Contest was Richard Chwedyk in 1986. Chwedyk would go on the win the Nebula Award.

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ISFiC Press

The small press publishing arm of ISFiC. It often produces books by the Author GoH at Windycon.

Although the press officially released its first book, Robert J. Sawyer's Relativity, on November 12, 2004, the people responsible for the press issued a filk CD two years earlier in 2002, entitled "A Walk on the Windy Side." That CD is considered to be the press's first project. "A Walk on the Windy Side" includes songs by Charles de Lint and Juanita Coulson as well as readings by Frederik Pohl and Kristine Smith.

In addition to stories and essays by Sawyer, Relativity includes an introduction by Mike Resnick, an afterword by Valerie Broege and a cover by Jael. Relativity won the Aurora Award for best English Work (Other) for 2004.

ISFiC Press released its first two novels, Every Inch a King, by Harry Turtledove with a cover by Bob Eggleton and The Cunning Blood, by Jeff Duntemann with a cover by Todd Cameron Hamilton on November 11, 2005.

In 2006, ISFiC Press published its first non-fiction book, Worldcon GoH Speeches, edited by Mike Resnick and Joe Siclari, which was nominated for a Hugo Award for Best Related Book. In November of that year they published Outbound, a collection of short stories by Jack McDevitt.

From its founding until the end of 2012, the publisher of ISFiC Press was Steven H Silver and the business manager was Bill Roper. After 2012, Roper took over as publisher.

Year	Occasion	Author	Title	Notes
2002	WindyCon XXIX		A Walk on the Windy Side	CD Release, unofficial ISFiC Press project
2004	WindyCon 31	Robert J. Sawyer	Relativity	Aurora Award winner
2005	WindyCon 32	Harry Turtledove	Every Inch a King	Novel
2005		Jeff Duntemann	The Cunning Blood	Novel
2006	L A Con 4	Mike Resnick & Joe Siclari, eds.	Worldcon GoH Speeches	Hugo Award nominee
2006	WindyCon 33	Jack McDevitt	Outbound
2007	WindyCon 34	Tanya Huff	Finding Magic
2008	WindyCon 35	Eric Flint & Mike Resnick, eds.	When Diplomacy Fails	Anthology
2009	WindyCon 36	James Blaylock	The Shadow on the Doorstep
2010	WindyCon 37	Steven Barnes	Assassin and Other Stories
2011	Windycon 38	Catherine Asaro	Aurora in Four Voices
2012	Chicon 7	Mike Resnick	Win Some, Lose Some: The Complete Hugo Nominated Short Fiction of Mike Resnick
2012	Windycon 39	Seanan McGuire	Velveteen vs. The Junior Super Patriots	Velveteen, Volume 1
2013		Seanan McGuire	Velveteen vs. The Multiverse	Velveteen, Volume 2
2013	Windycon 40	Jim C. Hines	The Goblin Master's Grimoire
2014	Windycon 41	SF Squeecast	Harvest Season	Stories by Elizabeth Bear, Seanan McGuire, Catherynne Valente, and Michael Damian Thomas

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