ArmadilloCon

A regional convention held in Austin, TX since 1979. It is sponsored by FACT.

Convention	Dates	GoHs
ArmadilloCon 1	May 11-13, 1979	John Varley, Jeanne Gomoll
ArmadilloCon 2	October 2-5, 1980	Gardner Dozois, Harry Morris, Jr.
ArmadilloCon 3	October 1981	Chad Oliver, Bob Wayne
ArmadilloCon 4	October 1-3, 1982	George Alec Effinger, Joe Pumila
ArmadilloCon 5	October 7-9, 1983	Howard Waldrop, Becky Matthews
ArmadilloCon 6	October 5-7, 1984	John Sladek, James A. Corrick, Gay Miller Corrick, Ellen Datlow
ArmadilloCon 7	1985	no guests (this was a relaxacon, since most con staff worked LoneStarCon that year)
ArmadilloCon 8	October 10-12, 1986	William Gibson, Ellen Datlow. Debbie Notkin. Lewis Shiner
ArmadilloCon 9	October 9-11, 1987	Bruce Sterling, J. R. Daniels, Beth Meacham, Mark Olson
ArmadilloCon 10	October 7-9, 1988	K. W. Jeter, Brad W. Foster, Ginjer Buchanan, Jane Dennis, Scott Dennis
ArmadilloCon XI	October 13-15, 1989	Lewis Shiner, Mike Glyer, Pat LoBrutto, Don Ivan Punchatz
ArmadilloCon 12	October 12-14, 1990	Pat Cadigan, Jean Elizabeth Martin, Susan Allison, Debbie Hodgkinson, Melinda M. Snodgrass, Vernor Vinge, Mark Stiegler
ArmadilloCon 13	October 11-13, 1991	Dan Simmons, Dell Harris, Pat Mueller, Amy Stout
ArmadilloCon 14	October 9-11, 1992	Neal Barrett, Jr., Darrell K. Sweet, Al Jackson, Gardner Dozois
ArmadilloCon 15	November 5-7, 1993	Gwyneth Jones, Harry O. Morris, John Douglas
ArmadilloCon 16	October 7-9, 1994	Elizabeth Moon, Guy Gavriel Kay, David Cherry, Gordon Van Gelder, Gregory Benford
ArmadilloCon 17	October 6-8, 1995	Alexander Jablokov, Vincent Di Fate, John Silbersack, Dick Smith, Leah Zeldes Smith
ArmadilloCon 18	October 11-13, 1996	Jonathan Lethem, Bob Eggleton, Patrick Nielsen Hayden, Spike, Tom Becker
ArmadilloCon 19	1997	Mary Rosenblum (this was a relaxacon, since most con staff worked LoneStarCon 2 that year)
ArmadilloCon 20	August 28-30, 1998	Bradley Denton, Mitchell Davidson Bentley, David Hartwell, Peggy Ranson, Steven Gould, Peter F. Hamilton
ArmadilloCon 21	September 10‑12, 1999	Sean Stewart, Wayne Barlowe, Shawna McCarthy. Harry Stubbs, William Browning Spencer, Neil Gaiman
ArmadilloCon 22	August 18-20, 2000	Catherine Asaro, Adam Lebowitz, Betsy Mitchell, Robert Taylor, Maria Doria Russell, Kathleen Ann Goonan
ArmadilloCon 23	November 16-18, 2001	J. Gregory Keyes, John Jude Palencar, Toni Weisskopf, Teddy Harvia
ArmadilloCon 24	August 16-18, 2002	Martha Wells, Frank Cho, Scott Kurtz, Tom Doherty., Kurt Baty, Scott Bobo, Joe R. Lansdale, Robin Hobb
ArmadilloCon 25	August 8-10, 2003	Kage Baker, Willie Siros, Anne Groell, John Picacio, Vernor Vinge
ArmadilloCon 26	August 13-15, 2004	Sharon Shinn, Chaz "Hazel" Boston Baden, Stanley Schmidt, Charles Vess, Charlaine Harris, Barbara Hambly
ArmadilloCon 27	August 19-21, 2005	Charles Stross, Jim Mann, Laurie Mann, Jim Minz, Ctein, Sean McMullen
ArmadilloCon 28	August 11-13, 2006	Julie Czerneda, Grant Kruger, Esther Friesner, Mark Finn, Diana Gill. Ellisa Mitchell. James P. Hogan
ArmadilloCon 29	August 10-12, 2007	Louise Marley, Patty Wells, Sharyn November, Gary Lippincott
ArmadilloCon 30	August 15-17, 2008	John Scalzi, David Lee Anderson, Kelly Persons, Sheila Williams, Bill Crider, Joe Haldeman, Gay Haldeman
ArmadilloCon 31	August 14-16, 2009	Scott Lynch, Stephan Martiniere, Chris Roberson, Karen Meschke, Scott A. Cupp, Joan D. Vinge
ArmadilloCon 32	August 26-28, 2010	Rachel Caine, Cat Conrad, Anne Sowards, Elspeth Bloodgood, Nancy Kress, Ilona Andrews, Michael Bishop
ArmadilloCon 33	August 26-28, 2011	Paolo Bacigalupi, Emma Bull, Will Shetterly, Lou Anders, Vincent Villafranca, Fred Duarte, Jr., Mark Finn
ArmadilloCon 34	July 27-29, 2012	Anne Bishop, Chloe Neill, Liz Gorinsky, Julie Dillon, Bill Parker, A. Lee Martinez
ArmadilloCon 35	October 25-27, 2013	no guests (this was a relaxacon, since most con staff worked LoneStarCon 3 that year)
ArmadilloCon 36	July 25-27, 2014	Ian McDonald, Ted Chiang, Jacob Weisman, Stephanie Pui-Mun Law, Sigrid Close, Michael J. Walsh, Mario Acevedo
ArmadilloCon 37	July 24-26, 2015	Ken Liu, James Morrow, L. Timmel Duchamp, John DeNardo, Rocky Kelley, Stina Leicht
ArmadilloCon 38	July 29-31, 2016	Wesley Chu, Dominick Saponaro, Christina Hess, Joe Monti, Ken Keller, Joe McKinney
ArmadilloCon 39	August 4-6, 2017	Nisi Shawl, Don Webb, A. T. Campbell, Mark A. Nelson, Trevor Quachri, Tamora Pierce
ArmadilloCon 40	August 3-5, 2018	Deji Bryce Olukotun, Holly Black, Robert J. Sawyer, Craig Chrissinger
ArmadilloCon 41	August 2-4, 2019	Rebecca Roanhorse, Patrice Caldwell, Moriba K. Jah, Dan Tolliver, Martha Wells
ArmadilloCon 42 (virtual)	August 7-9, 2020 August 28-30, 2020	Tobias Buckell, Priscilla Kim, Clif David, Margaret Davis

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