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[[Philcon 2019]] || November 8-10, 2019 || [[Tim Pratt]], [[Stephanie Pui-Mun Law]], [[Heather Shaw]], [[This Way to the Egress]] | [[Philcon 2019]] || November 8-10, 2019 || [[Tim Pratt]], [[Stephanie Pui-Mun Law]], [[Heather Shaw]], [[This Way to the Egress]] | ||
[[Philcon 2020]] || November 20-22, 2020 (virtual)|| [[Max Gladstone]], [[Romas Kukalis]] | [[Philcon 2020]] || November 20-22, 2020 (virtual)|| [[Max Gladstone]], [[Romas Kukalis]] | ||
| − | [[Philcon 2021]] || November 19-21, 2021 || [[ | + | [[Philcon 2021]] || November 19-21, 2021 || [[Fran Wilde]], Sara Henya |
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Revision as of 16:34, 21 October 2021
(For the Worldcons and other "Philcons" see Philcon (Disambiguation))
A regional convention sponsored by PSFS in the Philadelphia area since 1936. It was known as the Philco in the 40s and as Phillycon in the 50s -- it is unclear just when Philcon caught on as the name of the gathering.
Note this is not related to the comic convention Phillycon which started in 2016.
The history of Philcon is unusually vague -- Harry Warner, for instance, mentions that he was unable to find out much for his histories of the 50s and 60s. This may be why Philcon does not label its conventions by number, but instead uses years.
| From Fancyclopedia 2, ca. 1959 |
| Philco Philadelphia Conference; one of the annual gatherings held, usually in November, in Philadelphia under the sponsorship of the PSFS . The title was adopted in 1939 when "convention" had come to mean something larger than the former Eastern SF gatherings, but the annual PhilCos (the longest con-series in fandom) are numbered serially counting the First and Third Easterns as 1 and 2. |
| From Fancyclopedia 1, ca. 1944 |
| Philco – Philadelphia conference. The title was adopted in 1939 when "convention" had come to mean something larger than the former Eastern S-F gatherings, but annual Philcos are numbered serially counting the First and Third Easters as 1 and 2. |
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| 1936— |
| This is a convention page. Please extend it by adding information about the convention, including dates, GoHs, convention chairman, locale, sponsoring organization, external links to convention pages, awards given, the program, notable events, anecdotes, pictures, scans of publications, pictures of T-shirts, con reports, etc. |
