Order |
Convention Name |
Dates |
Guests of Honor |
Notes
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0 |
A2 Relax Icon |
February 15‑17, 1974 |
Lloyd Biggle, Jr., Howard DeVore |
Chairman: Ro Lutz-Nagey
|
1 |
Confusion 13 |
January 24-26, 1975 |
Frederik Pohl, Mike Glicksohn |
Toastmaster: Jim Martin, Chairman: Ro Lutz-Nagey
|
2 |
Confusion 12 |
January 23-25, 1976 |
Lloyd Biggle, Jr., Bill Bowers |
Toastmaster: Jim Martin, Chairman: Ro Lutz-Nagey
|
3 |
Confusion 14 |
January 28-30, 1977 |
Poul Anderson, Ro Lutz-Nagey |
Toastmaster: Jim Martin, Chairmen: Zita Kutkus, Lary Ward
|
4 |
Confusion Pi |
January 13-15, 1978 |
Kate Wilhelm, Jackie Causgrove |
Toastmaster: Jim Martin, Chairman: Larry Tucker
|
5 |
E/c2 Confusion |
January 20-21, 1979 |
Spider & Jeanne Robinson, Scott Imes |
Toastmaster: Ro Lutz-Nagey, Chairmen: Larry Tucker, Dave Innes
|
6 |
Confusion 6 and/or 7 |
January 18-20, 1980 |
Stanley Schmidt, Elliot Shorter |
Toastmaster:Rusty Hevelin, Chairmen: Larry Tucker, Dave Innes
|
7 |
Nine Billion Names of Confusion |
January 23-25, 1981 |
Barry B. Longyear, Dave Innes |
Toastmaster: Gay Haldeman, Chairman: Nancy Tucker
|
8 |
Confusion 11 |
January 29-31, 1982 |
Phyllis Eisenstein, Neil Rest |
Toastmaster: Larry Tucker, Chairman: Nancy Tucker
|
9 |
Confusion 101 |
January 28-30, 1983 |
C. J. Cherryh, Bill Cavin |
AASFA Wars
|
10 |
Genuine Confusion |
1984 |
Mike Resnick, Martha Beck |
Toastmaster: Dick Smith, Chairman: Nancy Tucker
|
11 |
Decadent Confusion |
January 25-27, 1985 |
Alan Dean Foster, Julia Ecklar |
Beginning of post-AASFA lawsuit era
|
12 |
Perpetual Confusion |
January 24-26, 1986 |
Somtow Sucharitkul, Bill Roper, Frank Kelly Freas |
|
13 |
Stark Raving Confusion |
January 23-25, 1987 |
Katherine Kurtz, Liz Pearce, Erin McKee |
|
14 |
Ambulatory Confusion |
January 15-17, 1988 |
Joe Haldeman, Larry Tucker, David Cherry |
|
15 |
Confusion 102 |
1989 |
Barbara Hambly, Ted Reynolds, Linda Michaels |
|
16 |
State of Confusion |
1990 |
Hal Clement, Michelle Smith-Moore, Garth Barbour, Kevin Davies |
|
17 |
Immaculate Confusion |
1991 |
Esther Friesner, S. P. Somtow, Robin Wood |
|
18 |
Hardwired Confusion |
January 24-26, 1992 |
Walter Jon Williams, Rusty Hevelin, Rick Lieder |
|
19 |
Transcendental Confusion |
January 22-24, 1993 |
Fred Saberhagen, Pat Sims & Roger Sims, Randy Asplund-Faith |
|
20 |
Confusion XX |
January 21-23, 1994 |
Joan D. Vinge, Leah Zeldes Smith, Erin McKee |
|
21 |
Confusion 10101 |
January 27-29, 1995 |
Pamela Sargent, Wilson "Bob" Tucker, Laura Butler, Geoffrey A. Landis |
|
22 |
Deviant Confusion |
January 12-14, 1996 |
Tim Powers, Melody Asplund-Faith, Bob Eggleton, Geoffrey A. Landis |
|
23 |
ConFusion-17 |
January 24-26, 1997 |
Samuel Delany, Joey Shoji, Susan VanCamp, Mark Shappirio |
|
24 |
Confusion of the Winnebagos |
January 23-25, 1998 |
Connie Willis, Mary Ellen Wessels, Jane Irwin, Marvin Minsky |
Toastmaster: Larry Tucker
|
25 |
Vintage Confusion |
January 22-24, 1999 |
Lois McMaster Bujold, Nancy Tucker Shaw, Doug Chaffee, Carl Djerassi |
Toastmaster: Howard DeVore
|
26 |
Confusion 19100 |
January 21-23, 2000 |
Maureen F. McHugh, Dennis Tabaczewski, Frank Hayes, Eric Raymond |
|
27 |
Mystery God Confusion |
January 19-21, 2001 |
Sarah Zettel, Tom Barber, Carla Speed McNeil, Bruce Schneier |
Chairman: Tammy Coxen
|
28 |
Astronomical Confusion |
January 18-20, 2002 |
George R. R. Martin, Heather Alexander, Pete Abrams, Br. Guy Consolmagno |
Chairman: Tammy Coxen
|
29 |
Confusion and Her Friends |
January 24-26, 2003 |
Melissa Scott, Roberta Kennedy, Alan Clark, Jack Cohen |
Chairman: Tammy Coxen
|
30 |
Confusion XXX |
January 23-25, 2004 |
Bruce Sterling, Geri Sullivan, Julie Bell, Ron Westrum |
|
31 |
31 Flavors of Confusion |
January 21-23, 2005 |
Emma Bull & Will Shetterly, David G. Hartwell & Kathryn Cramer, Derek Grime, Christian Ready |
|
32 |
Synthetic Confusion |
January 20-22, 2006 |
Vernor Vinge, Chuck Firment, Steven Stiles, Mitchell Burnside-Clapp |
|
33 |
MoonBase Confusion |
January 19-21, 2007 |
Elizabeth Moon, Bill Higgins, Steve MacDonald, Paul "PZ" Myers |
|
34 |
High-Voltage Confusion |
January 18-20, 2008 |
Justine Larbalestier & Scott Westerfeld, The Roving Pirate Party, Carl Lundgren, Kevin M. Dunn, Throwing Toasters |
|
35 |
Cryptic Confusion |
January 23-25, 2009 |
Cat Rambo, Freon (Michael Andaluz), Diana Harlan Stein, Elizabeth Turtle & Ralph D. Lorenz, Cory Doctorow |
|
36 |
I See By My Confusion |
January 22-24 2010 |
Peter S. Beagle, Catherynne Valente, David Gibbs, Matt Busch, Steve Collins, S. J. Tucker |
|
37 |
This ConFusion Is Not Yet Rated |
January 21-23, 2011 |
Cherie Priest, Lisa Garrison-Ragsdale, Aubrey de Grey, Paolo Bacigalupi |
|
38 |
Epic Confusion |
January 20-22, 2012 |
Patrick Rothfuss, Tom Smith, Harley Thronson, Roxanne Meida King (Special GoH), Jim C. Hines, Brian Decker |
|
39 |
Immortal Confusion |
January 18-20, 2013 |
Charles Stross, James Davis Nicoll, Scott Edelman, Jennifer Ouellette, Mary Robinette Kowal, Lucy Kennedy |
|
40 |
Legendary Confusion |
January 17-19, 2014 |
Mike Carey, Mark Bernstein, Rich Morris, Ian Tregillis, S2 Games (Adam Matianazzi) |
|
41 |
Back to the Confusion |
January 16-18, 2015 |
Karen Lord, Aaron Thul, Heather Dale, Cynthia Chestek, Monte Cook, Shanna Germain. Special Guest: Steven Erikson |
|
42 |
Life, the Universe, and Confusion |
January 21-24, 2016 |
Alaya Dawn Johnson, Kentaro Toyama, Gordon Smith, Jessica Zerwas |
|
43 |
Friendship is Confusion |
January 19-22, 2017 |
Gail Carriger, Mark Oshiro, Jeffrey Alan Love, Karen Burnham, Mallory O'Meara |
|
44 |
Confusion Through the Looking Glass |
January 18-21, 2018 |
Kate Elliott, Luke Ski, Nisi Shawl, Annalee Newitz, James Breakwell |
|
45 |
Storming the Confusion |
January 17-20, 2019 |
Ada Palmer, Steve Macdonald, David Stein, Jennifer Piatek |
|
46 |
How to Train Your Confusion |
January 16-19, 2020 |
Kameron Hurley, Julie Lesnik, Brandon O'Brien, Bogi Takács |
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January 15-17, 2021 |
postponed to 2022 due to Covid-19
|
47 |
47th Confusion |
2022 |
Kameron Hurley, Julie Lesnik, Brandon O'Brien, Bogi Takács |
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