1957 Worldcon Site Selection
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The 1957 Worldcon Site Selection was conducted by Nycon II the 1956 Worldcon.
There had been two bidders who advertised in Nycon's journal, with London in 1957 appearing from the first issue and Los Angeles in 1957 from the second. However, as Ron Ellik explained, there had been:
an ad in the Con Booklet, placed by the Chesley Donovan group, saying that 'Los Angeles' was withdrawing in favor of London. E. E. Evans stood up and declared that this looked like LASFS was doing such, while LASFS wanted Berkeley to get it next year[1] .
Len Moffatt added that:
Mr. Evans was mistaken. A member of the CDS announced the above-mentioned ad at a LASFS meeting and no one objected to it. Officially, LASFS had not gone on record in favor of either site. Unofficially, there were – and are – a goodly number of LASFS members favoring London in '57 and South Gate in '58'[2].
In the end Tony Boucher made the bid for Berkley-Oakland, and Ted Carnell bid for London. Evans, Ben Jason and 'Greenberg'[3] seconded Berkeley, and E. E. Smith, Larry Shaw and Dick Wilson seconded London[4]. The vote was 203 for London and 65 for Berkley-Oakland[5].
The London bid won and went on to run Loncon. This was the first time that Worldcon left North America and only the second time it left the US.
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- ↑ Science Fiction Parade #2 (September 1956).
- ↑ Ibid.
- ↑ Presumably Marty Greenberg.
- ↑ Ibid, Science Fiction Parade.
- ↑ Fantasy Times #255 (September 1956).
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