Minicon

(for other conventions of the same name, see Minicon)

An annual regional convention held since 1968 in or near Minneapolis, MN on Easter weekend by Minn-StF. (Both "annual" and "on Easter weekend" have been violated, but not since a long time ago.) It has taken several quite different forms over the years, but is currently a general-purpose, but fairly literary, convention of about 450 members.

The number of Minicons was just a bit deliberately haphazard (if that's not an oxymoron) so what is listed below is actually correct.

Yes, Minicon 14 was in 1982, following Minicon 17. This is because "Minicon 14" was originally reserved for the fallcon following Minicon 13, much as Minicons 4 and 9 were fallcons. But then the fallcon committee decided to call their con Anokon instead, and the following springcon committee had already latched onto the name Minicon 15 and didn't want to change, so 14 got skipped. After 15, 16, and 17, we decided to come back and use 14…

Minicon have appointed an official archivist, and their archives of old convention material are very comprehensive, both websites and files.

Convention	Date	Location	GoHs
Minicon 1	January 6, 1968	University of Minnesota's Coffman Union, Men's Lounge	Gordon Dickson, Charles De Vet, Clifford Simak
Minicon 2	April 4-6, 1969	Andrews Hotel in Minneapolis	Gordon Dickson, Charles De Vet, Clifford Simak
Minicon 3	April 3-5, 1970	Dyckman Hotel in Minneapolis	Poul Anderson, Gordon Dickson, Clifford Simak
Minicon 4	June 17-19, 1971	Curtis Hotel in Minneapolis	Lin Carter
Minicon 5	October 15-17 1971	Andrews Hotel in Minneapolis.	none
Minicon 6	April 7-9, 1972	Hyatt Lodge in Minneapolis	Ruth Berman
Minicon 7	April 20-22 1973	Hyatt Lodge in Minneapolis	Larry Niven, Rusty Hevelin
Minicon 8	April 12-14, 1974	Dyckman Hotel in Minneapolis	Kelly Freas, Bob Tucker
Minicon 9	October 11-13, 1974	Minneapolis Public Library and Dyckman Hotel	Judy Lynn de Rey, Lester del Rey
Minicon 10	April 18-20, 1975	Holiday Inn in Minneapolis	Poul Anderson, Gordon Dickson, Redd Boggs
Minicon 11	April 16-18, 1976	Leamington Hotel in Minneapolis	Edmond Hamilton, Leigh Brackett, Leigh Couch, Norb Couch
Minicon 12	April 8-10, 1977	Leamington Hotel in Minneapolis	Ben Bova, Buck Coulson, Juanita Coulson
Minicon 13	March 24-26, 1978	Leamington Hotel in Minneapolis	Samuel R. Delany, Spider Robinson, Bob Tucker
Minicon 15	April 13-15, 1979	Minneapolis Radisson	Theodore Sturgeon, Tom Digby, Rick Sternbach
Minicon 16	April 4-6, 1980	Minneapolis Radisson	C. J. Cherryh, Jon Singer, Ken Fletcher, Nate Bucklin, Wilson "Bob" Tucker
Minicon 17	April 17-19, 1981	Minneapolis Radisson	Jack Vance, Jerry Boyajian, Reed Waller, Kathy Marschall
Minicon 14	April 9–11, 1982	Minneapolis Radisson	John Varley, Clifford Simak, Spider Robinson
Minicon 19	April 1-3, 1983	St. Paul Radisson	Larry Niven, Pamela Dean, David Dyer-Bennet, Dave Sim, Spider John Koerner, Steven K. Zoltan Brust, Nostradamus
Minicon 18	April 20-23, 1984	Leamington Hotel in Minneapolis	Chelsea Quinn Yarbro, Dave Wixon, Steve Hickman, Somtow Sucharitkul, Rusty Hevelin, Bob Tucker
Minicon 20	April 5-7, 1985	Radisson South in Bloomington, MN	James P. Hogan, The Permanent Floating Riot Club, The White Women, Stu Shiffman
Minicon 21	March 28-30, 1986	Radisson South in Bloomington, MN	Damon Knight, Kate Wilhelm, Denny Lien, Ken Fletcher, Anne Passovoy
Minicon 22	April 17-19, 1987	Radisson South in Bloomington, MN	David Brin, Fred Haskell, Erin McKee, and Jerry Stearns
Minicon 23	April 1-3, 1988	Radisson South in Bloomington, MN	Eleanor Arnason, Eric Heideman, Frederik Pohl, Crystal Marvig, Richard Feynman
Minicon 24	March 24-26, 1989	Radisson South in Bloomington, MN	Harry Harrison, George "Lan" Laskowski, Fritz Leiber, Barry Longyear
Minicon 25	April 13-15, 1990	Radisson South in Bloomington, MN	Jane Yolen, Kim Stanley Robinson, Patrick Price, Teddy Harvia, DavE Romm, Earl Joseph
Minicon 26	March 29-31, 1991	Radisson South in Bloomington, MN	George Alec Effinger, David Cherry, Al Kuhfeld, Suzanne V. Tompkins, Jerry Kaufman, Jon Singer
Minicon 27	April 17-19, 1992	Radisson South in Bloomington, MN	Lois McMaster Bujold, Ctein, Dave Van Ronk
Minicon 28	April 9-11, 1993	Radisson South in Bloomington, MN	Susan Allison, Diane Duane, Peter Morwood, Kathy Mar, Don Fitch, John M. Ford
Minicon 29	April 1-3, 1994	Radisson South in Bloomington, MN	Tom Doherty, Jack Williamson, Rusty Hevelin, Phil Foglio
Minicon 30	April 14 - 16, 1995	Radisson South in Bloomington, MN	Vernor Vinge, Robert Forward, Jody Lee, Glen Cook, the residents of the Bhigg House
Minicon 31	April 5 - 7, 1996	Radisson South in Bloomington, MN	Suzette Haden Elgin, Joe Siclari, Edie Stern, David Ossman, Ed Emshwiller
Minicon 32	March 28 - 30, 1997	Radisson South in Bloomington, MN	Algis Budrys, C. J. Cherryh, Tom Doherty, Tom Lopez, Patrick Nielsen Hayden, Teresa Nielsen Hayden, Michael Swanwick
Minicon 33	April 10 - 12, 1998	Radisson South in Bloomington, MN	Gardner Dozois, Dave Langford, Phil Proctor, John M. Ford
Minicon 34	April 2 - 4, 1999	Minneapolis Hilton & Towers in Minneapolis, MN	Octavia E. Butler, Mark Olson, Priscilla Olson, David Nee
Minicon 35	April 21 - 23, 2000	Hilton Minneapolis & Towers in Minneapolis, MN	Maureen F. McHugh, Lenny Bailes, John Berkey
Minicon 36	April 13 - 15, 2001	Hilton Minneapolis & Towers in Minneapolis, MN	Ken MacLeod, Jo Walton, Leslie Fish
Minicon 37	March 29 - 31, 2002	Hilton Minneapolis in Minneapolis, MN	Emma Bull, Will Shetterly, Arthur Hlavaty, Rick Berry
Minicon 38	April 18 - 20, 2003	Millennium Hotel Minneapolis in Minneapolis, MN	Robert J. Sawyer, Carolyn Clink, Sue Mason, Steve Macdonald
Minicon 39	April 9 - 11, 2004	Millennium Hotel Minneapolis in Minneapolis, MN	Walter Jon Williams, Sharyn November, Deb Geisler
Minicon 40	March 25 - 27, 2005	Sheraton Bloomington Hotel (formerly known as the Radisson South) in Bloomington, MN	Terry Pratchett, Fastner and Larson, Jim Young
Minicon 41	April 14 - 16, 2006	Sheraton Bloomington Hotel in Bloomington, MN	Harlan Ellison, John Picacio, Doug Friauf
Minicon 42	April 6 - 8, 2007	Sheraton Bloomington Hotel in Bloomington, MN	Charles de Lint and Charles Vess
Minicon 43	March 21 - 23, 2008	Sheraton Bloomington Hotel in Bloomington, MN	Alastair Reynolds, Nate Bucklin, Shawna McCarthy, Wayne Barlowe
Minicon 44	April 10 - 12, 2009	Sheraton Bloomington Hotel in Bloomington, MN	Karl Schroeder, Stephan Martinière, Seth Shostak
Minicon 45	April 2 - 4, 2010	Sheraton Bloomington Hotel in Bloomington, MN	Brandon Sanderson and Dan Dos Santos, Moshe Feder
Minicon 46	April 22 - 24, 2011	Bloomington Sheraton South	Charles Stross, John Scalzi, Chas Somdahl
Minicon 47	April 6-8, 2012	DoubleTree by Hilton Hotel Bloomington - Minneapolis South (same place as previous year)	Ted Chiang, Chris Garcia, Frank Wu, Brianna Spacekat Wu
Minicon 48	March 29-31, 2013	DoubleTree Hotel Bloomington	Julie Czerneda, Richard Tatge
Minicon 49	April 17-20, 2014	DoubleTree Hotel Bloomington	Catherynne Valente, Janny Wurts, Don Maitz
Minicon 50	April 2-5, 2015	DoubleTree Bloomington	Jane Yolen, Larry Niven, Brandon Sanderson, Tom Doherty, Michael Whelan, Adam Stemple
Minicon 51	March 25-27, 2016	DoubleTree by Hilton Hotel Bloomington - Minneapolis South	Seanan McGuire, Sarah Butcher Burrier, Lojo Russo
Minicon 52	April 14-16, 2017	DoubleTree Hotel Bloomington	Jim C. Hines, Guy Consolmagno, Mark Oshiro
Minicon 53	March 30 - April 1, 2018	DoubleTree St. Louis Park	Rachel Swirsky, Lyda Morehouse, Jon Arfstrom
Minicon 54	April 19-21, 2019	DoubleTree St. Louis Park	Naomi Kritzer, Dave DeVries
Minicon 55	CANCELLED (April 10-12, 2020)	DoubleTree St. Louis Park	Jo Walton, Elise Matthesen
Minicon 55	April 2-24, 2021	DoubleTree St. Louis Park	Jo Walton, Elise Matthesen

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