Genericon

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A convention run since 1985 by the RSFA, the Rensselaer Science Fiction Association, at the Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in Troy, New York. It has become primarily an Anime convention. The website has a very impressive complete set of programme books to download.

Convention Dates GoHs
Genericon I March 22-24, 1985 Hal Clement, Phil Foglio, Jan Howard Finder
Genericon II April 4-6, 1986 Samuel Delany, Hal Clement, Mark Rogers, Marty Gear, Jack Dann, Chuck Rothman
Genericon III April 3-5, 1987 Joan Vinge, Dawn Wilson, Jack Dann, Bruce Evry
Genericon IV April 8-10, 1988 Pamela Sargent, George Zebrowski, Charles Pellegrino, Hal Clement, Jack Dann, Alan Meltzer
Genericon V April 7-9, 1989 Janny Wurtz, Don Maitz, David Kyle, Hal Clement, Susan Shwartz, Alan Meltzer
Genericon VI January 26-28, 1990 Barry B. Longyear, Pat Morrissey, Esther Friesner, Jeffery Carver, David Kyle, Chuck Rothman, Sue Rothman
Genericon VII 1991 David Kyle, Hal Clement, Janice Eisen, Chuck Rothman, Sue Rothman, Alan Meltzer, Thomas Zane
Genericon VIII January 24-26, 1992 Craig Shaw Gardner, Dean Morrissey, Loyd Blankenship
Genericon IX March 1-3, 1996 Christopher Golden
Genericon X February 28 - March 2, 1997 No guests
Genericon XI March 20-22, 1998 No guests
Genericon XII January 22-24, 1999
Genericon XIII January 21-23, 2000
Genericon XXIV January 19-21, 2001
Genericon XV January 25-27, 2002
Genericon XVI January 24-27, 2003
Genericon XVII January 16-18, 2004
Genericon XVIII January 28-30, 2005
Genericon XIX January 27-29, 2006
Genericon XX January 26-28, 2007
Genericon XXI January 25-27, 2008
Genericon XXII January 23-25, 2009
Genericon XXIII February 12-14, 2010
Genericon XXIV February 11-13, 2011
Genericon XXV March 2-4, 2012
Genericon XXVI March 1-3, 2013
Genericon XXVII February 28 - March 2, 2014
Genericon XXVIII March 13-15, 2015 Tristan MacAvery, Uncle Yo, Antipode
Genericon XXIX March 4-6, 2016
Genericon XXX March 3-5, 2017
Genericon XXXI March 2-4, 2018 Masahiko Otsuka, Kazuya Masumoto, Takafumi Hori, Ian Rubin
Genericon XXXII February 22-24, 2019
Genericon XXXIII March 21-22, 2020 Cancelled because of the Covid-19 epidemic.


Convention
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