Rivercon was a convention held in Louisville, KY from 1975 to 2000. It was originally started as a DeepSouthCon and grew into an annual convention and later spawned the NASFiC by running NorthAmeriCon in 1979. Cliff Amos, Steve & Sue Francis and Bob Roehm were the founding fans. A regular feature of the convention was a cruise on the riverboat, The Belle of Louisville, and the tradition developed of asking the guest artist to do art for the program book cover featuring the Belle.
Read Bob Roehm's 20th Anniversary History of Rivercon.
Rivercon gave out two named awards: It presented each of its GoHs with the Pegasus Award, a hand-made glass pegasus designed in 1977 by Shelby Bush and, from 1980, made by Steve Scherer. See below for a list of GoHs and, hence, winners. The Ming Award was given to the masquerade winner. It was a hand-made glass statuette of Ming the Merciless designed by Shelby Bush in 1977 and, from 1980, made by Steve Scherer. It also became customary to have the state declare a member a Kentucky Colonel.
Rivercon was officially shut down after a big bash at Rivercon XXV. Rivercon achieved the rare distinction for a convention of shutting down voluntarily while still healthy.
In 2014, a one day gaming/comic book convention in South Bend, IN, used the name River-Con, but was cancelled amidst allegations of embezzlement.
| Convention |
Dates |
GoHs
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| Rivercon I |
July 25-27, 1975 |
Philip José Farmer, Buck and Juanita Coulson
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| Rivercon II |
July 30-August 1, 1976 |
Poul Anderson, Jodie Offutt
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| Rivercon III |
July 29-31, 1977 |
Larry Niven, Sandra Miesel
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| Rivercon IV |
July 28-30, 1978 |
Robert Bloch, Ned Brooks
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| Rivercon V |
August 1-3, 1980 |
Roger Zelazny, Lou Tabakow
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| Rivercon VI |
July 24-26, 1981 |
Jack Williamson, Mike Resnick, Carol Resnick
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| Rivercon VII |
July 23-25, 1982 |
Gordon R. Dickson, Dave Kyle
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| Rivercon VIII |
July 15-17, 1983 |
L. Sprague de Camp, Catherine Crook de Camp, Rusty Hevelin
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| Rivercon IX |
July 20-22, 1984 |
Andrew Offutt, Don Eastlake, Jill Eastlake
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| Rivercon X |
July 26-28, 1985 |
George R. R. Martin, John Millard
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| Rivercon XI |
July 25-27, 1986 |
C. J. Cherryh, Dick Lynch, Nicki Lynch
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| Rivercon XII |
July 31-August 2, 1987 |
Bob Shaw, Ken Moore
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| Rivercon XIII |
July 29-31, 1988 |
Kelly Freas, Samanda b Jeude
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| Rivercon XIV |
July 28-30, 1989 |
Jack Chalker, Dick Spelman
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| Rivercon XV |
August 3-5, 1990 |
Mike Resnick, George "Lan" Laskowski
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| Rivercon XVI |
August 2-4, 1991 |
Lois McMaster Bujold, Leslie Turek, Debbie Hughes
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| Rivercon XVII |
July 31-August 2, 1992 |
Mercedes Lackey, Laurie Mann, Doug Chaffee
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| Rivercon XVIII |
August 6-8, 1993 |
Joe Haldeman, Jane Dennis, Scott Dennis, Vincent Di Fate
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| Rivercon XIX |
July 29-31, 1994 |
Forrest J Ackerman, Verna Smith Trestrail, Paul Lehr
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| Rivercon XX |
September 1-4, 1995 |
Philip José Farmer Robert Coulson, Juanita Coulson
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| Rivercon XXI |
August 9-11, 1996 |
Nancy Kress, Annette Carrico, Darryl Elliott, Jack Williamson
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| Rivercon XXII |
July 18-20 1997 |
Terry Bisson, Larry Elmore, Barry Childs-Helton, Sally Childs-Helton
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| Rivercon XXIII |
July 31 - August 2, 1998 |
Harry Turtledove, Kevin Ward, Julee Johnson-Tate, Chris Tate
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| Rivercon XXIV |
July 30 - August 1, 1999 |
Esther M. Friesner, Pat Sims, Roger Sims, Gary M. Williams
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| Rivercon XXV |
July 28-30, 2000 |
All former guests
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