Eurocon

Eurocon, formally European Science Fiction Convention, is a traveling convention organized under the auspices of the European Science Fiction Society, where the European SF Awards are voted and presented. It has increasingly tried to emulate the Worldcon and the WSFS, with site selection two years in advance but by "National Delegates". During the Cold War, much effort was given to alternate both sides of the Iron Curtain; this was maintained during the Eurocon heyday ca. 1990–2010, simply due to purchasing power. A traditional part of the opening and closing ceremonies is displaying the original ESFS flag and then passing it to next year's organisers.

The first Eurocon was held in Trieste, Italy, in 1972, after the West European fandom met at the 1970 Heicon. Further ones followed biannually, leaping odd years until 1983 and 1987, becoming annual ever since (except 1998). To complicate the fanhistory, at the 1980 Eurocon 5 (or V – roman numerals were more official back then) it was decided to include retroactively in the counting the First International SF Convention in Zurich, Switzerland, August 1959 (not to be mistaken for the alternate title of the 1951 London Festivention!), so the 1982 follow-up became "Eurocon 7", skipping 6 and bringing much bad luck (after THREE standalone bids folded or backed out, the main parts were moved to a sercon German event at several weeks' notice). This caused some confusion in the 1980s (not to mention the 2010s Wikipedians, counting backwards without bothering to read the period newszines), however around 1984 such a form of serial numbers was largely well-lost to "Eurocon YEAR", or other event name.

(To confuse the matters even more, "EUROCON" – usually capitalised – is also the European convention of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, started in 1971. They own many domains in the form of eurocon20XY.com.)

The ESFS Statutes also allow "organising", or rather bestowing a title of "European Science Fiction Conference (Euroconference)", apparently to provide some recognition as well as stimulus to other events with international programming beside the year's single Eurocon, or to offset the travel/financial difficulties it might pose for a part of Eurofans (compare US zoning and NASFiC, but unlike it, clashing terms are prohibited); however this has been used only exceptionally.

• Official website.
• Wikipedia entry – full of errors
• A Decade of Eurocons 1995–2005 by Jonathan Cowie at Concatenation
• CounterClock 39 (2021) has an imperfect overview ("THE 50 YEAR HISTORY of the EUROCON: The 1970's and 1980's", partially sourced from Eurosmof Facebook group

#	Date	Location	Convention	GoHs, Notes
1	July 12–16, 1972	Trieste, Italy	Eurocon 1	John Brunner, Kurt Steiner (André Ruellan, FR writer), Roberto Vacca (IT, scientist-writer)
2	July 8–13, 1974	Grenoble, France	Eurocon 2
3	Aug 19–22, 1976	Poznań, Poland	Eurocon 3	Brian W. Aldiss
4	Nov 1–5, 1978	Brussels, Belgium	Eurocon 4	Frank Kelly Freas
5	May 1–4, 1980	Stresa, Italy	Eurocon 5
6	August 20–22, 1982	Mönchengladbach, (West) Germany	Festival der Fantastik	John Brunner, Wiktor Bukato, Wolfgang Jeschke, Josef Nesvadba
7	September 16–18, 1983	Ljubljana, Slovenia, Yugoslavia	Eurocon 8	local event Fantazija was also natcon Yukon
8	April 20–23, 1984	Brighton, UK	Seacon '84	Pierre Barbet, Waldemar Kumming, Josef Nesvadba, Christopher Priest, Roger Zelazny
Eurocon 1985 announced by Soviet Union for Riga, Latvia, soon ran into problems with the regime and was cancelled
9	July 10–13, 1986	Zagreb, Croatia, Yugoslavia	Ballcon (SFeraKon)	Sam Lundwall
10	Oct 29 – Nov 1, 1987	Montpellier, France	Eurocon 1987
11	July 7–10, 1988	Budapest, Hungary	Eurocon 1988
12	May 18–21, 1989	San Marino (/Italy)	Eurocon 1989	Frederik Pohl, Norman Spinrad
13	Nov 1–4, 1990	Fayence, France	Eurocon 1990
14	May 9–12, 1991	Krakow, Poland	Cracon	Poul Anderson, Gianfranco Viviani, Boris Zavgorodny, Roelof Goudriaan
15	April 24–26, 1992	Freudenstadt, Germany	FreuCon XII	John Brunner, Iain Banks, Norman Spinrad, Daniel Walther
16	April 9–11, 1993	Jersey, UK	Helicon	John Brunner, George R. R. Martin, Karel Thole, Larry van der Putte
17	May 26–29, 1994	Timisoara, Romania	Eurocon 1994	John Brunner, Herbert W. Franke, Joe Haldeman, Jean Giraud (Moebius), Norman Spinrad
18	August 24–28, 1995	Glasgow, UK	Intersection (Worldcon)	Samuel R. Delany, Gerry Anderson, Les Edwards, Vincent Clarke
19	April 25–28, 1996	Vilnius, Lithuania	Lithuanicon	no GoH due to miscommumication
20	Oct 25–27, 1997	Dublin, Ireland	Octocon 8	Harry Harrison, Chris Reed
No Eurocon in 1998, apparently for lack of bids; annual SFeraKon in Zagreb, Croatia was declared Euroconference
21	May 21–24, 1999	Dortmund, Germany	Trinity	Brian Aldiss, Diane Duane, Harry Harrison, Sam Lundwall, Roger MacBride Allen, Peter Morwood, Terry Pratchett, Ian Watson
22	August 2–6, 2000	Gdynia, Poland	Tricity 2000	Walter Jon Williams, Kir Bulychev
23	16–19 August 2001	Capidava, Romania	Atlantykron	Norman Spinrad, Joe Haldeman, Ion Hobana, David Lewis Anderson
24	3–7 July 2002	Chotěboř, Czechia	Parcon 2002	George R. R. Martin, Robert Holdstock, Jim Burns, Kir Bulychev (RU), Andrzej Sapkowski + 10 lower-tier "Eurocon guests" (see article)
25	August 1–3, 2003	Turku, Finland	Finncon 2003	Michael Swanwick, Steve Sansweet, Karolina Bjällerstedt Mickos, Boris Hurtta, Jonathan Clements, Björn Tore Sund
26	May 26–29, 2004	Plovdiv, Bulgaria	Bulgacon	Robert Sheckley, Ian Watson, Sergei Lukyanenko, Andrzej Sapkowski, Roberto Quaglia, Patrick Gyger
27	August 4–8, 2005	Glasgow, UK	Interaction (Worldcon)	Christopher Priest, Robert Sheckley, Jane Yolen, Greg Pickersgill, Lars-Olov Strandberg
28	April 13–16, 2006	Kiev, Ukraine	Portal	Harry Harrison and Andrzej Sapkowski
29	September 21–23, 2007	Copenhagen, Denmark	Eurocon 2007	Anne McCaffrey, Stephen Baxter, Zoran Živković, David A. Hardy, Niels Dalgaard
30	May 15–18, 2008	Moscow, Russia	Eurocon 2008	Harry Harrison and Sergei Lukyanenko
31	March 26–29, 2009	Fiuggi, Italy	Deepcon 10	Giuseppe Lippi, Lolita Fatjo, Marina Sirtis, Anthony Simcoe, Max Grodénchik, Janet & Larry Nemecek, Ian Watson, Sergei Lukyanenko, Bruce Sterling, Geoffrey Landis, Mary Turzillo
32	August 26–29, 2010	Cieszyn, Poland + Český Těšín, CZ	Polcon 2010/ Parcon 2010	Orson Scott Card, Juraj Červenák (SK), Andrzej Sapkowski (PL), Miroslav Žamboch (CZ)
33	June 17–19, 2011	Stockholm, Sweden	Eurocon 2011	Elizabeth Bear, Ian McDonald, John-Henri Holmberg and Jukka Halme
34	April 26–29, 2012	Zagreb, Croatia	SFeraKon 2012	Tim Powers, Charles Stross, Dmitry Glukhovsky, Darko Macan, Cheryl Morgan + Ghost of Honour Joanna Russ, Andre Norton
35	April 11–14 2013	Kiev, Ukraine	Eurocon 2013	Chris Priest, Andriy Valentynov, Olga Gromyko, Andriy Dmytruk, Maryna & Serhiy Dyachenko, Henry Lion Oldie, Vadim Panov
36	August 22–24, 2014	Dublin, Ireland	Shamrokon	Jim Fitzpatrick, Seanan McGuire, Andrzej Sapkowski, Ylva Spangberg
37	April 23–26, 2015	St. Petersburg, Russia	Eurocon 2015	Joe Abercrombie, Michael Stackpole, Jukka Halme (FGoH), Pavel Vinogradov (cosmonaut)
38	November 4–6, 2016	Barcelona, Spain	Bcon	Aliette de Bodard, Richard Morgan, Péter Michaleczky, Enrique Corominas, Andrzej Sapkowski, Johanna Sinisalo, Rosa Montero, Rhianna Pratchett
39	June 16–18, 2017	Dortmund, Germany	U.Con	Aleksandar Ziljak, Andreas Eschbach, Autun Purser, Dave Hutchinson
40	July 19–22, 2018	Amiens, France	Nemo 2018 (also natcon)	Vladimir Arenev (UA writer), Pierre Bordage, Philippe Curval, Laurent Genefort (FR writers), Aliette de Bodard, Ian Watson; maybe others incl. “African Science Fiction”?
41	August 22–25 2019	Belfast, Northern Ireland, UK	TitanCon 2019 / Eurocon 41	George R. R. Martin, James Roberts, Pat Cadigan, Peadar Ó Guilín
42	October 2–4, 2020	Rijeka, Croatia / virtual (Covid-19)	Futuricon / Eurocon 42	Adrian Tchaikovsky, Ivica Puljak, Robert Whitehead
43	March 18–21 July 15–18, 2021	Fiuggi, Italy	Eurocon 2021	Marco Casolino, Giuliano Giuffrida, Shun Iwasawa, Hanne Madeleine Paine, Maurizio Manzieri, Chase Masterson, Ian McDonald, EricA. Stillwell, Licia Troisi
44	April 7–10, 2022	Dudelange, Luxembourg	Luxcon 2022	Arkady Martine
45	June 8–11, 2023	Uppsala, Sweden	Konflikt (Swecon 25)	Martha Wells, Johan Egerkrans (SE), Merja Polvinen (FI), Francesco Verso (IT)
46	August 16–19, 2024	Rotterdam, Netherlands	Erasmuscon	Bo Balder (NL writer), Jasper Fforde, Andrzej Sapkowski; https://erasmuscon.nl
47	June 26–29, 2025	Mariehamn, Åland Islands, Finland	Archipelacon 2	Jeff & Ann VanderMeer, Mats Strandberg (SE), Emmi Itäranta (FI) https://archipelacon.org
For further years, there are only single uncontested bids from large annual cons: 2026 – MetropolCon, Berlin, Germany; 2028 – SFeraKon, Zagreb, Croatia

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