Oslo Science Fiction Festival
ShadowCon was a fan-run science fiction festival in Oslo, Norway, which was held annually from 1996 to 2005. The festival sprang from The Shadow Project, a merger of the B5 Alliance and the TreX Files fan communities, and was named after a race of aliens in the Babylon 5 series.
Activities at ShadowCon included the viewing of movies and TV shows, lectures, debates, contests, auctions and costume balls. The event took place in the summer at Helga Eng's House at the University of Oslo.
On several occasions, ShadowCon was organized in collaboration with the literature-oriented national fan convention Norcon, under the names Intercon (1994, 1998, 2001, and 2005) and Multicon (2000 and 2001). In 2007, it became the Oslo Science Fiction Festival. It appears that The Shadow Project ended after the last Oslo Science Fiction Festival was held in 2012, when the existing leadership felt no longer able to continue and sufficient new leadership was not found. The OSFF now appears to be a general interest fan group with a presence on Facebook, which puts on small events.
| Convention | Dates | GoHs |
|---|---|---|
| ShadowCon 1 (also Norcon 12 / Intercon 94) |
August 12-14, 1994 | Brian Aldiss, Jon Bing, Tor Åge Bringsværd, C. J. Cherryh |
| ShadowCon 97 | July 17-20, 1997 | |
| ShadowCon 3 (also Norcon 14 / InterContact) |
July 3-5, 1998 | Pat Cadigan, Gwyneth Jones, Johannes H. Berg |
| ShadowCon 4 | August 19-22, 1999 | Anthony Daniels |
| ShadowCon 5 (also Norcon 16 / Multicon 1) |
July 13-16, 2000 | Ingar Knudtsen |
| ShadowCon 6 (also Norcon 17 / Multicon 6) |
August 2-5, 2001 | Vernor Vinge, Tor Åge Bringsværd |
| ShadowCon 7 | August 1-4, 2002 | |
| ShadowCon 8 | August 7-10, 2003 | |
| ShadowCon 9 | July 29 - August 1, 2004 | |
| ShadowCon 10 (also Intercon 2005 / Norcon 19) |
July 28-31, 2005 | Elizabeth Moon, Tanith Lee, John-Henri Holmberg |
| Oslo Science Fiction Festival 2007 (also Norcon 21) |
August 9-12, 2007 | Mads Eriksen, Carolina Gómez Lagerlöf, Philip Newth, Tim Powers |
| Oslo Science Fiction Festival 2008 (also Norcon 22) |
July 31 - August 3, 2008 | Iain M. Banks, Torstein Bugge Høverstad |
| Oslo Science Fiction Festival 2009 (also Norcon 24) |
November 6-8, 2009 | Charles Stross, Elin Brodin, Bjørn Are Davidsen |
| Oslo Science Fiction Festival 2012 | June 22-25, 2012 |
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| Website Website | 1996—2012 |
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