1997
| Easter | Intervention |
| April 15 | Sam Moskowitz dies. |
| May 25 | the Disclave Flood and end of Disclave. |
| August 28 | Conrad H. Ruppert dies |
| August 28 -- September 1 (Labor Day) | LoneStarCon II (Worldcon) |
| September 21 | 6000th anniversary of the creation of the world |
| November 12 | Ross Pavlac dies. |
| CUFF: R. Graeme Cameron | |
| DUFF: Janice Murray (South) |
Births and Deaths:
Bill Rotsler - Brandon Lamont - Brian Burgess - Carl Jacobi - Charles De Vet - Conrad H. Ruppert - Ed Cox - Floyd C. Gale - G. Harry Stine - George Hay - George Turner - Ginny Saari - Henry Spelman - James Coleman Nelson - James Kepner - Judith Merril - K. W. Gatland - Kjell Borgström - Larry Stewart - Mario Racic - Martin Caidin - Mildred Clingerman - Paul Edwin Zimmer - Phil Rogers - Raymond J. Healy - Ross Pavlac - Sam Moskowitz - Sheldon Wesson - Ted Pauls - Tom Perry - Toni Vondruska
Convention series started or ended:
Onetime conventions:
Publications started or ended:
Ailocate - Apparatchik - As the Crow Flies - Attitude - BW - Bumper Snuffkin - Bumper Snufkin - Charmed Lives - Choice Cuts - Converse - Daisnaid - Design for Life - Double Plus Drunk - En slags parallell - FNL - Famous for Fifteen Minutes - Floating Fan - Galacto-Celtic Newsflash - Gasworks - Great Trucking Songs of the Revolution - Habits - Harry Warner Jr, Fan of Letters - Hazel's Picture Gallery - Highball - Immaculate Infection - Infinity Plus - K - KIM's Game - Little and Large - Midnight Graffiti - Mind Wallaby - Minstrel's Hall of Filk - Monocle - Monstrous Crow - New Worlds - Omni - Pigs Can Fly - Psi Phi - Railings - Redd Boggs - Selected Works - SF Eye - SF Site - SFRevu - Shangri L'Affaires - Shooting Stars -- The Fanzine - Sidebar - Squiggledy Hoy - Super Hooper, Maureen's Duper - The LibertyCon Newsletter - The Max Ernst Memorial Oneshot - The Rogue Raven - Thunderbox - TommyWorld - Travelling Shoes - Vincentian - Wallbanger - Wave Without a Shore - Widening Gyre
Publishers founded or closed:
Awards made, started or ended:
Stores opened or closed:
Clubs founded or disbanded:
iO - Little Men
Fanhistory:
New fanspeak coined:
Miscellaneous:
Australia:
Britain:
1997 World Fantasy Convention - Ailocate - ArmadaCon IX - Attitude - BW - Bladerunner - Brian Burgess - Britain in '97 - Bumper Snuffkin - Bumper Snufkin - Charmed Lives - Coachcon - Convocation - Daisnaid - Double Plus Drunk - FNL - Famous for Fifteen Minutes - Floating Fan - George Hay - Habits - HarmonIX - Hypotheticon - Hypotheticon I - iO - Immaculate Infection - Infinity Plus - Intervention - K - K. W. Gatland - KIM's Game - Little and Large - Memory Hole Annex - Microcon 17 - Minstrel's Hall of Filk - Monocle - New Worlds - Novacon 27 - Oxonmoot 1997 - Phil Rogers - Picocon 14 - Pigs Can Fly - Railings - Shooting Stars -- The Fanzine - Squiggledy Hoy - Super Hooper, Maureen's Duper - The Encyclopedia of Fantasy - Thunderbox - TommyWorld - Vincentian - Wallbanger
Canada:
Europe:
Ireland:
Octocon 8 - TommyWorld - TrinCon - TrinCon 2
New Zealand:
US:
AggieCon XXVIII - Albacon 1997 - Anaconism Jr. - Anthrocon - Apparatchik - Arcana 27 - Arisia '97 - ArmadilloCon 19 - As the Crow Flies - Astronomicon 6 - Balticon 31 - Baycon '97 - Bill Rotsler - Borderlands Books - Boskone 34 - Brandon Lamont - Bubonicon 29 - CONduit 7 - Capricon 17 - Carl Jacobi - ChambanaCon 27 - Charles De Vet - Chattacon XXII - ChimneyCon - Coastcon XX - Con*Stellation XVI - Con-Dor 5 - ConCerto - ConChord 12 - ConClave XXII - ConComCon 4 - ConFusion-17 - ConQuesT 28 - ConTact 15 - Concat 9 - Concave 18 - Conestoga - Conestoga '97 - Confluence 10 - Conrad H. Ruppert - Context X - Contradiction - Contradiction 17 - CopperCon 17 - Corflu 14 - Costume-Con 15 - Darkover Grand Council 20 - DeepSouthCon 35 - DemiCon 8 - Disclave - Disclave 41 - Ditto 10 - Diversicon 5 - DucKon VI - Echo's Children - Ed Cox - Floyd C. Gale - Friends of Gary - G. Harry Stine - Gasworks - Genericon X - Ginny Saari - Hazel's Picture Gallery - Henry Spelman - Highball - History of Concave - HurriCon - I-Con XVI - ICFA 18 - ICON 22 - InCon '97 - InConJunction XVII - James Coleman Nelson - James Kepner - Judith Merril - Kaleidoscope V - Kubla Khan XXV - La-Di-Da Con - Larry Stewart - LepreCon 23 - LibertyCon 11 - Life, the Universe, & Everything 15 - Little Men - LoneStarCon 2 - Loscon XXIV - Lunacon 40 - Marcon 32 - Mario Racic - Martin Caidin - MidSouthCon 16 - Midnight Graffiti - Midwestcon 48 - Mildred Clingerman - MileHiCon 29 - Millennicon -4 - Minicon 32 - MisCon 12 - Monstrous Crow - MosCon XIX - Mythcon XXVIII - NJAC 13 - Necon 17 - NecronomiCon, 3rd Edition - Necronomicon '97 - New Futurians - New Worlds - Nexus - Norwescon XX - Not-A-ReinCONation - OASIS 10 - OVFF 13 - Omni - OryCon 19 - Paul Edwin Zimmer - Philcon 1997 - Potlatch 6 - Psi Phi - Pulpcon 26 - RadCon 2A - Raymond J. Healy - Readercon 9 - Redd Boggs - Selected Works - Rivercon XXII - Ross Pavlac - Rustycon 14 - SF Eye - SF Site - SFRevu - Sam Moskowitz - San Antonio in '97 - Sci-Con 19 - Shangri L'Affaires - Sheldon Wesson - Sidebar - Silicon 2.3 - Smofcon 15 - SoonerCon 13 - St. Louis in '97 - StellarCon 21 - Tales from the White Hart - Ted Pauls - The LibertyCon Newsletter - The Max Ernst Memorial Oneshot - The Pirates of Fenzance - The Rogue Raven - The Second ConCerto - The Secret Garden - Tom Perry - Tra-La-La Con - Travelling Shoes - Tropicon XVI - TusCon 24 - Valleycon 22 - Wave Without a Shore - Westercon 50 - Widening Gyre - WindyCon XXIV - WisCon 21
Rest of the World:
| 1996 | 1997 | 1998 |
