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Eurocon is an annual SF convention held in Europe. It is a rotating European convention which run by the European Science Fiction Society and is selected at the previous event by national delegations in a sort-of Cold War hangover.

The first Eurocon was held in Trieste, Italy, in 1972. If the convention did not have another name, its often not clear whether it was called Eurocon X or Eurocon YEAR.

Eurocon 1994/95 conrep

A Decade of Eurocons 1995 - 2005

# Date Location Convention GoHs
1 July 12-16, 1972 Trieste, Italy Eurocon 1 John Brunner, Kurt Steiner (André Ruellan), Roberto Vacca
2 July 8-13, 1974 Grenoble, France Eurocon 2
3 August 19-22, 1976 Voivody Pozman, Poland Eurocon 3 Brian W. Aldiss
4 November 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 Eurocon 6
7 September 16-18, 1983 Zagreb, Yugoslavia Eurocon 7
8 April 20-23, 1984 Brighton, UK Seacon '84 Pierre Barbet, Waldemar Kumming, Josef Nesvadba, Christopher Priest, Roger Zelazny
9 July 10-13, 1986 Zagreb, Yugoslavia Ballcon Sam Lundwall
10 October 29 - November 1, 1987 Monpelier, France Eurocon 1987
11 July 7-10, 1988 Budapest, Hungary Eurocon 1988
12 May 18-21, 1989 San Marino Eurocon 1989 Frederik Pohl, Norman Spinrad
13 November 1-4, 1990 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 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 Samuel R. Delany, Gerry Anderson, Les Edwards, Vincent Clarke
19 April 25-28, 1996 Vilnius, Lithuania Lithuanicon (no GoH due to miscommumication)
20 October 25-27, 1997 Dublin, Ireland Octocon 8 Harry Harrison, Chris Reed
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 Gydinia, Poland Tricity 2000 Walter Jon Williams, Kir Bulychev
23 August 16-19, 2001 Romania Atlantykron Norman Spinrad, Joe Haldeman, Ion Hobana, David Lewis Anderson
24 July 1-7, 2002 Chotěboř, Czech Republic Parcon 2002 George R. R. Martin, Robert Holdstock, Jim Burns, Myra Cakan, Kir Bulychev, Andrzej Sapkowski, Rafał Ziemkiewicz, Ernst Uleck, Isobel Carmody, William King, Jaroslav Velinský, Phillipe Coriat, Ondřej Neff, Klaus N. Frick, Martina Pilcerova
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 Bulgaria Bulgacon Robert Sheckley, Ian Watson, Sergei Lukyanenko, Andrzej Sapkowski, Roberto Quaglia, Patrick Gyger
27 August 4-8, 2005 Glasgow, UK Interaction Christopher Priest, Robert Sheckley, Jane Yolen, Greg Pickersgill, Lars-Olov Strandberg
28 April 13-16, 2006 Kiev, Ukraine Portal 28 Harry Harrison and Andrzej Sapkowski
29 September 21-13, 2007 Copenhagen, Denmark Eurocon 2007 Anne McCaffrey, Stephen Baxter, Zoran Živković, David A. Hardy, and 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, Larry Nemecek, Janet Nemecek, Ian Watson, Sergey Lukyanenko, Bruce Sterling, Geoffrey Landis, Mary Turzillo
32 August 26-29, 2010 Poland and Czech Republic Polcon 2010/Parcon 2010 Juraj Cervenak, Andrzej Sapkowski, Miroslav Zamboch, Orson Scott Card
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 Tim Powers, Charles Stross, Dmitry Glukhovsky, Darko Macan, Cheryl Morgan, Joanna Russ, Andre Norton
35 April 11-14 2013 Kiev, Ukraine Eurocon 2013 Chris Priest, Andriy Valentynov, Olga Gromyko, Andriy Dmytruk, Maryna Dyachenko, 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, Pavel Vinogradov
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 Vladimir Arenev, “African Science Fiction”
41 August 22-25 2019 Belfast, UK TitanCon 2019 George R. R. Martin, James Roberts, Pat Cadigan, Peadar Ó Guilín
42 October 2-4, 2020 Rijeka, Croatia Futuricon Adrian Tchaikovsky, Ivica Puljak, Robert Whitehead
43 March 18-21, 2021 Fiuggi, Italy Eurocon 2021

There was a "Eurocon 7" advertised for August 10-15, 1982 at La Chaux-De-Fronds, Switzerland with GoH Ian Watson (which he said was news to him).


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