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The Royal Albert Hall has asserted that the Vril-Ya Bazaar and Fete, a charitable event held at the Hall in 1891, was the world's first science fiction convention.The event was a multi-day fundraising bazaar themed around the popular 1871 science fiction novel The Coming Race by Edward Bulwer-Lytton, which involves the Vril-Ya, a subterranean race of winged superhuman beings. [1]
This is a list of notable science fiction conventions, as distinct from anime conventions, comic book conventions, furry conventions, gaming conventions, horror conventions, and multigenre conventions. In the "type" column, "general" means the entire science fiction and fantasy culture; "literature", "media", etc. modify that.
American science fiction author and editor Lester del Rey wrote, "Even the devoted aficionado or fan—has a hard time trying to explain what science fiction is," and the lack of a "full satisfactory definition" is because "there are no easily delineated limits to science fiction." [3] Another definition comes from The Literature Book by DK and ...
The list of modern fan conventions for various genres of entertainment extends to the first conventions held in the 1930s.. Some fan historians claim that the 1936 Philadelphia Science Fiction Conference, a.k.a. Philcon, was the first science fiction convention ever held.
This all-volunteer, fan-run convention is primarily for enthusiasts of science fiction and fantasy in all media. [3] The motto is "where science fiction and reality meet". It is one of the most-attended conventions of its kind in North America, with approximately 6,000 paid members in some years. [3]
For science fiction studies conferences, ... Pages in category "Science fiction conventions" The following 10 pages are in this category, out of 10 total.
Science fiction genre – while science fiction is a genre of fiction, a science fiction genre is a subgenre within science fiction. Science fiction may be divided along any number of overlapping axes. Gary K. Wolfe's Critical Terms for Science Fiction and Fantasy identifies over 30 subdivisions of science fiction, not including science fantasy ...
83rd World Science Fiction Convention; 84th World Science Fiction Convention This page was last edited on 25 September 2023, at 10:51 (UTC). ...