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Selection of the recipients is by vote of the Worldcon members. Categories include novels and short fiction, artwork, dramatic presentations, and various professional and fandom activities. [4] [5] Other awards may be presented at Worldcon at the discretion of the individual convention committee.
Glasgow 2024: Glasgow, Scotland: UK Chris Baker Claire Brialey Mark Plummer Ken MacLeod Nnedi Okorafor Terri Windling: TBD 83th: 2025 Seattle Worldcon 2025: Seattle, Washington: US Martha Wells Donato Giancola Bridget Landry Alexander James Adams: TBD 84th: 2026 LAcon V: Anaheim, California: US Barbara Hambly Ronald D. Moore Colleen Doran Anita ...
A group of writers and officers of the Worldcon have signed an open letter against Saudi Arabia's bid to host the 2022 World Science Fiction Convention, citing human rights abuses and discriminatory laws. [20] Chengdu, China hosted the 81st Worldcon in 2023. It was the second Worldcon to be held in Asia after the 65th Worldcon in Japan
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Selection of the recipients is by vote of the Worldcon members. Categories include novels and short fiction, artwork, dramatic presentations, and various professional and fandom activities. [1] [2] Other awards may be presented at Worldcon at the discretion of the individual convention committee.
Bids for the location of a NASFiC are voted on by the membership of the Worldcon (or NASFiC if it exists), the year after a non-North-American Worldcon site has been selected. As of 2014, this is one year in advance of a potential NASFiC, since Worldcon sites are chosen two years in advance. [2] [3]
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]