1971
| April 9-10 | First V-Con |
| April 9-11 | Eastercon 22 |
| May | British Fantasy Society founded |
| June 25 | Birmingham Science Fiction Group re-founded. |
| July 3 | KaCSFFS founded. |
| July 11 | John W. Campbell, Jr. dies. |
| September 2-6 (Labor Day) | Noreascon I (Worldcon) |
| November 26-28 | First ChambanaCon |
| November | First Novacon |
| DAW Books founded by Donald A. Wollheim. | |
| Mario Bosnyak TAFF trip. | |
| British Weird Fantasy Society formed. |
Births and Deaths:
Alex McLintock - Allen Glasser - Alonzo Deen Cole - Amy H. Sturgis - August Derleth - Cory Doctorow - David Louis Edelman - Ed Baker - Elizabeth Bear - Elma Wentz - Eugie Foster - George Heap - Gerald Heard - Holly Black - Holly Wilson - Jeannie Smith - Jim Butcher - John W. Campbell, Jr. - Jonathan Clements - Linus Hogenmiller - Mary Anne Mohanraj - P. Djèlí Clark - Philip Wylie - R. R. Winterbotham - Ray Courtis - Rebecca Roanhorse - Ruth Frances Long - Sofia Samatar - Steve Gerlach - Sydney Padua - Virgil Finlay
Convention series started or ended:
Onetime conventions:
Bids:
Publications started or ended:
4M - A Fanzine Newsletter - Alpha and Omega - An Important Communique to Knights and Ladies of St. Fantony - An Open Letter to the British Tolkien Society - Arthur Rose Weir -- Memorial Anthology - Ashes to Ashes - Aspidistra - Australian Science Fiction Monthly - Aux Armes - BCSFAzine - Balthus - Beardmutterings - Birmingham Science Fiction Group Newsletter - Boy's Own Fanzine - Cipher - Correlation - Council of Elrond - Daily Dimension - Dark Horizons - European Newsbulletin/Link - Fangle - Fantasia - Gerbish Christmas Combo - Godfrey Daniel - Godless - Hell - Hermes - Hot Shit - Howl of Feedback - Interplanetary Corn Chips - Is - Karass - Kazoo! - Kratophany - Lowdown - Macrocosm - Magazine of Horror - Masiform D - Mathom - Mirage - Mistakes Are Mistakes - Moon Bane - Mota - Mythril - News from Bree - Nimoyan - OMPA Combozine - Oljeto - Page 94 - Parma Eldalamaberon - Peculiar - Pegasus - Phantasmagoria - Placebo - Pointy Cap - Prehensile - Preliminary Listing of Active Apas - Quicksilver - SF Arena - SF Syntes - SF Writer's Bulletin - SFRA Newsletter - Sanders - Sandworm Songbook - Seagull - Self Preservation - Shadowfax - Shagrat - Skylee Sun - Skyrack - Southern Fandom Confederation Roster - Special Series - Stanley - Starworlds - The - The Bulletin - The Great Nor-Western News - The Hog on Ice - The Lindsay Trader - Tolkien Society Bulletin - Towards a Theory of Science Fiction - Twentieth Century Unlimited - UnterHelios - Up the Phloem - Utopia - Weird Fantasy - What a Weird City - Wombat - Worlds of Tomorrow - Yellow Submarine - Zimri
Publishers founded or closed:
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Clubs founded or disbanded:
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Miscellaneous:
Asia:
Australia:
Britain:
4M - A Fanzine Newsletter - Alex McLintock - An Important Communique to Knights and Ladies of St. Fantony - An Open Letter to the British Tolkien Society - Andromeda Bookshop - Arthur Rose Weir -- Memorial Anthology - Ashes to Ashes - Balthus - Birmingham Science Fiction Group Newsletter - British Fantasy Award - Checkpoint Fan Poll - Council of Elrond - Eastercon 22 - European Newsbulletin/Link - Gerald Heard - Gerbish Christmas Combo - Hell - Howl of Feedback - Jonathan Clements - Kingston SF Group - Macrocosm - Mathom - News from Bree - Novacon - Novacon 1 - OMPA Combozine - Page 94 - Quicksilver - SF Arena - SF Writer's Bulletin - Seagull - Skyrack - Speculation II - Sydney Padua - The Bulletin - The Lindsay Trader - Tolkien Society Bulletin - Weird Fantasy - Worlds of Tomorrow - Zimri
Canada:
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New Zealand:
US:
1971 Open ESFA - Allen Glasser - Alonzo Deen Cole - Alpha and Omega - Amy H. Sturgis - Arcana - Armchair Speculators of DePaul University - August Derleth - Aux Armes - Balticon 5 - Beardmutterings - BoSh Fund - Boskone 8 - Boston in 71 - Bubonicon 3 - ChambanaCon - ChambanaCon 1 - Cipher - Clarion West - Commode d'Ore - Correlation - DAW Books - DCON 1971 - Daily Dimension - Dark Horizons - David Louis Edelman - DeepSouthCon 9 - Disclave 15 - Ed Baker - Elizabeth Bear - Elma Wentz - Elron Award - Equicon - Equicon '71 - Eugie Foster - Fallcon - Fangle - Fantasia - George Heap - Gerald Heard - Gnomoclave '71 - Godfrey Daniel - Godless - Hermes - Holly Black - Holly Wilson - Hot Shit - Interplanetary Corn Chips - Is - Jeannie Smith - Jim Butcher - John W. Campbell, Jr. - Karass - Kazoo! - Kratophany - Linus Hogenmiller - Lunacon 14 - Magazine of Horror - Marcon VI - Mary Anne Mohanraj - Masiform D - Midwestcon 22 - MiniCon III - Minicon 4 - Minicon 5 - Mirage - Mistakes Are Mistakes - Mondo*Con - Moon Bane - Mota - Mythcon II - Mythril - Nimoyan - Noreascon 1 - Tony Lewis' Noreascon 1 Reminiscence - Oljeto - Open ESFA - Ozarkon VI - P. Djèlí Clark - Parma Eldalamaberon - Pecon 2 - Peculiar - Pegasus - PgHLANGE III - Phantasmagoria - Philcon 1971 - Philip Wylie - Placebo - Pointy Cap - Prehensile - Preliminary Listing of Active Apas - R. R. Winterbotham - Ray Courtis - Rebecca Roanhorse - SFCon '71 - SFRA Newsletter - Sacramento Area Super Science and Fantasy Reading and Study Society - Sanders - Sandworm Songbook - Secondary Universe IV - Self Preservation - Shadowfax - Shagrat - Skylee Sun - Sofia Samatar - Southern Fandom Confederation - Southern Fandom Confederation Roster - Special Series - Stanley - Starworlds - The - The Avocado Pit - The Hog on Ice - The Labyrinth - Towards a Theory of Science Fiction - Twentieth Century Unlimited - UnterHelios - Up the Phloem - UpperSouthClave - UpperSouthClave I - Utopia - Virgil Finlay - Washington in '71 - What a Weird City - Worlds of Tomorrow - Yellow Submarine
Rest of the World:
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