Balticon

(Did you mean Baltcon, a convention in the Baltic?)

A regional convention founded in 1967 and sponsored by BSFS since 1975, and held in the Baltimore area, usually in the mid-to-late spring. In the early days, it was called the Balticonference.

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Convention	Date	Venue	Location	GoHs
Balticon 1	February 10-12, 1967	The Emerson Hotel	Baltimore	no GoH
Balticon 2	February 9-11, 1968	Lord Baltimore Hotel	Baltimore	Samuel R. Delany
Balticon 3	February 14-15, 1969	Lord Baltimore Hotel	Baltimore	L. Sprague de Camp
Balticon 4	February 13-15, 1970	Lord Baltimore Hotel	Baltimore	Damon Knight & Kate Wilhelm
Balticon 5	February 12-14, 1971	Lord Baltimore Hotel	Baltimore, MD	Harry Harrison
Balticon 6	February 18-20, 1972	Hopkins Hilton Hotel	Baltimore, MD	Gordon R. Dickson
Balticon 7	February 16-18, 1973	Lord Baltimore Hotel	Baltimore, MD	Poul Anderson
Balticon 8	February 15-18, 1974	Lord Baltimore Hotel	Baltimore, MD	Frederik Pohl
Balticon 9	March 28-30, 1975 (Easter Weekend)	Pikesville Hilton Hotel	Pikesville, MD	Hal Clement
Balticon 10	April 16–18, 1976	Hunt Valley Inn	Hunt Valley, MD	Isaac Asimov, Suzle Tompkins, Jerry Kaufman
Balticon 11	April 8-10, 1977	Hunt Valley Inn	Hunt Valley, MD	Philip José Farmer, Meade Frierson
Balticon 12	March 24–26, 1978	Hunt Valley Inn	Hunt Valley, MD	Anne McCaffrey
Balticon 13	April 13–15, 1979	Hunt Valley Inn	Hunt Valley, MD	Poul Anderson
Balticon 14	April 4–6, 1980	Hunt Valley Inn	Hunt Valley, MD	Algis Budrys & Sean Spacher
Balticon 15	April 17-19, 1981	Hunt Valley Inn	Hunt Valley, MD	John Varley
Balticon 16	April 9–11, 1982	Hyatt Regency Hotel	Baltimore, MD	Samuel R. Delany, Michael Whelan, & D. Potter
Balticon 17	April 1–3, 1983	Hyatt Regency Hotel	Baltimore, MD	L. Sprague de Camp, Catherine Crook de Camp, Anne Trembley, Jack Chalker & Eva Whitley
Balticon 18	April 20–22, 1984	Hyatt Regency Hotel	Baltimore, MD	Parke Godwin, Mark Owings, Robin Wood
Balticon 19	April 7–9, 1985	Hunt Valley Inn	Hunt Valley, MD	R. A. MacAvoy, Vicky Wyman, Theresa Renner
Balticon 20	March 28–30, 1986	Hyatt Regency Hotel	Baltimore, MD	Nancy Springer, Vicky Wyman, Leslie Fish, Pat Kelly
Balticon 21	April 17–19, 1987	Omni Inner Harbor Hotel	Baltimore, MD	Roger Zelazny, Michael Whelan, Tom Doherty & Eva Whitley
Balticon 22	April 1–3, 1988	Hunt Valley Inn	Hunt Valley, MD	Spider Robinson & Tom Kidd
Balticon 23	March 24–26, 1989	Omni Inner Harbor Hotel	Baltimore, MD	C. J. Cherryh, Stephen Hickman & Steve Stiles
Balticon 24	April 13–15, 1990	Hunt Valley Inn	Hunt Valley, MD	Robin McKinley, Charles Lang, & Wendy Snow Lang
Balticon 25	March 29–31, 1991	Hunt Valley Inn	Hunt Valley, MD	Nancy Kress, Tom Canty, Kathy Mar
Balticon 26	April 17–19, 1992	Hunt Valley Inn	Hunt Valley, MD	Donald Kingsbury, Christopher Rowley, David R. Palmer, Sheila Finch, Thomas T. Thomas, Christopher Hinz, Elizabeth Moon, Josepha Sherman and Michael F. Flynn
Balticon 27	April 9–11, 1993	Hunt Valley Inn	Hunt Valley, MD	Allen Steele, Don Maitz, and Leslie Fish
Balticon 28	April 1–3, 1994	Hyatt Regency Hotel	Baltimore, MD	Mercedes Lackey, Larry Dixon, Duane Elms & Sue Wheeler
Balticon 29	April 14–16, 1995	Lord Baltimore & Omni Inner Harbor Hotel	Baltimore, MD	James P. Hogan, David Cherry, Tom Smith, Mike Walsh & Hal Clement
Balticon 30	April 5–7, 1996	Omni Inner Harbor Hotel	Baltimore, MD	Robert Jordan, Lubov, Frank Hayes & Marty Gear
Balticon 31	March 28–30, 1997	Omni Inner Harbor Hotel	Baltimore, MD	Glen Cook, Frank Kelly Freas, Laura Brodian Freas, Mike Stein, Samanda b Jeude & Don Cook
Balticon 32	April 10–12, 1998	Omni Inner Harbor Hotel	Baltimore, MD	Harry Turtledove, Jody Lee, Yoji Kondo, Ed Stauff & Mary Ellen Wessels
Balticon 33	April 2–4, 1999	Omni Inner Harbor Hotel	Baltimore, MD	David Weber, Jennifer Weyland & Echo's Children
Balticon 34	April 22–23, 2000	Omni Inner Harbor Hotel	Baltimore, MD	Octavia Butler, Wendy Pini, Richard Pini and Steve Stiles
Balticon 35	May 25–28, 2001	Wyndham Inner Harbor Hotel	Baltimore, MD	Hal Clement, Halla Fleischer, Dave Kyle, Frank Hayes & Robert Sacks
Balticon 36	May 24–27, 2002	Wyndham Inner Harbor Hotel	Baltimore, MD	Mark Rogers, Phil Foglio, Kaja Foglio, Yoji Kondo, The Boogie Knights, & Carol Salemi
Balticon 37	May 23–26, 2003	Wyndham Inner Harbor Hotel	Baltimore, MD	Steve Miller, Sharon Lee, Omar Rayyan, Shelia Rayyan, Steve Macdonald
Balticon 38	May 28–31, 2004	Wyndham Inner Harbor Hotel	Baltimore, MD,	Lois McMaster Bujold, Dave Seeley & Heather Alexander
Balticon 39	May 27–30, 2005	Wyndham Inner Harbor Hotel	Baltimore, MD	Steven Barnes, Tananarive Due, Bob Eggleton & Jordin Kare
Balticon 40	May 26–29, 2006	Marriott's Hunt Valley	Hunt Valley, MD	Neil Gaiman, Gene Wolfe, Lisa Snellings-Clark & Lorraine a' Malena
Balticon 41	May 25–28, 2007	Marriott's Hunt Valley	Hunt Valley, MD	Larry Niven, Jerry Pournelle, Joe Bergeron, Jeff & Maya Bohnhoff, Michael R. Mennenga & Evo Terra
Balticon 42	May 23–26, 2008	Marriott's Hunt Valley	Hunt Valley, MD	Connie Willis, John Jude Palencar & Urban Tapestry
Balticon 43	May 22–25, 2009	Marriott's Hunt Valley	Hunt Valley, MD	Charles Stross, Kurt Miller, Mary Crowell, Scott Sigler
Balticon 44	May 28–31, 2010	Marriott's Hunt Valley	Hunt Valley, MD	Tanya Huff, Howard Tayler, Thomas R. Holtz, Jr.
Balticon 45	May 27–30, 2011	Marriott's Hunt Valley	Hunt Valley, MD	Ben Bova, Vincent di Fate, Bill Sutton & Brenda Sutton
Balticon 46	May 25-28, 2012	Marriott's Hunt Valley	Hunt Valley, MD	Jody Lynn Nye, Jim Odbert, Heather Dale, Ben Deschamps, William D. Phillips, Robert L. Asprin, Richard L. Butler
Balticon 47	May 24-27, 2013	Marriott's Hunt Valley	Hunt Valley, MD	Joe Haldeman, Rick Sternbach, Nnedi Okorafor & Ada Palmer
Balticon 48	May 23-26, 2014	Hunt Valley	Hunt Valley, MD	Brandon Sanderson, Kenneth Ardens, Halo Jankowski, Myke Cole, Robert Jordan, Marty Gear
Balticon 49	May 22-25, 2015	Hunt Valley	Hunt Valley, MD	Jo Walton, Ruth Sanderson, Erica Neely, Charles E. Gannon, C. J. Henderson, Joe Mayhew
Balticon 50	May 27-30, 2016	Renaissance Baltimore Harborplace Hotel	Baltimore	George R. R. Martin, John Picacio, Bill Roper, Gretchen Roper, Alexandra Duncan, Martin Deutsch, Shirley Avery
Balticon 51	May 26-29, 2017	Renaissance Baltimore Harborplace Hotel	Baltimore, MD	Eric Flint, Donato Giancola, Geri Sullivan, Fran Wilde, Amy McNally
Balticon 52	May 25-28, 2018	Renaissance Baltimore Harborplace Hotel	Baltimore, MD	Catherine Asaro, Galen Dara, Tim Griffin, Neil Clarke, Erwin Strauss
Balticon 53	May 24-27, 2019	Renaissance Baltimore Harborplace Hotel	Baltimore, MD	Elizabeth Bear, Scott Lynch, Charles Vess, Nicky Draydenl, Gregory Benford
Balticon 54 Balticon 54 Virtual	May 22-25, 2020 (virtual)	Balticon.org		Wen Spencer, R. F. Kuang, Lee Moyer, Cheshire Moon, Jay & Leigh Targaryen
Balticon 55	May 28-31, 2021 (virtual)			Seanan McGuire, Alyssa Winans, Margaret Davis, Kristoph Klover, Bruce Evry, Cheryl Evry
Balticon 56	May 27-29, 2022	Renaissance Baltimore Harborplace Hotel	Baltimore, MD	Nancy Springer, Jen Midkiff, Steve Stiles
Balticon 57	May 26-29, 2023	Renaissance Harborplace Hotel	Baltimore, MD	Jane Yolen, Ariel Burgess, Technical Difficulties 2.0, Bryan Jordan
Balticon 58	May 24–27, 2024	Renaissance Baltimore Harborplace Hotel	Baltimore, MD	L. E. Modesitt, Jr., Sheila Williams, Rhiannon's Lark (Alyssa Yeager)
Balticon 59	May 23-26, 2025	Renaissance Baltimore Harborplace Hotel	Baltimore, MD	Silvia Moreno-Garcia, Sebastien de Castell, Kemi Ashing-Giwa, Marc Abrahams, Joanna Fang & Blake Collins, Stephanie Law, Baltimore Gamer Symphony Orchestra, Andre Norton

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