Eurocon

Eurocon is an annual moving SF convention in Europe organized under the auspices of / voted by the European Science Fiction Society, where the European SF Awards are voted and presented. It has increasingly tried to emulate the Worldcon and the WSFS, so the venue is selected two years in advance but by national delegations. (During the Cold War, much effort was given to alternate both sides of the Iron Curtain. This was maintained during the Eurocon heyday ca 1990–2010, simply due to purchasing power parity.)

The first Eurocon was held in Trieste, Italy, 1972 and went on to be biannual, leaping odd years until 1983 and 1987, becoming annual ever since. To complicate the fanhistory, at the 1980 Eurocon 5 (actually, roman numerals were more official back then) it was decided to include retroactively in the counting the First International SF Convention in Zurich, Switzerland, August 1959 (not to be mistaken for the alternate title of the 1951 London Festivention!), so the 1982 Eurocon became "Eurocon 7", skipping 6 (and bringing much bad luck). This caused some confusion in the 1980es (not to mention the 2010es Wikipedians, counting backwards without bothering to read the period newszines); however, around 1984 such a form of serial numbers was largely well-lost to "Eurocon YEAR", or other event name.

(To confuse the matters even more, "EUROCON" – usually capitalised – is also the European convention of the wikipedia:Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, started in 1971. They own many domains in the form of eurocon20XX.com.)

• https://ESFS.info/eurocons – official website
• wikipedia:Eurocon – full of errors
• A Decade of Eurocons 1995–2005 by Jonathan Cowie at Concatenation
• CounterClock 39 (2021) has an imperfect overview ("THE 50 YEAR HISTORY of the EUROCON: The 1970's and 1980's", partially sourced from Eurosmof Facebook group

#	Date	Location	Convention	GoHs, Notes
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	Poznań, 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	Festival der Fantastik	John Brunner (event was a last-moment stopgap after THREE folded bids)
7	September 16–18, 1983	Ljubljana, Slovenia, Yugoslavia	Eurocon 8	local event Fantazija was also natcon Yukon
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, Croatia, Yugoslavia	Ballcon	Sam Lundwall
10	Oct 29 – Nov 1, 1987	Montpellier, 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	Fayence, 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, UK	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	Gdynia, 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 3–7, 2002	Chotěboř, Czechia	Parcon 2002	George R. R. Martin, Robert Holdstock, Jim Burns, Kir Bulychev (RU), Andrzej Sapkowski + 10 lower-tier "Eurocon guests" (see article)
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	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, Sergei Lukyanenko, Bruce Sterling, Geoffrey Landis, Mary Turzillo
32	August 26–29, 2010	Cieszyn, Poland + Český Těšín, CZ	Polcon 2010/ Parcon 2010	Orson Scott Card, Juraj Červenák (SK), Andrzej Sapkowski (PL), Miroslav Žamboch (CZ)
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 2012	Tim Powers, Charles Stross, Dmitry Glukhovsky, Darko Macan, Cheryl Morgan + Ghost of Honour 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, Northern Ireland, UK	TitanCon 2019	George R. R. Martin, James Roberts, Pat Cadigan, Peadar Ó Guilín
42	October 2–4, 2020	Rijeka, Croatia / virtual for Covid-19	Futuricon	Adrian Tchaikovsky, Ivica Puljak, Robert Whitehead
43	(March 18–21 Covid-19 postponed in Nov '20) July 15–18, 2021	Fiuggi, Italy	Deepcon 21/ Italcon 47/ Eurocon 2021	Marco Casolino, Giuliano Giuffrida, Shun Iwasawa, Hanne Madeleine Paine, Maurizio Manzieri, Chase Masterson, Ian McDonald, Eric A. Stillwell, Licia Troisi
44	7–10 April 2022	Dudelange, Luxembourg	Luxcon 2022	Aliette de Bodard; other promoted guests didn't rate GoH status
45	June 8–11, 2023	Uppsala, Sweden	Konflikt

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