Odyssey Con (WI)

(Did you mean the New Zealand convention?)

A convention, also called OddCon, held in Madison, WI from 2001 to 2017. It seems to have had a cow theme -- each convention had a cow-pun-related subtitle. After a major controversy in 2017 which resulted in the withdrawal of all 3 GoHs (see Odyssey Con 2017 for more details), the convention went ahead that year with replacement guests, but was thereafter discontinued.

Convention	Dates	GoHs
2001: A Space Odyssey Con	March 30 - April 1, 2001	Vernor Vinge, Jack L. Chalker, Gary Gygax
Odyssey Con II -- The Trojan Cow	April 12-14, 2002	Timothy Zahn, David B. Coe, Gary Gygax
Odyssey Con III -- The Journey to Moo-Dor	April 4-6, 2003	Harry Turtledove, Catherine Asaro, John Kovalic
Odyssey Con IV -- The Mootrix: Remilked	April 2-4, 2004	David Weber, Joe Haldeman, Eric Larson
Odyssey Con V -- Steer Wars: The Holstein Strike Back	April 8-10, 2005	Lois McMaster Bujold, Tim Powers, Robh Ruppel
Odyssey Con VI -- Hereford Potter and the Half-n-Half Prince	April 7-9, 2006	Jane Lindskold, Gardner Dozois
Odyssey Con VII -- Adventures of SuperMoo! 'Truth, Justice, and the Milkyway!'	April 13-15, 2007	Joan D. Vinge, Jack McDevitt, Christopher Jones
Odyssey Con VIII -- Tale of Ice Cream and Fire	April 4-6, 2008	George R. R. Martin, Kage Baker, Richard Russell
Odyssey Con IX -- Year of the Cow	April 24-26, 2009	Emma Bull, Patrick Rothfuss, Georgie Schnobrich
Odyssey Con X -- The Year We Made Odd-Contact	April 16-18, 2010	Harry Turtledove, Tobias Buckell, Monte Cook
Odyssey Con XI -- Now in 3D	April 8-10, 2011	J. V. Jones, Sarah Monette, Robin D. Laws
Odyssey Con XII -- Apocalypse Cow: The Year the Earth Gets Creamed!	April 20-22, 2012	Larry Niven, Steven Barnes, Kenneth Hite
Odyssey Con XIII -- Steer Trek	April 12-14, 2013	Alex Bledsoe, Kevin Hearne, Lynn Laakso
Odyssey Con XIV -- Doctor Moo	April 4-6, 2014	Richard Lee Byers, Troy Denning, Peter Lee
Odyssey Con XV -- The Grazing Dead	April 10-12, 2015	Heather Brewer, Matt Forbeck, Jonathan Maberry
Odyssey Con XVI -- Powered by Moogic	April 8-10, 2016	Marjorie Liu, Brandon Sanderson, Margaret Weis
Odyssey Con 2017 -- Forbidden Pasture	April 28-30, 2017	withdrawals: Christopher R. Mihm, Monica Valentinelli, and Tad Williams; replacements: Michael Butts and Brent Chumley

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Convention
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