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For example, a Dinosaur is a member who was active before the first Worldcon ( World Science Fiction Convention ) held on July 4, 1939, while Associate Membership requires provable activity in fandom for more than three decades.
Worldcon has been the premier convention in fandom for over half a century ; it is at this convention that the Hugo Awards are bestowed, and attendance can approach 8, 000 or more.
In order to announce guests immediately after site selection, Worldcon bid committees select one or more guests before the site selection vote.
The magazine has since won its first Hugo Award in August 2009 at the 2009 Worldcon in Montreal, two Hugo Award nominations in subsequent years, and its first World Fantasy Award nomination in more than 17 years.

Worldcon and World
Among the most respected awards for science fiction are the Hugo Award, presented by the World Science Fiction Society at Worldcon ; the Nebula Award, presented by SFWA and voted on by the community of authors ; and the John W. Campbell Memorial Award for Best Science Fiction Novel and Theodore Sturgeon Memorial Award for short fiction.
) The 1st World Science Fiction Convention or Worldcon was held in conjunction with the 1939 New York World's Fair, and has been held annually since the end of World War II.
The name Worldcon is owned by the World Science Fiction Society ( WSFS ), an unincorporated literary society whose purpose is to promote interest in science fiction.
Later, and for many years, at the British science fiction convention Eastercon, he would deliver a humorous speech ( often part of his famous series known by the tongue-in-cheek label of " Serious Scientific Talks "); these were eventually collected in The Eastercon Speeches ( 1979 ) and A Load of Old Bosh ( 1995 ), which included a similar talk from the 1979 Worldcon in Brighton, 37th World Science Fiction Convention.
The nomination and selection process is administered by the World Science Fiction Society ( WSFS ) represented by the current Worldcon committee, and the award is presented at the Hugo Award ceremony at the Worldcon, although it is not itself a Hugo Award.
Retro Hugos may only be awarded for years in which a World Science Fiction Convention, or Worldcon, was hosted, but no awards were originally given.
Hugo Award nominees and winners are chosen by supporting or attending members of the annual World Science Fiction Convention ( Worldcon ) and the presentation evening constitutes its central event.
Hugo Award nominees and winners are chosen by the supporting and attending members of the annual World Science Fiction Convention, or Worldcon, and the presentation evening constitutes its central event.
Hugo Award nominees and winners are chosen by supporting or attending members of the annual World Science Fiction Convention, or Worldcon, and the award presentation constitutes its central event.
Retro Hugos may only be awarded for years in which a World Science Fiction Convention, or Worldcon, was hosted, but no awards were originally given.
Hugo Award nominees and winners are chosen by supporting or attending members of the annual World Science Fiction Convention ( Worldcon ), and the presentation evening constitutes its central event.
Hugo Award nominees and winners are chosen by supporting or attending members of the annual World Science Fiction Convention, or Worldcon, and the presentation evening constitutes its central event.
Hugo Award nominees and winners are chosen by supporting or attending members of the annual World Science Fiction Convention, or Worldcon, and the presentation evening constitutes its central event.
Hugo Award nominees and winners are chosen by supporting or attending members of the annual World Science Fiction Convention, or Worldcon, and the presentation evening constitutes its central event.
Hugo Award nominees and winners are chosen by supporting or attending members of the annual World Science Fiction Convention, or Worldcon, and the presentation evening constitutes its central event.
Hugo Award nominees and winners are chosen by supporting or attending members of the annual World Science Fiction Convention ( Worldcon ), and the presentation evening constitutes its central event.
The 1982 World Science Fiction Convention ( Worldcon ) committee presented Glyer a special award in 1982 for " Keeping the Fan in Fanzine Publishing.
Glyer chaired the 1996 Worldcon, L. A. con III, the 54th World Science Fiction Convention, held in Anaheim, CA.
He previously co-chaired the science fiction convention Westercon 31, held in Los Angeles, CA in 1978, that was inspired by its Baskin-Robbins-esque number to hold the first " Ice Cream Social " at a regional science fiction convention ; a similar ice cream social had been held in 1969 at a Worldcon, St. Louiscon, the 27th World Science Fiction Convention in St. Louis, MO.

Worldcon and Science
When a Worldcon is held outside of North America, a North American Science Fiction Convention or NASFiC may be held within North America that same year.
The term was coined by Nobuyuki Takahashi of the Japanese studio Studio Hard while attending the 1984 Los Angeles Science Fiction Worldcon.

Worldcon and Convention
Other awards may be presented at Worldcon at the discretion of the individual Convention Committee.
File 770 is a long-running science fiction fanzine and newszine published by Mike Glyer ; it is named after the now legendary party held in Room 770 at Nolacon, the 9th World Science Fiction Convention in New Orleans, Louisiana, that ran continuously for nearly two days and upstaged all the other events at that 1951 Worldcon.
In 1958, she put together the " Worldcon Futuristic Fashion Show " at Solacon, the 1958 16th World Science Fiction Convention.
For the 1961 Worldcon in Seattle, Washington, Seacon, see 19th World Science Fiction Convention.
For the 1979 Worldcon in Brighton, England, Seacon ' 79, see 37th World Science Fiction Convention.
NASFiC, a. k. a. the North American Science Fiction Convention, is a science fiction convention scheduled only during years where the Worldcon is being held outside of the North American continent.

Worldcon and is
This led MIT students attending the 1971 Worldcon to chant, " The Ringworld is unstable!
The story includes a semi-illegal fictional Minneapolis Worldcon in a post-disaster world where science, and thus fandom, is disparaged.
These are the only events that a Worldcon is required to hold according to the WSFS constitution.
The award is voted on by Worldcon members.
The WSFS constitution itself is discussed and amended by the annual general meeting, known as the " business meeting ", held at the Worldcon, usually in three morning sessions on successive days.
Since 1975, when a Worldcon site outside North America is selected, WSFS administers a parallel selection process for NASFiC, voted on by WSFS members at the following year's Worldcon, ( if there is no NASFiC in that year ), or by the following year's NASFiC, if there is one.
As WSFS itself is an unincorporated society, each Worldcon is organized by a separate committee incorporated in the local jurisdiction ; in the United States, these are usually set up as 501 ( c )( 3 ) non-profit corporations.
While each convention is run separately by the local committee, an informal and self-selected group of volunteers constitute the " Permanent Floating Worldcon Committee " who volunteer for many Worldcons in different years ; this group offers a measure of institutional continuity to otherwise disparate legal organizations.
It is commonplace for Worldcon attendees to wear their ribbons from previous Worldcons alongside or below their current Worldcon ribbon, occasionally incurring minor confusion.

Worldcon and science
That the founder of genre science fiction who gave his name to the field's most prestigious award and who was the Guest of Honor at the 1952 Worldcon was pretty much a crook ( and a contemptuous crook who stiffed his writers but paid himself $ 100K a year as President of Gernsback Publications ) has been clearly established.
Strauss has been chair of a number of science fiction conventions, such as Boskone 3 in 1966 and RailCon in 1975 ; and a member of the committee for at least one Worldcon, Noreascon 3, in 1989.
Recently Jackson has exhibited his elaborate Chaos Machine at several science fiction or wargaming conventions, including the 2006 Worldcon.
Trimble's introduction to science fiction fandom was TASFiC, the 1952 Worldcon.
In 2000, Chwedyk oversaw the writer's workshop at Chicon 2000, the Worldcon, and has overseen several other writers workshops at science fiction conventions over the years, often running the workshop at Windycon.
The results are generally announced and presented at Gaylaxicon, a convention dedicated to LGBT science fiction, although they have also been presented at Worldcon in the past.
The World Science Fiction Convention ( Worldcon ) awarded a Hugo Award each year to the best science fiction magazine, until that award was changed to one for Best Editor in the early 1970s ; the Best Semi-Professional Magazine award can go to either a news-oriented magazine or a small press fiction magazine.
Originally intended to run only until the site-selection vote was taken at St. Louiscon, the 1969 Worldcon in St. Louis, Missouri, Brown decided to continue publishing Locus as a mimeographed general science fiction and fantasy newszine.
The beginning of the Golden Age coincided with the first Worldcon in 1939 and, especially for its most involved fans, science fiction was becoming a powerful social force.
Originally intended to run only until the site-selection vote was taken at St. Louiscon, the 1969 Worldcon in St. Louis, Missouri, Brown decided to continue publishing Locus as a general science fiction and fantasy newszine.
In accordance with established Worldcon tradition, he was retained as a guest of honor in memory of his contributions to the science fiction field.

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