Eurocon is an annual science fiction

Science fiction

Science fiction is a genre of fiction dealing with imaginary but more or less plausible content such as future settings, futuristic science and technology, space travel, aliens, and paranormal abilities...

 convention held in Europe

Europe

Europe is, by convention, one of the world's seven continents. Comprising the westernmost peninsula of Eurasia, Europe is generally 'divided' from Asia to its east by the watershed divides of the Ural and Caucasus Mountains, the Ural River, the Caspian and Black Seas, and the waterways connecting...

. The organising committee of each Eurocon is selected by vote of the participants of the previous event. The procedure is coordinated by the European Science Fiction Society

European Science Fiction Society

The European Science Fiction Society is an international organisation of professionals and fans who are committed to promoting Science Fiction in Europe and European Science Fiction worldwide....

. The first Eurocon was held in Trieste

Trieste

Trieste is a city and seaport in northeastern Italy. It is situated towards the end of a narrow strip of land lying between the Adriatic Sea and Italy's border with Slovenia, which lies almost immediately south and east of the city...

, Italy

Italy

Italy , officially the Italian Republic languages]] under the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages. In each of these, Italy's official name is as follows:;;;;;;;;), is a unitary parliamentary republic in South-Central Europe. To the north it borders France, Switzerland, Austria and...

, in 1972. Unlike Worldcon

Worldcon

Worldcon, or more formally The World Science Fiction Convention, is a science fiction convention held each year since 1939 . It is the annual convention of the World Science Fiction Society...

s, Eurocon is usually a title attached to an existing convention. The European SF Awards are given in most of the conventions giving recognition to the best works and achievements in science fiction.

European SF Award

• Artist: Karel Thole
  Karel Thole
  Carolus Adrianus Maria Thole was a Dutch painter and illustrator.He was born in Bussum, near Amsterdam, and was educated at State Drawing School of Amsterdam's Rijksmuseum....
  
   (Italy)
• Specialized Professional Magazine: Nueva Dimensión (Spain)
• Non-Specialized Professional Magazine: Viata Romaneasca (Romania)
• Fanzine: Speculations (United Kingdom)
• Comics: Lone Sloane
  Lone Sloane
  Lone Sloane is a science fiction comics character created in 1966 by the French cartoonist Philippe Druillet.-Publication history:Lone Sloane's first episode was that of Druillet's very debut, Mystère des Abîmes, published in 1966. The following stories were published on the French magazine Pilote...
  
  , by Philippe Druillet
  Philippe Druillet
  Philippe Druillet is a French comics artist and creator, and an innovator in visual design.-Biography:Druillet was born in Toulouse, Haute-Garonne, France but spent his youth in Spain, returning to France in 1952 after the death of his father...
  
   (France)

European SF Special Awards

• Novel:

Belgium - Sam, Paul Van Herck;
France - Ortog et les tenebres, Kurt Steiner;
Hungary - A Feladat, Peter Zsoldos;
Italy - Autocrisi, Pierfrancesco Prosperi;
Netherlands - De naakten en de speyers, Jacob Carossa;
Romania - Va cauta untaur, Sergiu Farcasan;
Spain - Amor en una Isla Verde, Gabriel Bermudez;
Sweden - Deta ar Verkligheten, Bertil Matensson;
United Kingdom - All Judgement Fled, James White;

• Short Story:

Belgium - De 8 jaarlijkse God Eddy C. Bertin;
France - L'Assassinat de l'Oiseau Bleu, Daniel Walther;
Hungary - Sempiternin, Lajos Mesterhazi;
Italy - Dove Muore l'Astragalo, Livio Horrakh;
Netherlands - Egeïsche Zee Carl Lans;
Romania - Altarul Zeilor Stohastici Adrian Rogoz;
Sweden - Spranget, Carl Johan Holzhausen;
United Kingdom - Lucifer, Edwin C. Tubb;

• Dramatic Production:

Denmark - Man Den, Der Tankte Ting (Film);
Italy - La Ragazza di Latta (Film);
Netherlands - De Kleine Mannetjes van Mars (Radiophonic play for children);
Sweden - Deadline (Film);
United Kingdom - UFO (TV Serial);

• Artist:

France - Jean-Francois Jamoul;
Hungary - Andras Miklos Saros;
Netherlands - N. van Welzenes;
Romania - Nicolae Saftoiu;
Spain - Enrique Torres (Enric);
Sweden - Sven O. Gripsborn;
United Kingdom - Arthur Thompson (Atom);

• Specialized Professional Magazine: Spain - Galassia

• Non-Specialized Professional Magazine:

Belgium - Ciso - SF & Comics;
France - Le Magazine Litteraire: La Science-Fiction;
Italy - Fena rete: Fantascienza & Futuribile;
Netherlands - Stripschrift: SF & Comics;
Spain - Yorick: Teatro y Ciencia-Ficcion;

• Fanzine:

Austria - Quarber Merkur;
Belgium - Kosmos;
France - Nyarlathotep;
Hungary - SF Tajekoztato;
Italy - Notiziario CCSF;
Netherlands - Holland-SF;
Romania - Solaris;
Spain - Fundacion;
Sweden - SF Forum;
Turkey - Antares;

• Comics:

Belgium - Yoko Tsuno, R. Leloup;
Netherlands - Arman en Ilva, The Tjong King;
Spain - Haxtur, Victor de la Fuente;
Sweden - Blixt Gordon, Lars Olsson;

• Essay, biography, bibliography:

Hungary - A Fantazia Irodalma, Laszlo Urban;
Netherlands - 100 jaar SF in Nederland, Dick Scheepstra;
Romania - Virsta de Aur a Anticipatiei Romanesti, Ion Hobana;
Spain - La SF: Contramitologia del Siglo XX, Carlo Frabetti (Essay);
Ray Bradbury-Humanista del Futuro,Jose Luis Garci (Book);
Sweden - SF Articles in 'Sydsvenska Dagbladet', Sven Christer Swahn;

European SF Award

• Belgium - Jacques van Herp
• Bulgaria - Liuben Dilov
• Denmark - Jannick Storn
• France - Gerard Klein
• German Democratic Republic - Gerhardt Brandstner
• Hungary - Peter Zsoldos
• Italy - Karel Thole
• Norway - Peter Harris
• Poland - Czeslaw Chruszczewski
• Romania - Vladimir Colin
• Soviet Union - Eremei Parnov
• Spain - Miguel Masriera
• Sweden - Roland Aldenberg
• United Kingdom - Brain W. Aldiss
• West Germany - Herbert W. Franke
• Yugoslavia - Ivan Lalic
• Netherlands - Bruna Publishing House
• Belgium - Ides et Autres (anthologies of translations)
• Czechoslovakia - Interpress Magazin

Special Awards

• Lifelong Literary Achievement:Stanislaw Lem (Poland)
• Artistic Achievement: Alexei Leonov (for his cosmic paintings)
• Special Award from the Jury: Mircea Opriţă (Romania) (special award of the jury)

Science Fiction Awards

• Series: Ailleurs et demain Robert Laffont (France)
• Anthology: Planete socialiste Kesselring (Switzerland)
• Novel: Les hauteurs beantes Alexandru Zinoviev (Soviet Dissident)
• Collection: Low-Flying Aircraft James Ballard (United Kingdom)
• Professional Magazine: Futurs (France)
• Semi-Professional Magazine: Orbit (Netherlands)
• Fanzine: Zikkurath (Spain)
• Essay: Le frontiere dell'ignoto Vittorio Curtoni
  Vittorio Curtoni
  Vittorio Curtoni was an Italian science fiction writer and translator.-Biography:Curtoni was born at San Pietro in Cerro, in the province of Piacenza, and entered the Italian science fiction world at a very young age. In 1970 he was co-editor of Galassia, a series publishing science fiction novels...
  
   (Italy)
• Cycle of Novels: La Saga de los Aznar George H. White (Spain)
• Artist: Chris Foss (United Kingdom)
• Comics: Mailis Claude Auclair (France)
• Film: The Man Who Fell to Earth
  The Man Who Fell to Earth
  The Man Who Fell to Earth is a 1963 science fiction novel by American author Walter Tevis, about an extraterrestrial who lands on Earth seeking a way to ferry his people to Earth from his home planet, which is suffering from a severe drought...
  
  by Nicholas Roeg (United Kingdom)
• Play: Sodomaquina Carlo Frabetti (Spain)
• Translator: Zoran Zivkovic (Yugoslavia)

Fantastic & Fantasy Award

• Publisher: Marabout (Belgium)
• Anthologists: Jacques Goimard & Roland Stragliati (France)
• Novel: Foret interdite Mircea Eliade (Romania)
• Collection: Derriere le mur blanc Eddy C. Bertin (Belgium)
• Professional Magazine: Terzo Occhio (Italy)
• Semi-Professional Magazine: Cahiers Jean Ray (Belgium)
• Fanzine: Odyssee (Belgium)
• Essay: Un nouveau fantastique Jean Pierre Baronian (Belgium)
• Cycle of Novels: Bob Morane Henri Vernes (Belgium)
• Artist: Gaston Bogaert (Belgium)
• Comics: Il dono Roberto Bonadimani (Italy)
• Film Actor: Paul Naschy (Spain)
• Playwright: Slawomir Mrozek (Poland)
• Translator: Roberto Rambelli (Italy)

European SF Award

• Novel: The White Dragon Anne McCaffrey (United Kingdom); Babel Vladimir Colin (Romania)
• Story: Der Rote Kristallplanet Gerd Maximovic (West Germany); Evadarea lui Algemon Gheorghe Sasarman (Romania)
• Artist: Franco Storchi (Italy); Roger Dean (United Kingdom)
• Publisher: Editrice Nord (Italy); Krajowa Wydawnicza (Poland)
• Fanzine: SF...ere (Italy); Omicron (Romania)
• Film: Sconti stellari Luigi Cozzi (Italy); Cover coga trebiti ubiti (Yugoslavia)
• Comics: Rosa di stelle Roberto Bonadimani (Italy); In lumea lui Harap Alb Sandu Florea (Romania)

Special Awards

• Author: John Brunner (United Kingdom); Stanlislaw Lem (Poland)
• Artist: Karel Thole (Italy)
• Essay: 20.000 pagine alla ricerca di Jules Verne Ion Hobana (Romania); Lovecraft S. Fusco & G. de Turris (Italy)
• Fan: Waldemar Kumming (West Germany); Andrej Pruszynski (Poland)
• Best Artwork Exhibited: Oliviero Berni (Italy)

European SF Award

• Author: Arkadi & Boris Strugatski (Soviet Union); Jacques Sadoul (France); John Brunner (United Kingdom)
• Professional Magazine: Antares (France)
• Fanzine: Shards of Babel (Netherlands)
• Publisher: Heyne (West Germany); KAW (Poland)

European SF Award

• Author: Istvan Nemere (Hungary); Christopher Priest (United Kingdom)
• Professional Magazine: Fantastyka (Poland); Solaris (West Germany)
• Book: Ljudju, zvezde, vesolja Bajt (Yugoslavia); Zvid Scerbakov (Soviet Union)
• Fanzine: Shards of Babel (Netherlands); Kvazar (Poland)
• Publisher: Tehniska Zalozba Slovenije (Yugoslavia); Galaktika (Bulgaria)

1984: Brighton

Brighton

Brighton is the major part of the city of Brighton and Hove in East Sussex, England on the south coast of Great Britain...

, United Kingdom

United Kingdom

The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern IrelandIn the United Kingdom and Dependencies, other languages have been officially recognised as legitimate autochthonous languages under the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages...

 (SeaCon'84)

Guests of honour: Christopher Priest, Roger Zelazny

Roger Zelazny

Roger Joseph Zelazny was an American writer of fantasy and science fiction short stories and novels, best known for his The Chronicles of Amber series...

, Pierre Barbet

Pierre Barbet

Pierre Barbet was the main pseudonym used by French science fiction writer and pharmacist Claude Avice. Claude Avice also used the pseudonyms of Olivier Sprigel and David Maine...

, Josef Nesvadba

Josef Nesvadba

Josef Nesvadba was a Czech writer, best known in the English-speaking world for his science fiction short stories, many of which have appeared in English translation.-Biography:...

 and Waldemar Kumming

European SF Award

• Special Award: Science in SF Nicholls, Langford and Stableford (United Kingdom); Centre International pour documentation sur la literature de l'etange (Belgium); Eremei Panov (Soviet Union)
• Novelist: John Brunner (United Kingdom); Gianluigi Zuddas (Italy); Janusz Zadjel (Poland)
• Short Story Writer: James Ballard (United Kingdom); A. de Ceglie (Italy); Kiril Buliciov (Soviet Union)
• Artist: D. Hardy (United Kingdom); G. Festino (Italy); R. Wojitinski (Poland)
• Publisher: Gollancz (United Kingdom); Fleuve Noir (France); Mir (Soviet Union)
• Professional Magazine: Foundation (United Kingdom); Fiction (France); Sirius (Yugoslavia)
• Fanzine: Epsilon (United Kingdom); Andromeda Nachrichten (West Germany); Helion (Romania)
• Screenwriter: R. Erler (West Germany); Cinghiz Aitmanov (Soviet Union)
• Film Director: P. Szulkin (Poland); M. Jankovits (Hungary)

1986: Zagreb

Zagreb

Zagreb is the capital and the largest city of the Republic of Croatia. It is in the northwest of the country, along the Sava river, at the southern slopes of the Medvednica mountain. Zagreb lies at an elevation of approximately above sea level. According to the last official census, Zagreb's city...

, Yugoslavia

Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia

The Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia was the Yugoslav state that existed from the abolition of the Yugoslav monarchy until it was dissolved in 1992 amid the Yugoslav Wars. It was a socialist state and a federation made up of six socialist republics: Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia,...

 (Ballcon)

Guest of honour: Sam Lundwall

Sam Lundwall

Sam Jerrie Lundwall is a Swedish science fiction writer, translator, publisher and singer. He translated a number of science-fiction-related articles and works from Swedish into English.n]]...

European SF Award

• Special Award: Iskry (Poland); Solfanelli Editore (Italy)
• Magazine: Urania
  Urania (magazine)
  Urania is an Italian science fiction magazine published by Arnoldo Mondadori Editore since October 10, 1952.-History:The first issue featured the novel The Sands of Mars by Arthur C. Clarke...
  
  (Italy); Sirius (Yugoslavia); Fantastika (Poland); Galaktika (Hungary); Jules Verne Magazinet (Sweden); Zapisnk (Czechoslovakia)
• Fanzine: La Spada Spezzata (Italy); Fikcje (Poland); Ikarie (Czechoslovakia)
• Publisher: Heyne Verlag (Germany); Gollancz (United Kingdom); Denoël
  Éditions Denoël
  Éditions Denoël is a French publishing house founded in 1930 by the Belgian Robert Denoël and the American Bernard Steele .Called the Éditions Denoël-Steel during its first few years, it had its first success in 1932 with Voyage au bout de la nuit by Louis-Ferdinand Céline...
  
   (France); Alfa (Poland); Mora (Hungary); Fanucci (Italy)
• Editor: Wolfgang Jeschke (Germany); Jacques Sadoul (France); Peter Kuczka (Hungary); Sandro Pergameno (Italy); Adam Hollanek (Poland)
• Television: Bogdanoff
• Posthumous: Julia Verlanger; Janusz Zajdel

Bulgaria

• Author: Liubomor Nikolov (for the novel Earthform in the Summerwind)
• Artist: Rumen Urumov

France

• Lifelong Literary Achievement: Michel Jeury
• Collection: Yves Fremion (for collection of stories Reves du sable, chateaux de sang
• Comic: Pierre Christin & Jean-Claude Mezieres (for comics series Valerian)
• Series: Ailleurs et demain - Edited by Gerard Klein ("Robert Laffont")

Hungary

• Author: Miklos Monus (for the novel He and It)
• Artist: Csaba Jancso (for graphic work)
• Publisher: Nepszava Publishing House
• Fanzine: Metamorphozis

Italy

• Author: Renato Pestriniero (for the novel Il nido al di la dell'ombra)
• Series: Cosmo Argento - Edited by Piergiorgio Nicolazzini ("Editrice Nord")
• Magazine: Dimensione Cosmica
• Translations: Annarita Guarnieri

Poland

• Lifelong Literary Achievement: Wiktor Zwikiewicz
• Publisher: Iskry Publishing House
• Fanzine: Feniks

Portugal

• Author: João Aniceto (for the novel O desafio)
• Essay: Alvaro de Sousa Holstein Ferreria & Joao Manuel Morais for their Bibliografia da Ficcão Científica e Fantasia Portuguesa
• Series: Contacto, edited by Joao Manuel Barreiros (Gradiva)

Romania

• Lifelong Literary Achievement: Victor Kembach
• Author: Cristian Tudor Popescu (for his short stories)
• Series: Fantastic Club, series ("Albatros")
• Anticipația almanac published by the magazine Știința și tehnica
• Fanzine: Paradox

Soviet Union (USSR)

• Lifelong Literary Achievement: Arkady & Boris Strugatski
• Author: Vitali Babenko (for his short stories)
• TV-Series: Cosmonaut Gherghi Gretchko, for the TV-series Fantastic World
• Publisher: Detskaia Literatura Publishing House
• Magazine: Prostor
• Translation: Maria Ossintseva

Bulgaria

• Lifelong Literary Achievement: Vessella Lutzkanova
• Artist: Plamen Avramov
• Magazine: FEP ("Fantastika, Evristika, Prognostika")

Finland

• Author: Karl Nenonen
• Publisher: Ursa Publishing House
• Magazine: Portti

Hungary

• Lifelong Literary Achievement: Laszlo Lorincze
• Author: Hugo Preyer (for the novel Galaktikai jatekom)
• Artist: Ivan Marko
• Publisher: Vega Publishing House
• Magazine: Elixir

Italy

• Lifelong Literary Achievement: Lino Aldani
• Lifelong Artistic Achievement: Karel Thole
• Promoter: Ernesto Vegetti
• Publisher: Marino Solfanelli Publishing House
• Magazine: Urania

Poland

• Critic: Andrzej Niewiadowski
• Artist: Dariusz Chojnacki
• Publisher: Alfa Publishing House
• The editorial staff of the magazines Fantasyka, MalaFantasyka, Fantasyka Comics

Portugal

• Author: Romeu de Melo
• Publisher: Livros do Brasil (for Argonauta series)

Romania

• Lifelong Literary Achievement: Vladimir Colin
• Artist: Traian Abruda & Cornel Ionicelli
• Critic: Cornel Robu (for critical edition of Victor Anestin's work)
• Magazine: Romanian Review (for the issue dedicated to Romanian SF)
• Fanzine: Helion

Soviet Union (USSR)

• Author & Screen Writer: Karen Shahnasarov
• Publisher: Sovetscaia Rossia Publishing House

Yugoslavia

• Artist: Igor Kordey
• Bibliography: Zivko Prodanovich (for his SF Bibliography in Braille)

Hall of Fame

• Best Author: Romulus Barbulescu & George Anania (Romania)
• Best Artist: Philippe Druillet (France)
• Best Publisher: Wiktor Bukato (Poland)
• Best Magazine: Ikarie (Czechoslovakia)
• Best Promoter: Boris Zavgorodni (USSR)

Encouragement Awards

• Czechoslovakia: Martin Zhouf
• France: Bernard Simonay
• Hungary: Joszef Nemeth
• Romania: Mihail Gramescu
• USSR: Lukin Couple

Hall of Fame

• Best Author: Stanislaw Lem (Poland)
• Best Artist: Kaja Saudek (Czechoslovakia)
• Best Publisher: Unwin/Hyman (United Kingdom)
• Best Magazine: Interzone (United Kingdom)
• Best Promoter: Kees van Toorn (Netherlands)

Encouragement Awards

• Belgium - Johan Desseyn
• Bulgaria - Val Todorov
• Czechoslovakia - Vilma Kadleckova
• Germany - Maria J. Pfamnholz
• Italy - Daniele Vecchi
• Lithuania - Evaldas Livthevicius
• Netherlands - Paul Harland
• Romania - Alexandru Ungureanu (new writer)
• United Kingdom - Eric Brown
• USSR - Andrei Lazarchuk
• Romania - Tudor Popa (new artist)

Special Achievement Award

• Piotr W. Cholewa and Piotr "Raku" Rak - acknowledging their work for international fandom

1992: Freudenstadt

Freudenstadt

Freudenstadt is a town in Baden-Württemberg in southern Germany. It is capital of the district Freudenstadt. The closest population centres are Offenburg to the west and Tübingen to the east ....

, Germany

Germany

Germany , officially the Federal Republic of Germany , is a federal parliamentary republic in Europe. The country consists of 16 states while the capital and largest city is Berlin. Germany covers an area of 357,021 km2 and has a largely temperate seasonal climate...

 (FreuCon XII)

Guests of honour: John Brunner

John Brunner (novelist)

John Kilian Houston Brunner was a prolific British author of science fiction novels and stories. His 1968 novel Stand on Zanzibar, about an overpopulated world, won the 1968 Hugo Award for best science fiction novel. It also won the BSFA award the same year...

, Iain Banks

Iain Banks

Iain Banks is a Scottish writer. He writes mainstream fiction under the name Iain Banks, and science fiction as Iain M. Banks, including the initial of his adopted middle name Menzies...

, Norman Spinrad

Norman Spinrad

Norman Richard Spinrad is an American science fiction author.Born in New York City, Spinrad is a graduate of the Bronx High School of Science. In 1957 he entered City College of New York and graduated in 1961 with a Bachelor of Science degree as a pre-law major. In 1966 he moved to San Francisco,...

 and Daniel Walther

Hall of Fame

• Best Author: Arkady & Boris Strugatsky (Russia)
• Best Artist: Teodor Rotrekl (Czechoslovakia)
• Best Publisher: Wilhelm Heyne Verlag (Germany)
• Best Magazine: Foundation (United Kingdom)
• Best Promoter: Alexandre Hlinka & Vladimir Veverka (Czechoslovakia)

1993: Saint Helier

Saint Helier

Saint Helier is one of the twelve parishes of Jersey, the largest of the Channel Islands in the English Channel. St. Helier has a population of about 28,000, roughly 31.2% of the total population of Jersey, and is the capital of the Island . The urban area of the parish of St...

, Jersey

Jersey

Jersey, officially the Bailiwick of Jersey is a British Crown Dependency off the coast of Normandy, France. As well as the island of Jersey itself, the bailiwick includes two groups of small islands that are no longer permanently inhabited, the Minquiers and Écréhous, and the Pierres de Lecq and...

 (Helicon)

Guests of honour: John Brunner

John Brunner (novelist)

John Kilian Houston Brunner was a prolific British author of science fiction novels and stories. His 1968 novel Stand on Zanzibar, about an overpopulated world, won the 1968 Hugo Award for best science fiction novel. It also won the BSFA award the same year...

, George R. R. Martin

George R. R. Martin

George Raymond Richard Martin , sometimes referred to as GRRM, is an American author and screenwriter of fantasy, horror, and science fiction. He is best known for A Song of Ice and Fire, his bestselling series of epic fantasy novels that HBO adapted for their dramatic pay-cable series Game of...

, Karel Thole

Karel Thole

Carolus Adrianus Maria Thole was a Dutch painter and illustrator.He was born in Bussum, near Amsterdam, and was educated at State Drawing School of Amsterdam's Rijksmuseum....

 and Larry van der Putte

Hall of Fame

• Best Author: Iain Banks (United Kingdom)
• Best Artist: Jim Burns (United Kingdom)
• Best Publisher: Phantom Press International (Poland)
• Best Magazine: Anticipatia (Romania)
• Best Promoter: Larry van der Putte (Netherlands)

Spirit of Dedication Awards

• Best Fanzine: BEM (Spain)
• Best Work of Art: Gilles Francescano (France)

Encouragement Awards

• Belgium: Fons Boelanders
• France: Jean Pierre Planque
• Hungary: G. Nagy Pal
• Italy: Paolo Brera
• Norway: Cato Sture
• Poland: Radoslaw Dylis
• Russia: Vasily Zvygintsev
• Slovakia: Josef Zamay
• Spain: Paco Roca
• Ukraine: Ludmilla Kozinets
• United Kingdom: Sue Thomas

1994: Timişoara

Timisoara

Timișoara is the capital city of Timiș County, in western Romania. One of the largest Romanian cities, with an estimated population of 311,586 inhabitants , and considered the informal capital city of the historical region of Banat, Timișoara is the main social, economic and cultural center in the...

, Romania

Romania

Romania is a country located at the crossroads of Central and Southeastern Europe, on the Lower Danube, within and outside the Carpathian arch, bordering on the Black Sea...

 

Guests of honour: John Brunner

John Brunner (novelist)

John Kilian Houston Brunner was a prolific British author of science fiction novels and stories. His 1968 novel Stand on Zanzibar, about an overpopulated world, won the 1968 Hugo Award for best science fiction novel. It also won the BSFA award the same year...

, Herbert W. Franke

Herbert W. Franke

Herbert W. Franke is an Austrian scientist and writer. He is considered one of the most important science fiction authors in the German language....

, Joe Haldeman

Joe Haldeman

Joe William Haldeman is an American science fiction author.-Life :Haldeman was born June 9, 1943 in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma. His family traveled and he lived in Puerto Rico, New Orleans, Washington, D.C., Bethesda, Maryland and Anchorage, Alaska as a child. Haldeman married Mary Gay Potter, known...

, Moebius

Jean Giraud

Jean Henri Gaston Giraud is a French comics artist. Giraud has earned worldwide fame, not only under his own name but also under the pseudonym Moebius, and to a lesser extent Gir, the latter appearing mostly in the form of a boxed signature at the bottom of the artist's paintings, for instance the...

, Norman Spinrad

Norman Spinrad

Norman Richard Spinrad is an American science fiction author.Born in New York City, Spinrad is a graduate of the Bronx High School of Science. In 1957 he entered City College of New York and graduated in 1961 with a Bachelor of Science degree as a pre-law major. In 1966 he moved to San Francisco,...

 and Peter Cucska

Hall of Fame

• Best Author: Boris Shtern (Ukraine)
• Best Artist: Dimitre Iankov (Bulgaria)
• Best Publisher: Nemira (Romania) +
• Best Magazine: Jurnalul SF (Romania)
• Best Promoter: Cornel Secu (Romania)

Spirit of Dedication Awards

• Best Fanzine: The Science Fact & Science Fiction Concatenation (United Kingdom)
• Best Performance: Adrian Budritzan's Laser Show (Romania)
• Best Work of Art: Tudor Popa (Romania)

Encouragement Awards

• Bulgaria: Christo Poshtakov (new author)
• Finland: Risto Isomaki (new author)
• United Kingdom: Jeff Noon (new author)
• Ukraine: Lev Vershenen (new author)
• Romania: Tudor Popa (new artist)

1995: Glasgow

Glasgow

Glasgow is the largest city in Scotland and third most populous in the United Kingdom. The city is situated on the River Clyde in the country's west central lowlands...

, Scotland

Scotland

Scotland is a country that is part of the United Kingdom. Occupying the northern third of the island of Great Britain, it shares a border with England to the south and is bounded by the North Sea to the east, the Atlantic Ocean to the north and west, and the North Channel and Irish Sea to the...

 (Intersection

53rd World Science Fiction Convention

The 53rd World Science Fiction Convention , Intersection, was held in Glasgow, Scotland from 24-28 August 1995. The event was also the Eurocon. The venues for the 53rd Worldcon were the Scottish Exhibition and Conference Centre and the nearby Moat House Hotel...

, the event was also the Worldcon

Worldcon

Worldcon, or more formally The World Science Fiction Convention, is a science fiction convention held each year since 1939 . It is the annual convention of the World Science Fiction Society...

)

Guests of honour: Samuel R. Delany

Samuel R. Delany

Samuel Ray Delany, Jr., also known as "Chip" is an American author, professor and literary critic. His work includes a number of novels, many in the science fiction genre, as well as memoir, criticism, and essays on sexuality and society.His science fiction novels include Babel-17, The Einstein...

, Gerry Anderson

Gerry Anderson

Gerry Anderson MBE is a British publisher, producer, director and writer, famous for his futuristic television programmes, particularly those involving specially modified marionettes, a process called "Supermarionation"....

, Les Edwards

Les Edwards

Les Edwards is a British illustrator known for his work in the horror, science fiction and fantasy genres, and has provided numerous illustrations for book jackets, posters, magazines, record covers and games during his career...

 and Vin¢ Clarke

Vin¢ Clarke

A Vince Clarke , often known as Vin¢ Clarke, was a well-known British science fiction fan.He first made contact with fandom in 1938, and was active as a fanwriter and editor from 1948, including Science Fantasy News. He shared the fannish Epicentre flat in London with Ken Bulmer...

Hall of Fame

• Best Author: Alain le Bussy (Belgium)
• Best Artist: Juraj Maxon (Slovakia)
• Best Publisher: Babel Publications (Netherlands)
• Best Magazine: Andromeda Nachrichten (Germany)
• Best Promoter: Jaroslav Olsa (Czech Republic)

Hall of Fame

• Best Author: Andrezj Sapkowski (Poland)
• Best Artist: Denis Martynets (Ukraine)
• Best Publisher: Eridanas (Lithuania)
• Best Magazine: Alien Contact (Germany)
• Best Promoter: Gediminas Beresnevicius (Lithuania)
• Best Translator: Aleksander Scherbakov (Russia)

Spirit of Dedication Award

• Best Fanzine: SF-Journalen (Sweden - ed. Ahrvid Engholm)

2001: Capidava

Capidava

Capidava is a South American spider genus of the Salticidae family .-Species:* Capidava annulipes Caporiacco, 1947 — Guyana* Capidava auriculata Simon, 1902 — Brazil* Capidava biuncata Simon, 1902 — Brazil...

, Romania

Romania

Romania is a country located at the crossroads of Central and Southeastern Europe, on the Lower Danube, within and outside the Carpathian arch, bordering on the Black Sea...

 (Atlantykron

Atlantykron

Atlantykron is an annual Summer Academy of Learning in Romania, sponsored by David Lewis Anderson's World Genesis Foundation, with support from the Romanian National Commission for UNESCO....

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Guests of honour: Norman Spinrad

Norman Spinrad

Norman Richard Spinrad is an American science fiction author.Born in New York City, Spinrad is a graduate of the Bronx High School of Science. In 1957 he entered City College of New York and graduated in 1961 with a Bachelor of Science degree as a pre-law major. In 1966 he moved to San Francisco,...

, Joe Haldeman

Joe Haldeman

Joe William Haldeman is an American science fiction author.-Life :Haldeman was born June 9, 1943 in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma. His family traveled and he lived in Puerto Rico, New Orleans, Washington, D.C., Bethesda, Maryland and Anchorage, Alaska as a child. Haldeman married Mary Gay Potter, known...

, Ion Hobana

Ion Hobana

Ion Hobana was a Romanian science fiction writer, literary critic and ufologist...

, and David Lewis Anderson

2002: Chotebor

Chotebor

Chotěboř is a town in the Havlíčkův Brod District, Vysočina Region, Czech Republic. It belongs to the historical land of Bohemia. Population: 9,739 .- External links :*...

, Czech Republic

Czech Republic

The Czech Republic is a landlocked country in Central Europe. The country is bordered by Poland to the northeast, Slovakia to the east, Austria to the south, and Germany to the west and northwest....

 (ParCon)

Guests of honour: George R. R. Martin

George R. R. Martin

George Raymond Richard Martin , sometimes referred to as GRRM, is an American author and screenwriter of fantasy, horror, and science fiction. He is best known for A Song of Ice and Fire, his bestselling series of epic fantasy novels that HBO adapted for their dramatic pay-cable series Game of...

, Robert Holdstock

Robert Holdstock

Robert Paul Holdstock was an English novelist and author best known for his works of Celtic, Nordic, Gothic and Pictish fantasy literature, predominantly in the fantasy subgenre of mythic fiction....

, Jim Burns

Jim Burns

Jim Burns is a Welsh artist born in Cardiff, Wales.In 1966 he joined the Royal Air Force, but soon thereafter he left and signed up at the Newport School of Art for a year's foundation course....

, Myra Cakan, Kir Bulychev

Kir Bulychev

Kir Bulychev or Bulychov was a pen name of Igor Vsevolodovich Mojeiko , who was a Soviet and Russian science fiction writer and historian. He received a Master's degree in 1965 and a Ph.D. in 1981 and wrote his first science fiction story in 1965...

, Andrzej Sapkowski

Andrzej Sapkowski

Andrzej Sapkowski, born 21 June 1948 in Łódź, is a Polish fantasy writer. He is best known for his best-selling book series The Witcher.-Biography:...

, Rafał Ziemkiewicz, Ernst Uleck, Isobel Carmody, William King

William King (author)

William King also known as "Bill King" is the writer of a number of successful science-fiction and fantasy books, most notably in Games Workshop's Warhammer and Warhammer 40,000 series, all published by GW's fiction arm, The Black Library...

, Jaroslav Velinsky

Jaroslav Velinský

Jaroslav Velinský was born 1932 in Prague. He was miner, metal-smith, graphic artist, science fiction and detective writer, publisher, musician . One of the founders of the Czech folk festival Porta. Honorary member of Czech-ertar society . In the folk arena and among SF friends and fans known as...

, Phillipe Coriat, Ondřej Neff

Ondrej Neff

Ondřej Neff is a Czech science fiction writer and journalist. He is the founder of , one of the earliest and most popular Czech daily news/comments websites, and , a website about digital photography for amateurs.His father Vladimír Neff was a popular writer, author of many historical...

, Klaus N. Frick and Martina Pilcerova

2003: Turku

Turku

Turku is a city situated on the southwest coast of Finland at the mouth of the Aura River. It is located in the region of Finland Proper. It is believed that Turku came into existence during the end of the 13th century which makes it the oldest city in Finland...

, Finland

Finland

Finland , officially the Republic of Finland, is a Nordic country situated in the Fennoscandian region of Northern Europe. It is bordered by Sweden in the west, Norway in the north and Russia in the east, while Estonia lies to its south across the Gulf of Finland.Around 5.4 million people reside...

 (Finncon

Finncon

Finncon is the largest science fiction convention in Finland and, with up to 15,000 participants, one of the largest SF conventions in Europe. Finncon is unique among SF conventions because it has no participation/membership fee, and is funded primarily on various cultural grants as well as income...

)

Guests of honour:: Michael Swanwick

Michael Swanwick

Michael Swanwick is an American science fiction author. Based in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, he began publishing in the early 1980s.-Biography:...

, Steve Sansweet

Steve Sansweet

Stephen J. Sansweet is the Director of Content Management and Head of Fan Relations at Lucasfilm and the author of sixteen books, fourteen of them about Star Wars. He is also the owner of the world's largest private collection of Star Wars memorabilia...

, Karolina Bjällerstedt Mickos, Boris Hurtta, Jonathan Clements

Jonathan Clements

Jonathan Clements is a British author and scriptwriter. His non-fiction works include biographies of Confucius, Koxinga and Qin Shihuangdi , as well as monthly opinion columns for Neo magazine...

 and Björn Tore Sund

2004: Plovdiv

Plovdiv

Plovdiv is the second-largest city in Bulgaria after Sofia with a population of 338,153 inhabitants according to Census 2011. Plovdiv's history spans some 6,000 years, with traces of a Neolithic settlement dating to roughly 4000 BC; it is one of the oldest cities in Europe...

, Bulgaria

Bulgaria

Bulgaria , officially the Republic of Bulgaria , is a parliamentary democracy within a unitary constitutional republic in Southeast Europe. The country borders Romania to the north, Serbia and Macedonia to the west, Greece and Turkey to the south, as well as the Black Sea to the east...

 (BulgaCon)

Guests of honour: Robert Sheckley

Robert Sheckley

Robert Sheckley was a Hugo- and Nebula-nominated American author. First published in the science fiction magazines of the 1950s, his numerous quick-witted stories and novels were famously unpredictable, absurdist and broadly comical.Sheckley was named Author Emeritus by the Science Fiction and...

, Ian Watson

Ian Watson (author)

Ian Watson is a British science fiction author. He currently lives in Northamptonshire, England.His first novel, The Embedding, winner of the Prix Apollo in 1975, is unusual for being based on ideas from generative grammar; the title refers to the process of center embedding...

, Sergey Lukyanenko

Sergey Lukyanenko

Sergei Vasilievich Lukyanenko is a science fiction and fantasy author, writing in Russian, and is arguably the most popular contemporary Russian sci-fi writer...

, Andrzej Sapkowski

Andrzej Sapkowski

Andrzej Sapkowski, born 21 June 1948 in Łódź, is a Polish fantasy writer. He is best known for his best-selling book series The Witcher.-Biography:...

, Roberto Quaglia

Roberto Quaglia

Roberto Quaglia is an Italian science fiction writer. Many of his works have been translated and published in Romania, and some have also been translated into English, Russian, Czech, Hungarian and Dutch.-Life and career:...

 and Patrick Gyger

Patrick Gyger

Patrick J. Gyger is a Swiss historian and writer. In the 1990s he specialised in medieval studies and in 1998 published the book, L'Épée Et La Corde: Criminalité Et Justice À Fribourg on the topic of crime and justice...

2005: Glasgow

Glasgow

Glasgow is the largest city in Scotland and third most populous in the United Kingdom. The city is situated on the River Clyde in the country's west central lowlands...

, Scotland

Scotland

Scotland is a country that is part of the United Kingdom. Occupying the northern third of the island of Great Britain, it shares a border with England to the south and is bounded by the North Sea to the east, the Atlantic Ocean to the north and west, and the North Channel and Irish Sea to the...

 

(Interaction

63rd World Science Fiction Convention

The 63rd World Science Fiction Convention was called Interaction, and was held in Glasgow, Scotland 4–8 August 2005. The event was also the Eurocon. The Venue for the 63rd Worldcon was the Scottish Exhibition and Conference Centre with the attached Clyde Auditorium and Moat House Hotel...

, the event was also the Worldcon

Worldcon

Worldcon, or more formally The World Science Fiction Convention, is a science fiction convention held each year since 1939 . It is the annual convention of the World Science Fiction Society...

).
Guests of honour: Greg Pickersgill

Greg Pickersgill

Greg Pickersgill, born in Haverfordwest, Wales in 1951, is an influential British science fiction fan. He lived in London between 1971 and 1992, then returned to Haverfordwest....

, Christopher Priest, Robert Sheckley

Robert Sheckley

Robert Sheckley was a Hugo- and Nebula-nominated American author. First published in the science fiction magazines of the 1950s, his numerous quick-witted stories and novels were famously unpredictable, absurdist and broadly comical.Sheckley was named Author Emeritus by the Science Fiction and...

, Lars-Olov Strandberg and Jane Yolen

Jane Yolen

Jane Hyatt Yolen is an American author and editor of almost 300 books. These include folklore, fantasy, science fiction, and children's books...

2006: Kiev

Kiev

Kiev or Kyiv is the capital and the largest city of Ukraine, located in the north central part of the country on the Dnieper River. The population as of the 2001 census was 2,611,300. However, higher numbers have been cited in the press....

, Ukraine

Ukraine

Ukraine is a country in Eastern Europe. It has an area of 603,628 km², making it the second largest contiguous country on the European continent, after Russia...

 (Portal)

Guests of honour: Harry Harrison

Harry Harrison

Harry Harrison is an American science fiction author best known for his character the Stainless Steel Rat and the novel Make Room! Make Room! , the basis for the film Soylent Green...

 and Andrzej Sapkowski

Andrzej Sapkowski

Andrzej Sapkowski, born 21 June 1948 in Łódź, is a Polish fantasy writer. He is best known for his best-selling book series The Witcher.-Biography:...

2007: Copenhagen

Copenhagen

Copenhagen is the capital and largest city of Denmark, with an urban population of 1,199,224 and a metropolitan population of 1,930,260 . With the completion of the transnational Øresund Bridge in 2000, Copenhagen has become the centre of the increasingly integrating Øresund Region...

, Denmark

Denmark

Denmark is a Scandinavian country in Northern Europe. The countries of Denmark and Greenland, as well as the Faroe Islands, constitute the Kingdom of Denmark . It is the southernmost of the Nordic countries, southwest of Sweden and south of Norway, and bordered to the south by Germany. Denmark...

 

Guests of honour: Anne McCaffrey

Anne McCaffrey

Anne Inez McCaffrey was an American-born Irish writer, best known for her Dragonriders of Pern series. Over the course of her 46 year career she won a Hugo Award and a Nebula Award...

, Stephen Baxter

Stephen Baxter

Stephen Baxter is a prolific British hard science fiction author. He has degrees in mathematics and engineering.- Writing style :...

, Zoran Živković

Zoran Živkovic

Zoran Živković may refer to:*Zoran Živković , Serbian handball player and coach widely known under his nickname Tuta*Zoran Živković , Serbian writer...

, David A. Hardy

David A. Hardy

David A. Hardy , is the longest-established living space artist, having illustrated his first book in 1954....

, Niels Dalgaard

2008: Moscow

Moscow

Moscow is the capital, the most populous city, and the most populous federal subject of Russia. The city is a major political, economic, cultural, scientific, religious, financial, educational, and transportation centre of Russia and the continent...

, Russia

Russia

Russia or , officially known as both Russia and the Russian Federation , is a country in northern Eurasia. It is a federal semi-presidential republic, comprising 83 federal subjects...

 (Roscon / Interpresscon)

Guests of honour: Harry Harrison

Harry Harrison

Harry Harrison is an American science fiction author best known for his character the Stainless Steel Rat and the novel Make Room! Make Room! , the basis for the film Soylent Green...

, Sergey Lukyanenko

Sergey Lukyanenko

Sergei Vasilievich Lukyanenko is a science fiction and fantasy author, writing in Russian, and is arguably the most popular contemporary Russian sci-fi writer...

2009: Fiuggi

Fiuggi

Fiuggi is a comune in the province of Frosinone in the region of Lazio in central Italy.-History:Fiuggi, originally called Anticoli di Campagna, gained fame as early as the 14th century, when Pope Boniface VIII claimed his kidney stones had been healed by the mineral waters from the nearby Fiuggi...

, Italy

Italy

Italy , officially the Italian Republic languages]] under the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages. In each of these, Italy's official name is as follows:;;;;;;;;), is a unitary parliamentary republic in South-Central Europe. To the north it borders France, Switzerland, Austria and...

 (Deepcon 10)

Guests of honour: Marina Sirtis

Marina Sirtis

Marina Sirtis is a British-American actress of Greek descent. She played the role of the human/Betazoid Commander Deanna Troi, ship's counselor, on the television and film series Star Trek: The Next Generation.-Life:...

, Ian Watson

Ian Watson (author)

Ian Watson is a British science fiction author. He currently lives in Northamptonshire, England.His first novel, The Embedding, winner of the Prix Apollo in 1975, is unusual for being based on ideas from generative grammar; the title refers to the process of center embedding...

2011: Stockholm

Stockholm

Stockholm is the capital and the largest city of Sweden and constitutes the most populated urban area in Scandinavia. Stockholm is the most populous city in Sweden, with a population of 851,155 in the municipality , 1.37 million in the urban area , and around 2.1 million in the metropolitan area...

, Sweden

Sweden

Sweden , officially the Kingdom of Sweden , is a Nordic country on the Scandinavian Peninsula in Northern Europe. Sweden borders with Norway and Finland and is connected to Denmark by a bridge-tunnel across the Öresund....

 

(The event was also the Swecon

Swecon

Swecon is a title annually awarded to a Swedish science fiction convention.Since 1998, one Swedish science fiction convention per year has been elected to host national awards in science fiction and has been awarded the title "Swecon" in addition to its actual name...

) Guests of honour, Elizabeth Bear

Elizabeth Bear

Sarah Bear Elizabeth Wishnevsky is an American author. Writing under the name Elizabeth Bear, she works primarily in the genre of speculative fiction, and was a winner of the 2005 John W...

, Ian McDonald

Ian McDonald (author)

Ian McDonald is a British science fiction novelist, living in Belfast. His themes include nanotechnology, postcyberpunk settings, and the impact of rapid social and technological change on non-Western societies.- Biography :...

, John-Henri Holmberg

John-Henri Holmberg

John-Henri Bertilson Holmberg is a Swedish author, critic, publisher and translator, and a well-known science fiction fan. In the early 1960s he edited Science fiction Forum with Bertil Mårtensson and Mats Linder and published over 200 science fiction fanzines of his own, in addition to his...

, Jukka Halme

2012: Zagreb

Zagreb

Zagreb is the capital and the largest city of the Republic of Croatia. It is in the northwest of the country, along the Sava river, at the southern slopes of the Medvednica mountain. Zagreb lies at an elevation of approximately above sea level. According to the last official census, Zagreb's city...

, Croatia

Croatia

Croatia , officially the Republic of Croatia , is a unitary democratic parliamentary republic in Europe at the crossroads of the Mitteleuropa, the Balkans, and the Mediterranean. Its capital and largest city is Zagreb. The country is divided into 20 counties and the city of Zagreb. Croatia covers ...

(SFeraKon)

Notes:

1985: There is info that 1985 Eurocon had to be held in Riga, Latvia (USSR at the time) but was canceled.

1992: Was to have been Zagreb but war in Croatia required a change of venue.

1998: There was no Eurocon this year, although there was a Euroconference in Croatia.

External links

• European Science Fiction Society
• Eurocon 2006 in Kiev, Ukraine
• Eurocon 2007 in Copenhagen, Denmark
• Eurocon 2008 in Moscow, Russia
• Eurocon 2009 in Fiuggi, Italy
• Eurocon Photo Galleries
• Eurocon 2010 in Cieszyn, Poland & Czech
• Eurocon 2011 in Stockholm, Sweden
• Eurocon 2012 in Zagreb, Croatia