Guests: Gordon Dickson, Charles De Vet, Clifford Simak.
Guests: Gordon Dickson, Charles De Vet, Clifford Simak.
Guests: Poul Anderson, Gordon Dickson, Clifford Simak.
Guest: Lin Carter.
Guest: Volsted Gridban.*
Guest: Ruth Berman.
For three days of programming there were 15 items listed.
Guests: Larry Niven (pro), Rusty Hevelin (fan).
Guests: Kelly Freas (pro), Bob Tucker (fan).
The program book listed 27 program items and 13 committee members for approximately 350 attendees.
Guests: Judy Lynn and Lester del Ray.
The program book listed 20 items and 11 committee members for approximately 190 attendees.
Guests: Poul Anderson (pro), Gordon Dickson (fan).*
There were 30 items listed in the program book.
Guests: Edmond Hamilton and Leigh Brackett (pros), Leigh and Norb Couch (fans), Jackie Franke and Rusty Hevelin (toastmasters).
The program book listed 32 items, an Exec of 4 people and a Committee of 19.
Guests: Ben Bova (pro), Buck and Juanita Coulson (fan), Joe Haldeman (toastmaster).
Guests: Samuel R. Delany (pro), Spider Robinson (fan), Bob Tucker (artist), Krissy (toastmaster).
The program book listed 34 items, 5 Exec and a "Merry Minicon Mob" of 25. The first "Winnipeg in '94" ad appeared. Moebius Theatre brought Stage Wars to Minicon (anyone remember the "special effects"?).
Guests: Theodore Sturgeon (pro), Tom Digby (fan), Rick Sternbach (artist); Bob Vardeman.
The program book listed 40 items an Exec of 5 and a ConCom of 67.
Guests: C.J. Cherryh (pro), Jon Singer (fan), Ken Fletcher (artist), Nate Bucklin (music), Wilson (Bob) Tucker (toastmaster).
There were 47 programming items, 4 on the Exec and a ConCom of over 70. Things were organizing into departments and "troubleshooters" were first listed. Avner the Eccentric, a master mime from Atlanta, performed for the con.
Guests: Jack Vance (pro), Jerry Boyajian (fan), Reed Waller (music), Kathy Marschall (artist)
The program book listed 36 items.
Guests: John Varley (pro), Cliff Simak (fan), *Spider Robinson (musician).
The program book listed over 50 items and concurrent programming appeared, along with organized Child Care. David Stever provided a guide to getting around St. Paul.
Guests: Larry Niven (pro), Pamela Dean and David Dyer-Bennet (fans), Dave Sim (artist), Spider John Koerner (music), Steven K. Zoltan Brust (toastmaster), Nostradamus (proxy).
This con was notable for starting with Closing Ceremonies and ending with Opening Ceremonies.
Guests: Chelsea Quinn Yarbro (pro), Dave Wixon (fan), Steve Hickman (artist), Somtow Sucharitkul (music), Rusty Hevelin (toastmaster), Bob Tucker (smoooth).
The program book was a newspaper, the ConTribune. The front page featured drawings of the hotels Minicon had previously been at -- Andrews, Dyckman, Minneapolis Radisson and the Curtis -- now all reduced to piles of rubble. Of course, we all know what happened since '84 to the Leamington.
Guests: James P. Hogan (pro), The Permanent Floating Riot Club (fan group), The White Women (music), Stu Shiffman (artist), Jerry Stearns and Kara Dalkey (toastmasters).
In the program book Jeanne Mealy revealed a cure for Gafia.
The registration packet came in a game box (Mutant, by Adventure Games) and included one of a set of miniature lead and tin figurines (sculpted by Ken Fletcher), as well as a cut-out diagram of a 23-sided die. There were rules for a treasure hunt in the program book -- solve the riddles and (hopefully) discover the Treasure Trove.
Winnipeg in '94 ads surfaced again. Kayte Norini directed a play of two acts based on Patricia Wrede's book, The Seven Towers.
In the program book, an ad by "DAV" books appeared for Eleanor Arnason's Wage Slaves of Gor. Eric Heideman contributed "Who Am Us, Anyway? A User's Guide to the Minnesota SF Community" -- a survey of local groups and publications.
In 1989 we lost Cliff Simak. Shockwave performed "Weatherproof Windows of the Mind," the 3rd or 6th installment of the Food Wars saga. And we saw the 20th anniversary of the Apollo moon landing.
The program book was produced as a paperback entitled It Came From Minneapolis.
The program book included a reprint of some of "The Neofan's Guide to Science Fiction Fandom," mostly the glossary portions. It was also full of parameciums.
Steven Brust served as the Official Minicon Adversary with great distinction. It was an educational program book, as Carol Kennedy undertook the thankless task of informing the membership about harassment, Denny Lien explained all about dodos, and Stephen Goldin explained the delicate art of "pro etiquette."
This was the inaugural year of Dark Star, Minicon's own espresso bar and music cafe.
It was an April Fools Minicon: "The previous ConCom has been declared April Fools and was promptly replaced with the current Minicon Committee". Daylight savings stole an hour from us. The program book included Elise (Krueger) Mattheson writing about "Big Trouble," and there was a quiz on Minicon.
Minicon 30 (1995) Would you like fries with that?
Artwork by Nancy Wirsig McClure
Guests: Vernor Vinge, Dr. Robert Forward
An enjoyable party for about 3500 of our closest, most intimate, friends. Even though the hotel did remodel the consuite (Mr. C's, the east side of the 22nd floor) out of existence in the month before the con.
Minicon had its first ISDN link and web page; this page is a direct result of that project.