Minicon

Convention	Dates	Location	GoHs
Minicon 1	January 6, 1968	University of Minnesota's Coffman Union, Men's Lounge	Gordon Dickson, Charles de Vet, Clifford Simak
Minicon 2	April 4-6, 1969	Andrews Hotel in Minneapolis	Gordon Dickson, Charles de Vet, Clifford Simak
Minicon 3	April 3-5, 1970	Dyckman Hotel in Minneapolis	Poul Anderson, Gordon Dickson, Clifford Simak
Minicon 4	June 17-19, 1971	Curtis Hotel in Minneapolis	Lin Carter
Minicon 5	October 15-17, 1971	Andrews Hotel in Minneapolis.	none
Minicon 6	April 7-9, 1972	Hyatt Lodge in Minneapolis	Ruth Berman
Minicon 7	April 20-22, 1973	Hyatt Lodge in Minneapolis	Larry Niven, Rusty Hevelin
Minicon 8	April 12-14, 1974	Dyckman Hotel in Minneapolis	Kelly Freas, Bob Tucker
Minicon 9	October 11-13, 1974	Minneapolis Public Library and Dyckman Hotel	Judy-Lynn del Rey, Lester del Rey
Minicon 10	April 18-20, 1975	Holiday Inn in Minneapolis	Poul Anderson, Gordon Dickson, Redd Boggs
Minicon 11	April 16-18, 1976	Leamington Hotel in Minneapolis	Edmond Hamilton, Leigh Brackett, Leigh Couch, Norb Couch
Minicon 12	April 8-10, 1977	Leamington Hotel in Minneapolis	Ben Bova, Buck Coulson, Juanita Coulson
Minicon 13	March 24-26, 1978	Leamington Hotel in Minneapolis	Samuel R. Delany, Spider Robinson, Bob Tucker
Minicon 15	April 13-15, 1979	Minneapolis Radisson	Theodore Sturgeon, Tom Digby, Rick Sternbach
Minicon 16	April 4-6, 1980	Minneapolis Radisson	C. J. Cherryh, Jon Singer, Ken Fletcher, Nate Bucklin, Wilson "Bob" Tucker
Minicon 17	April 17-19, 1981	Minneapolis Radisson	Jack Vance, Jerry Boyajian, Reed Waller, Kathy Marschall
Minicon 14	April 9-11, 1982	Minneapolis Radisson	John Varley, Clifford Simak, Spider Robinson
Minicon 19	April 1-3, 1983	St. Paul Radisson	Larry Niven, Pamela Dean, David Dyer-Bennet, Dave Sim, Spider John Koerner, Steven K. Zoltan Brust, Nostradamus
Minicon 18	April 20-23, 1984	Leamington Hotel in Minneapolis	Chelsea Quinn Yarbro, Dave Wixon, Steve Hickman, Somtow Sucharitkul, Rusty Hevelin, Bob Tucker
Minicon 20	April 5-7, 1985	Radisson South in Bloomington, MN	James P. Hogan, Permanent Floating Riot Club, The White Women, Stu Shiffman
Minicon 21	March 28-30, 1986	Radisson South in Bloomington, MN	Damon Knight, Kate Wilhelm, Denny Lien, Ken Fletcher, Anne Passovoy
Minicon 22	April 17-19, 1987	Radisson South in Bloomington, MN	David Brin, Fred Haskell, Erin McKee, and Jerry Stearns
Minicon 23	April 1-3, 1988	Radisson South in Bloomington, MN	Eleanor Arnason, Eric Heideman, Frederik Pohl, Crystal Marvig, Richard Feynman
Minicon 24	March 24-26, 1989	Radisson South in Bloomington, MN	Harry Harrison, Fritz Leiber, Barry Longyear
Minicon 25	April 13-15, 1990	Radisson South in Bloomington, MN	Jane Yolen, Kim Stanley Robinson, Patrick Price, Teddy Harvia, Dave Romm, Earl Joseph
Minicon 26	March 29-31, 1991	Radisson South in Bloomington, MN	George Alec Effinger, David Cherry, Al Kuhfeld, Suzanne V. Tompkins, Jerry Kaufman, Jon Singer
Minicon 27	April 17-19, 1992	Radisson South in Bloomington, MN	Lois McMaster Bujold, Ctein, Dave Van Ronk
Minicon 28	April 9-11, 1993	Radisson South in Bloomington, MN	Susan Allison, Diane Duane, Peter Morwood, Kathy Mar, Don Fitch, John M. Ford
Minicon 29	April 1-3, 1994	Radisson South in Bloomington, MN	Tom Doherty, Jack Williamson, Rusty Hevelin, Phil Foglio
Minicon 30	April 14-16, 1995	Radisson South in Bloomington, MN	Vernor Vinge, Robert Forward, Jody Lee, Glen Cook, the residents of the Bhigg House
Minicon 31	April 5-7, 1996	Radisson South in Bloomington, MN	Suzette Haden Elgin, Joe Siclari, Edie Stern, David Ossman, Ed Emshwiller
Minicon 32	March 28-30, 1997	Radisson South in Bloomington, MN	Algis Budrys, C. J. Cherryh, Tom Doherty, Tom Lopez, Patrick Nielsen Hayden, Teresa Nielsen Hayden, Michael Swanwick
Minicon 33	April 10-12, 1998	Radisson South in Bloomington, MN	Gardner Dozois, Dave Langford, Phil Proctor, John M. Ford
Minicon 34	April 2-4, 1999	Minneapolis Hilton & Towers in Minneapolis, MN	Octavia E. Butler, Mark Olson, Priscilla Olson, David Nee
Minicon 35	April 21-23, 2000	Hilton Minneapolis & Towers in Minneapolis, MN	Maureen F. McHugh, Lenny Bailes, John Berkey
Minicon 36	April 13-15, 2001	Hilton Minneapolis & Towers in Minneapolis, MN	Ken MacLeod, Jo Walton, Leslie Fish
Minicon 37	March 29-31, 2002	Hilton Minneapolis in Minneapolis, MN	Emma Bull, Will Shetterly, Arthur Hlavaty, Rick Berry
Minicon 38	April 18-20, 2003	Millennium Hotel Minneapolis in Minneapolis, MN	Robert J. Sawyer, Carolyn Clink, Sue Mason, Steve Macdonald
Minicon 39	April 9-11, 2004	Millennium Hotel Minneapolis in Minneapolis, MN	Walter Jon Williams, Sharyn November, Deb Geisler
Minicon 40	March 25-27, 2005	Sheraton Bloomington Hotel (formerly known as the Radisson South) in Bloomington, MN	Terry Pratchett, Fastner and Larson, Jim Young
Minicon 41	April 14-16, 2006	Sheraton Bloomington Hotel in Bloomington, MN	Harlan Ellison, John Picacio, Doug Friauf
Minicon 42	April 6-8, 2007	Sheraton Bloomington Hotel in Bloomington, MN	Charles de Lint and Charles Vess
Minicon 43	March 21-23, 2008	Sheraton Bloomington Hotel in Bloomington, MN	Alastair Reynolds, Nate Bucklin, Shawna McCarthy, Wayne Barlowe
Minicon 44	April 10-12, 2009	Sheraton Bloomington Hotel in Bloomington, MN	Karl Schroeder, Stephan Martinière, Seth Shostak
Minicon 45	April 2-4, 2010	Sheraton Bloomington Hotel in Bloomington, MN	Brandon Sanderson and Dan Dos Santos, Moshe Feder
Minicon 46	April 22-24, 2011	Bloomington Sheraton South	Charles Stross, John Scalzi, Chas Somdahl
Minicon 47	April 6-8, 2012	DoubleTree by Hilton Hotel Bloomington - Minneapolis South (same place as previous year)	Ted Chiang, Chris Garcia, Frank Wu, Brianna Spacekat Wu
Minicon 48	March 29-31, 2013	DoubleTree Hotel Bloomington	Julie Czerneda, Richard Tatge
Minicon 49	April 17-20, 2014	DoubleTree Hotel Bloomington	Catherynne Valente, Janny Wurts, Don Maitz
Minicon 50	April 2-5, 2015	DoubleTree Bloomington	Jane Yolen, Larry Niven, Brandon Sanderson, Tom Doherty, Michael Whelan, Adam Stemple
Minicon 51	March 25-27, 2016	DoubleTree by Hilton Hotel Bloomington - Minneapolis South	Seanan McGuire, Sarah Butcher Burrier, Lojo Russo
Minicon 52	April 14-16, 2017	DoubleTree Hotel Bloomington	Jim C. Hines, Guy Consolmagno, Mark Oshiro
Minicon 53	March 30-April 1, 2018	DoubleTree St. Louis Park	Rachel Swirsky, Lyda Morehouse, Jon Arfstrom
Minicon 54	April 19-21, 2019	DoubleTree St. Louis Park	Naomi Kritzer, Dave DeVries
Minicon 55	April 2-4, 2021	DoubleTree St. Louis Park	Jo Walton, Elise Matthesen
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Minicon 57	March 29-21, 2024	Doubletree Park Place, St. Louis Park	Ursula Vernon, Tim Griffin, Jeremy Brett

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