48th World Science Fiction Convention
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| name = ConFiction, the 48th World Science Fiction Convention
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| caption = Netherlands Congress Centre, now World Forum
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| genre = Science fiction
| venue = Netherlands Congress Centre
| location = The Hague
| country = Netherlands
| dates = 23–27 August 1990
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| attendance = 3,580
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The 48th World Science Fiction Convention (Worldcon), also known as ConFiction, was held 23–27 August 1990 at the Netherlands Congress Centre in The Hague, Netherlands.
The organising committee was chaired by Kees van Toorn.
Participants
Attendance was 3,580, despite the preparations for the Gulf War which deterred many Americans from traveling.
= Guests of Honor =
- Joe Haldeman
- Wolfgang Jeschke
- Harry Harrison
- Andrew I. Porter (fan)
- Chelsea Quinn Yarbro (toastmaster)
Awards
= 1990 Hugo Awards =
- Best Novel: Hyperion by Dan Simmons
- Best Novella: "The Mountains of Mourning" by Lois McMaster Bujold
- Best Novelette: "Enter a Soldier. Later: Enter Another" by Robert Silverberg
- Best Short Story: "Boobs" by Suzy McKee Charnas
- Best Non-Fiction Book: The World Beyond the Hill by Alexei & Cory Panshin
- Best Dramatic Presentation: Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade
- Best Professional Editor: Gardner Dozois
- Best Professional Artist: Don Maitz
- Best Original Artwork: cover of Rimrunners by Don Maitz
- Best Semiprozine: Locus, edited by Charles N. Brown
- Best Fanzine: The Mad 3 Party, edited by Leslie Turek
- Best Fan Writer: Dave Langford
- Best Fan Artist: Stu Shiffman
= Other awards =
Notes
The convention was opened by the then Minister of Cultural Affairs of the Netherlands, and the Hugos were presented by the U.S. Ambassador to the Netherlands.
This was the first Worldcon after the fall of the Berlin Wall, so was the first Worldcon which many fans, writers and editors from Eastern European countries were able to attend.
See also
References
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{{cite web
| work=The Hugo Awards
| title=1990 Hugo Awards
| publisher=World Science Fiction Society
| url=http://www.thehugoawards.org/hugo-history/1990-hugo-awards/
| access-date=2011-03-04
| url-status=dead
| archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110507164717/http://www.thehugoawards.org/hugo-history/1990-hugo-awards/
| archive-date=2011-05-07
}}
}}
External links
- [http://fanac.org/worldcon/ConFiction/w90-rpt.html ConFiction 1990 convention report]
- [https://web.archive.org/web/20100110085511/http://www.nesfa.org/data/LL/TheLongList.html NESFA.org: The Long List]
- [https://web.archive.org/web/20090414154525/http://www.worldcon.org/ World Science Fiction Society]
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{{succession box
| before=47th World Science Fiction Convention
Noreascon 3 in Boston, Massachusetts, United States (1989)
| title=List of Worldcons
| years=48rd World Science Fiction Convention
ConFiction in The Hague, Netherlands (1990)
| after=49th World Science Fiction Convention
Chicon V in Chicago, Illinois, United States (1991)
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Category:1990 in the Netherlands
Category:Conventions in the Netherlands
Category:Dutch science fiction