51st World Science Fiction Convention

Attendance was 6,602, out of 7,725 paid memberships.

The Guests of Honor were called "Honored Guests".

• Larry Niven
• Alicia Austin
• Tom Digby
• Jan Howard Finder
• Mark Twain (Dead GoH; "channeled" by Jon DeCles)
• Guy Gavriel Kay (toastmaster)

At this convention, as one of the "Honored Guests", Larry Niven was carried around the convention in a sedan chair by his fans while wearing a crown.

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• Best Novel:
• A Fire Upon the Deep by Vernor Vinge
• and Doomsday Book by Connie Willis (tie)
• Best Novella: "Barnacle Bill the Spacer" by Lucius Shepard
• Best Novelette: "The Nutcracker Coup" by Janet Kagan
• Best Short Story: "Even the Queen" by Connie Willis
• Best Non-Fiction Book: A Wealth of Fable: An Informal History of Science Fiction in the 1950s by Harry Warner, Jr.
• Best Dramatic Presentation: "The Inner Light" (Star Trek: The Next Generation episode)
• Best Professional Editor: Gardner Dozois
• Best Professional Artist: Don Maitz
• Best Original Artwork: Dinotopia by James Gurney
• Best Semiprozine: Science Fiction Chronicle, edited by Andrew I. Porter
• Best Fanzine: Mimosa, edited by Dick Lynch & Nicki Lynch
• Best Fan Writer: Dave Langford
• Best Fan Artist: Peggy Ranson

• Special Award: Takumi Shibano
• John W. Campbell Award for Best New Writer: Laura Resnick

ConFrancisco was the last Worldcon not to have its own official website.

The original plan of San Francisco Science Fiction Conventions, Inc. was to hold the convention at the futuristic San Francisco Marriott Marquis, designed by the noted architect Anthony J. Lumsden, which is topped with a jukebox shaped glass tower that makes it look like a skyscraper from a Flash Gordon comic strip by Alex Raymond. This building is a notable example of futurist architecture. However, the hotel backed out of the contract when a more lucrative larger convention wanted to schedule there on the same weekend.

• Hugo Award
• Science fiction
• Speculative fiction
• World Science Fiction Society
• Worldcon

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{{cite web

| work=The Hugo Awards

| title=1993 Hugo Awards

| publisher=World Science Fiction Society

| url=http://www.thehugoawards.org/hugo-history/1993-hugo-awards/

| access-date=2011-03-04

| url-status=dead

| archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110507164726/http://www.thehugoawards.org/hugo-history/1993-hugo-awards/

| archive-date=2011-05-07

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{{cite web

| publisher=San Francisco Science Fiction Conventions, Inc.

| title=ConFrancisco (Worldcon 1993)

| date=2008-05-23

| url=http://sfsfc.org/?page_id=11

| access-date=2011-03-05

}}

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• [https://web.archive.org/web/20100110085511/http://www.nesfa.org/data/LL/TheLongList.html NESFA.org: The Long List]
• [http://www.nesfa.org/data/LL/LongListNotes.html#1993 NESFA.org: 1993 convention notes] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070209104936/http://www.nesfa.org/data/LL/LongListNotes.html#1993 |date=2007-02-09 }}
• [https://web.archive.org/web/20070225141913/http://www.hugo.org/hy.html#93 Hugo.org: 1993 Hugo Awards]

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MagiCon in Orlando, Florida, United States (1992)

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| years=51st World Science Fiction Convention
ConFrancisco in San Francisco, California, United States (1993)

| after=52nd World Science Fiction Convention
ConAdian in Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada (1994)

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