Historical
| DemiCon 1: Witness the Birth |
March 23 - March 25, 1990. |
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GoHs C.J.Cherryh, J.R.Daniels and Rusty Hevelin joined us for the
inaugural DemiCon with an astounding 385 attendees.
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| DemiCon 2: The Voyage Continues |
April 26 - April 28, 1991. |
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GoHs Joe Haldeman, Lucy Synk, Gay Haldeman and Rusty Hevelin
joined us.
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| DemiCon 3: My God! - It's full of
Stars |
March 27 - March 29, 1992. |
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GoHs Rob Chilson, David Cherry, Myrna Logan (The Dragon Lady)
and Rusty Hevelin joined us.
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| DemiCon 4: The Dawn of Fan |
March 26 - March 28, 1993. |
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GoHs Mickey Zucker-Reichert, Erin Mckee, Mark Moore and Rusty Hevelin
joined us.
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| The Fifth of DemiCon: The Smoothest
Convention around |
April 22 - April 24, 1994. |
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GoHs Glen Cook, David Lee Anderson, Pierre and Sandy Pettinger and
Rusty Hevelin joined us.
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| DemiCon VI: The Undiscovered
Con |
May 5 - May 7, 1995. |
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GoHs Roger Zelazny, Vincent Jo-Nè Wilson Tucker and Rusty
Hevelin joined us as we settled into our 'First weekend in May'
timeslot.
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| DemiCon 7: God created the heavens
and the earth in 6 days...DemiCon VII. We may have taken 6 years
with DemiCon but on the Seventh Con, We'll party |
May 3 - May 5, 1996. |
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GoHs Algis Budrys, Keith Berdak, Otto and Ruth Sheller and
Rusty Hevelin joined us.
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| DemiCon 8: Sorry, But We've Chosen
Not to become Evolved - Supporting your Eternal right to
Entropy |
May 2 - May 4, 1997. |
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GoHs Barbara Hambly, Mitchell Bentley, Charles Piehl and Rusty Hevelin
joined us for the first showing of TICC© after Dark.
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| DemiCon 9: Plan Nine from Des
Moines |
May 1 - May 3, 1998. |
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GoHs George Alec Effinger, William J. Hodgson, Marshall and Dee Willis
and Rusty Hevelin joined us at 'Hotel SaraJevo'.
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| DemiCon 10: Generation X: Too old to
be Neos...Too Young to be Nostalgic! |
April 30 - May 2, 1999. |
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GoHs Spider and Jeanne Robinson, Nè Nè, Bill Broughton
and Rusty Hevelin joined us.
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| DemiCon 2000: Y2K Compliance is
Futile. This one goes to Eleven. |
May 5 - May 7, 2000. |
GoHs Lois McMaster Bujold, Susan Van Camp, Alois and Wendy Tchampl
and Rusty Hevelin joined us at the 'Borg Cube' Hotel.
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| DemiCon 2001: A Con Oddity |
May 4 - May 6, 2001. |
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GoHs Harry Harrison, Sergey Poyarkov, Tadao Tomomatsu and Rusty
Hevelin joined us.
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| DemiCon the 13th: Con of the
Living Dead |
May 3 - May 5, 2002. |
Beginning this Con with the Prom of the Living Dead,
GoHs F. Paul Wilson, Alan M. Clark, Dennis Lunch and Rusty Hevelin
joined us. The notable achievement this weekend was the
complement Alan Clark gave us; that we were even weirder than he
was.
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| DemiCon 14: Contemplating the
FUTURE |
May 2 - May 4, 2003. |
In this future, GoHs Octavia E. Butler, Lubov, Lynda Sherman and
Rusty Hevelin joined 500 attendees for a fun filled con.
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| DemiCon XV:
DemiCon-A-Fan-alistic-XV-Fun-A-Liscious |
April 30 - May 2, 2004. |
GoHs Emma Bull and Will Shetterly, Alan Gutierrez, Tadao Tomomatsu
and Toastmaster Emeritus Rusty Hevelin helped us celebrate DemiCon's
15th anniversary. After TICC© After Dark this year Emma was
heard to complement the performers with 'I didn't know that fans
could dance'.
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| DemiCon 16: Life, the Universe and
DemiCon |
July 29 - July 31, 2005. |
Now that it's over and GoHs Brad Linaweaver, Mike Cole, Sheila
Lenkman and Scott Corwin, Tadao Tomomatsu and Toastmaster Emeritus
Rusty Hevelin have gone back to their Universe.
We have left our ConSuite at the end of the Universe.
So long, and Thanks for all the Fish.
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| DemiCon 17: Enter the Twilight
Zone of Imagination |
July 28 - July 30, 2006. |
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DemiCon 17 invited you to enter a dimension of
thought, a dimension of fun, a dimension of
creativity! You saw the Consuite up ahead.
You saw GoHs Janet Chui,
Ted Poovey and Darice Schirber-Poovey, Tadao Tomomatsu
and Toastmaster Emeritus Rusty Hevelin. You heard the
ultimate Fan Boy, Luke Ski, sing to Grease Wars and
you heard GoH Frederik Pohl, over a conference call
since he was unable to attend due to Health reasons.
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| DemiCon 18:
You Can Go Home Again...Just Use Your Imagination |
May 18 - May 20, 2007. |
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We invited you to join DemiCon 18 as it sprang back into your lives with
GoHs Catherine Asaro, Theresa Mather, James Koro, Steve "Wookie" Houle,
Tadao Tomomatsu and Toastmaster Emeritus Rusty Hevelin
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| DemiCon 19:Back
Where We Belong |
May 2 - May 4, 2008. |
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We invite you to attend DemiCon 19 as we go back where we belong with
GoHs Steven Barnes, Mitchell Davidson Bentley, Joe & Inger Myers,
Tadao Tomomatsu and Toastmaster Emeritus Rusty Hevelin.
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| DemiCon 20: All of
Our Cons
Remembered |
May 1 - May 3, 2009. |
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GoHs Joe Haldeman, Sara
Butcher, Roger Tener, Tadao Tomomatsu and Toastmaster Emeritus Rusty
Hevelin helped us celebrate a great run at the Hotel Fort Des
Moines. We'll miss you!
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