Chicon 7

03/23/2021

Six years ago today, we lost Chicon 7 Fan Guest of Honor, Peggy Rae Sapienza. You can help honor her memory with a donation to the Peggy Rae Sapienza Endowment at the Northern Illinois University Library to support the growth, maintenance, and promotion of the science fiction and fantasy collections in Rare Books and Special Collections, including documenting SF/F Fandom.
https://www.niu.edu/.../friends/memorialendowmentfunds.shtml

Six years ago today, we lost Chicon 7 Fan Guest of Honor, Peggy Rae Sapienza. You can help honor her memory with a donation to the Peggy Rae Sapienza Endowment at the Northern Illinois University Library to support the growth, maintenance, and promotion of the science fiction and fantasy collections in Rare Books and Special Collections, including documenting SF/F Fandom.

https://www.niu.edu/.../friends/memorialendowmentfunds.shtml

07/06/2020

Interested in the plans for the potential Chicago in 2022 Worldcon? The Q&A they did is now available online!

A Q & A with the two bids for the 2022 Worldcon site selection. The two bids are for Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, and Chicago, Illinois, USA

06/22/2020

If you want another Worldcon in Chicago, now's the time! Site Selection is now fully available. Again, we strongly recommend using the electronic version - so buy your token (advanced supporting membership), fill out your ballot, and send it in!

CoNZealand has released the site selection ballot to choose the location for the 80th World Science Fiction Convention in 2022. The two bids are for Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, and Chicago, Illinois, USA, a

06/16/2020

Hi Chicon 7 people! If you're interested in having another Worldcon in Chicago, now's your chance! We're bidding for 2022 against Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, and Site Selection Voting is officially now open! We have more information available about the process on our website. Please let us know if you have any questions, and thanks again for your support! -

Welcome to the Chicago in 2022 Worldcon Bid! The World Science Fiction Convention (Worldcon) has been running since 1939, interrupted…

01/10/2020

We are saddened to have learned today that Mike Resnick, a Chicon 7 Guest of Honor in 2012, has died.

From our chair, Dave McCarty:
"Another great one has gone beyond the rim.

Mike was our author Guest of Honor at Chicon 7 and we were pleased as punch to honor him because he was a wonderful and prolific author who always had time and energy to engage with fans. He was kind and supportive of our whole team and a joy to work with.

Our thoughts today are with his family and his friends all over the world who have lost a wonderful, wonderful man."

From our Toastmaster, John Scalzi:
https://whatever.scalzi.com/2020/01/09/mike-resnick-rip/
which includes a link to the Chicon 7 Opening Ceremonies video.

Sadly, Mike's family is left with medical bills to pay, and has established a GoFundMe. https://www.gofundme.com/f/help-mike-resnick-pay-off-a-neardeath-experience
Please consider making a donation.

Laura Resnick has posted that her father Mike Resnick has died, which means that it's a very sad day for his friends and fans in the science fiction community. Give the length of his remarkable career, and the honors that were given to him (including five Hugo Awards as well as a Nebula and a…

06/07/2015

In honor of our Fan Guest of Honor Peggy Rae Sapienza, we are pleased to announce a $25,000 endowment to Northern Illinois University in Peggy Rae's name to continue the work done there preserving science fiction history.

The loss of Peggy Rae has left a giant hole in our hearts and in our community and we are heartened to be able to help others remember her name, and the history of our community.

Chicon 7 chair Dave McCarty has posted the talk he gave last night announcing the Peggy Rae Sapienza endowment. It says in part: In the run-up to Chicon one of the projects we became aware of that ...

03/23/2015

Chicon 7 is grieved to learn of the death of Peggy Rae Sapienza, our Fan Guest of Honor. She passed away on Sunday, March 22, following complications from heart surgery. We are so proud to have been able to honor her and her work in fandom at our convention. She will be missed more than we could possibly express. Our condolences to her husband, John, to her children and family, and to all her friends. http://www.chicon.org/sapienza.php

04/22/2014

Did you enjoy seeing "Troll Bridge" and "Snow, Glass, Apples" - the two plays adapted from Neil Gaiman's works - at Chicon 7? If so, one of the directors has a new project you are going to love!

The world premiere stage adaptation of "The Anubis Gates" by Tim Powers is coming to Loncon 3! "Like" them at https://www.facebook.com/AnubisGates?ref=profile -

watch their videos, listen to the new songs written for the show, and if possible, support their crowd funding campaign that will help ensure the show happens. It's going to be an amazing production from what we've seen!

World Premiere of the stage adaptation of the Hugo award-winning time travel novel by Tim Powers at

02/15/2014

Please consider nominating for the Detcon1 Young Adult and Middle Grade Speculative Fiction Award. *Anyone* can nominate - you do not need to be a member of the convention to nominate, although you do in order to vote on the final ballot. Nominating closes February 28, so act fast!

Detcon1 Award for YA and Middle Grade Speculative Fiction Online Nominations Now AvailableBackgroundDetcon1 will be the host of the 2014 Golden Duck Award presentation. Since 1992, SuperConDuckTivity has been presenting the Golden Duck Awards to recognize excellence in the field of Children’s Scienc...

02/10/2014

The 2014 NASFiC, Detcon1 has just announced Nnedi Okorafor as their YA Guest of Honor. Chicon 7 provided funding assistance to help realize a YA guest and we're very excited that the selection is a Chicago author!

We are delighted to announce that Award-winning author Nnedi Okorafor will be attending Detcon1 as our Young Adult Author Special Guest. Find out more about Nnedi at http://detcon1.org/pressrelease4/

11/13/2013

John Picacio won his first Professional Artist Hugo Award at Chicon 7. Support his newest project on Kickstarter! It ends Thursday 11/14, so act fast! (Added bonus fun - the video on the Kickstarter site features music from Chicon 7's very own Toastmaster, John Scalzi!)

Presenting all-new iconic Loteria artworks from Hugo Award-winning artist John Picacio.

07/30/2013

Hugo voting ends in less than 48 hours! There's still time to get a membership, grab the Hugo Packet, and vote! Wednesday at 11:59pm CDT is when voting ends...and the anticipation of finding out the winners begins!

The final ballot for the 2013 Hugo Awards is now under way. All ballots must be received by the voting deadline of Wednesday, July 31, 2013, at 11:59 p.m. CDT.