Marcon is a full-spectrum fantasy

Fantasy literature

Fantasy literature is fantasy in written form. Historically speaking, literature has composed the majority of fantasy works. Since the 1950s however, a growing segment of the fantasy genre has taken the form of films, television programs, graphic novels, video games, music, painting, and other...

 and science fiction convention

Science fiction convention

Science fiction conventions are gatherings of fans of various forms of speculative fiction including science fiction and fantasy. Historically, science fiction conventions had focused primarily on literature, but the purview of many extends to such other avenues of expression as movies and...

 based in Columbus, Ohio

Columbus, Ohio

Columbus is the capital of and the largest city in the U.S. state of Ohio. The broader metropolitan area encompasses several counties and is the third largest in Ohio behind those of Cleveland and Cincinnati. Columbus is the third largest city in the American Midwest, and the fifteenth largest city...

, normally held over the Memorial Day

Memorial Day

Memorial Day is a United States federal holiday observed on the last Monday of May. Formerly known as Decoration Day, it originated after the American Civil War to commemorate the fallen Union soldiers of the Civil War...

 weekend. (Starting in 2012, Marcon will move to Easter

Easter

Easter is the central feast in the Christian liturgical year. According to the Canonical gospels, Jesus rose from the dead on the third day after his crucifixion. His resurrection is celebrated on Easter Day or Easter Sunday...

 weekend.) It is now operated by the Columbus-based Science Oriented Literature, Art, and Education Foundation, a non-profit educational corporation.

Marcon offers a dozen tracks of programming in art, costuming, fan, filk, literary, media, and science, as well as events and displays including a masquerade, art show, dealers room, multiple 24-hour video tracks, 7000 square feet (650.3 m²) of gaming space, and at least one dance. Marcon runs a children's track of programming that has included independent filmmakers helping the kids create their own movies (The Curse of Monster X, Return of the Red Shirts) and many hands-on art, costuming, and science programs. It is the oldest and largest sci-fi convention in the state of Ohio.

"Marcon Ballroom", a filk song

Filk music

Filk is a musical culture, genre, and community tied to science fiction/fantasy fandom and a type of fan labor. The genre has been active since the early 1950s, and played primarily since the mid-1970s. The term predates 1955.-Definitions:As the Interfilk What Is Filk page demonstrates, there is...

 by Anne Passovoy

Anne Passovoy

Anne Passovoy is active in science fiction fandom and filk music, and has won two Pegasus Awards. She is married to Dr. Bob Passovoy. She has written many of the seminal filk songs, including "Marcon Ballroom" and writing perhaps the most widely-sung tune for Poul Anderson's poem, "Mary...

 about an incident with hotel management failing to adjust to the needs of fandom

Science fiction fandom

Science fiction fandom or SF fandom is a community or "fandom" of people actively interested in science fiction and fantasy and in contact with one another based upon that interest...

, was awarded a Pegasus Award as "Best Classic Filk Song" in 2005.

Marcon 46

May 27-29, 2011

• F. Paul Wilson
  F. Paul Wilson
  Francis Paul Wilson is an American author, primarily in the science fiction and horror genres. His debut novel was Healer . Wilson is also a part-time practicing family physician. He made his first sales in 1970 to Analog while still in medical school , and continued to write science fiction...
  
   - Author Guest of Honor
• Eric Flint
  Eric Flint
  Eric Flint is an American author, editor, and e-publisher. The majority of his main works are alternate history science fiction, but he also writes humorous fantasy adventures.- Career :...
  
   - Author Guest of Honor
• Harry Turtledove
  Harry Turtledove
  Harry Norman Turtledove is an American novelist, who has produced works in several genres including alternate history, historical fiction, fantasy and science fiction.- Life :...
  
   - Theme Guest of Honor
• John Palencar
  John Jude Palencar
  John Jude Palencar is a fantasy, science fiction, and horror artist. Over 100 book covers have been adorned by his art, including all four covers of the Inheritance Cycle series by Christopher Paolini...
  
   - Artist Guest of Honor
• Leslie Fish
  Leslie Fish
  Leslie Fish is a filk musician, author, and anarchist political activist.-Music:Along with The DeHorn Crew, in 1976 she created the first commercial filk recording, Folk Songs for Folk Who Ain't Even Been Yet...
  
   - Filk Guest of Honor

Marcon 45

May 28–30, 2010

• Wen Spencer
  Wen Spencer
  Wen Spencer is an American Science fiction and fantasy writer whose books center around characters with unusual abilities, and which might be regarded as original variations on the standard vampire and werewolf themes. In 2003, she was the winner of the John W...
  
   - Author Guest of Honor
• Billy Tackett - Artist Guest of Honor
• Seanan McGuire
  Seanan McGuire
  Seanan McGuire is an American author and filker. She also writes under the name "Mira Grant."-October Daye:# Rosemary and Rue...
  
   - Filk Guest of Honor
• Central Ohio Paranormal Society - Special Theme Guest
• Twilight Creations - Gaming Guest of Honor
• Richard Hatch
  Richard Hatch
  Richard Hatch is an American actor. He is best known for his role as Captain Apollo in the original Battlestar Galactica television series, and also as Tom Zarek in the remake of Battlestar Galactica....
  
   - Media Guest of Honor
• Casey Daniels, Shane Moore, Donnie Dunagan
  Donnie Dunagan
  Donald "Donnie" Roan Dunagan is a semi-retired American former child actor and United States Marine Corps drill instructor. He was a voice actor in the Bambi film, providing the voice of Young Bambi. A 28-page interview, his first after decades as a "lost Hollywood player," can be found in the...
  
   - Special Guests

Marcon 44

May 22–24, 2009

• Simon R. Green - Author Guest of Honor
• Jordin Kare
  Jordin Kare
  Jordin Kare is a physicist and aerospace engineer known for his research on laser propulsion. In particular, he was responsible for Mockingbird, a conceptual design for an extremely small reusable launch vehicle, and was involved in the Clementine lunar mapping mission.Kare is also known as...
  
   - Science Guest of Honor
• Patricia McCracken - Artist Guest of Honor
• Chris Conway - Filk Guest of Honor
• David H. Lawrence XVII - Media Guest of Honor
• Samuel Travis Clemmons - Full Spectrum Featured Guest http://www.pup-stc.com
• Arnold Blumberg - Featured Guest

Marcon 43

May 23–25, 2008

• Alexander James Adams
  Alexander James Adams
  Alexander James Adams is an American singer, musician and songwriter in the Celtic and World music genres. He blends mythical, fantasy, and traditional themes in performances, switching between instrumental fiddle and songs accompanied by guitar, bodhrán, and fiddle playing...
  
   - Filk Guest of Honor
• Steven Brust
  Steven Brust
  Steven Karl Zoltán Brust is an American fantasy and science fiction author of Hungarian descent. He was a member of the writers' group The Scribblies, which included Emma Bull, Pamela Dean, Will Shetterly, Nate Bucklin, Kara Dalkey, and Patricia Wrede; he also belongs to the Pre-Joycean...
  
   - Toastmaster
• Rebecca Forstadt
  Rebecca Forstadt
  Rebecca Lynn Olkowski , better known by her maiden name, Rebecca Forstadt, is an American voice actor who is best known for playing anime girls with sweet voices. She is also known as Reba West and Becky Olkowski.After studying theater at Orange Coast College, in Costa Mesa, California, Ms...
  
   - Anime Guest of Honor
• Kevin Standlee - Fan Guest of Honor
• Sister Sola/Casandra - Costuming Guest of Honor
• Ray van Tilburg - Artist Guest of Honor
• Toni Weisskopf
  Toni Weisskopf
  Toni Weisskopf is a science fiction editor and the publisher of Baen Books.Weisskopf is an alumna of Oberlin College, from which she graduated in 1987. She was immediately employed by Baen Books, where she served as executive editor up until the death of founder Jim Baen in 2006, at which point...
  
   - Editor Guest of Honor
• Hank Reinhardt
  Hank Reinhardt
  Julius Henry Reinhardt was an American author, editor, science fiction fan, and noted armorer and authority on medieval weaponry. He wrote as Hank Reinhardt, the nickname by which he was widely known...
  
   - Science Guest of Honor: Mr. Reinhardt died before the convention. The con-com decided to honor him by keeping him as the Science Guest of Honor.
• Robert Asprin
  Robert Asprin
  Robert Lynn Asprin was an American science fiction and fantasy author and active fan, best known for his humorous MythAdventures and Phule's Company series.- Background :...
  
   - Author Guest of Honor: Mr. Asprin died the day before the convention.
• Jody Lynn Nye
  Jody Lynn Nye
  Jody Lynn Nye is an American science fiction writer. She has frequently collaborated as a co-author or the author of a sequel....
  
   - Author Guest of Honor: Due to Mr. Asprin's death Ms. Nye was unable to attend.
• Wizards of the Coast
  Wizards of the Coast
  Wizards of the Coast is an American publisher of games, primarily based on fantasy and science fiction themes, and formerly an operator of retail stores for games...
  
   - Gaming Guest of Honor
• Marc Singer
  Marc Singer
  Marc Singer is a Canadian-born American actor best known for his roles in the Beastmaster film series and as Mike Donovan in the original 1980s TV series V.-Personal life:...
  
   - Media Guest of Honor
• Leah Cairns
  Leah Cairns
  Leah Cairns is a Canadian actress. She is best known for her role as one of the Raptor pilots, Lieutenant Margaret "Racetrack" Edmondson, on the Sci Fi Channel television program Battlestar Galactica.-Biography:...
  
   - Media Guest of Honor

Marcon 42

May 25–27, 2007

• Keith R.A. DeCandido - Author Guest of Honor
• Laura Reynolds - Artist Guest of Honor
• Timothy Zahn
  Timothy Zahn
  Timothy Zahn is a writer of science fiction short stories and novels. His novella Cascade Point won the 1984 Hugo award. He is the author of nine Star Wars Expanded Universe novels, including seven novels featuring Grand Admiral Thrawn: the Thrawn Trilogy, the Hand of Thrawn duology, Outbound...
  
   - Toastmaster
• Kevin Sorbo
  Kevin Sorbo
  Kevin David Sorbo is an American actor best known for the roles of Hercules in Hercules: The Legendary Journeys, Captain Dylan Hunt in Andromeda and Kull in Kull the Conqueror.-Early life:...
  
   - Media Guest of Honor
• Nancy Janda - Fan Guest of Honor
• Three Weird Sisters
  Three Weird Sisters (band)
  Three Weird Sisters is a band from Atlanta, Georgia. The group performs filk music with harp, double bass, guitar, and bodhran accompaniment. Their albums include Hair of the Frog and Rite the First Time....
  
   - Filk Guests of Honor
• Pierre and Sandy Pettinger - Costuming Guests of Honor
• Looney Labs
  Looney Labs
  Looney Labs is a small game company based in College Park, Maryland, USA. It is named after its founders, Andrew Looney and Kristin Looney.- Card games :...
  
   - Gaming Guests of Honor

Marcon 41

May 26–28, 2006 - approximately 2100 attendees

Guests:

• Author Guest: George R. R. Martin
  George R. R. Martin
  George Raymond Richard Martin , sometimes referred to as GRRM, is an American author and screenwriter of fantasy, horror, and science fiction. He is best known for A Song of Ice and Fire, his bestselling series of epic fantasy novels that HBO adapted for their dramatic pay-cable series Game of...
  
  
• Artist Guest: Jody Lee
  Jody Lee
  Jody A. Lee is a professional fantasy artist from San Francisco known best for her book cover illustrations. Authors she has worked with include Mercedes Lackey, Mickey Zucker Reichert, Lloyd Alexander, Madeleine L'Engle, and many others...
  
  
• Editor Guest: David G. Hartwell
  David G. Hartwell
  David Geddes Hartwell is an American editor of science fiction and fantasy. He has worked for Signet , Berkley Putnam , Pocket , and Tor Books David Geddes Hartwell (b. July 10, 1941) is an American editor of science fiction and fantasy. He has worked for Signet (1971–1973), Berkley Putnam...
  
  
• Media Guest: Eugene Roddenberry Jr.
• Costuming Guest: Chris Kramer
• Fan Guest: B. J. Mitias
• Filk Guest: Dave & Judith Hayman
• Steve Lee
• Gaming Guest: Pieramyd Productions, Ltd.
• Electronic Gaming Guest: EB Games
• Toastmaster: Bill Roper
  Bill Roper (filker)
  Bill Roper is a filker and member of science fiction fandom. Roper co-founded Dodeka Records with his wife, Gretchen, received the Pegasus Award three times, and was inducted into the Filk Hall of Fame in 2000...
  
  

Marcon 40

May 27–29, 2005
approximately 2100 attendees

• Tom Smith
  Tom Smith (filker)
  Tom Smith is a singer-songwriter from , who got his start in the filk music community. He is a fourteen-time winner of the Pegasus Award for excellence in filking, including awards for his "A Boy and His Frog", "307 Ale", and "The Return of the King ", and was inducted into the Filk Hall of Fame in...
  
   - Filk Guest of Honor
• Barry and Sally Childs-Helton
  Barry and Sally Childs-Helton
  Barry and Sally Childs-Helton are filk writers and singers. They are also highly educated though their song Alphabet Soup shows their feelings on the value of their doctorate and PhD degrees. They are based in Indiana...
  
   - Featured Filker

Marcon 39

May 28–30, 2004 - approximately 2000 attendees

• Laurell K. Hamilton
  Laurell K. Hamilton
  Laurell Kaye Hamilton is an American fantasy and romance writer. She is the author of two series of stories. Hamilton is known for her New York Times-bestselling Anita Blake series, featuring a professional zombie raiser/supernatural consultant for the police as the protagonist in a world where...
  
   - Author Guest of Honor
• Cecilia Tan
  Cecilia Tan
  Cecilia Tan is a writer, editor, sexuality activist, and founder of Circlet Press, the first press devoted primarily to erotic science fiction and fantasy. She lives in Cambridge, Massachusetts. She is the director of media relations for the New England Leather Alliance...
  
   - Adult Fiction Guest of Honor
• Julie Zetterberg - Costuming Guest of Honor
• Cynthia McQuillin
  Cynthia McQuillin
  Cynthia McQuillin was a filk singer and writer as well as an author and artist. She lived in the San Francisco Bay area...
  
   and Dr. Jane Robinson - Filk Guests of Honor

Marcon 38

May 23–25, 2003 - approximately 1800 attendees

• J. Gregory Keyes - Author Guest of Honor
• Richard Biggs
  Richard Biggs
  Richard T. "Dick" Biggs was an American television and stage actor, best known for his roles on the television series Days of our Lives and Babylon 5.-Life:...
  
   - Media Guest of Honor
• Eugene Roddenberry Jr. - Media Guest of Honor
• Kenny Baker
  Kenny Baker
  Kenneth George "Kenny" Baker is a British actor and musician, best known as the man inside R2-D2 in the popular Star Wars film series.- Career :...
  
   - Media Guest of Honor
• Bill and Brenda Sutton - Filk Guests of Honor
• Judith and Dave Hayman - Featured Filkers

Marcon 37

May 24–26, 2002 - approximately 2000 attendees

• Zander Nyrond - Filk Guest of Honor

Marcon 36

May 25–27, 2001 - approximately 3600 attendees

• Hosted 2001 Prometheus Award
  Prometheus Award
  The Prometheus Award is an award for libertarian science fiction novels given annually by the Libertarian Futurist Society, which also publishes a quarterly journal Prometheus. L. Neil Smith established the award in 1979, but it was not awarded regularly until the newly founded Libertarian Futurist...
  
   presentations and LFSCon
• Bob and Ann Passavoy - Filk Guests of Honor
• Karen Anderson - Featured Filker

Marcon 32

May 9–11, 1997 - approximately 2800 attendees

• Harry Turtledove
  Harry Turtledove
  Harry Norman Turtledove is an American novelist, who has produced works in several genres including alternate history, historical fiction, fantasy and science fiction.- Life :...
  
   - Author Guest of Honor
• Juanita Coulson - Filk Guest of Honor

Marcon 29

1994

• Philip Jose Farmer
  Philip José Farmer
  Philip José Farmer was an American author, principally known for his award-winning science fiction and fantasy novels and short stories....
  
   - Science Fiction Guest of Honor
• Barbara Hambly
  Barbara Hambly
  Barbara Hambly is an award-winning and prolific American novelist and screenwriter within the genres of fantasy, science fiction, mystery, and historical fiction...
  
   - Fantasy Guest of Honor
• Boris Vallejo
  Boris Vallejo
  Boris Vallejo is a Peruvian-born American painter. He immigrated to the United States in 1964, and he currently resides in Allentown, Pennsylvania. He frequently works with Julie Bell, his wife, painter, and model....
  
   - Artist Guest of Honor
• Forry J Ackerman - Media Guest of Honor
• Dr. Jane Robinson - Filk Guest of Honor
• David Ivey - Costuming Guest of Honor
• Barry B. Longyear
  Barry B. Longyear
  Barry B. Longyear born 1942 is a US writer and novelist who resides in Maine.-Career:He is best known for the Hugo and Nebula Award winning novella Enemy Mine, which was subsequently made into an identically titled movie and a novelization in collaboration with David Gerrold. The story tells of an...
  
   - Toastmaster

Marcon 28

1993

• Michael Longcor
  Michael Longcor
  Michael Longcor is a folk and filk singer. His songs span a range of topics including military history, Indiana history, and humor. He has won six Pegasus Awards and has been nominated for six others. His music has appeared on Dr...
  
   - Filk Guest of Honor
• Tom Smith
  Tom Smith (filker)
  Tom Smith is a singer-songwriter from , who got his start in the filk music community. He is a fourteen-time winner of the Pegasus Award for excellence in filking, including awards for his "A Boy and His Frog", "307 Ale", and "The Return of the King ", and was inducted into the Filk Hall of Fame in...
  
   - Toastmaster
• Denny O'Neil - Comic Book Guest of Honor
• Mike Resnick
  Mike Resnick
  Michael Diamond Resnick , better known by his published name Mike Resnick, is an American science fiction author. He was executive editor of Jim Baen's Universe.-Biography:...
  
   - Author Guest of Honor
• Julius Schwartz
  Julius Schwartz
  Julius "Julie" Schwartz was a comic book and pulp magazine editor, and a science fiction agent and prominent fan. He was born in the Bronx, New York...
  
   - Super Guest of Honor
• Ray Van Tiberg - Artist Guest of Honor
• Animal X
  Animal X
  Animal X is a Romanian band awarded at MTV Europe Music Awards, with more than 10 years of musical experience. Their eight studio albums include such hits as "N-am crezut", "Pentru ea", "Mai mult ca oricand", "Sa pot ierta", "Baieti derbedei", "Balada", and "Nisip purtat de vant".- Band members :*...
  
  - Special Contuming Guest
• Jane Yolen - Author Guest of Honor

Marcon 27

May 22–25, 1992

• Roger Zelazny
  Roger Zelazny
  Roger Joseph Zelazny was an American writer of fantasy and science fiction short stories and novels, best known for his The Chronicles of Amber series...
  
   - Author Guest of Honor
• Orson Scott Card
  Orson Scott Card
  Orson Scott Card is an American author, critic, public speaker, essayist, columnist, and political activist. He writes in several genres, but is primarily known for his science fiction. His novel Ender's Game and its sequel Speaker for the Dead both won Hugo and Nebula Awards, making Card the...
  
   - Aithor Guest of Honor
• Bill and Brenda Sutton - Toastmasters
• Lois McMaster Bujold
  Lois McMaster Bujold
  Lois McMaster Bujold is an American author of science fiction and fantasy works. Bujold is one of the most acclaimed writers in her field, having won the prestigious Hugo Award for best novel four times, matching Robert A. Heinlein's record. Her novella The Mountains of Mourning won both the Hugo...
  
   - Special Featured Guest of Honor
• Randy Asplund-Faith - Artist Guest of Honor
• Sue & Steve Francis - Fan Guests of Honor
• Richard Tucholka
  Richard Tucholka
  Richard Tucholka is a writer, game designer and publisher, best known for his work in the creation of the role-playing game Bureau 13: Stalking the Night Fantastic.-Career:...
  
   - Gaming Guest of Honor

Marcon 26

1991

• C.J. Cherryh - Author Guest of Honor
• Juanita Coulson
  Juanita Coulson
  Juanita Coulson is an American science fiction and fantasy writer, active fan and fanzine editor. She is also widely known in filk music circles since the 1950s for her singing and songwriting; she has been nominated for several Pegasus Awards for her filking...
  
   - Filk Guest of Honor
• Lois McMaster Bujold
  Lois McMaster Bujold
  Lois McMaster Bujold is an American author of science fiction and fantasy works. Bujold is one of the most acclaimed writers in her field, having won the prestigious Hugo Award for best novel four times, matching Robert A. Heinlein's record. Her novella The Mountains of Mourning won both the Hugo...
  
   - Author Guest of Honor
• Rowena Morrill
  Rowena Morrill
  Rowena A. Morrill is an American artist, working in science-fiction and fantasy illustration.Books of her own work have included The Fantastic Art of Rowena, Imagine , Imagination , and The Art of Rowena...
  
   - Artist Guest of Honor
• "Moonwulf" Michael Longcor
  Michael Longcor
  Michael Longcor is a folk and filk singer. His songs span a range of topics including military history, Indiana history, and humor. He has won six Pegasus Awards and has been nominated for six others. His music has appeared on Dr...
  
   - Toastmaster
• Richard Spelman - Fan Guest of Honor

Marcon XXV

1990

• George R. R. Martin
  George R. R. Martin
  George Raymond Richard Martin , sometimes referred to as GRRM, is an American author and screenwriter of fantasy, horror, and science fiction. He is best known for A Song of Ice and Fire, his bestselling series of epic fantasy novels that HBO adapted for their dramatic pay-cable series Game of...
  
   - Author Guest of Honor
• Melinda Snodgrass - Author Guest of Honor
• Gahan Wilson
  Gahan Wilson
  Gahan Wilson is an American author, cartoonist and illustrator known for his cartoons depicting horror-fantasy situations...
  
   - Artist Guest of Honor
• Murray Porath - Filk Guest of Honor
• Chris Claremont
  Chris Claremont
  Chris Claremont is an award-winning American comic book writer and novelist, known for his 17-year stint on Uncanny X-Men, far longer than any other writer, during which he is credited with developing strong female characters, and with introducing complex literary themes into superhero...
  
   - Special Comic Book Guest of Honor
• Edward Bryant
  Edward Bryant
  Edward Winslow Bryant Jr. is a science fiction and horror writer sometimes associated with the Dangerous Visions series of anthologies that bolstered The New Wave....
  
   - Featured Guest
• John J. Miller
  John J. Miller
  John J. Miller is the national political reporter for National Review and contributor to its Web component, National Review Online...
  
   - Featured Guest
• Stephen Leigh
  Stephen Leigh
  Stephen W. Leigh is an American science fiction and fantasy writer, artist, and musician. He also works as a lecturer at Northern Kentucky University, teaching creative writing.Steve Leigh lives in Cincinnati, Ohio.- Works :...
  
   - Featured Guest
• Walter Jon Williams
  Walter Jon Williams
  Walter Jon Williams is an American writer, primarily of science fiction.Several of Williams' novels have a distinct cyberpunk feel to them, notably Hardwired , Voice of the Whirlwind and Angel Stationn...
  
   - Featured Guest
• Howard Waldrop
  Howard Waldrop
  Howard Waldrop is a science fiction author who works primarily in short fiction.Waldrop's stories combine elements such as alternate history, American popular culture, the American South, old movies , classical mythology, and rock 'n' roll music. His style is sometimes obscure or elliptical...
  
   - Featured Guest
• Walton Simons - Featured Guest
• Lois McMaster Bujold
  Lois McMaster Bujold
  Lois McMaster Bujold is an American author of science fiction and fantasy works. Bujold is one of the most acclaimed writers in her field, having won the prestigious Hugo Award for best novel four times, matching Robert A. Heinlein's record. Her novella The Mountains of Mourning won both the Hugo...
  
   - Featured Guest

Marcon XXIV

1989 - 1244 attendees

• Hal Clement
  Hal Clement
  Harry Clement Stubbs better known by the pen name Hal Clement, was an American science fiction writer and a leader of the hard science fiction subgenre.-Biography:...
  
   - Guest of Honor
• Todd Cameron Hamilton - Artist Guest of Honor
• Barry and Sally Childs-Helton
  Barry and Sally Childs-Helton
  Barry and Sally Childs-Helton are filk writers and singers. They are also highly educated though their song Alphabet Soup shows their feelings on the value of their doctorate and PhD degrees. They are based in Indiana...
  
   - Filking Guests of Honor
• Steve Jackson
  Steve Jackson
  Steve Jackson may refer to:* Steve Jackson , set theorist at University of North Texas* Steve Jackson , co-founder, with Ian Livingstone, of Games Workshop...
  
  - Gaming Guest of Honor

Marcon XXIII

1988 - 1050 attendees

• David Brin
  David Brin
  Glen David Brin, Ph.D. is an American scientist and award-winning author of science fiction. He has received the Hugo, Locus, Campbell and Nebula Awards.-Biography:...
  
   - Guest of Honor
• Michael Whelan
  Michael Whelan
  Michael Whelan is an American artist of imaginative realism. For more than 30 years he worked as an illustrator specializing in science fiction and fantasy cover art...
  
   - Artist Guest of Honor
• Bill Sutton
  Bill Sutton
  William David "Bill" Sutton is a former New Zealand politician of the Labour Party.He represented the Hawkes Bay electorate in Parliament from 1984, when he defeated Richard Harrison, to 1990, when he was defeated by Michael Laws....
  
  - Toastmaster
• Kevin Siembieda
  Kevin Siembieda
  Kevin Siembieda is an American artist, writer, designer, and publisher of role-playing games, and the co-founder and president of Palladium Books....
  
   - Gaming Guest of Honor

Marcon XXII

1987 - 960 attendees

• Michael P. Kube-McDowell
  Michael P. Kube-McDowell
  Michael Paul Kube-McDowell is a science fiction novelist. He has also dabbled in music, written for television, been a stringer for a daily newspaper, and published short fiction, reviews, assorted nonfiction and erotica. He was honored for teaching excellence by the 1985 White House Commission on...
  
   - Guest of Honor
• David Mattingly - Artist Guest of Honor
• Juanita Coulson
  Juanita Coulson
  Juanita Coulson is an American science fiction and fantasy writer, active fan and fanzine editor. She is also widely known in filk music circles since the 1950s for her singing and songwriting; she has been nominated for several Pegasus Awards for her filking...
  
   - Toastmaster
• Kevin Siembieda
  Kevin Siembieda
  Kevin Siembieda is an American artist, writer, designer, and publisher of role-playing games, and the co-founder and president of Palladium Books....
  
   - Gaming Guest of Honor
• Tom Savini
  Tom Savini
  Thomas Vincent "Tom" Savini is an American actor, stuntman, director, award-winning special effects and makeup artist. He is known for his work on the Living Dead films directed by George A. Romero, as well as Creepshow, The Burning, Friday the 13th, The Prowler, and Maniac. He directed the 1990...
  
   - Media Guest of Honor
• Bill Roper
  Bill Roper (filker)
  Bill Roper is a filker and member of science fiction fandom. Roper co-founded Dodeka Records with his wife, Gretchen, received the Pegasus Award three times, and was inducted into the Filk Hall of Fame in 2000...
  
   - Fan Guest of Honor

Marcon XXI

1986 - 1056 attendees

• Roger Zelazny
  Roger Zelazny
  Roger Joseph Zelazny was an American writer of fantasy and science fiction short stories and novels, best known for his The Chronicles of Amber series...
  
   - Guest of Honor
• Kelly Freas - Artist Guest of Honor
• Andrew J. Offutt
  Andrew J. Offutt
  Andrew Jefferson Offutt is an American science fiction and fantasy author. He has written as Andrew J. Offutt, A. J. Offutt, and Andy Offutt. His normal byline, andrew j. offutt, has all his name in lower-case letters.-Life and family:Offutt has been married for over 50 years to Jodie McCabe...
  
   - Toastmaster
• Bill Maraschiello - Con Musician

Marcon XX

1985 - 723 attendees

• Larry Niven
  Larry Niven
  Laurence van Cott Niven / ˈlæri ˈnɪvən/ is an American science fiction author. His best-known work is Ringworld , which received Hugo, Locus, Ditmar, and Nebula awards. His work is primarily hard science fiction, using big science concepts and theoretical physics...
  
   - Guest of Honor
• Carl Lundgren
  Carl Lundgren (illustrator)
  Carl Lundgren is an American artist and illustrator, primarily known for his 1960s-era rock posters and fantasy art.-Career:...
  
   -Artist Guest of Honor
• Bill Maraschiello - Con Musician

Marcon XIX

1984 - 592 attendees

• C. J. Cherryh
  C. J. Cherryh
  Carolyn Janice Cherry , better known by the pen name C. J. Cherryh, is a United States science fiction and fantasy author...
  
   - Guest of Honor
• Todd Cameron Hamilton - Artist Guest of Honor

Marcon XVIII

1983 - 440 attendees

• James P. Hogan
  James P. Hogan (writer)
  James Patrick Hogan was a British science fiction author.-Biography:Hogan was born in London, England. He was raised in the Portobello Road area on the west side of London...
  
   - Guest of Honor

Marcon XVII

1982 - 379 attendees

• Hal Clement
  Hal Clement
  Harry Clement Stubbs better known by the pen name Hal Clement, was an American science fiction writer and a leader of the hard science fiction subgenre.-Biography:...
  
   - Guest of Honor
• Juanita Coulson
  Juanita Coulson
  Juanita Coulson is an American science fiction and fantasy writer, active fan and fanzine editor. She is also widely known in filk music circles since the 1950s for her singing and songwriting; she has been nominated for several Pegasus Awards for her filking...
  
   - Toastmaster
• Buck Coulson - Fan Guest of Honor

Marcon XV

1980 - 383 attendees

• L. Sprague de Camp
  L. Sprague de Camp
  Lyon Sprague de Camp was an American author of science fiction and fantasy books, non-fiction and biography. In a writing career spanning 60 years, he wrote over 100 books, including novels and notable works of non-fiction, including biographies of other important fantasy authors...
  
   - Guest of Honor
• Catherine Cooke de Camp - Toastmaster

Marcon XIV

1979 - 372 attendees

• Katherine Kurtz
  Katherine Kurtz
  Katherine Kurtz is the author of numerous fantasy novels, most notably the Deryni novels. Although born in America, for the past several years, up until just recently, she has lived in a castle in Ireland...
  
   - Guest of Honor
• Wilson (Bob) Tucker
  Wilson Tucker
  Arthur Wilson "Bob" Tucker was an American mystery, action adventure, and science fiction writer, who wrote professionally as Wilson Tucker....
  
   - Toastmaster

Marcon IX

1974 - Approximately 170 attendees

• Hal Clement
  Hal Clement
  Harry Clement Stubbs better known by the pen name Hal Clement, was an American science fiction writer and a leader of the hard science fiction subgenre.-Biography:...
  
   - Guest of Honor
• Andrew J. Offutt
  Andrew J. Offutt
  Andrew Jefferson Offutt is an American science fiction and fantasy author. He has written as Andrew J. Offutt, A. J. Offutt, and Andy Offutt. His normal byline, andrew j. offutt, has all his name in lower-case letters.-Life and family:Offutt has been married for over 50 years to Jodie McCabe...
  
   - Toastmaster

Marcon III

1968 (First time in Columbus) - Approximately 85 attendees

• Frederik Pohl
  Frederik Pohl
  Frederik George Pohl, Jr. is an American science fiction writer, editor and fan, with a career spanning over seventy years — from his first published work, "Elegy to a Dead Planet: Luna" , to his most recent novel, All the Lives He Led .He won the National Book Award in 1980 for his novel Jem...
  
   - Guest of Honor

Marcon I

1966 (Toledo) - Approximately 20 attendees

• Roger Zelazny
  Roger Zelazny
  Roger Joseph Zelazny was an American writer of fantasy and science fiction short stories and novels, best known for his The Chronicles of Amber series...
  
  - Unofficial Guest of Honor