Starcon is a gaming convention

Gaming convention

A gaming convention is a gathering that centered on role-playing games, collectible card games, miniatures wargames, board games, video games, or other types of games. These conventions are typically two or three days long, and often held at either a university or in a convention center hotel...

 run by the Gaming Guild of Oakland University from 1973 until the present. The convention was originally run under the name Novacon

Novacon

Novacon is an annual science fiction convention, usually held each November in the West Midlands, UK. It is now the annual convention of the Birmingham Science Fiction Group.-History:...

, but had its name changed in 2000 when the Order of Leibowitz became the Gaming Guild.

Starcon is a college convention with few resources and does not have special guests like some of the other conventions in the state such as U-Con

U-Con

U-Con is a gaming convention held annually in November in Ann Arbor, Michigan, on the campus of the University of Michigan. It has been sponsored by several different University of Michigan student organizations since its inception, the current one being the UCon Gaming Club. UCon developed out of...

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Dates of conventions

The 1st StarCon, aka Star-Con, was October 31 to November 2, 1973 at Cobo Hall in Detroit. It had NO affiliation to the conventions run at Oakland University, by Steve Sundahl from 1973 to 1977 and Richard Tucholka after then, which had a totally different name.

Star-Con was a Star Trek/Science Fiction/Comic Book Convention put on by David William Lillard (born 1947 in Detroit). Guests included George Takei, Walter Keonig, DC Fontana, Harlan Ellison, Loyd Biggle Jr, Norman Spinrad, David Gerrold and many others - especially Comic Book creators.

Subsequent StarCons were held at the Detroit Hilton Hotel, Detroit Book-Cadillac Hotel and the Sentinel Center.
Starcon '09 (Nova 34) - March 6 and 7, 2009

Starcon '08 (Nova 33) - March 8, 2008

Starcon '07 (Nova 32) - April, 2007