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name | NyCon I, the 1st World Science Fiction Convention | image = | caption = | status = | genre = Science fiction | venue = Caravan Hall | location = New York City | country = United States | dates = 2â4 July 1939 | organizer = | filing = | attendance = ~200 | website = |
Participants
Attendance was approximately 200.Guests of Honor
The Guest of Honor at the first Worldcon was Frank R. Paul.Other notable participants
Also attending were John W. Campbell, Isaac Asimov, L. Sprague de Camp, Ray Bradbury, Hannes Bok, Milton A. Rothman, John D. Clark, Jack Williamson, and Harry Harrison.Controversy
In addition to its groundbreaking role as the first of its kind, the convention was noteworthy for the exclusion of a number of politicized Futurians by convention chair Sam Moskowitz; those excluded were Donald A. Wollheim, Frederik Pohl, John Michel, Robert A. W. Lowndes, Cyril M. Kornbluth, and Jack Gillespie, an event known to fannish historians as "The Great Exclusion Act."According to Pohl, in his autobiography The Way the Future Was, the Futurians held their own counter-convention which was attended by several who went to the regular convention. He also downplayed the aspect that politics played, himself believing that it was a personality conflict between the convention organizers and the Futurians and said "We pretty nearly had it coming," continuing with "What we Futurians made very clear to the rest of New York fandom was that we thought we were better than they were. For some reason that annoyed them."Programming and events
File:MorojoAND4SJ.jpg|thumb|right|Ackerman and MorojoMorojoAckerman and his girlfriend and fellow fanzine editor Myrtle R Douglas (Morojo) attended the convention in "futuristicostumes" designed and sewn by Douglas: this is considered a forerunner to modern fan costuming (which is known as "cosplay").In 1994, the International Costumers' Guild (ICG) presented a special award to Ackerman recognizing him as the "Father of Convention Costuming" at Conadian, the 52nd Worldcon. In 2016, the ICG recognized Morojo as the âMother of Convention Costumingâ with a video award presentation at MidAmeriCon II, the 74th Worldcon.Awards
1939 Retro Hugo Awards
Hugo Awards were not presented, as the first ones were awarded in 1953. However, in 2014 at the 72nd World Science Fiction Convention held in London, a set of Retro Hugo Awards were presented to honor work that would have been Hugo-eligible had the award existed in 1939:- Best Novel: The Sword in the Stone by T. H. White
- Best Novella: "Who Goes There?" by John W. Campbell (as "Don A. Stuart")
- Best Novelette: "Rule 18" by Clifford D. Simak
- Best Short Story: "How We Went to Mars" by Arthur C. Clarke
- Best Dramatic Presentation: The War of the Worlds by H. G. Wells, written for radio by Howard E. Koch and Anne Froelick, directed by Orson Welles (The Mercury Theatre on the Air/CBS)
- Best Professional Editor: John W. Campbell
- Best Professional Artist: Virgil Finlay
- Best Fanzine: Imagination!, edited by Forrest J Ackerman, Myrtle Rebecca "Morojo" Douglas, and T. Bruce Yerke
- Best Fan Writer: Ray Bradbury
- Special Committee Award: Jerry Siegel and Joe Shuster, creators of Superman
See also
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Further reading
- In Memory Yet Green by Isaac Asimov (1979)
- The Futurians by Damon Knight (1977)
- The Way The Future Was by Frederik Pohl (1978)
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