28th World Science Fiction Convention
The 28th World Science Fiction Convention , informally also known as Heicon or Heicon '70 , was the 28th Worldcon and took place in August 1970 in Heidelberg . It was the first and so far (2019) only Worldcon in Germany .
The event
The con took place from August 20 to 24, 1970 in the Heidelberg City Hall, and the Hugo Awards were presented in Heidelberg Castle . Around 620 guests from 15 countries, preferably from the Anglo-American language area, were present. According to Dieter Hasselblatt , who was a participant himself, the average age was 25 years. Chairman was Manfred Kage , toast master John Brunner .
On the Con and the 1966 founded stepped Fantasy - RPG group Follow ( Fellowship of the Lords of the Lands of Wonder ), which in there carnival was taken Saint-Fantony Order. The group's appearance was sharply criticized by the film critic Wolf Donner in the left-liberal weekly newspaper Zeit . However thunder concealed by Hasselblatt the activities of AST (working group of speculative issues), distributed on the Con leaflets and as a kind of abstraction from the Science Fiction Club Germany critical of the Perry Rhodan - ideology dealt and an intellectual exploration of science fiction called as well as protests against the Vietnam War .
Guests of honor
Guests of honor were Robert Silverberg , who gave his lecture "Science Fiction in the Age of Revolution", as well as EC Tubb and Herbert W. Franke .
Hugo Awards
- Best novel : The Left Hand of Darkness by Ursula K. Le Guin
- Best Novella : Ship of Shadows by Fritz Leiber
- Best Short Story : Time Considered as a Helix of Semi-Precious Stones by Samuel R. Delany
- Best Dramatic Presentation: Filming of Apollo 11
- Best Professional Magazine : The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction
- Best Professional Artist: Frank Kelly Freas
- Best Fanzine : Science Fiction Review , edited by Richard E. Geis
- Best Fan Writer: Bob Tucker
- Best Fan Artist: Tim Kirk
literature
- Chapter SF World Congress in Heidelberg ´70 - a Mummenschanz , in: Dieter Hasselblatt : Green men from Mars. Science Fiction for Readers and Doers , Düsseldorf (Droste) 1974, pp. 74-77.
Web links
- SF-Cons in Germany at charlys-phantastik-cafe.de
- Information on the Con at fancyclopedia.org
- Wolf Donner: Science fiction fans in Heidelberg - steps backwards into progress. In: The time . August 28, 1970 (online version).
- Homepage of Fellows
- Photos from the con at fanac.org