28th World Science Fiction Convention

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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

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.

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