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    • Progress Report 1 – Winter 1987
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  • About ConFiction 1990
  • Donate to Reunicon
  • Membership list
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  • Publications
    • Progress Report 1 – Winter 1987
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    • Progress Report 4 – Winter 1989
    • Progress Report 5 – Summer 1990
    • Souvenir book of ConFiction 1990
    • ConFacts
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Confiction timeline

THE BEGINNING

First contact; phone call from New York fan Neil Belsky to initiate possible worldcon in the Netherlands with suggested site Amsterdam.

By admin, 4 years10 April 2019 ago

Aussiecon 2, Melbourne, Australia

Formation of bid team with Kees van Toorn, Angélique van Toorn, Johan-Martijn Flaton, Jo Thomas, Larry van der Putte, Annemarie van Ewijk, Roelof Goudriaan and Lynne-Ann Morse. Suggested site of convention changes from Amsterdam to the Hague after consultation with Dutch Board of Tourism with the Congresgebouw as possible venue, Read more…

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ConFederation, Atlanta, USA

Busy year with promotion of Holland in 1990 with trips around the world to conventions like Boskone, Saarcon and Eastercon with worldcon in Atlanta as last change to convince fans to vote for Holland in.

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Conspiracy’87, Brighton, England

First contact with possible GoH candidates, expansion of the team and more promotional tours to spread the word of Holland in 1990. The name ConFiction pops up during one of the committee meetings and will be the name of the convention if the bid is won at the worldcon in Read more…

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Nolacon II, New Orleans, USA

A year of hard work, expanding the committee, setting up a network of agents around the world and going from one to the other convention get support for ConFiction and trying to get as many members as possible. At NolaCon II our committee members were thrown in front of the Read more…

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Noreascon 3, Boston, USA

Our team work hard on all fronts, Jo Thomas comes up with first draft of the programme, we ask and get help from both UK, US and fans from all over the world. We organise a first small get to know each other convention and work convention in the Hague, Read more…

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About Confiction 1990

The second World Science Fiction Convention on the continent of Europe. We have created this website and social media avenues to preserve the past for the future and… to promote our intended Reunicon 2021 to commemorate 31 years after ConFiction 1990.

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