DemiCon 22: Here Be Dragons!

History of Demicon

DemiCon 1:
Witness the Birth

March 23 - March 25, 1990.
GoHs C.J.Cherryh, J.R.Daniels and Rusty Hevelin joined us for the inaugural DemiCon with an astounding 385 attendees.
DemiCon 2:
The Voyage Continues

April 26 - April 28, 1991
GoHs Joe Haldeman, Lucy Synk, Gay Haldeman and Rusty Hevelin joined us.
DemiCon 3:
My God! - It's full of Stars

March 27 - March 29, 1992
GoHs Rob Chilson, David Cherry, Myrna Logan (The Dragon Lady) and Rusty Hevelin joined us.
DemiCon 4:
The Dawn of Fan

March 26 - March 28, 1993
GoHs Mickey Zucker-Reichert, Erin Mckee, Mark Moore and Rusty Hevelin joined us.
The Fifth of DemiCon:
The Smoothest Convention around

April 22 - April 24, 1994
GoHs Glen Cook, David Lee Anderson, Pierre and Sandy Pettinger and Rusty Hevelin joined us.
DemiCon VI:
The Undiscovered Con

May 5 - May 7, 1995
GoHs Roger Zelazny, Vincent Jo-Nè Wilson Tucker and Rusty Hevelin joined us as we settled into our 'First weekend in May' timeslot.

DemiCon 7:
God created the heavens and the earth in 6 days...
DemiCon VII.
We may have taken 6 years with DemiCon but on the Seventh Con, We'll party

May 3 - May 5, 1996

GoHs Algis Budrys, Keith Berdak, Otto and Ruth Sheller and Rusty Hevelin joined us.

DemiCon 8:
Sorry, But We've Chosen Not to become Evolved - Supporting your Eternal right to Entropy

May 2 - May 4, 1997
GoHs Barbara Hambly, Mitchell Bentley, Charles Piehl and Rusty Hevelin joined us for the first showing of TICC© after Dark.
DemiCon 9:
Plan Nine from Des Moines

May 1 - May 3, 1998
GoHs George Alec Effinger, William J. Hodgson, Marshall and Dee Willis and Rusty Hevelin joined us at 'Hotel SaraJevo'.
DemiCon 10:
Generation X: Too old to be Neos...Too Young to be Nostalgic!

April 30 - May 2, 1999
GoHs Spider and Jeanne Robinson, Nè Nè, Bill Broughton and Rusty Hevelin joined us.
DemiCon 2000:
Y2K Compliance is Futile.
This one goes to Eleven.

May 5 - May 7, 2000
GoHs Lois McMaster Bujold, Susan Van Camp, Alois and Wendy Tchampl and Rusty Hevelin joined us at the 'Borg Cube' Hotel.
DemiCon 2001:
A Con Oddity

May 4 - May 6, 2001
GoHs Harry Harrison, Sergey Poyarkov, Tadao Tomomatsu and Rusty Hevelin joined us.
DemiCon the 13th:
Con of the Living Dead

May 3 - May 5, 2002
Beginning this Con with the Prom of the Living Dead, GoHs F. Paul Wilson, Alan M. Clark, Dennis Lunch and Rusty Hevelin joined us. The notable achievement this weekend was the complement Alan Clark gave us; that we were even weirder than he was.
DemiCon 14:
Contemplating the FUTURE

May 2 - May 4, 2003
In this future, GoHs Octavia E. Butler, Lubov, Lynda Sherman and Rusty Hevelin joined 500 attendees for a fun filled con.
DemiCon XV:
DemiCon-A-Fan-alistic-XV-
Fun-A-Liscious

April 30 - May 2, 2004
GoHs Emma Bull and Will Shetterly, Alan Gutierrez, Tadao Tomomatsu and Toastmaster Emeritus Rusty Hevelin helped us celebrate DemiCon's 15th anniversary. After TICC© After Dark this year Emma was heard to complement the performers with 'I didn't know that fans could dance'.
DemiCon 16:
Life, the Universe and DemiCon

July 29 - July 31, 2005
Now that it's over and GoHs Brad Linaweaver, Mike Cole, Sheila Lenkman and Scott Corwin, Tadao Tomomatsu and Toastmaster Emeritus Rusty Hevelin have gone back to their Universe. We have left our ConSuite at the end of the Universe. So long, and Thanks for all the Fish.
DemiCon 17:
Enter the Twilight Zone of Imagination

July 28 - July 30, 2006
DemiCon 17 invited you to enter a dimension of thought, a dimension of fun, a dimension of creativity! You saw the Consuite up ahead. You saw GoHs Janet Chui, Ted Poovey and Darice Schirber-Poovey, Tadao Tomomatsu and Toastmaster Emeritus Rusty Hevelin. You heard the ultimate Fan Boy, Luke Ski, sing to Grease Wars and you heard GoH Frederik Pohl, over a conference call since he was unable to attend due to Health reasons.
DemiCon 18:
You Can Go Home Again...
Just Use Your Imagination

May 18 - May 20, 2007
We invited you to join DemiCon 18 as it sprang back into your lives with GoHs Catherine Asaro, Theresa Mather, James Koro, Steve "Wookie" Houle, Tadao Tomomatsu and Toastmaster Emeritus Rusty Hevelin
DemiCon 19:
Back Where We Belong
May 2 - May 4, 2008
We went back where we belong with GoHs Steven Barnes, Mitchell Davidson Bentley, Joe & Inger Myers, Tadao Tomomatsu and Toastmaster Emeritus Rusty Hevelin.

DemiCon 20:
All of Our Cons Remembered

May 1 - May 3, 2009

GoHs Joe Haldeman, Sara Butcher, Roger Tener, Tadao Tomomatsu and Toastmaster Emeritus Rusty Hevelin helped us celebrate a great run at the Hotel Fort Des Moines. We'll miss you!

DemiCon 21:
Everything is Better with Pirates!

May 14-16, 2010

We returned to our old harbor at the Holiday Inn West with some amazing GOH passingers Karl Schroeder, Don Maitz, Gregg Parmentier, Tadao Tomomatsu and Toastmaster Emeritus Rusty Hevelin! Arrrgh, it's been a good time!

DemiCon 22:
Here be Dragons!
April 29, 30 and May 1, 2011

You are invited to an amazing weekend with GOH Sarah Prineas, Sarah Clemens, John and Denise Garner, Tadao Tomomatsu, Toastmaster Emeritus Rusty Hevelin and special Dragon of Honor Tiamat!


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Held at Holiday Inn Northwest, 4800 Merle Hay Road, Des Moines, IA

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