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30th World Science Fiction Convention

30th Worldcon (1972)

Field	Value
name	L.A.con I, the 30th World Science Fiction Convention
genre	Science fiction
venue	International Hotel
location	Los Angeles, California
country	United States
dates	1–4 September 1972
filing	Non-profit
attendance	2,007

The 30th World Science Fiction Convention (Worldcon), also known as L.A.con I, was held on 1–4 September 1972 at the International Hotel in Los Angeles, California, United States.

The organising committee was co-chaired by Charles Crayne and Bruce Pelz.

Participants

Attendance was approximately 2,007.

Guests of honor

Frederik Pohl (pro)
Buck Coulson and Juanita Coulson (fan)
Robert Bloch (toastmaster)

Awards

1972 Hugo Awards

Best Novel: To Your Scattered Bodies Go by Philip José Farmer
Best Novella: The Queen of Air and Darkness by Poul Anderson
Best Short Story: "Inconstant Moon" by Larry Niven
Best Dramatic Presentation: A Clockwork Orange
Best Professional Artist: Frank Kelly Freas
Best Professional Magazine: Fantasy & Science Fiction
Best Amateur Magazine: Locus (editors: Charles and Dena Brown)

Other awards

Special Award: Harlan Ellison for excellence in anthologizing
Special Award: Club du Livre d'Anticipation (France) for excellence in book production
Special Award: Nueva Dimension (Spain) for excellence in magazine production

Future site selection

The 33rd World Science Fiction Convention was awarded to Aussiecon I in Melbourne, Australia. This was the first time a Worldcon was awarded to a site outside North America or Europe.

Notes

At the L.A.Con I masquerade, one of the contestants, artist Scott Shaw!, came on stage wearing only a bathing suit, with his body completely covered with crunchy peanut butter. The name of his costume was "The Turd." from an underground comic story Shaw wrote and illustrated. Since some of the peanut butter tended to drip off of him, making the floor sticky for other contestants, a rule was passed that forever after at science fiction convention masquerades, no peanut butter costumes would be allowed. This masquerade rule is universally known among science fiction fans as the "no peanut butter rule."

The first video game competition at a science fiction convention was held, and a science fiction fan named Kevan Pritchard from Lawndale, California, won the world championship contest in the game Spacewar!.

References

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Noreascon I in Boston, Massachusetts, United States (1971) L.A.con I in Los Angeles, California, United States (1972) Torcon II in Toronto, Ontario, Canada (1973)

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