MileHiCon Through The Years
| Name | Start Date | End Date | Location | Things of Note | Year |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| OctoCon I | 11/15/1969 | 11/15/1969 | Chair: Camille "Caz" Cazedessus | 1969 | |
| OctoCon II | 10/17/1970 | 10/17/1970 | Chair: Camille "Caz" Cazedessus | 1970 | |
| MiniCon III | 10/16/1971 | 10/16/1971 | Chair: Judith Brownlee | 1971 | |
| MileHiCon 4 | 10/21/1972 | 10/22/1972 | Chair: Judith Brownlee Guest of Honor: Ed Bryant Toast Master: Bob Vardeman | 1972 | |
| MileHiCon 5 | 10/27/1973 | 10/28/1973 | Chairs: Ted Peak, Judith Brownlee Guest of Honor: Gordon Dickson Fan Guest of Honor: Devra Langsam Toast Master: Ed Bryant | 1973 | |
| MileHiCon 6 | 10/26/1974 | 10/27/1974 | Chairs: Ted Peak, Judith Brownlee Guest of Honor: Poul Anderson Fan Guest of Honor: Frank Denton Toast Master: Ed Bryant Poul's wife Karen Anderson presided over the Court of Love and a tournament was held. There was a lot of crossover between the SCA and DASFA/MileHiCon in those days, with many people active in both groups. | 1974 | |
| MileHiCon 7 | 10/24/1975 | 10/26/1975 | Chairs: Ted Peak, Judith Brownlee Guest of Honor: Joann Russ Fan Guest of Honor: Bob Vardeman Toast Master: Ed Bryant *First con to last three days | 1975 | |
| MileHiCon 8 | 10/22/1976 | 10/24/1976 | Chairs: Ted Peak, Judith Brownlee Guest of Honor: Marion Zimmer Bradley Fan Guest of Honor: Don Thompson Toast Master: Ed Bryant | 1976 | |
| MileHiCon 9 | 10/28/1977 | 10/30/1977 | Chair: Doris D. Beetem Guest of Honor: Roger Zalazny Fan Guest of Honor: Bruce D. Arthurs Toast Master: Ed Bryant | 1977 | |
| MileHiCon 10 | 10/27/1978 | 10/29/1978 | Chairs: Doris D. Beetem, David Anderson Guest of Honor: William Tenn Fan Guest of Honor: Fran Skene Toast Master: Ed Bryant | 1978 | |
| MileHiCon 11 | 10/26/1979 | 10/28/1979 | Chair: Bruce Miller Guest of Honor: Jack Williamson Fan Guest of Honor/ARFF Winner: Curt Stubbs Toast Master: Ed Bryant | 1979 | |
| MileHiCon 12 | 10/24/1980 | 10/26/1980 | Chair: Rose Beetem Guest of Honor: Stephen Donaldson Fan Guest of Honor: Roy Tackett Toast Master: Ed Bryant | 1980 | |
| MileHiCon 13 | 10/23/1981 | 10/25/1981 | Chair: Rose Beetem Guest of Honor: Theodore Sturgeon Fan Guest of Honor: Tom Digby Toast Master: Bob Vardeman | 1981 | |
| MileHiCon 14 | 10/22/1982 | 10/24/1982 | Chair: Gail Barton Guest of Honor: Ed Bryant Art Guest of Honor: Kelly Freas Fan Guest of Honor: Bruce Dane Toast Master: Connie Willis | 1982 | |
| MileHiCon 15 | 10/21/1983 | 10/23/1983 | Chair: Dana Cain Guest of Honor: George R.R. Martin Fan Guest of Honor: Pat Taylor Toast Master: Howard Waldrop | 1983 | |
| MileHiCon 16 | 10/26/1984 | 10/28/1984 | Chair: Maria Ladd Guest of Honor: Robert Asprin Fan Guest of Honor: Suzanne Reece Co-Toasties: Connie & Courtney Willis | 1984 | |
| MileHiCon 17 | 10/24/1985 | 10/26/1985 | Chair: Rose Beetem Guest of Honor: Somtow Sucharitkul Fan Guest of Honor: Leslie Fish Toast Master: Ed Bryant | 1985 | |
| MileHiCon 18 | 10/24/1986 | 10/26/1986 | Chair: Dana Cain Guests of Honor: Gahan Wilson, Juanita Coulson Toast Master: Somtow Sucharitkul Toast Master General: Ed Bryant | 1986 | |
| MileHiCon 19 | 10/24/1987 | 10/26/1987 | Chair: Gail Barton Guests of Honor: C.J. Cherryh, Peter S. Beagle Toast Master: Ed Bryant | 1987 | |
| MileHiCon 20 | 10/21/1988 | 10/23/1988 | Chair: Linda Nelson Guests of Honor: Jack Chalker, Connie Willis Fan Guest of Honor: Don Thompson Toast Master: Simon Hawke | 1988 | |
| MileHiCon 21 | 10/27/1989 | 10/29/1989 | Chair: Linda Nelson Guest of Honor: Robert Bloch Fan Guest of Honor: Forrest J Ackerman Toast Master: Simon Hawke Instead of con t-shirts this year, we had towels--imprinted “Bates Motel.” | 1989 | |
| MileHiCon 22 | 10/26/1990 | 10/28/1990 | Chairs: Suzanne Reece, Don Thompson Guests of Honor: George R.R. Martin, Dan Simmons Toast Master: John Stith | 1990 | |
| MileHiCon 23 | 10/18/1991 | 10/20/1991 | Chair: Linda Nelson Guest of Honor (in absentia): Sheri S. Tepper Special Guest of Honor: S.P. Somtow Art Guest of Honor: Erin McKee Fan Guest of Honor: KathE Walker Toast Master: Connie Willis The plague year! Guest were dropping like flies. Sheri Tepper had to cancel for medical reasons about ten days before the con. Somtow was unable to speak at the guest of honor speeches because he had left the antibiotics he was taking and Susan Crites had to "interpret" for him. Erin McKee was flat on her back in the art show and missed the program—Peri Charlifu stood in for her. And Toast Master Connie Willis almost missed the program because she only realized that morning that it was at 10:30 instead of 11. Whew! | 1991 | |
| MileHiCon 24 | 10/23/1992 | 10/25/1992 | Chair: Linda Nelson Guests of Honor: The Scribblies—Steven Brust, Emma Bull, Kara Dalkey, Pamela Dean & Will Shetterly | 1992 | |
| MileHiCon 25 | 10/22/1993 | 10/24/1993 | Chair: Linda Nelson Guests of Honor: George R.R. Martin, Connie Willis, Steven Brust, S.P. Somtow Art Guest of Honor: Erin McKee Toast Master: Edward Bryant Our anniversary year, where we asked back our former guests and several were able to attend. We also had a Pro/Fan Cabaret with several wonderful acts, including Somtow performing (on keyboards) both a classical work and the Sonic the Hedgehog Theme, with a curtain call of Porgy & Bess’s Summertime on kazoo. (Who knew you could get three octaves out of a kazoo?) | 1993 | |
| MileHiCon 26 | 10/21/1994 | 10/23/1994 | Chair: Linda Nelson Guest of Honor: Ellen Datlow Art Guest of Honor: Ruth Thompson Fan Guest of Honor: George "Lan" Laskowski Special Guest: David Barron (Klingon Language Institute) Toast Master: Larry Niven The cabaret had been so popular the previous year that we reprised it. Larry Niven demonstrated his flexibility, and Ellen Datlow diagrammed the location of various human organs (liver, kidney, lungs) with magic markers on a t-shirt worn by medical model Gary Jonas. | 1994 | |
| MileHiCon 27 | 10/20/1995 | 10/22/1995 | Chair: Linda Nelson Guests of Honor: Poul Anderson, Greg Bear Art Guest of Honor: Phil Foglio Media Guest of Honor: Haley McLane Toast Master: Simon Hawke | 1995 | |
| MileHiCon 28 | 10/25/1996 | 10/27/1996 | Chair: Linda Nelson Guests of Honor: Frederik Pohl, Jennifer Roberson Art Guest of Honors: David Martin, Diana Harlan Stein Media Guest of Honor: Richard Hatch Toast Master: Wil McCarthy The year of the Frederik Pohl incident! Richard Hatch was busy that year trying to promote a new version of Battlestar Galactica (not the one that finally emerged). | 1996 | |
| MileHiCon 29 | 10/24/1997 | 10/26/1997 | Chair: Linda Nelson Guests of Honor: Michael Resnick, S.M. Stirling Art Guest of Honor: Liz Danforth Media Guest of Honor: George Johnsen Toast Master: Ed Bryant The year we thought—with a great lineup and a media guest connected to Babylon-5—that we would break a thousand for the first time. That was before the snow started on Friday night. By Saturday morning we were completed snowed in, the city was shut down, and Donnercon had begun! | 1997 | |
| MileHiCon 30 | 10/23/1998 | 10/25/1998 | Chair: Linda Nelson Guests of Honor: Lawrence Watt-Evans, Kevin Anderson Art Guest of Honor: Ellisa Mitchell Toast Master: L.E. Modesitt, Jr. The year we began the literacy auction. | 1998 | |
| MileHiCon 31 | 10/22/1999 | 10/24/1999 | Chair: Linda Nelson Guests of Honor: Lois McMaster Bujold, K.W. Jeter Art Guest of Honor: Robert Daniels, Jr. Media Guest of Honor: Richard Elfman Fan Guest of Honor: Annabelle Bugg* Toast Master: Kevin Anderson *This was the first year we voted for the Fan Guest of Honor at the convention, leading to a string of successful campaigns by the Link family in successive years. | 1999 | |
| MileHiCon 32 | 10/20/2000 | 10/22/2000 | Chair: Linda Nelson Guests of Honor: Ben Bova, Spider & Jeanne Robinson, C. Dean Andersson Art Guest of Honor: John Kovalic Fan Guest of Honor: Christian Link* Toast Master: P.D. Cacek Opening ceremony theme: Survivor Con Guest *Elected at the convention | 2000 | |
| MileHiCon 33 | 10/26/2001 | 10/28/2001 | Chair: Linda Nelson Guests of Honor: Hal Clement, Harry Turtledove Art Guest of Honor: Todd Lockwood Musical Guest of Honors: TriDestiny Fan Guest of Honor: Danielle Link* Toast Master: Robert Vardeman Opening ceremony: 2001. *Elected at the convention | 2001 | |
| MileHiCon 34 | 10/18/2002 | 10/20/2002 | Chair: Linda Nelson Guests of Honor: Christie Golden, Jack McDevitt, Nichelle Nichols Art Guest of Honors: Michael Georges, Michael Hague (Sat. only) Toast Master: John M. Ford Opening ceremonies: Harry Potter | 2002 | |
| MileHiCon 35 | 10/24/2003 | 10/26/2003 | Chair: Linda Nelson Guests of Honor: Barry Longyear, Christopher Stasheff Art Guest of Honor: Lubov Web Comic Guest of Honor: Shaenon Garrity Toast Master: Walter Jon Williams Opening ceremonies: Hawaiian Shirts | 2003 | |
| MileHiCon 36 | 10/22/2004 | 10/24/2004 | Chair: Linda Nelson Guests of Honor: Charles de Lint, Elizabeth Moon, Fred Saberhagen Art Guest of Honor: Robert Eggleton Toast Master: Robert Vardeman Opening ceremony theme: Iron Guests in Writer Stadium! | 2004 | |
| MileHiCon 37 | 10/21/2005 | 10/23/2005 | Chair: Linda Nelson Guests of Honor: David Drake, Alan Dean Foster Art Guest of Honor: David Mattingly Media Guest of Honor: Kenneth Hall Toast Master: Connie Willis Opening ceremonies: MileHiCon Island, with all the guests dressing in props identifying them as a character from Gilligan’s Island. Connie Willis had prepared introductions in verse to be sung to the Gilligan’s Island theme as well as island/castaway-themed trivia questions. This was also the first year for the MileHiCon Coloring Book | 2005 | |
| MileHiCon 38 | 10/27/2006 | 10/29/2006 | Chair: Linda Nelson Guests of Honor: Judith & Garfield Reeves-Stevens, Robert J. Sawyer Art Guest of Honor: Alan M. Clark Toast Master: Mark Ferrari Opening ceremonies: Pirates! | 2006 | |
| MileHiCon 39 | 10/26/2007 | 10/28/2007 | Chair: Linda Nelson Guests of Honor: Chelsea Quinn Yarbro, David Weber Art Guest of Honor: Frank Wu Media Guest of Honor: David Hedison (Sat. only) Toast Master: Ed Bryant Opening ceremonies: Zombies | 2007 | |
| MileHiCon 40 | 10/24/2008 | 10/26/2008 | Hyatt Regency Denver Tech Center | Chair: Linda Nelson Guests of Honor: Patricia Briggs, Jim Butcher, Tim Powers Art Guest of Honor: Michael Carroll Media Guest of Honor: Ed Kramer Toast Master: Carrie Vaughn Opening ceremonies: PokeCon | 2008 |
| MileHiCon 41 | 10/23/2009 | 10/25/2009 | Hyatt Regency Denver Tech Center | Chair: Linda Nelson Guests of Honor: Nancy Kress, Barbara Hambly Art Guest of Honor: John Picacio Music Guest of Honor: Marc Gunn Toast Master: Brandon Sanderson Opening ceremonies: Sunnydale Survivors 10th Reunion (Buffy) | 2009 |
| MileHiCon 42 | 10/22/2010 | 10/24/2010 | Hyatt Regency Denver Tech Center | Chair: Linda Nelson Guests of Honor: Katherine Kurtz, Rachel Caine Art Guest of Honor: Donato Giancola Toast Master: Paolo Bacialupi Opening ceremonies: Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy: Don’t Panic! | 2010 |
| MileHiCon 43 | 10/21/2011 | 10/23/2011 | Hyatt Regency Denver Tech Center | Chair: Linda Nelson Guests of Honor: Vernor Vinge, Glen Cook Editor Guest of Honor: Gardner Dozois Art Guest of Honor: Theresa Mather Toast Master: Mario Acevedo Music Guest of Honors: Pandora Celtica Opening ceremonies: Robots | 2011 |
| MileHiCon 44 | 10/19/2012 | 10/21/2012 | Hyatt Regency Denver Tech Center | Chair: Linda Nelson Guests of Honor: CJ Henderson, Cherie Priest Special Guest of Honor: Steven Brust Art Guest of Honor: Stephen Hickman Toast Master: Stephen Graham Jones Opening ceremonies: Full Steam Ahead! | 2012 |
| MileHiCon 45 | 10/18/2013 | 10/20/2013 | Hyatt Regency Denver Tech Center | Chair: Linda Nelson Guests of Honor: Seanan McGuire, Catherynne Valente Art Guest of Honor: Aaron Miller Toast Master: Ian Tregillis | 2013 |
| MileHiCon 46 | 10/24/2014 | 10/26/2014 | Hyatt Regency Denver Tech Center | Chair: Linda Nelson Guests of Honor: Daniel Abrahm, Ty Franck, Michael Swanwick Art Guest of Honor: Phil and Kaja Foglio Toast Master: Jeanne Stein | 2014 |
| MileHiCon 47 | 10/23/2015 | 10/25/2015 | Hyatt Regency Denver Tech Center | Chair: Linda Nelson Guests of Honor: Kevin Hearne, Kristine Kathryn Rusch Art Guest of Honor: Ursula Vernon Toast Master: James Van Pelt | 2015 |
| MileHiCon 48 | 10/28/2016 | 10/30/2016 | Hyatt Regency Denver Tech Center | Chair: Linda Nelson Guests of Honor: John Varley, Kelley Armstrong Art Guest of Honor: Julie Dillon Special Guest: L. Neil Smith Toast Master: Chaz Kemp | 2016 |
| MileHiCon 49 | 10/28/2017 | 10/30/2017 | Hyatt Regency Denver Tech Center | Chair: Linda Nelson Guests of Honor: Eric Flint, Jane Lindskold Art Guest of Honor: Carrie Ann Baade Toastmaster: Jason Heller | 2017 |
| MileHiCon 50 | 10/19/2018 | 10/21/2018 | Hyatt Regency Denver Tech Center | Chair: Linda Nelson Guests of Honor (MHC invited all previous GOHs, Artist GOHs, and Toastmasters back for the 50th, these are the ones who attended):
| 2018 |
| MileHiCon 51 | 10/18/2019 | 10/20/2019 | Hyatt Regency Denver Tech Center | Chair: Linda Nelson Guests of Honor: Marie Brennan, Angela Roquet Art Guest of Honor: Elizabeth Leggett Toastmaster: Carol Berg | 2019 |
| MileHiCon 52 | 10/23/2020 | 10/25/2020 | Virtual convention | Chair: Linda Nelson Guests of Honor: Mur Lafferty, Cory Doctorow, Rebecca Roanhorse Artist Guest of Honor: Alan Pollack Toastmaster: Steve Rasnic Tem Due to the Covid-19 Pandemic this convention was held Virtually online. | 2020 |
| MileHiCon 53 | 10/1/2021 | 10/3/2021 | Denver Marriott Tech Center | Chair: Linda Nelson Guests of Honor:G. Willow Wilson, Rachel Swirsky, Artist Guest of Honor: Rebecca Hicks Fan Guest of Honor: Christopher Ambler Toastmaster: Aaron Michael Ritchey | 2021 |
| MileHiCon 54 | 10/21/2022 | 10/23/2022 | Denver Marriott Tech Center | Co-Chairs: Linda Nelson, Christine Childs Guests of Honor: Travis Heerman, Ken Liu Artist Guest of Honor: Charles Vess Toastmaster: Kevin J. Anderson | 2022 |
| MileHiCon 55 | 10/27/2023 | 10/29/2023 | Denver Marriott Tech Center | Co-Chairs: Linda Nelson, Christine Childs Guests of Honor: Mary Robinette Kowal, Drew Hayes Artist Guest of Honor: Peri Charlifu Toastmaster: Sumiko Saulson | 2023 |
| MileHiCon 56 | 10/25/2024 | 10/27/2024 | Denver Marriott Tech Center | 2024 | |
| MileHiCon 57 | 10/17/2025 | 10/19/2025 | 2025 | ||
| MileHiCon 58 | 10/16/2026 | 10/18/2026 | 2026 | ||
| MileHiCon 59 | 10/22/2027 | 10/24/2027 | 2027 | ||
| MileHiCon 60 | 10/20/2028 | 10/22/2028 | 2028 |