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Convention | Dates | Hotel | Place | Chair(s) | Book of Honor |
Potlatch 1 | Feb. 14-16, 1992 | University Plaza Hotel | Seattle, WA | Kate Schaefer | |
Potlatch 2 | Feb. 26-28, 1993 | Hotel Shattuck | Berkeley, CA | Tom Whitmore | Frankenstein by Mary Shelley |
Potlatch 3 | Feb. 11-14, 1994 | University Plaza Hotel | Seattle, WA | Jane Hawkins | |
Potlatch 4 | Feb. 10-12, 1995 | Waterfront Plaza Hotel | Oakland, CA | Deb Notkin | The Only Neat Thing to Do by James Tiptree, Jr. |
Potlatch 5 | Feb. 2-4, 1996 | Imperial Hotel | Portland, OR | David Levine | The Lathe of Heaven video |
Potlatch 6 | Feb. 28-Mar 2, 1997 | University Plaza Hotel | Seattle, WA | Luke McGuff | |
Potlatch 7 | Jan. 16-18, 1998 | Jack London Inn | Oakland, CA | Guy Thomas | War of the Worlds by H.G. Wells |
Potlatch 8 | Jan. 22-24,1999 | Doubletree Inn Gateway | Springfield, OR | Lynn Adams | |
Potlatch 9 | Feb. 25-27, 2000 | University Plaza Hotel | Seattle, WA | Ian K. Hagemann | Corflatch |
Potlatch 10 | Feb. 23-25, 2001 | Ramada Plaza Hotel International | San Francisco, CA | Janet Lafler, Guy Thomas | Thunder and Roses by Theodore Sturgeon |
Potlatch 11 | Feb. 22-24, 2002 | The Best Western Executive Inn | Seattle, WA | Kate Schaefer, Jane Hawkins | |
Potlatch 12 | Feb. 21-23, 2003 | Ramada Plaza Hotel International | San Francisco, CA | Karen Schaffer | The Rediscovery of Man by Cordwainer Smith |
Potlatch 13 | Feb. 27-29, 2004 | The Best Western Executive Inn | Seattle, WA | Luke McGuff | The Shockwave Rider by John Brunner |
Potlatch 14 | Mar. 4-6, 2005 | Ramada Plaza Hotel International | San Francisco, CA | Steven Schwartz, Janet Lafler | A Scanner Darkly by Philip K. Dick |
Potlatch 15 | Feb. 24-26, 2006 | The Best Western Executive Inn | Seattle, WA | Ulrika O'Brien | The Avram Davidson Treasury, edited by Robert Silverberg and Grania Davis |
Potlatch 16 | Mar. 9-11, 2007 | Red Lion Convention Center | Portland OR | Ruth Sachter | Dimensions of Sheckley: The Selected Novels of Robert Sheckley, edited by Sharon L. Sbarsky and Mike Resnick |
Potlatch 17 | Feb. 29 - Mar. 2, 2008 | Hotel Deca | Seattle, WA | Kate Schaefer | Parable of the Sower by Octavia E. Butler |
Potlatch 18 | Feb. 27 - Mar. 1, 2009 | Domain Hotel | Sunnyvale, CA | Matt Austern, Steven Schwartz | Growing Up Weightless by John M. Ford and Always Coming Home by Ursula K. Le Guin |
Potlatch 19 | Mar. 5-7, 2010 | Hotel Deca | Seattle, WA | Mary Kay Kare Suzanne Tompkins |
Lord of Light by Roger Zelazny |
Potlatch 20 | Mar. 4-6, 2011 | Domain Hotel | Sunnyvale, CA | Karen Schaffer | Earth Abides by George R. Stewart |
Potlatch 21 | Feb. 24-26, 2012 | Best Western Executive Inn | Seattle, WA | Jack Bell | A Canticle for Leibowitz by Walter M. Miller, Jr. |
Potlatch 22 | Feb. 1-3, 2013 | Marriott Town Center | Redmond, WA | Ulrika O'Brien | Among Others by Jo Walton |
Potlatch 23 | Feb. 21-23, 2014 | Sainte Claire Hotel | San José, CA | Tom Becker | The City & the City by China Miéville |
Potlatch 24 | Feb. 6-8, 2015 | Hotel Deca | Seattle, WA | Jane Hawkins | Women Destroy Science Fiction! June 2014 special issue of Lightspeed Magazine |
Potlatch 25 | Mar. 19, 2016 | Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Library | San José, CA | Tom Becker | Constellation Games by Leonard Richardson |
Reading, talking about, and writing science fiction is what Potlatch is all about. For the last several years we've been transcribing the panel proceedings for members and interested bystanders. If you'd like to catch up on the conversations that went down at previous Potlatches, check out some of the links below. (* = recorded audio transcript link.)