[shortening of convention] a convention, especially one held by or for fans of science fiction, fantasy or related subjects such as comics, role-playing games, filk, etc.
- 1942 L. Shaw Planet Stories (letter) (Spring) № 128/2: Three more cheers for the 4 WS-F Con.
- 1946 B. Tucker 1 Bloomington News-letter (Apr): Sixteen characters attended the First Post-Radar-Contact-With-the-Moon Con.
- 1961 J. Koning Withdrawal S-F Five-Yearly 25 Nov: Even before the con, the out-group fanac of the circle had been dying, but after the con, and that party, the FOCUS group's interest seemed to turn entirely inward.
- 1983 T. Nielsen Hayden Hell, 12 Feet Making Book (1994) № 72: I went to the Worldcon and the fannishness was thick and heady indeed, but what got me through the con was massive and systematic abuse of my medications.
- 1990 Con attendance (was Re: Can Comics Industry grow up?) (Usenet: rec.arts.comics) Oct. 6: I used to go SF and other types of cons. The only ones I go to nowadays are gaming cons.
- 2005 I-Con at Stony Brook? (Usenet: rec.arts.sf.fandom) Dec. 20: From my experience, it might be best to think of I-Con as five small cons in one, a literary con, a "media" con, an anime con, a comic con, and a gaming con.
