Minicon 4

Minicon 4 was held June 17-19, 1971 at the Curtis Hotel in Minneapolis. Guest of Honor: Lin Carter. Chaired by Jim Young.

See also Minicon and List of Minicons.

The program:

All program items in the East Room unless otherwise noted.

• Friday
• noon: Set-up and registration desk opens
• 1:30 P.M. Science Fiction radio plays (From Dimension X, and X-plus-1, circa 1951)
• 6:30 Announcements, introductions
• 7:00 Science Fiction Research Association Symposium: "Settings in Science Fiction;" panelists Virginia Carew, Dale Mullen, and Clifford Simak, moderated by Ivor Rogers
• 8:10 Movies: "Lost Horizon," and 21st Century films, "Mars and Beyond," and "Cities of the Future"
• 9:30 Party Suite opens
• Midnight: Auction (the first issue of Unknown, and a few other midnight items)
• Saturday
• 11:00 A.M. Art-show, Huckster's area, and registration desk open
• 11:15 Star Trek slides — from bad to verse; presented by Ruth Berman
• 11:30 Business Session of the Minn-Stf (Minnesota Science Fiction Society); Topics: Summer meetings, multimedia project, and the Picnic-con
• Noon-1:00 P.M Lunch Break
• 1:05 P.M. OTHER WORLDS THAN OURS
• Part One: "Creating Science Fiction Worlds" with Lin Carter and Clifford D. Simak
• 3:00 The Science Fiction College Bowl
• 4:00 Auction
• 5:30 Autograph session with all the pros, in the lobby near the East Room
• 5:30- 6:30 Break
• 6:30 Banquet dinner is served IN THE CARDINAL ROOM
• 8:00 Banquet Program: Art-show prizes awarded, Guest of Honor speech, and the production of HMS Trek-a-Star, all in the Cardinal room
• 9:30 Movies in the East Room: "Nosferatu," "The Critic," and the 21st Century films, "The Computer Revolution, parts I and II", Party suite opens once more
• Sunday
• 11:00 A.M. Art-show, Huckster's area. and registration desk open
• 11:05 "Profile(s) of the Future" an attempt to predict our future by Ben Bova, Virginia Carew, Gordon Dickson, Earl Joseph, and Clifford Simak
• Noon-1:00 P.M. Lunch break
• 1:05 P.M. "Teaching Science Fiction — How and Why" with Allan Greenberg (Macalester College), Mary Merlin (Anoka Ramsey State College), and Dale Mullen (Indiana State University)
• 2:00 Auction
• 4:00 The Wrap-up Report: the financial state of the convention address, and a plea for suggestions on how to improve the convention
• 6:00 Movies: "Cyborg 2018," and the 21st Century films, "Incredible Voyage," and "At Home: 2001"