BayCon
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BayCon is the San Francisco Bay Area's main Science Fiction Convention. It is held over Memorial Day weekend in San Jose, California.
BayCon is a large convention topping two thousand attendees over the last several years. The convention draws many attendees from throughout California and also as far away as Oregon, Washington, and Nevada. Some of the better known regular attendees include Howard Hendrix, Diana Paxson, Lee Martindale, and Irene Radford. Past Guests of Honor include Frank Kelly Freas, Harry Turtledove, David Brin, Spider Robinson, Baron Engle, Forrest J. Ackerman, jay howard finder, Kent Brewster and Esther Freisner.
2005 guests of honor were Jay Lake, Frank Wu, Kevin Roche, Andy Trembley, Chase Masterson and Christopher J. Garcia.
2006 Guests of Honor were Larry Niven, Jerry Pournelle, Craig Miller, James Stanley Daugherty, and Stephen Furst.
in 2007 Baycon will be held at the San Mateo Marriott Hotel.
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