Bubonicon is New Mexico’s best and longest-running Sci-Fi & Fantasy literary and arts convention. Join us in Albuquerque for a great weekend of fun! We have panels and presentations (featuring top authors, artists, and scientists), a costume contest, art show, dealer’s room, Green Slime Awards, charity auctions, fan programming, and much more! (Click guest photos to enlarge – fun surprise for Jon Sanchez.)

2026 Con Theme is: 📣 To Be Announce d 📢

The B’con 57 theme will be announced by early February.

Here are examples:

📚 BOOKS:  Not Known Yet by Some Writer, and more…

🎬 MOVIES/TV SHOWS:  Big Screen & TV titles to come, and several more…

💬 COMIC BOOKS:  Same Deal, and many, more…

🎼 MUSIC:  Some Tunes are possible by A Band, and even more…

Announcements

BUBONICON 57 PASSES went on sale 9:00 am Sat, January 10th!  Weekend passes are $43.00 through the end of April 24. (Daily passes are $20 Friday, $35 Saturday, and $16 Sunday.)

FUTURE B’CON DATES:  Bubonicon 58 will be August 27-29, 2027, as Montreal, Canada, is hosting the Worldcon September 2-6 that year…

AT THE GUILD CINEMA:  We encourage everyone to support our local independent cinema by attending (masks welcome)!     — Coming Up:  Fractals: Infinite Feedback Loops February 4, Metropolis Feb 5, Let the Right One In Feb 6, The Librarians Feb 7-8, Valentine’s Month Special Cartoons: Fabulous Fleischer Cartoons Restored Feb 9-11, There’s Something About Mary Feb 13, Nekromantic Feb 14, Visitors from the Arkana Galaxy and Dead Mountaineer’s Hotel Feb 17-19, Se7en Feb 20, Alligator Feb 21, By Design Feb 27-March 1, and Jit Feb 28…

CONGRATS TO MORGUE & KRYPT’s 3rd HORROR FEST this past September 26-28 at Isleta Resort & Casino.  It was very successful, fun, and well run!  They had guests from The Terrifer, Night of the Creeps, The Fog, Halloween, Carrie, The Last Starfighter, Hellraiser, Shivers, Beyond the Darkness, and more…
— Morgue & Krypt has announced that they are taking a break, and will not do the convention in 2026.  But fear not, they will be doing several small events in the next year – and should be back in 2027.
—- Bubonicon supports the M&K Horror Fest, and hopes everyone had fun all three years.  www.MorgueandKryptABQ.com.

THANK YOU TO EVERYONE WHO ATTENDED THE CAN’T STOP THE SERENITY event Saturday, December 6, at Flix Brewhouse, Indian School Rd & Tramway Blvd NE.  You all are “Big Damn Heroes” for your charity efforts and being part of the NM sci-fi community!  Stay shiny!

STAY STRONG, NEW MEXICO!  These are challenging times, and lots of people need assistance with food, public television, healthcare, and such.

ALBUQUERQUE SF SOCIETY was featured in a May 5, 2021, UNM Daily Lobo article.  You can read it here: www.dailylobo.com/article/2021/05/abq.

AWARDS NEWS:  CONGRATS!
+ Congratulations to 2025 Hugo Award Winners with ties to New Mexico and/or Bubonicon:  Best Series: Between Earth and Sky by Rebecca Roanhorse, and Lodestar Award for Best Young Adult Book [Not a Hugo Award]: Sheine Lende by Darcie Little Badger.  The Hugo Awards were presented at the Seattle Worldcon on August 16, 2025.
+ Congratulations to 2025 Locus Award Winners with ties to New Mexico and/or Bubonicon:  Fantasy Novel: A Sorceress Comes to Call by T. Kingfisher; Novella: What Feasts at Night by T. Kingfisher; and Artist: Charles Vess.  Winners were announced June 21, 2025, in Oakland, CA.

OUR CONDOLENCES to the friends & family of actress Catherine O’Hara (Beetlejuice, Frankenweenie, Schitt’s Creek, The Last of Us, The Nightmare Before Christmas, The Wild Robot, SCTV, Tales from the Crypt, Best In Show, Monster House, Where the Wild Things Are), who died January 30, 2026, at the age of 71 years old;  actor Gil Gerard (1979-1981’s Buck Rogers in the 25th Century, Airport ’77, Fish Police, Star Trek: Phase II, Transformers: Robots in Disguise, Little House on the Prairie, Nuclear Hurricane), who died December 16, 2025, at the age of 82 years old;  of actor/director Rob Reiner (The Princess Bride, Stand By Me, When Harry Met Sally, Misery, A Few Good Men, This is Spinal Tap, All in the Family), who died December 14 at the age of 78 years old;  of famed archivist Bob Burns (historian of props, author, actor including as Tracy the Gorilla in The Ghost Busters, 1975, Halloween horror house host, producer and long-time Fan), who died December 12 at the age of 90 years old;  of author John Varley (Millennium, Titan, Wizard, Rolling Thunder, Demon, Slow Apocalypse), who died December 10 at the age of 78 years old;  of actress June Lockhart (Lost in Space, Lassie, She-Wolf of London, General Hospital, Babylon 5, Troll, Bewitched, Strange Invaders, Whiz Kids, Amazing Stories, The Greatest American Hero), who died October 23 at the age of 100 years old.  They all will be missed.