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Magnum Opus Con, the Glossary

Magnum Opus Con (MOC) was an annual multigenre convention which generally took place each spring in various cities in the U.S. states of Georgia and South Carolina from 1986 to 2001.^[1]

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Conventions in Georgia (U.S. state)
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Defunct comics conventions
Defunct gaming conventions
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Defunct science fiction conventions in the United States

Alan Dean Foster

Alan Dean Foster (born November 18, 1946) is an American writer of fantasy and science fiction.

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Alan Grant (writer)

Alan Grant (9 February 194920 July 2022) was a Scottish comic book writer known for writing Judge Dredd in 2000 AD as well as various Batman titles from the late 1980s to the early 2000s.

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Andre Norton

Andre Alice Norton (born Alice Mary Norton, February 17, 1912 – March 17, 2005) was an American writer of science fiction and fantasy, who also wrote works of historical and contemporary fiction.

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Andrew Bryniarski (born February 13, 1969) is an American actor and former bodybuilder, best known for portraying Leatherface in the remake of The Texas Chain Saw Massacre and The Texas Chainsaw Massacre: The Beginning, Zangief in Street Fighter, and Steve Lattimer in The Program.

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Angelique Pettyjohn

Angelique Pettyjohn (born Dorothy Lee Perrins; March 11, 1943 – February 14, 1992) was an American actor and burlesque queen.

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Anime

is hand-drawn and computer-generated animation originating from Japan.

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Anthony Ainley

Anthony Ainley (20 August 1932 – 3 May 2004) was a British actor.

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Athens, Georgia

Athens is a consolidated city-county in the U.S. state of Georgia.

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Atlanta

Atlanta is the capital and most populous city in the U.S. state of Georgia.

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Belly dance

Belly dance (oriental dance) is a Middle Eastern dance that originated in Egypt, which features movements of the hips and torso.

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Ben Bova

Benjamin William Bova (November 8, 1932November 29, 2020) was an American writer and editor.

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Berkeley Breathed

Guy Berkeley "Berke" Breathed (born June 21, 1957) is an American cartoonist, children's book author, director, and screenwriter, known for his comic strips Bloom County, Outland, and Opus.

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Bloom County

Bloom County is an American comic strip by Berkeley Breathed which originally ran from December 8, 1980, until August 6, 1989.

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Brad Linaweaver

Bradford Swain Linaweaver (September 1, 1952 – August 29, 2019) was an American science fiction writer, film producer, actor, and magazine publisher.

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Brad Strickland

William Bradley Strickland (born October 27, 1947) is an American writer known primarily for fantasy and science fiction.

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Brion James

Brion Howard James (February 20, 1945 – August 7, 1999) was an American character actor.

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Bruce Boxleitner

Bruce William Boxleitner (born May 12, 1950) is an American actor and science fiction and suspense writer.

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Bruce Campbell

Bruce Lorne Campbell (born June 22, 1958) is an American actor and filmmaker.

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Bruce McCandless II

Bruce McCandless II (born Byron Willis McCandless; June 8, 1937 – December 21, 2017) was an American Navy officer and aviator, electrical engineer, and NASA astronaut.

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C. J. Cherryh

Carolyn Janice Cherry (born September 1, 1942), better known by the pen name C. J. Cherryh, is an American writer of speculative fiction.

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Callaway Gardens

Callaway Resort & Gardens is a resort complex located near Pine Mountain in Harris County, Georgia, from LaGrange, Georgia.

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Charlotte, North Carolina

Charlotte is the most populous city in the U.S. state of North Carolina and the county seat of Mecklenburg County.

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Chelsea Quinn Yarbro

Chelsea Quinn Yarbro (born September 15, 1942) is an American writer.

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Chris Potter (actor)

Christopher Jay Potter (born August 23, 1960) is a Canadian actor.

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Colin Baker

Colin Charles Baker (born 8 June 1943) is an English actor.

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Collectable

A collectable (collectible or collector's item) is any object regarded as being of value or interest to a collector.

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Columbus, Georgia

Columbus is a consolidated city-county located on the west-central border of the U.S. state of Georgia.

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Comic book

A comic book, also called comicbook, comic magazine or simply comic, is a publication that consists of comics art in the form of sequential juxtaposed panels that represent individual scenes.

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Cosplay

Cosplay, a portmanteau of "costume play", is an activity and performance art in which participants called cosplayers wear costumes and fashion accessories to represent a specific character.

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Dale Midkiff

Dale Alan Midkiff (born July 1, 1959) is an American actor, best known for playing Louis Creed in the horror film Pet Sematary (1989) and Captain Darien Lambert in the TV series Time Trax.

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David Weber

David Mark Weber (born October 24, 1952) is an American science fiction and fantasy author. He has written several science-fiction and fantasy books series, the best known of which is the Honor Harrington science-fiction series. His first novel, which he worked on with Steve White, sold in 1989 to Baen Books.

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DeForest Kelley

Jackson DeForest Kelley (January 20, 1920 – June 11, 1999) was an American actor, screenwriter, poet, and singer.

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Doctor Who

Doctor Who is a British science fiction television series broadcast by the BBC since 1963.

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Douglas Chaffee

Douglas Stewart Chaffee (January 24, 1936 – April 26, 2011) was an American artist whose work appeared in role-playing games as well as military and Christian publications.

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Dragon Con

Dragon Con (previously Dragon*Con and sometimes DragonCon) is a North American multigenre convention, founded in 1987, which takes place annually over the Labor Day weekend in Atlanta, Georgia.

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Edward E. Kramer

Edward Eliot Kramer (born March 20, 1961) is an American editor and convicted child molester.

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Fandom

A fandom is a subculture composed of fans characterized by a feeling of camaraderie with others who share a common interest.

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Fantasy

Fantasy is a genre of fiction involving magical elements, as well as a work in this genre.

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Fanzine

A fanzine (blend of fan and magazine or -zine) is a non-professional and non-official publication produced by enthusiasts of a particular cultural phenomenon (such as a literary or musical genre) for the pleasure of others who share their interest.

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Filk music

Filk music is a musical culture, genre, and community tied to science fiction, fantasy, and horror fandom and a type of fan labor.

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Garth Ennis

Garth Ennis (born 16 January 1970) is a Northern Irish-American comics writer, best known for the Vertigo series Preacher with artist Steve Dillon, his nine-year run on Marvel Comics' Punisher franchise, and The Boys with artist Darick Robertson.

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George Takei

George Takei (born; April 20, 1937) is an American actor, author and activist known for his role as Hikaru Sulu, helmsman of the USS ''Enterprise'' in the Star Trek franchise.

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Georgia (U.S. state)

Georgia, officially the State of Georgia, is a state in the Southeastern region of the United States.

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Grace Lee Whitney

Grace Lee Whitney (born Mary Ann Chase; April 1, 1930 – May 1, 2015) was an American actress and singer.

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Greenville, South Carolina

Greenville (locally) is a city in and the county seat of Greenville County, South Carolina, United States.

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Gunnar Hansen

Gunnar Milton Hansen (March 4, 1947 – November 7, 2015) was an American actor and author best known for playing the mentally impaired cannibal Leatherface in The Texas Chain Saw Massacre (1974).

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Hospitality suite

A hospitality suite is a room or suite of rooms in a hotel or convention center, provided during a convention or conference, in order for a business, candidate, or organization to meet and entertain current or potential clients, supporters, etc.

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James Doohan

James Montgomery Doohan (March 3, 1920 – July 20, 2005) was a Canadian actor and author, best known for his role as Montgomery "Scotty" Scott in the television and film series Star Trek.

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Jane Fancher

Jane Suzanne Fancher (born 1952) is a science fiction and fantasy author and artist.

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Janet Kagan

Janet Kagan (born Janet Megson, April 18, 1946 – February 29, 2008) was an American author.

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Jenette Goldstein

Jenette Elise Goldstein (born February 4, 1960) is an American actress.

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John Levene

John Anthony Woods (born 24 December 1941), known professionally as John Levene, is an English actor, producer, entertainer and singer.

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John McCrea (comics)

John McCrea (born 1966) is a comic book artist best known for his collaborations with writer Garth Ennis.

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Jon Pertwee

John Devon Roland Pertwee (7 July 1919 – 20 May 1996), known professionally as Jon Pertwee, was an English actor.

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Kane Hodder

Kane Warren Hodder (born April 8, 1955)According to the State of California.

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Keith Giffen

Keith Ian Giffen (November 30, 1952 – October 9, 2023) was an American comics artist and writer.

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Larry Niven

Laurence van Cott Niven (born April 30, 1938) is an American science fiction writer.

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Lawrence Watt-Evans

Lawrence Watt-Evans (born 1954) is one of the pseudonyms of American science fiction and fantasy author Lawrence Watt Evans (another pseudonym, used primarily for science fiction, is Nathan Archer).

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List of multigenre conventions

This is a list of multi-genre conventions.

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Lois McMaster Bujold

Lois McMaster Bujold (born November 2, 1949) is an American speculative fiction writer.

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Louise Jameson

Louise Marion Jameson (born 20 April 1951) is an English actress with a variety of television and theatre credits.

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Lynn Abbey

Marilyn Lorraine "Lynn" Abbey (born September 18, 1948) is an American fantasy author.

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Macon, Georgia

Macon, officially Macon–Bibb County, is a consolidated city-county in Georgia, United States.

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Marion Zimmer Bradley

Marion Eleanor Zimmer Bradley (June 3, 1930 – September 25, 1999) was an American author of fantasy, historical fantasy, science fiction, and science fantasy novels, and is best known for the Arthurian fiction novel The Mists of Avalon and the Darkover series.

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Masquerade ball

A masquerade ball (or bal masqué) is a special kind of formal ball which many participants attend in costume wearing masks.

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Melanie Rawn

Melanie Rawn (born 1954) is an American author of fantasy literature.

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Michael Lawson Bishop (November 12, 1945 – November 13, 2023) was an American author.

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Monique Gabrielle

Katherine Gonzalez (born July 30, 1962), also known as Monique Gabrielle, is an American model and actress.

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NASA

The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) is an independent agency of the U.S. federal government responsible for the civil space program, aeronautics research, and space research.

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Nichelle Nichols

Nichelle Nichols (born Grace Dell Nichols; December 28, 1932 – July 30, 2022) was an American actress, singer and dancer whose portrayal of Uhura in Star Trek and its film sequels was groundbreaking for African American actresses on American television.

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Opus the Penguin

Opus the Penguin (Opus T. Penguin) is a fictional character created by artist Berkeley Breathed.

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Patricia Tallman

Patricia J. Tallman (born September 4, 1957) is an American actress, stunt performer, and studio executive best known for her roles in Night of the Living Dead, Star Trek and Babylon 5.

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Patrick Troughton

Patrick George Troughton (25 March 1920 – 28 March 1987) was an English actor best known for his roles in television and film.

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Phil Foglio

Philip Foglio (born May 1, 1956) is an American cartoonist and comic book artist known for his humorous science fiction and fantasy art.

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Phyllis Coates

Phyllis Coates (born Gypsie Ann Evarts Stell; January 15, 1927 – October 11, 2023) was an American actress, with a career spanning over fifty years.

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Pin-up model

A pin-up model is a model whose mass-produced pictures and photographs have wide appeal within the popular culture of a society.

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Pine Mountain, Harris County, Georgia

Pine Mountain is a town in Harris and Meriwether counties in the U.S. state of Georgia.

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Raymond Moody

Raymond A. Moody Jr. (born June 30, 1944) is an American philosopher, psychiatrist, physician and author, most widely known for his books about afterlife and near-death experiences (NDE), a term that he coined in 1975 in his best-selling book Life After Life.

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Robert Asprin

Robert Lynn Asprin (June 28, 1946 – May 22, 2008) was an American science fiction and fantasy author and active fan, known best for his humorous series MythAdventures and Phule's Company.

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Robert C. Springer

Robert Clyde Springer (born May 21, 1942) is a retired American astronaut and test pilot who flew as a mission specialist on two NASA Space Shuttle missions in 1989 and 1990.

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Robert Picardo

Robert Alphonse Picardo (born October 27, 1953) is an American actor.

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Roger Zelazny

Roger Joseph Zelazny (May 13, 1937 – June 14, 1995) was an American poet and writer of fantasy and science fiction short stories and novels, best known for The Chronicles of Amber.

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Role-playing game

A role-playing game (sometimes spelled roleplaying game, or abbreviated as RPG) is a game in which players assume the roles of characters in a fictional setting.

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Science fiction

Science fiction (sometimes shortened to SF or sci-fi) is a genre of speculative fiction, which typically deals with imaginative and futuristic concepts such as advanced science and technology, space exploration, time travel, parallel universes, and extraterrestrial life.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magnum_Opus_Con

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See also

Conventions in Georgia (U.S. state)

Conventions in South Carolina

Defunct comics conventions

Defunct gaming conventions

Defunct multigenre conventions

Defunct science fiction conventions in the United States

References