Monday October 4, 2013  Science fiction conventions include one for North America (only in years when the World convention is elsewhere), Eurocon, and the Australian National Convention.  How long till the remaining continents have continent-wide sf conventions?

My guesses:  Asia and South America by the middle of this century.  Africa toward the end of 21st or beginning of the 22nd century.

Antarctica will take longer.

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