Presented at:

East – American Hotel, New York, New York, April 29, 1978 (unofficial)

West – Sir Francis Drake Hotel, San Francisco, California April 29, 1978

Although there were a couple of evening parties on the Thursday and Friday nights preceding the day of the banquet, the official event began with the Business Meeting on Saturday morning.  The afternoon was filled with panels, questions, and answers on the technical business aspects of publishing and the banquet for 160 people was hosted by Robert Silverberg with a talk by cartoonist B. Kliban and another by William J. Kaufmann talking about black holes.  Since the official event was hosted in San Francisco, an unofficial banquet was held in New York at the American Hotel, where Spider and Jeanne Robinson were present to accept their Nebulas.