San Diego’s very own steampunk convention has announced a special Time Traveler’s Masked Ball for their 2011 event.

Literary science fiction convention Millennicon is this week, celebrating their 25th year.

This year All-Con, the “everything con” has chosen Steampunk as its theme and has brought in a lot of local talent from that community to provide 17 separate Steampunk panels and/or performances at the event. This is not even counting the wonderful and almost non-stop Steampunk table top role play gaming of “Tephra” provided by the members of Cracked Monocle, Cuthulu Dice Steampunk RPG, or Gurps Steampunk table top gaming.

Madicon is this weekend and they are gearing up for it. They have a lot planned for their 20th anniversary, adding some new stuff while maintaining the classics. Guests lined up are authors C.S. Friedman, Katherine Kurtz, and C.J. Henderson. Filker and web comic creator Rob Balder, gaming guest Brian Glass, and medieval recreation group COMARR.

There are many conventions this month, from comic cons to steampunk. There are doubtless fan conventions I’ve missed, so don’t forget that web searches are your friend. Here are the conventions, mini-cons and fan fess happening march 2011.