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Got a really interesting email today from the young Austrian author whom I have already mentioned on this blog. It is a great initiative by a German publisher who is planning an anthology of 80 SF stories from around the world. I would love to see Australian authors as well as non-English speaking European featured […]
Read More Around the world in 80 storiesI have met many wonderful people in Australia. With some I spent more time than with others, and often it had much to do with luck. Thus, I met Sue Ann Barber in Melbourne and got to see her and hang out with her later in Sydney and in Canberra. Some, on the other hand, […]
Read More Gillian’s report on Conflux 9Australian volunteer-run SF conventions surprised me with their numbers. Some 350 members at a con is considered a good turnout and the con is counted as large. In Croatia, SFeraKon attracts a thousand people and other are not far behind. Furthermore, smaller Croatian cons consider themselves unworthy of a guest of honour. Australians, on the […]
Read More 2012 Aurealis AwardsÅcon is a small annual SF convention held in May or June every year in Finland. It takes place on a finnish island – Mariehamn, Åland] where a Swedish minority lives but the programming in neither in Swedish nor in Finnish, it is entirely in English. (I have no idea how to pronounce it so […]
Read More AweconParsek is the fanzine produced by the SFera society, the oldest SF society in former Yugoslavia. It this capacity, it stands for PARadoxal SECular bulletin of the Society. At SFeraKon, there is a Special issue of Parsek featuring the year’s SFERICA winners in the literary categories. The SFERICA art categories get an exhibition of their […]
Read More Free Croatian SF Fiction online: Parsek