Around the world in 80 stories

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 […]

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Gillian’s report on Conflux 9

I 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, […]

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2012 Aurealis Awards

Australian 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 […]

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Free Croatian SF fiction online: Eridan

The Croatian science fiction scene is lively and diverse, as I have been proudly telling Australian fans at cons and club meetings. Despite the seven annual cons and two specialized festivals, there are no SF writers in Croatia who make a living writing fiction. This is less weird in Australia than I thought it would […]

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Post-con blues

Conflux was great. But now I’ve seen these awesome photos by Australian science fiction editor and author, Cat Sparks I really do not want to put mine up at all.

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