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Croatian fandom is young. Not meaning we did not have one 20 years ago, because we did. Croatian fans are young: the average age of a Croatian con member is 23. Which tends to come as a bit of a surprise to American and British fans.
Read More Swancon: GenerationsSmall or big, any con with four guests of honour ends up with lots of interesting programming items. But small ones, like Swancon, have the advantage: very few scheduling conflicts! I will not have to choose between Charlie Stross, John Birmingham, Gail Simone and Lucy Sussex.
Read More Swancon 2013Croatian SF conventions are many and varied. They can be small, 100 to 350 people, and they can be large, like last year’s Kontakt with 1300 people. But none of them are held in hotels.
Read More Cons at hotelsEven tough I am wholly unafraid of flying, I still turn into a nervous wreck when travelling. Flying is enjoyable for me. All the parts that freak the shit out of people – the take off, the landing, the occasional turbulence and the falling free feeling – are worlds of fun.
Read More Sweating the transferBeing a freak in real life myself and having a very annoying talent in *not* getting paid for the work I do, this speech really shook me up. Not only because recently – again! – I did some work that ended up being unpaid (living in Croatia sucks!) but also because the nature of my […]
Read More Amanda Palmer’s “The Art of Asking” at TED