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Dr. Who is loved in Croatia, although it is not as widely known as in the UK and Australia. The show was aired on Croatian TV when the country was still part of Yugoslavia and most Croatian fans met the character as played by Tom Baker, because those were the episodes we got to watch. […]
Read More Dr. Who 50th Anniversary TrailerIt is that time of the year – time to start another GUFF race! The 2014 race is northbound, meaning that the winning candidates will be traveling from Australia or New Zealand to Europe. Since the venerable Mr. Worldcon is also traveling to Europe that summer, the GUFF delegate will simply have to skip Satellite […]
Read More FHere we go again: GUFF call for nominations!Boris Švel, a Croatian SF fan, award-winning short story writer and editor of Parsek, the long running SFera fanzine that publishes stories by established and budding authors, Croatian convention reports and writing guides, died suddenly at age 42
Read More Croatian fandom mourns – Boris Švel Dagi 1971 – 2013The winners of the 2012 Shirley Jackson Awards were announced on Sunday, July 14th at Readercon 24, Conference on Imaginative Literature, in Burlington, Massachusetts. Readercon 24 Guest of Honor Maureen McHugh acted as host. The Shirely Jackson Awards are named in honour of the American author most famous for 1959 novel The Haunting of Hill […]
Read More Winners of 2012 Shirley Jackson AwardsThere is a club in Zagreb, Booksa, founded almost ten years ago, where the chairs are old, the staff are young and the owners amazing. Mika and Vanja, two women who felt, like so many others in Zagreb, that the local literary scene lacked something, a space which would combine bookstore, coffeshop and stage for […]
Read More “Widening Rings” at Booksa