November Rain

It is positively scary outside in Croatia today. The local meteo gruop named the storm Teodor,  

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“You either believe women are people or you don’t. It’s that simple.” – Joss Whedon

Four days ago, Equality Now honored one of my favourite people on the planet, one who is forever at Number 1 on my personal list of potential SFeraKon guests of honour Joss Whedon, for his work on gender equality. He gave this speech at ‘Make Equality Reality’ event in Beverly Hills, California. Here, in his […]

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Bad ass women in horror movies

The reason I loved Buffy so much was all that pettite blonde beating the shit out of a lot of bad guys thing. Yes, I was way older than the teenage target audience, and I still loved it. There were women however who did survive in/the horror movies. (Not for the faint of heart). Via […]

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Free fiction: Maya Starling at NOSF.net

I have been contributing to the NOSF portal for a number of years, since my friend Irena Rašeta took it over. She was the one who came up with the Thursday Reader, at a time when it was not as easy as it is today, to find free SF fiction online, legally available. In English, […]

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End(er)

I grew up watching a lot of films that were totally inappropirate for my age. There was no control. There was a VCR and a lot of Betamax tapes we just called beta for short. I was lucky: my family was very well off and I actually owned a VCR. The beta tapes, as far […]

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