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Figured out what I am going to be doing for Halloween this year. Instead of watching Arsenic and Old Lace (a tradition of mine) I thought I’d go for a movie marathon, of Three Flavours Cornetto trilogy, especially since I still have not seen the latest installment, The World’s End. Which is SF.
Read More HalloweenWhen you dive into another person’s fiction so deeply that you feel their characters as if they are of your own making, or, if not that, then at least as if you can move them outside boundaries that media like television imposes on them, then you’re a bit like a mad woman, a crazy old […]
Read More Reading fan-fiction (and sometimes, more often, writing it)Why, go to a Comics festival! Croatia used to have two, one down south, in the small coastal town of Makarska, on the way from Split to Dubrovnik. It was totally awesome, run by two comics enthusiasts and publishers, with a huge (for Croatia) bugdet and loads of famous guests. This was Mafest and it […]
Read More What to do on a Saturday morning?Swecon is on this weekend and I am sadly not there. But they have announced something I totally love. I learned about it through Cheryl’s blog but the official announcement, which I am copying in its entirety at the end of this post, is on the site of Adam Roberts, whose work I discovered not […]
Read More The FINFAR Society Launches a SF / Fantasy Research JournalA small town near Zagreb, Ivanic, holds an annual Pumpkinfest called Bucijada. A pumpkin heaven made for kids. We go every year.
Read More Bucijada 2013