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The 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 AwardsI have been interviewed by Cristian Tamas, the Romanian author and fan who runs the EuropaSF portal, winner of the 2013 ESFS Award. This year in Kiev, at Eurocon 2013, a new board has been elected to run the European Science Fiction Society for the next three years. Since the same people had been running […]
Read More Interview at EuropaSFThis is a national trait. Somebody more knowledgable (and more interested in the subject) than me could probably write volumes about the Croatian National Football Team (yeah, I do mean soccer!) and their adventures in never actually ending on the very top. There are many instances of this in Croatia, it’s just that the sports […]
Read More Croatians, underachievers par excellanceTwo things fans Down Under found surprising at my GUFF presentations: the size of the Croatian national con (approximately 1000 members) and then the fact that Finncon did not charge for membership. Me, I think SF fandom should consider Finncon for the title of Worldcon – the 15 0oo participants warrant it. Was there ever […]
Read More Finncon 2013They say this band and its very devoted Zagreb audience have a very special relationship. I would have said bull, but I was dragged to one of their concerts in Zagreb a few years back and I admit it was one the best concerts I ever went to. Right there with Nick Cave giving me […]
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