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This category includes all posts on SF conventions: announcing them, attending them, running them, reviewing them.
If I want to add something interesting when introducing myself, I say “…and for fun, I run science fiction conventions.” Around the time I got recruited to be Hospitality Division Head at Worldcon 75, I was just starting a new job. I had left the old one because I was not left alone during my […]
Read More Volunteering at a WorldConThis year’s Rikon was dedicated to cyberpunk, which I adored in high school. It fits into my love of film noir, and science fiction and police procedurals with a twist as well as into my overall moodiness. I proposed a two-part cyberpunk workshop to Rikon programming sometime in the middle of September, possibly at a […]
Read More Cyberpunk Rules! Workshop @ Rikon 2019SkON is taking place today and tomorrow, Friday and Saturday, Sept 6-7, 2019 and it is the third edition of the SF convention in the town of Sisak, Croatia, making it the second-to-youngest Croatian con. I have never been, and I have no idea how I let slip two years without attending, but have heard […]
Read More SkONFor a long time, Liburnicon, held in the famous tourist town of Opatija since 2006, was the youngest Croatian SF. Although I miss the smallish summer convention that use to close out the summer by providing late programming over that final weekend at the seaside so we could all swim during the day, I am […]
Read More Liburnicon 2019My first Pyrkon was the 2016 one. In April of that year, Mihaela, Iva Belina and a Zagreb city delegation went on a trip to Poland that eventually put SFeraKon on the European cosplay map. (In fact, at that Pyrkon we made the avi.cosplay Instagram account for Iva!) Pyrkon is huge and awesome and overwhelming. […]
Read More Guest Post: Pyrkon 2019 Experience