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This category includes all posts on SF conventions: announcing them, attending them, running them, reviewing them.
The Croatian science fiction scene is lively and diverse, as I have been proudly telling Australian fans at cons and club meetings. Despite the seven annual cons and two specialized festivals, there are no SF writers in Croatia who make a living writing fiction. This is less weird in Australia than I thought it would […]
Read More Free Croatian SF fiction online: EridanConflux was great. But now I’ve seen these awesome photos by Australian science fiction editor and author, Cat Sparks I really do not want to put mine up at all.
Read More Post-con bluesThe Ditmar Award would be the equivalent of the Croatian SFERA Award, if it were merged with European Science Fiction Society Awards. Kind of. The wikipedia entry equates it with the Hugo, and it is in as much as there is voting going on.
Read More Ditmar Awards 2013Nina Horvath is an Austrian writer and fan who came from Vienna to Zagreb for Kontakt last April. And everyone was all over her, not only because she was young, smart, pretty and interesting but also because European fandom does not know many Austrian SF fans. As I am doing my European fandom presentation at […]
Read More Austrian fandomConflux is a science fiction convention held in Canberra since 2004. I have been repeatedly warned it is of a more writerly bent. It seems to mean that is more similar to SFeraKon and Istrakon than Swancon was in terms of writers’ presence and numerous writing workshops. Am looking forward to finding out. My schedule, […]
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