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This category includes all posts on SF conventions: announcing them, attending them, running them, reviewing them.
Small or big, any con with four guests of honour ends up with lots of interesting programming items. But small ones, like Swancon, have the advantage: very few scheduling conflicts! I will not have to choose between Charlie Stross, John Birmingham, Gail Simone and Lucy Sussex.
Read More Swancon 2013Croatian SF conventions are many and varied. They can be small, 100 to 350 people, and they can be large, like last year’s Kontakt with 1300 people. But none of them are held in hotels.
Read More Cons at hotelsI have finally set the dates and booked all the flights. I will be spending almost seven weeks traveling in Australia and New Zealand on my GUFF trip. AUSTRALIA PERTH March 26 – April 2 2013 Swancon 2013 May 7 – May 9, 2013 MELBOURNE April 2 – April 11 2013 Nova Mob Meeting […]
Read More My GUFF itineraryBecause I won the GUFF race! YAAAAAAY!
Read More “Fuck it, I’m gonna go to Australia!”Rikon is a two-day Croatian con that has been around for 15 years. This year it was held on October 12-13 at the Rijeka Faculty of Humanities and visited by some 400 people. It is the venue for a Croatian genre award Artefakt, established by some Croatian SF fans and authors displeased with the work […]
Read More Rikon 2012 Report