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During my GUFF trip I was hosted by a number of Australian and New Zealand fans. They taught me about their countries and showed me their – very special, geeky, wonderful and quite personal – versions of the cities I was visiting. I learned that not matter how much SF fandom all over the world was similar, the differences were a delight. So here they are. Some of them, at least.
I 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 EuropaSFNina 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 fandomAll nations have their national myths. Without exception, those myths are humongous collections of lies, deceits, propaganda, in short, an impressive pile of bullshit. The real truth is, the main characters of those national myths are murderers, butchers, tyrants, thieves who used various human-loving methods such as armed conquest, pillaging, purges and genocide to increase […]
Read More Dalibor Perkovic: Why I admire and envy AustraliansOne of the things I wanted to do with this blog is to present European SF authors to all the Australians I thought would stop by here after meeting me at a con or a club meeting. I figured people would be most interested in how I see Australia and Australian fandom, but I also […]
Read More How others see AustraliaCroatian fandom is young. Not meaning we did not have one 20 years ago, because we did. Croatian fans are young: the average age of a Croatian con member is 23. Which tends to come as a bit of a surprise to American and British fans.
Read More Swancon: Generations