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Aleksandar Žiljak may be the most known name of Croatian SF literature outside of Croatia. He is certainly the most translated Croatian genre author and I have already talked to him as have other people, Charles Tan at SF Signal for instance. But 2015 seems to be his year: three Guest of Honour spots – […]
Read More Interview: Aleksadar Žiljak, the GoHOr how it went down when I published my first novel Prolaz za divljac (The Wildlife Crossing). In the time that preceded publishing my first novel, my dear editor Mihaela played a game with me. It was a game called “let’s see what you can write and just how fast you can deliver a finished […]
Read More How the Colonial Universe Came To BeHeat brings me down. Everybody is always so happy when it becomes warm, I get irritated, irritable and pissed off. I used to think that it was because I was fat. Although it is not a usual reason for losing weight, I did and discovered to my great dismay that being thin did absolutely nothing […]
Read More Archipelacon – The Nordic SF & Fantasy Convention – June 25–28, 2015The best part of a convention is often the discovery of other people enamoured with the same books, characters and worlds. But I came to the world of fandom late and made friends with those who had similar reading interests regardless of where I met them. Petra Bulic, who ran SFera and the was Head […]
Read More The SFera Book Club: Terry PratchettDue to technical issues, Gillian Polack and I are extending the deadline for the nominations for the 2016 Southbound GUFF delegates! The new deadline is Tuesday, June 9th, 2015! Want to go to Australia and meet an awesome and diverse SF fandom? Yup, it’s far away and expensive. But what if I told you that […]
Read More The race is STILL on – GUFF nominations deadline extension