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This 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 2019Dave Lally was SFeraKon Guest of Honour in 2011 but I met him at the 2008 Eurocon in Fiuggi, Italy as this boisterous Irishman with a passion for SF fandom all over Europe, who immediately pushed and prodded me to include more Croatian fans in the European scene. (One of the consequences of that was […]
Read More Famous Fan: David LallySkON 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 SkONAs part of the closing ceremony of TitanCon, which was also this year’s Eurocon, the annual European Science Fiction Society Awards were presented. Swedish fan and ESDS chair Carolina Gómez Lagerlöf managed to hand out a not small number of awards in just about 20 minutes, which must be a record of some kind. Croatia […]
Read More ESFS Awards 2019I think I met Carolina at the Zagreb Eurocon, as I was not one of the Croatian fans to attend the Stockholm Eurocon she chaired in 2011. I am sure I know her through the European Science Fiction Society because it is strongly tied to her in my mind – she is currently chairing both […]
Read More Famous Fan: Carolina Gomez Lagerlöf