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Marsonikon is the youngest currently running Croatian con – this was their third year. It takes place in Slavonski Brod, a town in Slavonia which used to be known as Marsonia in the Roman Empire, hence the name of the con. It is the only one day convention in the country and also the only […]
Read More Marsonikon 2014: Report and GUFF auctionWe have a winner – the GUFF delegate who won the very exciting 2014 race and who will be attending Worldcon and Eurocon this summer as the official representative of Australasian fandom is Gillian Polack! Kylie Ding, the current Australasian GUFF administrator, and me offer heartfelt congratulations! We are looking forward to seeing Gillian at […]
Read More GUFF delegate 2014 is Gillian Pollack!Istrakon is the second largest SF convention in Croatia. It is held in the very heart of Istria, usually in March and this year it was the very last weekend of March. Like every Croatian convention, its program is a mix of lectures, workshops, gaming demonstrations and sessions. Their Guest of Honour this year was […]
Read More Istrakon 2014 reportWhen you dive into another person’s fiction so deeply that you feel their characters as if they are of your own making, or, if not that, then at least as if you can move them outside boundaries that media like television imposes on them, then you’re a bit like a mad woman, a crazy old […]
Read More Reading fan-fiction (and sometimes, more often, writing it)On Saturday, October 12th, at Rikon 2013, the third biggest Croatian SF convention, the Artefact Awards were given out, the culmination of the con for the old fashioned literary oriented fans as well as many who are not. This year the ceremony was short and sweet and before there was even time to think “This […]
Read More A flashmob musical in memoriam