SFeraKon 2019: Part 1

This may have been my strangest SFeraKon yet. But I say that every year since I started going. I was taken over by something crazy and suggested waay too many items. I had 5 items on the program and none on Friday. I like to think that did not contribute to the fact that Friday […]

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Famous Fan: Olga Matej

I met Polish dan Olga Matej during one of my trips to Pyrkon, but I do not remember which one. Might have been the first one, while my head was still trying to wrap around the fact that this huge event – more than 50 000 people! – was being run by volunteers alone. This […]

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SFERA Awards

The SFERA Award jury was my entry into Croatian fandom. I spent more than a decade as president of it, and still love to keep track of who wins and who loses any given year. I think I might have missed only one SFera Formal Assembly on a SFeraKon Saturday in the last 15 years. […]

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FAMOUS FAN: James Bacon

I have no idea when I met James Bacon, feels like I have known him for as long as I have been active in international SF fandom. Although I do know I must have met him sometime after I started going to British and US cons and Worldcons, since I do vividly remember being told […]

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My SFeraKon Schedule

What does one do when the final program of SFeraKon comes out? One goes to mourn all the things one is scheduled against and swears not to suggest any more programming items in the future ever again. I am done with the mourning for this year, so here is where I have to be. As […]

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