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I used to dream of going to Worldcon, and now I plan my vacations around SF conventions. Science fiction has become mainstream, and cons are popping up everywhere. Too many to count, way too many to visit, but I plan to have so much fun giving it a good go. Even though right now it […]
Read More Upcoming SF Conventions in AprilVesna KuriliÄ, the award-winning author of Izazov krvi, a Croatian YA novel about a female-dominated werewolf pack from Gorski kotar set in the 19th century, has won the city of Rijeka literary grant for the third installment of her werewolf saga. I am ecstatic! For her, and for me: this could not have come at […]
Read More Werewolves Win Literary Grant!When I was a kid, Split was a stop on the way to the happy place. One filled with relatives that needed to be visited and tourists which I did not like since they were the reason we had to wait so long to get on the ferry for BraÄ. Today, it is a world […]
Read More Fantastikon 2019Worldcon is awesome. Always has been, always will be, fun and fails and all. But it also very tiring. More than a year after Helsinki, I am still recuperating. Of course, it would have helped not to have been chair of SFerakon in the year leading up to Worldcon 2017. But in perfect hindsight vision, […]
Read More The World After WorldconI met Irena RaÅ”eta at my first SF convention, which was Essekon in Osijek, sometime, I think, in 2003. She was a literary guest there, because she wrote for NOSF, a online fanzine run by Davor BanoviÄ. It was a meeting that changed my life, only I did not know it then. Petra BuliÄ, Irena […]
Read More FAMOUS FAN: Irena RaŔeta