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GUFF online voting for the 2016 GUFF race is now officially closed! Gillian and I would like to thank you all for participating and for your generosity! We are sure you will love the new delegate! 🙂 Some of you have been generous multiple times so we will need just a little bit more time […]
Read More GUFF voting closed: Thank you!Thanks to the amazing Ben Romoila, my GUFF trip introduced me to Finnish fandom. Now the boot is on the other foot, with Jukka Halme standing for the north-south GUFF journey. In honour of this reversal, here are select extracts from my GUFF report. If you want the whole thing, it’s available for a donation […]
Read More GUFF in Finland, Finnish fan in GUFFWell, while I’ve been away all of my lovely essays on why and how to vote for Helsinki did not publish automatically. They are now forever condemed to the Draft folder, because Helskinki in 2017 in now Worldcon 75. Go buy a membership and I will so see you there. 🙂 Also, you need […]
Read More Helsinki won!!!! And GUFF is still on!…because they are so rarely open to international fans. When one does not live in the US, Canada, the UK (or even Australia and New Zealand – I have seen you libraries!), that it can be less than simple and quite expensive to get a book. Honestly, I hate to see the words “open to […]
Read More Giveaways are SF? No, pure fantasy!You may think Croatia has enough conventions with some six or seven annual ones running steadily for years but Croatian fandom disagrees! The southern part of the country has been quiet for some time and now we know why – they have just launched a con of their own! FantaSTikon 2015 will be held in […]
Read More FantaSTikon 2015: The first SF con in Split