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In case you somehow managed to miss out on the Worldcon & Eurocon 2014 issue of Parsek, the Croatian SF fanzine, you can download it here (.pdf)! Parsek is the fanzine of the Zagreb based science fiction society SFera and one of the oldest fanzines in the region. It’s been coming out in various forms […]
Read More Free Croatian SF Fiction: Parsek 125 is online!Every time some new (or old) misogyny-related scandal shakes up the anglophone science fiction community, I stand on the sidelines, quietly watching the internets explode and wonder how this can be. Thing is, I probably live, day in, day out, in a far more misogynistic society than members of anglophone SF fandom do. And yet, […]
Read More Women in Fandom 0.1Aleksandar Žiljak is the only Croatian author who has won a SFERA Award in two categories – for best story and best novel – in the same year. He is also one of the most prolific genre authors in the country. Other than being famous for his writing, Žiljak is also famous in Croatian fandom […]
Read More Interview: Aleksandar ŽiljakThis year marked a special anniversary for me: it’s been ten years since my first SFeraKon! And o, boy, that first one! I did not even get a chance to get a shoe in before Vlatko Juric-Kokic, then president of SFera, came up to me and asked: “Did you happen to come in your Dad’s […]
Read More My first SFeraKonThe Association for the Recognition of Excellence in SF & F Translation (ARESFFT), is a California Non-Profit Corporation funded entirely by donations, announced the 2013 finalists for the Science Fiction and Fantasy Translation Awards (for works published in 2012) at Finncon, held in Helsinki last weekend. I am very proud Croatian fan, writer and translator […]
Read More 2013 SF&F Translation Awards Short Lists Announced at Finncon