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One of the things I wanted to do with this blog is to present European SF authors to all the Australians I thought would stop by here after meeting me at a con or a club meeting. I figured people would be most interested in how I see Australia and Australian fandom, but I also […]
Read More How others see AustraliaEvery year at Eurocon, where ever it may be, the European Science Fiction Awards are given out. The categories are complicated as is the process of nominations and you can try and figure it out by reading this. In Kiev, the winners were as follows:
Read More ESFS AwardsThe Tin Duck Awards are the science fiction achievement awards annually awarded in the Australian state of Western Australia. They are tied to the WA convention Swancon, which was the first stop in my GUFF trip.
Read More Tin Duck Awards 2013Swancon was my first ever Australian con and I totally fell in love with it. (Now I just have to figure out how to make enough money to come back every year!)
Read More Swancon: How it went – the short version