The SFera Book Club: Terry Pratchett

The best part of a convention is often the discovery of other people enamoured with the same books, characters and worlds. But I came to the world of fandom late and made friends with those who had similar reading interests regardless of where I met them. Petra Bulic, who ran SFera and the was Head […]

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Post-con depression: the Zagreb Book Festival

Post-con depression is best cured by attending  – or indeed organizing – another event. Shamrokon taught me that! (Liburnicon taught me that maybe three con weekends in a row might not be the brigthest idea in the world even if the third on is at the beautiful Croatian seaside). So that’s exactly what I did. […]

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Unintended Consequences & Literary Awards

The Hugos, voting systems and supporting memberships are a hot topic in SF fandom these days. I have a lot to say about it, but running a con while working full-time hours as a freelancer will severely limit one’s free time (translation: I have 3 different Hugo-related articles pending that might or might not ever […]

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Scenaristika i domaci film na SFeraKonu 2015

Filmski program na SFeraKonu svake je godine bogat i neobican, a vec i svi vrapci na grani znaju koliko smo slabi na domaca SF izdanja sedme umjetnosti. U petak cemo predstaviti novi SFerin s filmom povezani projekt – SFerin scenaristicki inkubator.  SFera je 2013. godine prijavila, a HAVC u 2014. podržao, scenaristicku radionicu koju je […]

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The SFERA Awards for 2014

SFERA, established in 1981, is the oldest genre award in the region and the most prestigious one in Croatia. It was founded by the Zagreb based science fiction society SFera, after which it was named. It’s just spelled differently. The idea was to try and popularize science fiction as a genre and to stimulate its […]

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