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Liburnicon is the youngest of all Croatian SF conventions, and possibly also organized by the youngest crew as well. It is a two-day event oriented mainly towards having geeky fun, but since their chair was also the chief of volunteers at Kontakt they have begun to bring in literary guests. Liburnicon 2013 will be held […]
Read More Liburnicon 2013The winners of the 2012 Shirley Jackson Awards were announced on Sunday, July 14th at Readercon 24, Conference on Imaginative Literature, in Burlington, Massachusetts. Readercon 24 Guest of Honor Maureen McHugh acted as host. The Shirely Jackson Awards are named in honour of the American author most famous for 1959 novel The Haunting of Hill […]
Read More Winners of 2012 Shirley Jackson AwardsI have been interviewed by Cristian Tamas, the Romanian author and fan who runs the EuropaSF portal, winner of the 2013 ESFS Award. This year in Kiev, at Eurocon 2013, a new board has been elected to run the European Science Fiction Society for the next three years. Since the same people had been running […]
Read More Interview at EuropaSFThere is a club in Zagreb, Booksa, founded almost ten years ago, where the chairs are old, the staff are young and the owners amazing. Mika and Vanja, two women who felt, like so many others in Zagreb, that the local literary scene lacked something, a space which would combine bookstore, coffeshop and stage for […]
Read More “Widening Rings” at BooksaBefore I had a child I never felt overwhelmed by the number of books on my to read list. These days that list just keep getting longer and longer, while the number of books I read a week has sadly depleted. Yes, the trip to Australia helped. (I positively gorged!) But still. This was all […]
Read More Locus Awards 2013