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Australian volunteer-run SF conventions surprised me with their numbers. Some 350 members at a con is considered a good turnout and the con is counted as large. In Croatia, SFeraKon attracts a thousand people and other are not far behind. Furthermore, smaller Croatian cons consider themselves unworthy of a guest of honour. Australians, on the […]
Read More 2012 Aurealis AwardsÅcon is a small annual SF convention held in May or June every year in Finland. It takes place on a finnish island – Mariehamn, Åland] where a Swedish minority lives but the programming in neither in Swedish nor in Finnish, it is entirely in English. (I have no idea how to pronounce it so […]
Read More AweconParsek is the fanzine produced by the SFera society, the oldest SF society in former Yugoslavia. It this capacity, it stands for PARadoxal SECular bulletin of the Society. At SFeraKon, there is a Special issue of Parsek featuring the year’s SFERICA winners in the literary categories. The SFERICA art categories get an exhibition of their […]
Read More Free Croatian SF Fiction online: ParsekI am too busy exploring the wonder that is New Zealand to write anything. So, photos. Also, I have not allowed nearly enough time for my visit here. Clearly this needs to be rectified, and the only way to do it to support the New Zealand in 2020 bid. So I have yet another reason […]
Read More WellingtonThe Croatian science fiction scene is lively and diverse, as I have been proudly telling Australian fans at cons and club meetings. Despite the seven annual cons and two specialized festivals, there are no SF writers in Croatia who make a living writing fiction. This is less weird in Australia than I thought it would […]
Read More Free Croatian SF fiction online: Eridan