Month: February 2015

How about a castle in Spain?

Sometime in January I bought a collection of speculative fiction in Spanish (here, should you happen to be interested). I figured I’d muddle through is somehow or other, I did study Italian, after all and if I apply myself… Well, so far I have read none. I still might. I am very glad I supported […]

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PoRtaL 2015

Next weekend – February 28- March 1, 2015 – Zagreb is hosting a regional LARP convention, PoRtaL 2015, run by larpers for larpers, with free entrance. The name might look strange, but, as is the custom in geeky pursuits, has meaning: P stands for “play” and for “PoRtaL”, R for “role-play” and L “Larp”. Their […]

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Poklade

  It always seemed so wrong to me, seeing kids in American movies don scary costumes in the middle of autumn and go trick or treating. Ringing at doors to get donuts is a winter practice and one could go as whatever one wanted to be. A ballerina, a princess, a typist or a rocket […]

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Australians at Eurovision!

I remember Eurovision being a big deal when I was a kid. It was a very exciting event; one simply did not spend it NOT watching the TV programe which brought so many hit songs. Croatia, of course, competed as  part of Yugoslavia since its début in 1961. I am old enough to remember when […]

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Kontakt!

It was a year ago today that Wizard’s Press published the e-book edition of Kontakt, the Croatian SF Anthology that the SFera Society – namely Darko Macan and Tatjana Jambrišak as editor and translation editor respectively – produced as the international version of a two-decade-old SFeraKon tradition for the Zagreb Eurocon in 2012. Which we […]

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