Archipelacon – The Nordic SF & Fantasy Convention – June 25–28, 2015

Heat brings me down. Everybody is always so happy when it becomes warm, I get irritated, irritable and pissed off. I used to think that it was because I was fat. Although it is not a usual reason for losing weight, I did and discovered to my great dismay that being thin did absolutely nothing […]

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When work is a pleasure you can take your kid to: Animafest

This evening, at the Zrinjevac park I am going to have a piknik with my son. And husband. And some friends. And since its Animafest weekend, I am will be watching a cartoon. Fit for kids, fit for adults and great art to boot. 🙂 Also, it will be in the open. Animafest might be […]

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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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Shippers everywhere

Watching Avengers: Age of Ultron made me think that shipping has gone mainstream. Shippers have become so vigorously unashamed of their ships (not to say proud) that they have become visible to the point where is impossible to ignore them. Shipping as a term originated from Original Star Trek where ship was often referred as […]

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The race is STILL on – GUFF nominations deadline extension

Due to technical issues, Gillian Polack and I are extending the deadline for the nominations for the 2016 Southbound GUFF delegates! The new deadline is Tuesday, June 9th, 2015! Want to go to Australia and meet an awesome and diverse SF fandom? Yup, it’s far away and expensive. But what if I told you that […]

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