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Every writer in the former Yugoslavia used to be eligible for the SFERA Award. So there are, among the early winners, some Slovenian and Serbian genre writers. Today, SFERA is a national award (and no longer the only one!). I think almost all the other literary awards in ex-Yu have been either ceased or transmuted […]
Read More Bosnian Genre Author Adnadin Jašarevic Wins Little Prince Regional AwardEvery time some new (or old) misogyny-related scandal shakes up the anglophone science fiction community, I stand on the sidelines, quietly watching the internets explode and wonder how this can be. Thing is, I probably live, day in, day out, in a far more misogynistic society than members of anglophone SF fandom do. And yet, […]
Read More Women in Fandom 0.1Zanima vas kako pišu australski pisci? Kako izgleda bilten Worlcona? Kakvog je okusa australska cokolada? Kako do dobre knjige za par kuna? Pripremite sitan novac i do?ite u subotu, 30. kolovoza, u 22:30 na GUFF aukciju na Liburniconu (Lavanda 3). Comments comments
Read More LIburnicon GUFF aukcijaLast Sunday at the 36th Eurocon, Shamrokon, in Dublin, the European Science Fiction Society announced the recipients of the 2014 ESFS Awards. It has taken me a while to blog about it – doing two cons in a week and a half with a husband and a four-year-old in tow and working half-time does not […]
Read More Croatia wins two ESFS AwardsCroatian fandom proudly takes part in the running for the European Science Fiction Society Awards. We have won some back in the 80s in the Best Magazine category and have been wanting more ever since! 🙂 So, in 2011, the SFera fanzine Parsek won Best Fanzine, the literary SF magazine Ubiq Best Magazine and the […]
Read More Croatian nominations – ESFS awards 2014