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Aleksandar Žiljak is the only Croatian author who has won a SFERA Award in two categories – for best story and best novel – in the same year. He is also one of the most prolific genre authors in the country. Other than being famous for his writing, Žiljak is also famous in Croatian fandom […]
Read More Interview: Aleksandar ŽiljakAs you may have noticed, I am a sucker for free fiction online. There was a time, when Irena Rašeta and me were doing NOSF.net a lot more zealously and when it was not that easy to find legal free fiction online. Sometimes, doing the Thursday Reader, was a real nightmare. Now, it’s an altogether […]
Read More Dimension6: Issue #2 out now!Seems that this summer, other than it being exceptionally cloudy in Zagreb, for which I am very grateful because I do not suffer heat gladly, I am also destined to spend a lot of time on rivers. After barbecuing with friends last Saturday, in the haze of having stayed put for an afternoon, we decided […]
Read More The Magical River: KoranaThe only genre film festival in Croatia (and the region), Fantastic Zagreb features a number of interesting titles (as I’ve mentioned before). Even when they happen not to really be genre ones. Last night’s screening of Cold in July might not have offered much in the film department as far as genre goes, but in […]
Read More A Film On Top of A Hill – Fantastic ZagrebEverybody loves a good soap, Croatians no exception. There was a craze for Spanish soaps some time ago, but recently we’ve gone east for that. Turskih soaps are the thing nowadays. So, a Turkish horror movie is no more of a surprise than a romantic horror movie. The romance explains the title: Thou Gilds’t the […]
Read More Thou Gild’st the Even at Fantastic Zagreb