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Boris Švel, a Croatian SF fan, award-winning short story writer and editor of Parsek, the long running SFera fanzine that publishes stories by established and budding authors, Croatian convention reports and writing guides, died suddenly at age 42 Comments comments
Read More Croatian fandom mourns – Boris Švel Dagi 1971 – 2013Tonight at Liburnicon, the youngest Croatian SF convention held in Opatija, the winners of the 2013 SF&F Translation Awards were announced and among them Zoran Vlahovic’s “Every Time We Say Goodbye” (translated from the Croatian by Tatjana Jambrišak, Goran Konvicni, and the author) got an Honorable Mention in the short form category. The Association for […]
Read More Croatian Story earns Honorable Mention in 2013 SF&F Translation AwardsLiburnicon is the youngest of all Croatian SF conventions, and possibly also organized by the youngest crew as well. It is a two-day event oriented mainly towards having geeky fun, but since their chair was also the chief of volunteers at Kontakt they have begun to bring in literary guests. Liburnicon 2013 will be held […]
Read More Liburnicon 2013Totally unrelated to anything esefnal but totally related to me. Love this. And I would vehemently argue none of these are innappropriate for children. Breasts are for breastfeeding and perfectly natural. If kids can feed off them, they can see them and touch them. Period. (And just in case you are wondering what brought this […]
Read More A Beautiful Body Book ProjectThe winners of the 2012 Shirley Jackson Awards were announced on Sunday, July 14th at Readercon 24, Conference on Imaginative Literature, in Burlington, Massachusetts. Readercon 24 Guest of Honor Maureen McHugh acted as host. The Shirely Jackson Awards are named in honour of the American author most famous for 1959 novel The Haunting of Hill […]
Read More Winners of 2012 Shirley Jackson Awards