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I have no idea how I decided to go to Rikon for the first time. I do not even remember what year it was when I went for the first time. I dimly remember my friend Irena Rašeta and I being put up by a young man in student lodgings. I remember very well the […]
Read More Rikon 2018, Aliette de Bodard and fun, fun, funThis year’s Eurocon, Worldcon’s European, smaller and younger cousin, will be held from April 23 to April 26, 2015 in Saint-Petersburg, Russia. Founded in 1972 at the first meeting of the European Science Fiction Society (ESFS), Eurocon follows the pattern of Worldcons and bid for and then hosted in various places throughout Europe selected by […]
Read More ESFS Awards Nominations & Eurocon 2015I have been interviewed by Cristian Tamas, the Romanian author and fan who runs the EuropaSF portal, winner of the 2013 ESFS Award. This year in Kiev, at Eurocon 2013, a new board has been elected to run the European Science Fiction Society for the next three years. Since the same people had been running […]
Read More Interview at EuropaSFEvery year at Eurocon, where ever it may be, the European Science Fiction Awards are given out. The categories are complicated as is the process of nominations and you can try and figure it out by reading this. In Kiev, the winners were as follows:
Read More ESFS AwardsI am traveling to from Melbourne to Adelaide today. (Translation: I will be very busy all day fretting about packing, luggage weight, my issues with airports and such so no blogging.) Had I not won the GUFF race, I would have been traveling on this day anyway – to Kiev.
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