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There is just something so awesome about space opera, and about trilogies and about the intricate worldbuilding they inherently contain that pushes my buttons. It might well be the Balkans in me, viewing worlds built from words falling apart and feeling them being stitched back again. Or maybe I just really like books I can […]
Read More Books To Binge: Revenant Gun by Yoon Ha LeeIf I want to add something interesting when introducing myself, I say “…and for fun, I run science fiction conventions.” Around the time I got recruited to be Hospitality Division Head at Worldcon 75, I was just starting a new job. I had left the old one because I was not left alone during my […]
Read More Volunteering at a WorldConThis year’s Rikon was dedicated to cyberpunk, which I adored in high school. It fits into my love of film noir, and science fiction and police procedurals with a twist as well as into my overall moodiness. I proposed a two-part cyberpunk workshop to Rikon programming sometime in the middle of September, possibly at a […]
Read More Cyberpunk Rules! Workshop @ Rikon 2019September came before I thought it would, and was way warmer than I like it. Maybe I was a bit tired, maybe it was just the heat, but I was in a bit of a funk in the first week of the month. And last. And the two in between. 🙂 Hence, the almost no […]
Read More Accountability: September 2019Dave Lally was SFeraKon Guest of Honour in 2011 but I met him at the 2008 Eurocon in Fiuggi, Italy as this boisterous Irishman with a passion for SF fandom all over Europe, who immediately pushed and prodded me to include more Croatian fans in the European scene. (One of the consequences of that was […]
Read More Famous Fan: David Lally