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Liburnicon 2019

For a long time, Liburnicon, held in the famous tourist town of Opatija since 2006, was the youngest Croatian SF. Although I miss the smallish summer convention that use to close out the summer by providing late programming over that final weekend at the seaside so we could all swim during the day, I am […]

Sun, Fun, and Much Daydreaming: June 2019

I spent most of June not writing the accountability post for May and avoiding some other stuff as well. I also spent all of June in a haze of horny. Maybe it was the delayed spring thing. It rained most of May and was blissfully chill, but when the warm and then hot weather hit, […]

Books To Binge: Xuya Universe by Aliette de Bodard

            A Universe of Twists and Beauty.             Everybody knows what a good space opera needs: at least one galaxy-spanning empire, space stations, fast ships, political shenanigans, and wars. And Aliette de Bodard’s Xuya universe provides all that – but, with a twist.             Now, things with a twist often depend on that twist alone, […]

Famous Fan: Ivan Kranjčević

At some point after Loncon 2014, Mirko Karas and me decided that ribbons would be introduced to Croatian fandom. It has not caught on, exactly, but there have been local ribbons ever since. I especially love the SFeroSaur ones, for all those with a number of years behind them in SF fandom. I think we […]

Guest Post: Pyrkon 2019 Experience

My first Pyrkon was the 2016 one. In April of that year, Mihaela, Iva Belina and a Zagreb city delegation went on a trip to Poland that eventually put SFeraKon on the European cosplay map. (In fact, at that Pyrkon we made the avi.cosplay Instagram account for Iva!) Pyrkon is huge and awesome and overwhelming. […]

Accountability (still) Sucks: May 2019

I used to think I was bad at facing failure, but May was awesome and yet I have been avoiding looking at it. So much so that this – or pretty much any – post in June is 21 days late. I am not sure I even remember May at this point. Other than it […]

SFeraKon 2019: Part 3

When I joined SFera, one of the first people I met was Dalibor Perković, with whom I share the last name. (It’s a common surname in Croatia.) He had this mysterious girlfriend who would come pick him up at the end of the evening on Tuesdays, back when SFera meetings were held at a pizza […]

SFeraKon 2019: Part 2

My Saturday morning was spent having coffee, walking the dog in the nearby Maksimir with my kid and doing some light reading in preparation for my panels today. It was everything a SFeraKon Saturday morning used to not be. Strange people used to call me on my mobile asking for all kinds of info at […]

SFeraKon 2019: Part 1

This may have been my strangest SFeraKon yet. But I say that every year since I started going. I was taken over by something crazy and suggested waay too many items. I had 5 items on the program and none on Friday. I like to think that did not contribute to the fact that Friday […]

Books To Binge: Rebels In The Sand by Alwyn Hamilton

I confess: I only read this because Alwyn Hamilton was a Guest of Honour at SFeraKon. I have not read the Hunger Games nor Divergent either. I worked at a Croatian publishing house when The Maze Runner was all the craze and I did read that. Did not love it. I don’t know. All of […]