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Conflux 9

Thursday 25 April through to Sunday 28 April 2013 (Australia’s 52nd NatCon/Canberra Speculative Fiction Conference) I promised Europa SF a report of Conflux. I fear this is going to be a bit of a disappointment (Conflux was wonderful – it’s me who is the disappointment) for my Conflux was strange and so my report is patchy. I’ll make it short and explain why and I will swear, faithfully, that I will try harder this weekend, when I’m going to Sydney (warm Sydney ! frost-free Sydney !) for the Aurealis Awards. Conflux is Canberra’s local convention (Canberra is, for...

Åcon 6, the SF Convention from Mariehamn, Åland (Ahvenanma), Finland – Tero Ykspetäjä (Finland)

Day 1 First day of Åcon went pretty much as expected (that is, it was great as usual). Morning started at too early o’clock at the ferry (actually, quite a few people had started already yesterday with Åbocon in Turku). Joe’s Place didn’t open early enough, so the traditional Ölcon took place at the piano bar. Not as nice a place, but they served beverages, so good enough. Hotel Adlon is… well, hotel Adlon. We felt right at home. The program for today was actually very good. The first panel, a discussion about body and mind, was very interesting. I don’t...

Eurocon 2013. A report by Tomas Cronholm (Sweden)

I met Carolina Gómez Lagerlöf at the Arlanda airport, and together we managed to get to the Nivki Metro station in Kiev. There our problems started. We asked a girl about the names of the roads and were not quite sure that we had understood each other, and after about a kilometre we asked a lady for the way to Hotel Nivki. She led us in a direction that felt more and more wrong, and suddenly we were at a hotel, but not the one we looked for, and we were almost back where we started. However, after going back quite a long way and on the right way again, we found the road were...