Europa SF is fully functional and open for contributions. You may now submit comments or posts (at webmaster@scifiportal.eu). Our central idea is to have a permanent, real-time mirroring of all European SF&F products, events and activities. We hope that all European countries with a SF&F community will become involved in this pan-European project. Please, dare [...]
Science fiction and fantasy in Hungary has its own little subculture, with only a few publishers in the field (not counting publishers of supernatural romance, which is highly popular): Ad Astra, Agave, Delta Vision, Metropolis Media, and one major paper magazine: the famous, and 40 years old Galaktika with three international European awards and remarkably [...]
Earlier this year we had our Beneluxcon KATCON in Katwijk aan Zee (see www.beneluxcon.nl), a general science fiction and fantasy convention associated with the NCSF. It used to be shared year by year between Belgian and Dutch fans, but has mostly lapsed into a bi-yearly event now. There’s a multitude of anime and fantasy conventions [...]
The history In the 80s everything was fine. Heyne, a major German publishing house, published very much science fiction, also many books from German writers. Other publishers did the same. The scene was big, powerful and influential. Everyone wanted to read SF, everyone wanted to write it. It was „cool“. You could even make a [...]
When Soviet Union collapsed and we got our independence back, there were some more urgent problems to solve than to organize science fiction fandom. But soon enough people learned to establish non-profit organizations and in 1995 Eesti Ulmeühing was registered. (Yes, we have the word “ulme” that covers science fiction, fantasy and horror, so it [...]
