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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... 

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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... 

On the spot

Aliette de Bodard :  ”Imaginales is pretty much the event of the weekend in May: you arrive at the train station and... 

Gene Wolfe_The Shadow of the Torturer

The Tähtivaeltaja Award, given by the Helsinki Science Fiction Society for the best science fiction book published in Finnish... 

“Writing and Publishing Science Fiction in Italy”: Debora Montanari, Luigi Petruzzelli, Prof. Arielle Saiber (Bowdoin... 

Carolina Gómez Lagerlöf (Sweden) - Chairperson Saija Kyllönen (Finland) -Vice-chairperson Vanja Kranjčević (Croatia)... 

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