Richard Matheson (1926-2013)
I never got around to reading a book by Richard Matheson. His novel I am Legend (1954) has been on my reading list forever, and somehow it never feels like the right time. I also never saw The Omega...
View ArticleIstrakon 2015: Saturday
I hate getting to a three-day con on the second day – it always feels like I’ve missed the best part. It’s especially true of Istrakon, which has a special Friday buzz for me. I think it’s because,...
View ArticleThe SFERA Awards for 2014
SFERA, established in 1981, is the oldest genre award in the region and the most prestigious one in Croatia. It was founded by the Zagreb based science fiction society SFera, after which it was named....
View ArticleThe SFera Book Club: Terry Pratchett
The best part of a convention is often the discovery of other people enamoured with the same books, characters and worlds. But I came to the world of fandom late and made friends with those who had...
View ArticleHow the Colonial Universe Came To Be
Or how it went down when I published my first novel Prolaz za divljac (The Wildlife Crossing). In the time that preceded publishing my first novel, my dear editor Mihaela played a game with me. It was...
View ArticleBooks to Binge: Green Man’s Heir by Juliet E. McKenna
I fell in love with the layered plots, vivid characters and complex worlds of Juliet E. McKenna more than a decade ago, when she was a Guest of Honour at Istrakon in Croatia. I had very little patience...
View ArticleBooks to Binge: The Dispatcher by John Scalzi
I actually do not like writing reviews, I realized today. I find them easy to write for magazines, because magazine have their audiences, and certain expectations, and also word count limits. No...
View ArticleBooks to Binge: All Aliens Like Burgers by Ruth Wheeler
I always feel weird at Croatian conventions, which tend to nurture an intimate and immediate atmosphere, if I have read nothing written by the literary Guest of Honour. It used to be so much easier,...
View ArticleBooks 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...
View ArticleBooks 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....
View ArticleBooks To Binge: Revenant Gun by Yoon Ha Lee
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,...
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