Category: Events & Co.
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A New Home
After three years (or so) it feels good to be back into writing (and blogging). It started with taking the time to reorganise my…
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нет войн – No War
This is a pledge to all the people reading this blog: please help the Ukrainians.In whatever way you can. If you can fight, go…
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War in Europe
Like many other Europeans, I am horrified to see my continent in the middle of war again. Any war is awful, of course. But…
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Blogversary #8
It looks strange to celebrate a blogversary after a year like 2021. So many things happened in the last twelve months, and if I…
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Frozen Wavelets and various updates
It seems ages since the last time I have posted here, but it has (only) been about a month. Many things happened in this…
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Speculative Fiction Podcasts –update
It is not the first time I post about podcasts–I have started a while ago with a series of guest posts and interviews. I…
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Milford 2019
This week I am attending Milford Conference, the yearly gathering with other writers from the SFF community that takes place at Trigonos, Snowdonia (North…
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Dublin2019 – Snapshots from a Worldcon
This is a limited selection of a series of random photos I have taken over four days of Worldcon. The organisation was great [REDACTED…
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Voting for the Hugo Awards
The end of July is rapidly approaching, and it’s now the time to vote for the Hugo Awards, whether you’re attending Worldcon (this year…
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Summer 2019 Events
As every year in Scotland, Edinburgh Book Festival is one of the main writing events to look forward to. Part of the Fringe Festival,…
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Snapshots from Cymera
If you’re in Edinburgh this weekend AND you’re a speculative fiction fan, there’s nothing better you can do than visit Cymera, the first SFF…
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Cymera 2019 -Scotland’s Festival of Science Fiction, Fantasy, and Horror, 7-9 June 2019, Edinburgh
If you are in the UK in June and you love speculative fiction, then this is a convention you might want to attend. The…
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Going to Worldcon in August -planning on the way
Are you making plans to attend Worldcon this year? The 77th Edition of the most important convention in SFF is going to take place…
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Earthian Hivemind turns 5
Actually, it has turned five last week on 16th but, as it happens, I was neck-deep in preparing the submission filed for my non-fiction…
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Teaser Tuesday (18 Sept)
Teaser Tuesday is a weekly bookish meme, hosted at The Purple Booker. Anyone can play along by doing the following: • Grab your current read…
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NASA win an Emmy Award
Among this week’s news, there’s one I believe especially worth sharing. NASA won this year’s Emmys in the category Outstanding Original Interactive Program with the…
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Edinburgh Book Festival 2018
As every year, Edinburgh Book Festival is the writing event to look forward to in the summer. It is one of the largest public…
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Eurocon 2018, France, 19-21 July
In case you have a free weekend in front of you and you’re not too far away from France, this is an event you…
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Events in Rome, Italy – Formula E
In case you’re in Rome, Italy (on holiday or AOB), there’s an event worthy of your time: Formula E. This is the first auto…
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Helsinki Worldcon 75 – snapshots
Just back today from Helsinki – my third Worldcon and a very interesting one. I’ll talk about some of my favourite stuff in another…
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Interview with Francesco Verso, Editor in Chief of Future Fiction
Today I’m particularly excited because for the first time I’m able to interview on this blog something that’s not Anglo-Saxon SF. (There’s nothing wrong…
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Events – what to look forward in Summer 2017
There are a few events in the coming months worth mentioning in case you’re just making your plans for Summer. I have spoken in…
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Brian Cox in Edinburgh Tonight
One of the good things about living in Edinburgh is the events you have access to. Tonight is a good example – we have…
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18 February – Events
Yesterday I had the opportunity to witness two (different) but related events – both in the field of writing and publishing. One, in Edinburgh,…