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SFeraKon
SFeraKon is a science fiction convention that takes place in Zagreb, Croatia every year at the end of April. Organised by SFera, it is the largest and the longest running science fiction convention in southeastern Europe. The first SFeraKon under that name was held in 1983, continuing the tradition of "''science fiction days in Zagreb''" after Yukon, the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia, Yugoslav national science fiction convention, started taking place in other towns, the first few having taken place in Zagreb. Since 1994 it is being held on the grounds of University of Zagreb Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Computing, Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Computing. In 1986 SFeraKon hosted a Eurocon, the European Science fiction convention, with Sam Lundwall as a guest of honour. It was nicknamed Ballcon. The 1998 SFeraKon was called a "Euroconference" but was not officially a Eurocon. SFeraKon hosted its second Eurocon in Zagreb in 2012 and two conventions went u ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
SFera
SFera is a science fiction society from Zagreb, Croatia. It was founded in 1976, thus marking the beginnings of organised science fiction fandom in the region. SFera is the official organiser of SFeraKon, an annual Croatian science fiction convention. Since 1995, it also publishes annual collections of science fiction stories of Croatian authors. The founder of the collection series and its first editor was Darko Macan. SFera's own fanzine, ''Parsek'', has been published since 1977. Although Croatia today has number of science fictions societies and conventions, as well the annual short fiction anthologies, SFera remains the major national society. Since mid-1970s, its members and founders - among them Krsto A. Mažuranić, Damir Mikuličić, Neven Antičević, Ivica Posavec - were included in organisation of almost every major initiative in Croatian science fiction, including the ''Sirius'' monthly magazine (awarded two times as the best European science fiction magazine, in 1 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ian McDonald (author)
Ian McDonald (born 1960) is a British science fiction novelist, living in Belfast. His themes include nanotechnology, postcyberpunk settings, and the impact of rapid social and technological change on non-Western societies. Early life Ian McDonald was born in 1960, in Manchester, to a Scottish father and Irish mother. He moved to Belfast when he was five and has lived there ever since. He lived through the whole of the 'Troubles' (1968–1999), and his sensibility has been permanently shaped by coming to understand Northern Ireland as a post-colonial society imposed on an older culture. Career McDonald sold his first story to a local Belfast magazine when he was 22, and in 1987 became a full-time writer. He has also worked in TV consultancy within Northern Ireland, contributing scripts to the Northern Irish Sesame Workshop production of ''Sesame Tree''. McDonald's debut novel was '' Desolation Road'' (1988), which takes place on a far future Mars in a town that develops arou ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dmitry Glukhovsky
Dmitry Alekseyevich Glukhovsky (russian: Дми́трий Алексе́евич Глухо́вский, born 12 June 1979) is a Russian author and journalist best known for the science fiction novel ''Metro 2033'' and its sequels. As a journalist, Dmitry Glukhovsky has worked for Euronews, RT in its early years, and others. Aside from his native Moscow, Glukhovsky has also lived in Israel, Germany, and France. In 2022, he was put on the Russian federal wanted list for his criticism of the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine. Biography Personal life and activism Dmitry Glukhovsky was born and raised in Moscow. His Jewish father Alexei worked as an editor for Gosteleradio, an agency that ran television and radio programming in the USSR, while his Russian mother Larisa worked as a photo editor for Tass agency. He graduated from a school in Arbat District and, having already decided to become a writer, conceived the idea for the post-apocalyptic novel ''Metro 2033'' at the age of 15. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Eurocon
Eurocon is an annual science fiction convention held in Europe. The organising committee of each Eurocon is selected by vote of the participants of the previous event. The procedure is coordinated by the European Science Fiction Society. The first Eurocon was held in Trieste, Italy, in 1972. Unlike Worldcons, Eurocon is usually a title attached to an existing convention. The European SF Awards are given in most of the conventions giving recognition to the best works and achievements in science fiction. List of Eurocons European SF Awards The ''European SF Awards'' are annual awards governed by the European Science Fiction Society. since 1972 mostly during Eurocons. The awards are given to works of fiction (science fiction or fantasy) or related to that field. Rules 1. Must be a work of Science Fiction or Fantasy, or related to Science Fiction or Fantasy; 2. The majority of the work is by a person or a group of people who were born in, or are a citizen of, a European Country; ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tim Powers
Timothy Thomas Powers (born February 29, 1952) is an American science fiction and fantasy fiction, fantasy author. Powers has won the World Fantasy Award twice for his critically acclaimed novels ''Last Call (novel), Last Call'' and ''Declare''. His 1987 novel ''On Stranger Tides'' served as inspiration for the ''Monkey Island (series), Monkey Island'' franchise of video games and was optioned for adaptation into the Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides, fourth ''Pirates of the Caribbean'' film. Most of Powers' novels are "secret history, secret histories". He uses actual, documented historical events featuring famous people, but shows another view of them in which occult or supernatural factors heavily influence the motivations and actions of the characters. Typically, Powers strictly adheres to established historical facts. He reads extensively on a given subject, and the plot develops as he notes inconsistencies, gaps and curious data; regarding his 2001 novel ''Decla ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Richard Morgan (author)
Richard Kingsley Morgan, (born 24 September 1965) is a British science fiction and fantasy author of books, short stories, and graphic novels. He is the winner of the Philip K. Dick Award for his 2003 book ''Altered Carbon'', which was adapted into a Netflix series released in 2018. His third book, ''Market Forces'', won the John W. Campbell Award in 2005, while his 2008 work ''Thirteen'' garnered him the Arthur C. Clarke Award. Early life and education Morgan was born in Norfolk, and brought up in the village of Hethersett, near Norwich, and had a semi-rural upbringing. He attended private school and later studied modern languages and history at Queens' College, Cambridge. After graduating he started teaching English in order to travel the world. After 14 years and a post at the University of Strathclyde, his first novel was published and he became a full-time writer. He lived in Glasgow until 2015, when he moved to Saxlingham Nethergate with his wife Virginia and their ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Science Fiction
Science fiction (sometimes shortened to Sci-Fi or SF) is a genre of speculative fiction which typically deals with imaginative and futuristic concepts such as advanced science and technology, space exploration, time travel, parallel universes, extraterrestrial life, sentient artificial intelligence, cybernetics, certain forms of immortality (like mind uploading), and the singularity. Science fiction predicted several existing inventions, such as the atomic bomb, robots, and borazon, whose names entirely match their fictional predecessors. In addition, science fiction might serve as an outlet to facilitate future scientific and technological innovations. Science fiction can trace its roots to ancient mythology. It is also related to fantasy, horror, and superhero fiction and contains many subgenres. Its exact definition has long been disputed among authors, critics, scholars, and readers. Science fiction, in literature, film, television, and other media, has beco ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ken MacLeod
Kenneth Macrae MacLeod (born 2 August 1954) is a Scottish science fiction writer. His novels ''The Sky Road'' and ''The Night Sessions'' won the BSFA Award. MacLeod's novels have been nominated for the Arthur C. Clarke, Hugo, Nebula, Locus, and Campbell Memorial awards for best novel on multiple occasions. A techno-utopianist, MacLeod's work makes frequent use of libertarian socialist themes; he is a three-time winner of the libertarian Prometheus Award. Prior to becoming a novelist, MacLeod studied biology and worked as a computer programmer. He sits on the advisory board of the Edinburgh Science Festival. Biography MacLeod was born in Stornoway, Scotland on 2 August 1954. He graduated from Glasgow University with a degree in zoology and has worked as a computer programmer and written a masters thesis on biomechanics. He was a Trotskyist activist in the 1970s and early 1980s and is married and has two children. He lived in South Queensferry near Edinburgh before moving to G ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kate Elliott (writer)
Kate Elliott is the pen name of American fantasy and science fiction writer Alis A. Rasmussen (born 1958). Writing Although Rasmussen's first novels ''The Labyrinth Gate'' (1988) and ''The Highroad'' (1990) (a science fiction trilogy) failed to become bestsellers, additional publishers liked her manuscripts. However, they wanted a fresh name unconnected with the sales figures of the previous books. Starting in 1992 under the new name of Kate Elliott, her sales have flourished. The Crown of Stars series has been featured in the Science Fiction Book Club. Elliott published the first of her ''Jaran'' series in 1992, although she began the first draft in 1980. Heather Massey's review of ''Jaran'' describes it as "a science fiction romance classic", while Todd Richmond in an ''SF Site'' review calls the series "an epic masterpiece". The ''Highroad'' (as Alis Rasmussen) trilogy is set in the same universe as ''Jaran'' as a prequel. The 1996 collaboration between Elliott, Melanie ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Chris Beckett
Chris Beckett (born 1955) is a British social worker, university lecturer, and science fiction author. He has written several textbooks, dozens of short stories, and six novels. Background Beckett was educated at the Dragon School in Oxford and Bryanston School in Dorset, England. He holds a BSc (Honours) degree in Psychology from the University of Bristol (1977), a CQSW from the University of Wales (1981), a Diploma in Advanced Social Work from Goldsmiths College, University of London (1977), and an MA in English Studies from Anglia Ruskin University (ARU), Cambridge (2005). He has been a senior lecturer in social work at ARU since 2000. He was a social worker for eight years and the manager of a children and families social work team for ten years. Beckett has authored or co-authored several textbooks and scholarly articles on social work. Works Science fiction Beckett began writing science fiction short stories in 1990 and had his first science fiction novel, ''The ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Esad Ribić
Esad T. Ribić (born 10 November 1972) is a Croatian comic book artist and animator, known for his work on various titles for Marvel Comics, including '' Loki'', '' Silver Surfer: Requiem'', '' Sub-Mariner: The Depths'' and the 2015 ''Secret Wars''. Early life Esad T. Ribić was born in 1972 in Zagreb, Croatia. Career Ribić graduated from the School of Applied Arts and Design in Zagreb as a graphic designer. He started making comics in the early 90s, doing shorts strips and illustrations for the Croatian '' Plavi'' magazine (Vjesnik) and German '' Gespenster Geschichten'' ( Bastei Verlag). Ribić also worked for Zagreb Film as a film animator on such series as '' The Little Flying Bears'' and '' Lapitch the Little Shoemaker''. Ribić then illustrated four issues of MarvelComics' Loki in 2004. In 2011–2012, Ribić drew writer Jonathan Hickman's run on '' Ultimate Comics: The Ultimates''. In January 2013 Ribić and writer Jason Aaron started the series ''Thor: God of Thunder'' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Danielle Trussoni
Danielle Anne Trussoni is a ''New York Times'', ''USA Today'', and '' Sunday Times'' Top 10 bestselling novelist. She has been a Pulitzer Prize in Fiction jurist, and writes the "Dark Matters" column for the '' New York Times Book Review''. She created the ''Writerly'' podcast, a weekly podcast about the art and business of writing. Her novels have been translated into 33 languages. Her work includes five books: ''Falling Through the Earth'' (2006), ''Angelology'' (2010), ''Angelopolis'' (2012), ''The Fortress'' (2016), and ''The Ancestor'' (2020). She is the recipient of the Michener-Copernicus Society of America award, the Dana Award in the novel, and ''The New York Times'' Top 10 Book of the Year for her first book. In addition to being published in ''The New York Times Book Review'', she has also been published in ''The Guardian'', ''The New York Times Magazine'', and ''Tin House'', her writings have been widely anthologized. Background She is of Italian descent and grew up ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
