Expanding Horizons – (y)our favorite non-Western fiction (post in English for the international visitors of Erasmuscon / Eurocon 2024) On Sunday I moderated a panel about non-Western fiction, to expand our reading horizons. Description of the panel: Diversify your to-read pile with Non-Western fantastic fiction! The fantastic genre is everywhere and bookstores offer science fiction, […]
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There are too many people to thank in person for making the first Eurocon in the Netherlands possible. But nevertheless, we are going to give it a try. In no particular order. Here we go. Our thanks to everyone who helped organize the Erasmuscon. Our thanks to everyone who was involved with the Erasmuscon. Our
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Digesting Climate Change by Martijn Lindeboom On friday I held a lecture about Climate Change and science fiction. Afterward I was asked by several people if I could share the list of books I mentioned. You’ll find the list below.The same thing happened after the panel on sunday about Non-Western sciencefiction and fantasy books (I’ll
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We are proud to announce our next guest, Gerald D. Nordley: Gerald Nordley is an astronautical engineer, consultant and writer of science fiction and nonfiction. He has degrees in physics (Macalester 1969) and systems management (USC, 1981). He is a U. S. Air Force veteran with experience in spacecraft operations, communications spacecraft engineering and procurement,
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We are proud to announce our next guest, Vincent Docherty: Vincent Docherty is a fan and con-runner, who co-chaired the Glasgow Worldcons in 1995 & 2005. His home town is Glasgow, Scotland, where he studied and researched in Chemistry. His subsequent career in the energy industry has taken him to London, Muscat (Oman) and The
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We are proud to announce our next guest, Jeroen Geelhoed: Jeroen was born in 1975 while his mother was reading The Lord of the Rings. He himself read the books at a vulnerable age and was never the same afterwards. Combined with an insatiable collecting habit, Jeroen embarked on adventures in the English-language Dragonlance books
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We are proud to announce our next guest, Martijn Lindeboom: Martijn Lindeboom is a Dutch fantasy and science fiction writer, editor and writing coach. He is published in Dutch magazines (genre and literary), online and in collections, anthologies and books. He has edited several anthologies. Besides that he is an editor and the writing competition
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We are proud to announce our next guest, Chantal Visser: Chantal Visser is a Dutch manga artist who, with her digital drawings, wants to help you remember that you can experience fun, that you matter and that you can be who you (truly) are. This theme is reflected in her cheerful and colorful illustrations, which
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We are proud to announce our next guest, Dimitri Olivier Balcaen: Dimitri Olivier Balcaen (Bruges, February 24, 1989) is a Belgian novelist and screenwriter. He is also the founder of the ReadMore publishing house. In 2018, Dimitri debuted his two-part children’s series ‘Sisters of the Atom’. On the advice of well-known children’s author Dirk Bracke,
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