A traditional dissection of this year’s Hugo Award nominees. Who should win, who will win, and who should have been on the ballot?
Carolina Gómez Lagerlöf, Jukka Särkijärvi, Marianna Leikomaa, Tommy PerssonHugo discussion
A traditional dissection of this year’s Hugo Award nominees. Who should win, who will win, and who should have been on the ballot?
Even though SF, fantasy and horror deal with the unexpected and unknown, the descriptions of intimate relationships between characters sometimes seem stale. Where’s the imagination, where’s the weird? Or is that what we want at all? Do we prefer the traditional and well-known, and even the gratuitous sex scenes in our novels? Our panel of writers and readers of all things NSFW discusses their favorite and least-favorite examples of using sex in speculative fiction.
, Jun 25, 2015
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One more con report. Parhaps last, but definitely the longest.
I like making con reports. But I'm lazy. Evidently there exists a clash of interests inside my head....
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We're collecting links to stuff written about the convention here.
June 25–28, 2015 - Alandica Culture & Congress Centre - Mariehamn, Åland, Finland
Posted By Archipelacon
July 03
Hello! I was wondering if someone could help me identify a certain book. In his presentation (When the map is the world, on Saturnday) Stefan Ekman talked about a map which had legends for various types of forests but only one legend for roads - which don't even appear on the map. I found the map very interesting and therefore also the book, but now, a week later, I can't seem to find the name of that book in my notes. So, is anyone more knowledgeable than I am?
Read More...Posted By Satu Keinänen
July 04
Here is some pictures from The Smuggler's den. A big thank you to all gophers and programme participants that visited and took a cup coffee at the den.
Read More...Posted By Carolina Gómez Lagerlöf
July 03
Archipelacon's Guests of Honour visit to the Åland Maritime Museum also included a dinner inside the museum ship Pommern. During the dinner photographer Henry Söderlund took portraits of all the GoHs and some of the other participants.
https://plus.google.com/photos/108897905892425165494/albums/6167215009220478273
2015-06-28-goh-photoshoot-pommern (13 ภาพ)
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July 03
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