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Eurocon 2011 2 Editorial No. 1 17 EUROCON 2011 2 EDITORIAL Dear reader, "Parsek" is the oldest Croatian fanzine, first published in 1977 and still Table of content: running. It is also the bulletin of Science Aleksandar Žiljak Fiction Club SFera from Zagreb. Today, The Exterminator 3 SFera consists of some two hundred Milena Benini members and is a literary society, as well as Dancing Together Under Polarized Skies 7 a fan club. The annual SFeraKon Tatjana Jambrišak convention, organized by SFera, attracts Awake Among the Stars 17 nearly a thousand fans each year, and the Ivana Delač SFERA Award (I know, the spelling bothers Reminiscences of a Married Elf 23 me, too) is awarded in several categories. Adnadin Jašarević Now, let me introduce you to the Croatian Oh, My God! 26 SF, with the little help of SFera's cute (oh, Oliver Franić well) official mascot, Bemmet. Araton (fragment of a novel) 28 Ian McDonald Enjoy! Thank you, Maggie (interview) 34 SFeraKon GoHs Boris Švel They Said on Croatia 37 Dalibor Perković and Boris Švel In Zagreb, 10 th June 2011 Croatian SF Conventions 42 "Parsek" on the internet: http://parsek.sfera.hr/ NOTE: all materials are translated by the authors and : themselves, unless stated otherwise. http://parsek.blog.hr/ PARSEK is bulletin of SFera, Društvo za znanstvenu fantastiku, IV. Podbrežje 5, 10000 Zagreb, Croatia. Editor and designer: Boris Švel. Proof-reader: Aleksandar Žiljak. Cover: Professor Baltazar. All rights reserved. 3 One of the foremost Croatian SF authors, Aleksandar Žiljak was born in 1963 and resides in Zagreb. He won SFERA Award six times, equally excelling in illustration and prose, as well as the editorial work, being the co-editor of the new Croatian SF literary magazine UBIQ . Aleksandar Žiljak THE EXTERMINATOR Space port, rainy night. enough coffee in the flask. The girls are OK, Lukas listens to the raindrops if they’re not drunk. But, the girls are drumming against the roof. They pour into working, crews are looking for some fun the gutter, gurgling, watering the Aldebaran after weeks of travel across the black vines coiled around the hotel in the firm emptiness. And so, the solitude remains the embrace, probably the only thing holding it only friend. from collapsing. The vestibule is becalmed Suddenly, the door bell rings. in semi-darkness. Sleeping lantern-fungi, The entrance membrane opens before rooted all over the ceiling and walls, hardly a tall figure in a black and yellow cape smoulder. carrying a heavy bag in his hand. The figure It’s almost two o’clock, and the hotel stops, shakes the raindrops from the cape finally sunk into silence. Even the Baglins in and then comes closer. Lukas caresses the the room 131 quieted down, the merry band lantern-fungus on the reception desk. It with their beer and frantic songs. Their ship purrs contentedly and glows upon the landed three days ago and, as far as Lukas Trinitian as he lowers the hood from his heard, they plan to stay for at least three head, baring his elongated crocodilian snout. more. Lukas finds himself staring into those Lukas rummages through the pile of piercing yellow eyes from which nothing mangas that he read and re-read long ago. can hide and nothing can escape. The Then he pours himself some coffee from a emerald-green skin shines in the soft thermos flask. After all these years, he lantern-fungus light as if slimy, but Lukas should be used to boredom and solitude of a knows it’s parchment-dry. night shift. If only some girl would drop by "Do you have a room?", the Trinitian to take shelter before the rain, there’s asks in a low, cold voice. 4 "Only one, nobody wants it. A lucky, Lukas decides as the girl approaches Regulan Ugotitsa is in the room above." him. They both know what it means. There’s no It doesn’t take a particular power of chance that the room below a folding tank observation to see that she’s under the filled with 30 000 litres of water will be Golden Nectar. A long time ago, she must fully dry. "I can give you some discount", have been full of life, before drowning in the Lukas adds quickly. grey whirlpool of everyday existence in the "I’ll take it." Just as Lukas expected. port. The drug seemed the only straw, Trinitians don’t mind the wetness, quite the couple of hours of floating oblivion, and contrary. The alien passes his ID-card. now a pale haggard ghost barely stands Lukas takes it and as he scans the code before Lukas, her cheeks hollow, blue bags matrix with the reader, the new guest data under her eyes, purple strands of hair wet on fill the desk computer screen. her forehead. Neither first nor last, Lukas "That will be 35 a day, with the saw dozens of such sad stories. "A room...", discount included." The Trinitian nods and the girl mutters, barely audible. "You have a Lukas gives him a key-card. "Room 211. I room?" wish you a pleasant stay, mister..." Lukas "Not a single one", Lukas shakes his casts a quick glance at the screen. "... head. The girl must have spent the whole Mikkah ven Strenenka-vah." Just Mikkah, night out, evicted from some other place. Lukas decides, it’s easier to remember. The Nobody likes addicts, they’re nothing but Trinitian takes his bag and heads upstairs, trouble. The girl stops, trying to figure out and, as the old stairs creak under his weight, what to do next, and then almost collapses Lukas checks the data on the screen once on the desk. more and stops at the column "Please, just for today. Here!", and OCCUPATION. The parasite exterminator... she takes several notes out of her red anorak. "I’ll pay, it’s no problem. Just for today!" * * * "I’m telling you, I’m full", Lukas tries not to sound rude, but he would like the girl The girl comes near the end of the to leave. Trouble here, only trouble. "Go and shift, a little before 8 a.m. Lukas never saw try somewhere else!" her before. Soaked through, freezing, At that moment, Mikkah comes down staggering towards the desk, one of the and stops on the stairs. The girl jerks many swirling incessantly around the port, suddenly when she notices him. The two of hoping to grab the jackpot. This one wasn’t them study each other tensely for a second or two, and then her face contorts in a 5 painful grimace and she bolts and almost Lukas never saw in his life, with gold inlays tears the entrance membrane as she runs out on the lid and sides. Mikkah opens the box, into the rain. as if with reverence, and Lukas sees it’s Mikkah pulls out a gun under his cape filled with needles, syringes and vials, all and cocks it. Lukas jumps to stop him, but neatly arranged on red velvet. the Trinitian is already out, taking an aim "I really do not wish to interfere, but and pulling the trigger. The dart from the the girl is not a parasite." gun hits the girl in her back. She staggers as "No, she’s not", Mikkah agrees as he she runs, her hands flailing blindly as she takes the syringe out and places a needle on tries to pull the dart out. But, she fails and it. "But she carries one in her." The Trinitian finally collapses in the water, her body chooses a vial, obviously telling them apart. relaxing, paralysed by tranquilliser. Mikkah To Lukas, they all look same. "I’d like to approaches her and lifts her bodily. Lukas know where she picked it up, that species is stares at him, bewildered, as he’s carrying rarely encountered. It takes the control of her back to the hotel. the brain and permeates it completely. It Lukas opens the doors of the works differently in different hosts. Some Mikkah’s room. Without a word, the are not even aware of it. To others, it Trinitian brings the girl in and lays her on sharpens their senses and broadens mental the bed. Lukas is not really happy about all abilities. In such instances, I usually don’t this. The boss will not be glad if he finds interfere." out, but yellow stare tells him there’s no use "And in her case?" arguing. The room is wet, water trickling "Bad luck. The girl was already an from the ceiling, soaking the walls, addict when the parasite took possession of gathering in puddles on the floor. I really her. The addiction crossed to it. After that, have to tell the boss to do something about everything was just one never-ending search that Ugotitsa and her aquarium, Lukas for more drug. Down, at the desk... I felt it, decides. True, she pays double, but still... and it felt me. The parasite can control its Mikkah pays no attention to the water host, it made the girl run. Fortunately, she everywhere. He reaches for his bag, takes didn’t get away. She’s completely out some belts and ties the girl firmly to the exhausted, she wouldn’t last long. Several bed. days, a week maybe." "What the hell are you doing?" "You’re going to take it out? "My job", Mikkah replies as he takes "This is enough to deaden it", Mikkah out a dark box from his bag. The box looks shakes his head as he gives the girl an expensive, of some finely grained wood that 6 injection.
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