82 WORLDCON 2005 2 EDITORIAL Dear reader, "Parsek" is the oldest Croatian fanzine, first published in 1977 as the bulletin of science fiction club Sfera from Zagreb. Sfera consists of some two and a hundred members and is a literary society, as well as being a fan club. The annual Darko Macan conventions attract hundreds of fans, while Across Kalavalahalatine 3 prestigious SFERA Award is being given in Aleksandar Žiljak several categories. You will also notice that Price Of Freedom 8 almost all authors represented here are Tereza Rukober SFERA winners. Everything She Was 12 Now, let me introduce you to the Marina Jadrej čić Croatian SF, with the little help of SFERA's Sad Madonna 22 official mascot, Bemmet. Mario Bere čić Love Story 26 Enjoy! Dalibor Perkovi ć Misjump 31 Boris Švel Aleksandar Žiljak In Zagreb, 25th July 2005 Science Fiction in Croatia 34 Živko Prodanovi ć "Parsek" on net: Robots In War (Six Situations) 43 http://parsek.sfera.hr/ Darko Macan BEMMET 44 Contact: Dalibor Perkovi ć
[email protected] SF Conventions in Croatia 46 NOTE: all materials are translated by the authors themselves, unless stated otherwise 3 Darko Macan is probably best known outside Croatia as a writer of scenarios for comics, working for Marvel and Dark Hose, amongst others. Nevertheless, his activities spread from writing and illustration to editing, and he won SFERA Award four times. Living in Zagreb, he is generally considered one of the leading personalities of Croatian SF generation that arose during nineteen- nineties, having published two novels and other works. The story we bring you here won the first place on the short-story competition held in the Croatian region of Istria this year.