Tag Archives: East Germany

Cora’s Adventures at Metropol Con in Berlin, Part 2: The Con

Posted on June 4, 2023 by Cora

As you probably know, I was at Metropol Con, a new SFF convention in Berlin, last week. For my pre-con wanderings around Berlin, check out this post. And now, let’s get to the con itself. Day 1: Thursday, May 18, … Continue reading →

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Cora’s Adventures at Metropol Con in Berlin, Part 1: Pre-Con Wanderings

Posted on May 26, 2023 by Cora

As you probably know, I was at Metropol Con, a new SFF convention in Berlin, last week. And I had a great time overall and met lots of old and new friends, though there were a few hiccups along the … Continue reading →

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Toss a Coin to Your Witcher: Some Thoughts on The Witcher

Posted on January 23, 2020 by Cora

I have to admit that initially, I wasn’t even going to watch The Witcher. For while I am cursorily familiar with the books, I have never played the videogames nor watched the Polish TV series from the early 2000s. And … Continue reading →

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Cora time travels to 1963 again

Posted on September 16, 2018 by Cora

I’ve got another article up at Galactic Journey. This one is about The Silent Star a.k.a. First Spaceship to Venus, an East German/Polish science fiction film based on Stanislaw Lem’s novel Astronauts. So hop over there and check it out.

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Cora blogs elsewhere yet again…

Posted on August 11, 2018 by Cora

Today, I’m over at Galactic Journey again, this time with a look at the state of East German and East European (well, Polish, since East Germany already had Stanislaw Lem translations at the time) science fiction back in 1963. For … Continue reading →

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Some Comments on the 2017 German General Election

Posted on September 25, 2017 by Cora

As you may know, Germany had a general election today. Angela Merkel’s CDU is still the strongest party, though they suffered significant losses. Her coalition partner SPD under Martin Schulz, former president of the European parliament, fell to only 20% … Continue reading →

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New German language anthology available – Neue deutschsprachige Anthologie im Handel

Posted on September 6, 2015 by Cora

I actually had planned to make a new release announcement this weekend, but now you get two, since it turns out that I also have a German language short story in an anthology I had sort of forgotten about. Kurze … Continue reading →

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Great German Movies on YouTube

Posted on August 13, 2013 by Cora

In the comments to my last post, I recommended a bunch of full vintage German movies I found on YouTube to Sherwood. In case somebody else is interested as well, here is the list again, reorganized and expanded a bit. … Continue reading →

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