Mihaela Marija Perković's Blog: Rantalica
October 3, 2020
ESFS Awards 2020
All the winners of tonight’s European Science Fiction Awards are great, but I think this is all I want to put up here tonight, to celebrate the one Croatian win of this year. Wishing she were here to hang out in front of the venue, in the rain and the wind, smoking and laughing our […]
September 16, 2020
ESFS AWARD NOMINATIONS: THE CROATIAN PROCESS
The ESFS Awards are the annual awards awarded by the European Science Fiction Society and voted on at that year’s Eurocon. I wish I could say they were like the Hugos, but they are nowhere nearly as popular or widely known. Europe being Europe, language will get in the way. While this brings diversity and […]
April 16, 2020
Accountability: March 2020
Well, that title has a whole new layer of meaning now. TBH, I have very little memory now how I spent the first two weeks of March. Working mostly, as the Bronze Girl script was supposed to be turned on March 25th and we were only on draft one. That and a lot of other []
April 2, 2020
Spring Convention Season
Spring is convention season in Croatia Fanstastikon in Split, Istrakon in Pazin, SFeraKon in Zagreb all happen March to May. And thats just getting started. Usually. Am feeling a bit blue, even though I have attended more SFera meetings (online!) in the last 2 weeks than I have in the last year. So I []
March 4, 2020
2019
I think last year might have been the one where I burnt out but was too busy to notice. I set a goal for Rantalica for 2019 – a minimum of 4 posts a month, one of them accountability. I managed it in February, April, May, June, July, September, October and November. 8 out of […]
March 2, 2020
ZAGORKA
My mother used to swallow romance novels. Printed on cheap paper and equally cheaply written, there were so many around the house. But one day, I discovered such romance – even better, because it was set in Zagreb of old! – on the shelf with all the thick, boring books. I discovered Zagorka. The moniker […]
December 14, 2019
China Science Fiction Convention 2019
The fourth annual China Science Fiction Conference was held from November 2-3 in Beijing, and I was lucky enough to be among the people that the organizers, China Association for Science and Technology, invited to attend.The con was held at the Beijing Expo, right next to the Riverside hotel where I was staying. It is […]
December 2, 2019
Accountability, Almost on Time, For a Change
November started out quite peacefully: I was in China and cut off from Google and social networks altogether, which brought its own kind of rest I apparently needed more than I knew. Also, I love being on planes and traveling halfway around the world does mean 10 or so hours on planes, and that was […]
November 22, 2019
Famous Fan: Nina Horvath
Austrian fan and author, Nina Horvath, took a chance on visiting the Zagreb Eurocon in 2012 after an inspiring talk by Dave Lally somewhere in Austria. I love the fact that she had made contact with me, Croatian and European fandom at the con we named Kontakt. Nina has since done a lot, moved, won […]
November 20, 2019
When the Artist Is (Omni)Present – 80 years of Margaret Atwood
Tonight, I am taking part in Canadian Week – Marking Margaret Atwood’s 80th Birthday by being part of a panel with two exceptional women, Vanja Polic and Petra Sapun Kuring. The panel – When the Artist Is (Omni)Present – 80 years of Margaret Atwood – will take place at 20:00 today, at Booksa in Zagreb […]
