Mihaela Marija Perković's Blog: Rantalica, page 17
November 21, 2014
Time to read?
How do you make time for reading? I used to read so much and nothing – not even giving birth and tending to a baby – stopped me from reading volumes. (Although breastfeeding did stop me remembering most of what … Continue reading →
November 19, 2014
Free Croatian SF Fiction: Parsek 125 is online!
In case you somehow managed to miss out on the Worldcon & Eurocon 2014 issue of Parsek, the Croatian SF fanzine, you can download it here (.pdf)! Parsek is the fanzine of the Zagreb based science fiction society SFera and … Continue reading →
November 17, 2014
New Zealand
You say New Zealand, most people think The Lord of the Rings. I think a special shade of green, horizontal rain, icy wind, breathtaking views, very scary weta, bilingual sings, kids in short sleeves and short pants when I – … Continue reading →
November 12, 2014
Bosnian genre author Adnadin Jašarevic wins Little Prince regional award
Every writer in the former Yugoslavia used to be eligible for the SFERA Award. So there are, among the early winners, some Slovenian and Serbian genre writers. Today, SFERA is a national award (and no longer the only one!). I … Continue reading →
October 21, 2014
Women in fandom 0.1
Every time some new (or old) misogyny-related scandal shakes up the anglophone science fiction community, I stand on the sidelines, quietly watching the internets explode and wonder how this can be. Thing is, I probably live, day in, day out, … Continue reading →
August 30, 2014
LIburnicon GUFF aukcija
Zanima vas kako pišu australski pisci? Kako izgleda bilten Worlcona? Kakvog je okusa australska cokolada? Kako do dobre knjige za par kuna? Pripremite sitan novac i do?ite u subotu, 30. kolovoza, u 22:30 na GUFF aukciju na Liburniconu (Lavanda 3). … Continue reading →
August 28, 2014
Croatia wins two ESFS Awards
Last Sunday at the 36th Eurocon, Shamrokon, in Dublin, the European Science Fiction Society announced the recipients of the 2014 ESFS Awards. It has taken me a while to blog about it – doing two cons in a week and … Continue reading →
July 24, 2014
Croatian nominations – ESFS awards 2014
Croatian fandom proudly takes part in the running for the European Science Fiction Society Awards. We have won some back in the 80s in the Best Magazine category and have been wanting more ever since! So, in 2011, the SFera … Continue reading →
July 14, 2014
Interview: Aleksandar Žiljak
Aleksandar Žiljak is the only Croatian author who has won a SFERA Award in two categories – for best story and best novel – in the same year. He is also one of the most prolific genre authors in the … Continue reading →
July 11, 2014
Dimension6: Issue #2 out now!
As you may have noticed, I am a sucker for free fiction online. There was a time, when Irena Rašeta and me were doing NOSF.net a lot more zealously and when it was not that easy to find legal free … Continue reading →
