Cristian Tamas

IT’S BIFF TANNEN’S TIMELINE, FOLKS!

Biff's Towers, Biff's Casinos, Biff's Huge Portraits! Do you remember "BACK TO THE FUTURE?" That very ‘charming’ character named BIFF TANNEN? An aggressive, thuggish imbecile? In "BACK TO THE FUTURE Part II" (1989), BIFF TANNEN reveals the full extent of his potential! Welcome to the BIFF TANNEN’S TIMELINE — a world of broken neon, puffed‑up swindlers, false prophets, and masses hypnotized by the fraudulent spectacle of power...
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THROUGH THE LOOKING-GLASS: ...

"Versions of the mirror-life concept have appeared in science fiction. In H.G. Wells’s “The Plattner Story” (1896), a man vanishes after a laboratory accident...

THE FILAMENT AND THE ABYSS: HERNAN DIAZ’S “PLY” AND THE FUTURE’S SECRET GRAMMAR – CRISTIAN TAMAȘ

"Ply" is majestic. A cracked mirror world, a lot like ours; peopled by survivors, a lot like us; sentences so fine they break the...

STRASBOURG, 2026: TEN DAYS INSIDE THE ELECTRIC HEART OF EUROPEAN FANTASTIC CINEMA – CRISTIAN TAMAȘ

The Strasbourg European Fantastic Film Festival returns for its 19th edition from 25 September to 4 October 2026, bringing ten days of cinematic discovery...

INTERSTELLAR MISCOMMUNICATION: TALKING TO ALIENS WHILE BARELY TALKING TO OURSELVES – CRISTIAN TAMAȘ

"Everyone knows that dragons don’t exist. But while this simplistic formulation may satisfy the layman, it does not suffice for the scientific mind. ...

ONE PLANET, ONE HUMANITY, ONE LANGUAGE! – CRISTIAN TAMAȘ

Universal Grammar for Universal Fools, Linguistic Utopias and Other Human Malfunctions "Klingon speakers, those who have devoted themselves to the study of a language invented...

ELOI AND MORLOCKS? OR ELONS AND MORLOCKS? – CRISTIAN TAMAȘ

Notes from the Basement of the Singularity, A Field Guide to the Coming Genetically‑Engineered Aristocracy H.G. Wells saw it first, poor man. He stared into the...

THE MIGHTY FANTASTIC FOLKLORE GRINDER — THE INFANTILIZATION OF THE IMAGINARY

Once upon a time, in the sacred halls of imagination, there lived a noble idea: that fantasy might liberate the human spirit. Then came the...

WAITING FOR THE OVERLORDS – CRISTIAN TAMAȘ

Ah, behold the crown of creation: the magnificent, hairless biped who crawled out of the primeval sludge only to trip over its own shoelaces...

THE TRIUMPH OF THE IMAGINATIVE MIND: HOW “WIDOW’S BAY” AND “PLURIBUS” RESHAPED THE CULTURAL LANDSCAPE AT THE 2026 EMMY AWARDS

The most profound commentary on modern life is currently happening within science fiction and fantasy! "Widow's Bay" and "Pluribus" won because they were, indisputably, the...

THE GREAT RECYCLING OF SF TITLES

There is a peculiar cosmic comedy that unfolds in the world of science fiction publishing — a comedy so recurring, so predictable, so gloriously...

ALTER EGO: THE SEVENTEEN MIRRORS OF THE IMAGINALES

There are literary constellations that do not merely illuminate a landscape but redraw it, shifting the very cartography of the imaginary. The Anthologie des Imaginales,...

BETWEEN STARS AND STORIES, ORBITING IDEAS: ASTRONOMER VALENTIN D. IVANOV, THE COSMOS AND THE GREAT EUROPEAN SF CONTINUUM

INTERVIEW WITH VALENTIN D. IVANOV– CRISTIAN TAMAȘ CRISTIAN TAMAȘ: As someone working at the European Southern Observatory, you operate in one of the most international...