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 scientific environments in Europe. Why do you think European science fiction — unlike European science — remains so fragmented along national lines?
Valentin D. Ivanov: A great aspects of working at the large international institution is that one does not feel...
2026 VENICE INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL: VENICE IMMERSIVE ACHIEVEMENT PRIZE
There are moments in cinema when the screen stops being a window and becomes a portal.
"Empire at Sea", Peter Flaherty’s twenty‑two‑minute SF solarpunk odyssey, doesn’t just invite you to watch—it drags you, salt‑sprayed and blinking, into its shimmering world of steel, algae, and ghosts of the mainland.
The film opens on the Aurora rig, a floating sanctuary...
Vita Nostra, or “Our Life,” is a mercurial creature. The novel veers through the betrayals of first love, and the perils of life in a remote college in rural Russia, to the gradual unmaking of the world through the ruptive coordinates of another/a greater reality. This burrowing and glitching of ...
Deoxy Diamond is a Brazilian illustrator, working with digital art, currently centered on character design. A science fiction and Afrofuturism fan, they like to mix folklore and black culture in their art. Find their work at Artstation, Instagram, and Twitter. Deoxy provided the illustration for the January 20th story “One Hand in the ...
Fernando A. Flores was born in Mexico and grew up in South Texas. His debut novel, Tears of the Trufflepig, is set in the borderlands between the USA and Mexico. It is dedicated to “all the disappeared.” This sets us up for a story that is post-apocalyptic in a way ...
CONTENT WARNING: show warningsThis page contains: BloodHe sent me a picture of a long sinuous line, dark as entrails and wet, curving on the floor. ‘Sappy,’ he wrote. ‘But I want you.’ ‘I want you,’ I replied. I could not quite smell apple-flesh and the air suddenly redolent ...
Black from the Future is a speculative fiction anthology composed exclusively of writings by Black women. Fourteen short stories and six poems weave the reader in and out of the fantastical lives of Black women and girls through time. The works in this collection focus on the strength and resourcefulness ...
Last year, the critic Aja Romano posited a new movement within science fiction, which she dubbed “hopepunk” (a term coined by Alex Rowland). Works in the hopepunk subgenre, Romano argued, reject the cynical, anti-social stance of the genre writing that came before them in favor of imagining positively. I found ...
Alix Harrow won a Hugo last year for her short story, “A Witch’s Guide to Escape: A Practical Compendium of Portal Fantasies,” published in Apex. The piece is lovely and desperately sad, about the allure of libraries, the wisdom of librarians, and the books that can rescue broken people. Its ...
