"Inside Outer Space : Science Fiction Professionals Look at Their Craft" – edited by Sharon Jarvis (1985)
"For decades, science fiction readers and writers had been regarded by the academic/literary nexus and the media as a bizarre group, aficionados of the subliterate obsessed by the arcane" – Sharon Jarvis
Science fiction in 1985 was a nervous adolescent: brilliant, awkward, self‑conscious, desperate to be taken seriously, and...
The history of literature is, among other things, the history of its infections.
Ideas migrate, genres mutate, borders dissolve, and what once seemed pure becomes hybrid, recombinant, gloriously contaminated.
Science fiction, long treated as a commercial ghetto of ray guns and rocket ships, has quietly infiltrated the bloodstream of world literature. Or perhaps it is literature that has infiltrated science fiction, bending its tropes into instruments...
The French, ah, ces sacrés Français… they have a way of turning even a science‑fiction convention into a miniature opera, complete with drama, eccentricity,...
There are moments in literary history when satire writes itself—when the pomp of self‑appointed gatekeepers becomes so gloriously absurd that all one must do...
INSIDE THE WILD, RADIANT WORLD OF THE 2026 PRIX ACTUSF DE L’UCHRONIE (ACTUSF ALTERNATE HISTORY PRIZE, FRANCE)
There are prizes that reward imagination, and then...
"Kelvins are only awarded in Avilés. Kelvins only travel in the suitcases of their rightful owners. Kelvins are like Thor's hammer or Arthur's sword....
There are nights when literature ascends the mountaintop, communes with the muses, and returns bearing fire.
And then there are nights like June 6th 2026...
The announcement of the 40th Arthur C. Clarke Award shortlist didn’t arrive gently—it tore through the speculative fiction landscape like a pressure wave, the...
THE CONSTELLATION OF FIRE: THE 2026 GRAND PRIX DE L’IMAGINAIRE ERUPTS INTO HISTORY
There are nights when literature stops behaving like a polite cultural artifact...
The European Science Fiction Society is an international organization of SF professionals and fans who are committed to promoting science-fiction in Europe and European...
