Editorial

NINA HORVATH: ARCHITECT OF EUROPE’S ELECTRIC DREAMS – CRISTIAN TAMAȘ

There is a particular electricity in the air when speaking about Nina Horvath—an Austrian writer whose speculative fiction doesn’t merely explore the shadows of science fiction, but seems to ignite them from within. Her stories feel like they were written at the edge of a storm, where the sky is bruised purple and the wind carries the scent of something ancient, something mechanical, something alive. She...

THE RHIZOME AND THE ABYSS: LOVE, RUIN, AND THE ELECTRIC GHOSTS OF OUR AGE – CRISTIAN TAMAȘ

Agustín Fernández Mallo: the physicist‑poet of fragmentation, the visionary who turns the chaos of our hyperlinked world into electrifying literature that pulses with intelligence, audacity, and radical beauty. There are books that behave like detonations—slow explosions that keep rumbling through the skull long after the covers close. Agustín Fernández Mallo’s "The Book of All Loves" (El libro de todos los amores) is one of those...
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The 2026 Celsius 232 Festival: The Summer Heart of European Imagination – CRISTIAN TAMAȘ

Featured Guests include Ted Chiang (United States), Chuck Palahniuk (United States),Paolo Bacigalupi (United States), Alastair Reynolds (United Kingdom),Ian McDonald (United Kingdom), Joe Abercrombie (United Kingdom), John Gwynne (United Kingdom), Jo Walton (United Kingdom/Canada), Becky Chambers (United States), T. Kingfisher (United States), Samantha Shannon (United Kingdom), Anna Smith Spark (United Kingdom), Kaaron Warren (Australia), Aliya Whiteley (United Kingdom), Josh Malerman (United States), Grady Hendrix (United States), Joe Hill (United States), Chris Claremont (United States), Larry Hama (United States), Peter Tieryas (United States), Christopher Buehlman (United States), Alix E. Harrow (United States), Sangu Mandanna (United Kingdom),...

THE ELECTRIC MIND OF EUROPE: WHY Sci Phi Journal IS THE LITERARY FRONTIER YOU DIDN’T KNOW YOU NEEDED – CRISTIAN TAMAȘ

Sci Phi Journal’s MARIANO MARTÍN RODRÍGUEZ & ÁDÁM GERENCSÉR: EUROPE’S DOUBLE‑ENGINE OF SPECULATIVE BRILLIANCE There are magazines you read, and then there are magazines that...

THE ILLUSION OF UNITY: A COMMENTARY ON THE 2026 ESFS AWARDS AND EUROPE’S FRACTURED SCIENCE FICTION LANDSCAPE – CRISTIAN TAMAȘ

"Eurocons are a very good way of sampling other nations' SF communities as well as seeing different countries. They also make for great mini-holidays."...

THE STAR‑FORGE OF SFCD: WHEN GERMAN SCIENCE FICTION LIGHTS UP THE COSMOS

2026 Deutscher Science Fiction Preis (German Science Fiction Award) Finalists The announcement of the 2026 Deutscher Science Fiction Preis finalists on July 4th landed like...

EUROCON 2026: WHERE EUROPE’S WILDEST DREAMS COLLIDE IN BERLIN! – CRISTIAN TAMAȘ

GoHs: AIKI MIRA (GERMANY), BECKY CHAMBERS (USA), BERNHARD HENNEN (GERMANY), STJEPAN & LINDA ŠEJIĆ (CROATIA) Berlin is calling — and the future is already humming...

THE COSMIC INFERNO AND THE BIRTH OF A MYTH: TUNGUSKA IN THE FIRES OF SCIENCE FICTION

The sky over Siberia split open on the morning of June 30, 1908, not with a whimper but with a roar so cataclysmic it...

PASSPORT TO MAGONIA: ONE BILLION YEARS BEFORE THE END OF THE WORLD (AND WHY YOU SHOULD GIVE A DAMN) – CRISTIAN TAMAȘ

THE COSMIC CONSPIRACY YOU’RE ALREADY PART OF (WHETHER YOU LIKE IT OR NOT) Forget the 20th century—that quaint little era of atoms, bombs, and men...

ROCKETS, DICTATORS, AND MAD POETS: THE WILD, UNTOLD SAGA OF HISPANIC SCIENCE FICTION (CIENCIA FICCIÓN)

There is a moment, deep in the archives of Madrid’s most dust-choked libraries, when the truth hits you like a rogue asteroid: Hispanic ciencia...

ALEX WOODROE: THE TRANSYLVANIAN VOICE RESHAPING EUROPEAN SPECULATIVE FICTION – CRISTIAN TAMAȘ

Alex Woodroe is a Romanian writer of dark speculative fiction and Shirley Jackson Award-nominated editor-in-chief of Tenebrous Press (Portland, Oregon, USA). She’s the author of...

JOHN KEELE AND THE MYSTERY OF “THE MEN IN BLACK” – CRISTIAN TAMAȘ

Are we witnessing visitors from the stars—or reflections of our own cosmic imagination? John Keel never wanted to be a prophet of the weird. He...

ARTE.TV’S “SCIENCE FICTION REVOLUTION”: FIVE PART DOCUMENTARY SERIES

The screen flickers to life, and there it is—"SCIENCE FICTION REVOLUTION" (In Search Of Tomorrow, 2022; directed by the US director David Weiner), a...