Editorial

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 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...

“EMPIRE AT SEA”: THE FUTURE FLOATS

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...
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THE LADY WHO BUILT A BRIDGE OF STARS: THE GREAT CZECH SF AWAKENING – CRISTIAN TAMAȘ

CZECH IT OUT ! GOLEMS AND ROBOTS? WATCH FOR THE NEWTS, TOO! There are anthologies that gather stories, and then there are anthologies that gather...

THE DEATH OF AN INTELLECTUAL: JOHN CROWLEY by Cristian Tamaș

JOHN CROWLEY: December 1, 1942 - August 8, 2026  RIP! John Crowley is gone, and with him vanishes one of the last great American minds...

THE ECLIPSE: A SATIRE OF HUMAN FOLLY AND CELESTIAL OBSESSION – CRISTIAN TAMAȘ

SOLAR LUNACY, THE GREAT MAMMALIAN ECLIPSE CRAWL The eclipse, that most fleeting and ephemeral of cosmic events, has become a permanent fixture in the human...

THE NERD REICH: A FIELD GUIDE TO THE COSMICALLY DELUSIONAL, DIGITALLY DERANGED & DEMOCRACY‑DAMAGING TECH OVERLORDS OF OUR TIMES 

Broligarchy: The age of monomaniac messianic billionaires and techno-fascist sociopaths who believe that a hoodie is a political philosophy. “Silicon Valley has gone fascist because...

NEUROMANCER: A 42-YEAR-OLD CYBERGHOST HAUNTS 2027 – CRISTIAN TAMAȘ

The collective delusion that hackers are rock stars is about to be exhumed, repackaged, and force-fed to a generation that thinks “ICE” is just...

THE GLORIOUS COSMIC CARNIVAL OF AI & THE SINGULARITY: AN IMMENSE SCAM!  

Somewhere in Silicon Valley, beneath a mountain of half‑assembled server racks and the faint smell of burnt optimism, a conclave of tech titans gathers...

WE DIDN’T START THE FIRE! BUT THE WORLD IS ON FIRE! – CRISTIAN TAMAȘ

"I firmly believe that only science fiction is fully equipped to become the literature of tomorrow, and that it is the only medium with...

EURO‑SF AND THE GREAT CONTINENTAL DELUSION: A LOVE LETTER TO OUR BEAUTIFUL CULTURAL SERFDOM

WHEN WAS THE LAST TIME YOU READ A EUROPEAN SF NOVEL WRITTEN BY AN AUTHOR WHO IS NOT FROM YOUR COUNTRY AND NOT TRANSLATED...

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...

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,...

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...