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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 END OF IT”: A 250-YEAR-OLD TANTRUM IN A WORLD TOO POLITE TO YAWN

The 2026 Cannes premiere of “The End of It” is a film so achingly self-important, so drenched in its own existential hand-wringing, that one...

EMPIRE OF ICE: A TRANS-SIBERIAN ODYSSEY INTO WINTER LOGIC

JACEK DUKAJ’S "ICE" successfully finished as a top-ten finalist for the 2026 Locus Award for Best Translated Novel. Translated into English by Ursula Phillips and...

Alternate History Class 101: “Asen and the travelers in 100 Bulgarias” – A review by Valentin Ivanov

Elena Pavlova (b. 1974) is a well-established Bulgarian science fiction writer and translator, in fact, she is one of its leaders today. Her contributions...

DENIS VILLENEUVE: THE SF DIRECTOR OF THE 21ST CENTURY

Denis Villeneuve (born October 3, 1967, Gentilly, Bécancour, Quebec, Canada) is a French Canadian film director, producer, and screenwriter. He studied cinema at the...

FEVER DREAM – A BEAUTIFUL AND BONKERS FUTURE CULT CLASSIC

“There's an oppressive malevolence to Peruvian director Claudia Llosa's adaptation of Samanta Schweblin's novel that seeps through Fever Dream like a slow-acting poison. Perplexing...

“ANNA”, ITALIAN SF TV SERIES

“Anna” is an Italian science fiction TV series of 2021 (based on a SF novel by the Italian writer Niccolò Ammaniti, published in 2015),...

ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE IS NEITHER ARTIFICIAL NOR PARTICULARLY INTELLIGENT

“AI systems put power in the hands of the already powerful. What we see time and again, from facial recognition to tracking and surveillance...

THE SPIRIT OF THE AGE: WHY THE TECH BILLIONAIRES WANT TO LEAVE HUMANITY BEHIND

Jeff Bezos and his contemporaries are using their fortunes to achieve God-like ambitions for the future. The American novelist F Scott Fitzgerald once wrote: “Let...

DUNE VS. FOUNDATION

“Foundation” is a fictional world grounded in logic, whereas “Dune” is one grounded in large, philosophical ideas. Asimov is very disinterested in the individual characters...

PREMIO IMAGINACIÓN Y FUTURO (IMAGINATION AND FUTURE) AWARD – MEXICO

MEXICONA, the first Mexican virtual convention of speculative fiction, presented the Premio Imaginación y Futuro (Imagination and Future Award) “to celebrate, recognize and uplift...

2021 THE GALACTIC IMAGINARIUM FILM FESTIVAL

One of the few SF and Fantasy Film Festivals in Eastern Europe, that brings a fresh concept of gathering together, through live video streaming,...

“THE TRUTH AND OTHER STORIES” BY STANISLAW LEM

The Truth and Other Stories by Stanislaw Lem, translated from the Polish by Antonia Lloyd-Jones; Foreword by Kim Stanley Robinson (MIT Press, September 14th...