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DUTCH FANTASTICON 2026: WHERE REALITY FINALLY GIVES UP AND THE LOWLANDS LEARNED TO LEVITATE  – CRISTIAN TAMAȘ

There are days when the world feels too small, too polite, too neatly folded into its own predictable geometry. And then there are days like September 5, 2026, when Nieuw-Vennep (New-Vennep, a town and residential-commercial center in the Dutch province of North Holland, situated within the municipality of Haarlemmermeer) cracks open like a cosmic egg and something incandescent spills out across the Linquenda community...
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THE SIDEWISE SPECTACLE OF CHRONOLOGICAL NONSENSE: A CELEBRATION OF THE YEAR’S MOST HEROICALLY MISLABELED “ALTERNATE HISTORIES”

MINISTRY OF TRUTH — DEPARTMENT OF TEMPORAL CORRECTION OFFICIAL COMMUNIQUÉ No. 2026‑ALT‑HIST‑001 Citizens of the Literary Dominion, Subjects of the Chronological Order, and Loyal Consumers of Approved Fiction, The Ministry of Truth is delighted to announce the triumphant conclusion of the Sidewise Awards 2026, the Empire’s most prestigious ceremony dedicated to honoring works of "alternate history," a genre we have carefully redefined to mean any narrative containing...
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AIR: THE WHITEOUT THAT SWALLOWED THE WORLD – CRISTIAN TAMAȘ

A portal opens from our modern world of data centres and interior design into a medieval fantasy realm, in this playfully surreal tale from...
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CONTINENTS OF TOMORROW: AN EUROPEAN SF RENAISSANCE FORGED BY FUTURE FICTION? – CRISTIAN TAMAȘ

An English‑Language Anthology of Europe’s New Speculative Imagination The European Science Fiction anthology project, coordinated by Francesco Verso through the multicultural Future Fiction platform, represents...
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SUNKEN WORLDS, FLOATING LANGUAGES: A VOLTAGE‑DRENCHED ODE TO YOKO TAWADA’S “SCATTERED ALL OVER THE EARTH” SF TRILOGY

Yoko Tawada’s trilogy doesn’t simply imagine the future — it dissolves it, ferments it, lets it bubble and hiss until the very idea of...
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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...
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