Tag: british fantasy

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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Terry Pratchett (28 April 1948 – 12 March 2015)

Terry Pratchett died on 12 March 2015, aged 66. Sir Terence David John "Terry" Pratchett, OBE (28 April 1948 – 12 March 2015) was an...

Kazuo Ishiguro’s New Fantasy Novel, “The Buried Giant”

“The Buried Giant” is published by Faber&Faber (UK),  Random House (US) and Penguin Random House (Canada) on the 3rd of March 2015.    “This novel, “The...

Strange Horizons : “The State of British SF and Fantasy – A Symposium”

Strange Horizons :   "The State of British SF and Fantasy - A Symposium" by Juliet E. McKenna, Kari Sperring, Nina Allan, Dan Hartland, Martin Lewis, and...

The 2013 British Fantasy Awards (U.K.) : 3rd of November 2013

The British Fantasy Society (BFS) began in 1971 as the British Weird Fantasy Society, an offshoot of the British Science Fiction Association. The society...

“How to write science fiction” – Guardian Masterclasses (UK)

"Take your writing to new frontiers - let Liesel Schwarz, Ben Aaronovitch and Oli Munson be your guides to creating scintillating SF and fantastic...

“At the World’s Edge”, A Debate with Antonia Byatt, Terry Eagleton and Terry Pratchett (UK)

The British Institute of Art and Ideas in association with the British Humanist Association has organized "At the World's Edge", a debate with Antonia...

The Best British Fantasy 2013

„The Best British Fantasy 2013”  is a new annual anthology series of the best fantasy fiction written by authors based in Britain. The Best...