Tag: french fantasy

OBEY! CONSUME! SUBMIT!

SCROLL! LIKE! FORGET! BUY NOW, DIE LATER! TRUST THE FEED! FEAR THE SILENCE! STAY PLUGGED! STAY DUMB! LOVE AI! HATE REALITY! “They Live!” was supposed to be fiction — a warning wrapped in cheap sunglasses and B‑movie grit. But somewhere between the Reagan years and the TikTok apocalypse, the aliens stopped hiding. They didn’t need to. Humanity volunteered. Now, the streets are full of people who stare...

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 "nation" melts like ice under a feverish sun. These books don’t march forward; they drift, swirl, scatter, just like the people inside them. Reading them feels like hitchhiking across a continent that no longer remembers its own borders, guided by a...
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The 16th edition of Imaginales, the Festival of the Imaginary Worlds (France)

From Thursday 18 to Sunday 21 May, an European hotspot : the 2017 edition of the Imaginales Festival in Épinal, France. More than 300 authors...

Prix Pierre Bottero, Les Oniriques Festival (France)

The Prix Pierre Bottero awarded at the Les Oniriques Festival (The Festival of the Imaginary Cultures, 6th-8th of March 2015, Lyon-Meyzieu, Rhône-Alpes, France), for Young...

The 2015 Bob Morane Award and the Prix de la Librairie L’Antre-Monde (Paris, France)

The Bob Morane Award is a literary prize created in 1999 by Marc Bailly. It is awarded by a jury of French fiction professionals...

2014 French SF&F Publishing Sector Has Decreased

"Weakened by the absence of bestsellers in 2014, the French speculative fiction publishing market decreased in 2014. Independent publishers however escape the gloom due...

Imaginales, The Festival of the Imaginary Worlds : 22nd-25th of May 2014, Épinal, France

© Juan Miguel Aguilera, spanish artist and speculative fiction writer The Imaginales, the Festival of the Imaginary Worlds is an event held every year in May since...

Zone Franche Festival, 4th-6th of April 2014, Bagneux, France

Zone Franche (Free Zone)  is a french festival of literatures and cultures of the imagination. The present 7th edition, with its sixty exhibitors -...