The history of literature is, among other things, the history of its infections.
Ideas migrate, genres mutate, borders dissolve, and what once seemed pure becomes hybrid, recombinant, gloriously contaminated.
Science fiction, long treated as a commercial ghetto of ray guns and rocket ships, has quietly infiltrated the bloodstream of world literature. Or perhaps it is literature that has infiltrated science fiction, bending its tropes into instruments...
A soliloquy about androids, robots, souls, digital anxiety, and the Global Imbecility Boom
Whoever cannot feel is not human.
But whoever feels too much risks collapsing!
And what happens when humans become less human than the machines they build?
There are mornings when you wake up with the sensation that the world has been replaced overnight by a cheap knockoff, a kind of Chinese replica of reality, hastily...
"Claire Denis reinvents and reorients the SF genre around bodies, babies, and black holes in her masterfully mystifying event-horizon nightmare."
"High Life" is a science fiction...
The winners of the 2018 Grand Prix de l’Imaginaire, honoring the best SF/F work published in France in 2017, have been announced:
French Novel
WINNER: "Toxoplasma",...
"Dans la brume" (In the Fog/international title: Just A Breath Away) is a French science fiction film directed by Daniel Roby.
"Well-directed and marked by a...
The Winner of the 2017 Albertine Prize is the novel "BARDO OR NOT BARDO" by Antoine Volodine (France).
“Irreducible to any single literary genre, the...
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"With this freewheeling fantasy about the death of the celebrated French critic, Binet delivers a second novel as erudite and engaging as his first....
“Between Utopian Dreams And Totalitarian Nightmares” – Conference on Russian SF (France) by Natacha Vas-Deyres, specialist of literatures of the imaginary.
A lecture at the...
THE OFFICIAL ANTHOLOGY OF THE UTOPIALES SF FESTIVAL GROUPING EUROPEAN AND INTERNATIONAL AUTHORS
AUDREY ALWETT, LIONEL DAVOUST, JEAN-LAURENT DEL SOCORRO, ESTELLE FAYE, GUY GAVRIEL KAY,...
Winners of the Prix Utopiales were announced at the Nantes International Science Fiction Festival, known as the Utopiales Festival, held November 1-6, 2017 in...
"Uchronia" refers to a hypothetical or fictional time-period of our world, in contrast to altogether fictional lands or worlds.
A concept similar to alternate history...
"Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets" (French: "Valérian et la Cité des mille planètes") is a 2017 English-language French science fiction action...
