Tag: spanish science fiction

THE SF GHETTO, THE GALAXY, AND THE GREAT MERGE: SCIENCE FICTION’S FORTY ONE YEAR ESCAPE ACT – CRISTIAN TAMAȘ

"Inside Outer Space : Science Fiction Professionals Look at Their Craft" – edited by Sharon Jarvis (1985) "For decades, science fiction readers and writers had been regarded by the academic/literary nexus and the media as a bizarre group, aficionados of the subliterate obsessed by the arcane" – Sharon Jarvis Science fiction in 1985 was a nervous adolescent: brilliant, awkward, self‑conscious, desperate to be taken seriously, and...

CONTAMINATION: HOW WORLD LITERATURE CAUGHT THE FUTURE LIKE A VIRUS! – CRISTIAN TAMAȘ

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...
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2019 Ignotus Awards Finalists (Spain)

Finalists for the 2019 Ignotus Awards (the Unknown - in Latin - Awards - the Spanish equivalent of the Hugo Awards), honoring the best...

2018 Ignotus Awards Winners (Spain)

Winners for the 2018 Ignotus Awards (the Spanish equivalent of the Hugo Awards), honoring the best works published in Spain last year, have been...

Spanish SuperSonic #9 Special English Language Issue

SuperSonic ? It is a Spanish publication aimed at the community of fans of science fiction, fantasy and horror. It's a platform for the work...

Next to Be Published Spanish Science Fiction and Fantasy Anthologies

Mariano Villarreal’s Spanish SF in the 21st Century "Spanish SF, Fantasy and Horror are almost unknown outside of Spain. To be sure, Spanish works are...

The 2017 Premio Ignotus Winners (Spain)

Winners for the 2017 Ignotus (Unknown) Awards/Premio Ignotus (the Spanish equivalent of the Hugo Awards), honoring the best works published in Spain last year, were announced...

The Spanish Film Director Nacho Vigalondo’s “Colossal”

"Colossal" it's a blast – another completely original and unique genre mash-up from the mad mind of Nacho Vigalondo." "Colossal" is a 2016 science fiction...

“Science Fiction Studies” Spanish SF Special Issue

A special issue of “Science Fiction Studies” on Spanish SF has been announced. SFS # 132 : Volume 44, Part 2 = July 2017 SPECIAL...

Hispacon 2017 (The Spanish National Science Fiction Convention)

AECFT (Asociación Española de Fantasía, Ciencia Ficción y Terror/The Spanish Science Fiction, Fantasy and Horror Association) Board of Directors has decided that HispaCon 2017...

The 2017 Minotauro Award (Spain)

The 2017 Minotauro Award winner has been announced. Organized by Minotauro Publisher, the Minotauro International Science Fiction and Fantasy Literature Award reaches its 14th year,...

2017 Ignotus Awards Finalists (Spain)

The Spanish Science Fiction, Fantasy and Terror Association (AEFCFT) have announced the 2017 Ignotus Awards (spanish Hugos). The Ignotus Awards winners will be announced at...

Call for Papers on Spanish SF for Science Fiction Studies

Science Fiction Studies invites contributions to the monographic issue on Spanish SF (guest editors: Sara Martín and Fernando Ángel Moreno). By ‘Spanish SF’ we mean...

“Spanish Women of Wonder” : A Science Fiction Anthology Written by Women

Women write very good science fiction in Spanish! So good we want to give you a superb translation into English. Will you help us? Teresa...