"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...
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...
SF/fantasy writer Kristina Hård won The Literature Award of the City of Gothenburg (Göteborgs stads litteraturpris) worth a respectable 100 000 Swedish crowns (ca...
Author and playwright August Strindberg (1849-1912) is together with Astrid Lindgren Sweden's perhaps most well-known writer.
(If we leave out recent Larssons and Mankells of...
"The Circle" (Cirkeln) is a Swedish fantasy film produced and scored by Benny Andersson (ABBA) and directed and co-written by Levan Akin based on the best selling novel The...
