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...
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...
"THE DYING GAME" ("Isola", in the original Swedish edition, 2016)
Swedish edition and full English translation
Rights sold : Euromedia France, Actes Sud Germany, Mladinska Spain,...
“Waiting for the Machines to Fall Asleep”, Swedish SF Anthology : The Best New Science Fiction from Sweden, Peter Öberg (Editor), Andreas Raninger (Cover Design), Publisher:...
From left : Daniel Atterbom, Freddie Wadling, Marita Lindquist
RIP: Sf-fan, journalist, comics expert, former chairman of the Swedish Comics Association DANIEL ATTERBOM (b 1959)...
Ghod save our gracious spleen
Long live our noble spleen
Ghod save the spleen
Send it victorious
Happy and glorious
Long to reign over us
Ghod save the spleen
It rained.
And...
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...
This festival actually started in 1999 under the name "Fanzine Heaven", by the youth department of the Stockholm Culture House, which earlier had workshops...
Finnish Weird is a free magazine published by the Helsinki Science Fiction Society. It introduces the concept of “Finnish Weird”, showcases a few writers and...
"Kallocain" is a classic 1940 dystopian novel by Swedish novelist Karin Boye which envisions a future of drab terror.
In 2016, the novel was nominated...
"2016's Sweden's Short Film Festival theme was Freedom!
With this theme we wanted to highlight new short films that somehow touches on ideas about freedom...
The thought of Donald Trump entering the White House triggers dark thoughts in many minds.
From left : Giuseppe Cassini and Elena Basile, Italian Ambassador in Sweden
But...
