Tag: Valentin Ivanov

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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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“Homo Deus: A Brief History of Tomorrow”’ – Review by Valentin Ivanov

A handbook for science fiction readers and writers: a review of "Homo Deus: A Brief History of Tomorrow", by Yuval Noah Harari The future is...

Valentin Ivanov’s Review of “Seveneves” by Neal Stephenson

Every End is a Beginning: "Seveneves", a novel by Neal Stephenson - A review by Valentin Ivanov The inquisitive spirit of the old golden-age science fiction...

“Burning Paradise” by Robert Charles Wilson – A review by Valentin D. Ivanov (Bulgaria)

Tor, 2013 A dysfunctional family versus a big dumb object. This same story is retold in a few of the R. C. Wilson's novels, most...

“Zendegi” by Greg Egan reviewed by Valentin Ivanov

I came across Greg Egan many years ago, reading a short story titled "Wang's Carpets", where he described aliens living in Fourier space, in...

The gender bias in the contemporary short-form speculative fiction

A heated discussion on the mailing list of contributors to the Strange Horizons prompted me to put some numbers on the gender ratio in...

Between a Hummer and a Rock: The Bulgarian Science Fiction between the East and the West

I. Ivan Vazov - near-future SF from a century ago Ivan Vazov (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ivan_Vazov) is the father of the modern Bulgarian literature, no less. He...