The recent controversy and online discussions regarding the Eurocon have made me reach a conclusion: we don’t know enough – or should I say we don’t know at all? – about the wonderful things that are happening around us. We see, year after year, the nominations for the Eurocon Awards and we’re clueless: [...]
As promised, the new International Speculative Fiction magazine edited by Roberto Mendes has started publishing short stories. The first one online was Romanian writer Liviu Radu’s “Digits Are Cold, Numbers Are Warm“, translated by Loredana Frăţilă-Cristescu, published on May 1st. The story can be read in its entirety on [...]
This year’s Eurocon took part between 26th and 29th April, in Zagreb, Croatia. Being the crowning of annual events in the SF world, the Eurocon brought together writers and fans, artists and cultural tourists, people coming for the first time to Croatia and locals – most of these ones taking roles as organisers, [...]
Marian Coman is part of a young generation of Romanian writers, but he is one of the few who touches with the strokes of his talented pencil the realms of the speculative fiction. Marian Coman was born on May 1977, in Mangalia, Romania and is currently the editor-in-chief of the newspaper Obiectiv – Vocea [...]
Good news today from Portuguese editor Roberto Mendes, who’s launched International Speculative Fiction, an e-zine with free online distribution featuring speculative fiction written exclusively by non-anglophone authors. Each issue will feature three to four stories, an article and an interview.
The zine’s website – that you can [...]
We’re finally in possession of the whole list of the winners of the ESFS / Eurocon Awards 2012, which were given yesterday in Zagreb, during the European Convention / Eurocon, which took place there between April 26th to 29th. Here it is:
I. Hall of Fame: Best Author: Ian McDonald (UK) Best Publisher: [...]
Edited by Horia Nicola Ursu and Jeff VanderMeer, Millennium Est: Cinq histoires fantastiques is a collection of five F&SF stories translated into French by Coralia Telea, an eminent specialist in French Language and Literature from the University of Alba Iulia. Francophones will have the oportunity to get acquainted with short stories and [...]
Oliviu Crâznic, the young and dynamic author of Şi la sfîrşit a mai rămas coşmarul (…And in the End, Only the Nightmare Remains, Editura Vremea, 2010) and of several science fiction and fantasy stories published within the last couple years, is one of the recipients of the Eurocon 2012 Encouragement Award. Congratulations to [...]
Two days ago, british writer Alex Scarrow released his newest book, historical thriller The Candle Man, published by Orion in the UK. I seized the oportunity to ask Alex, one of my favorite writers, a few questions regarding his new book, his YA science fiction series Time Riders and his [...]
