
Los cuentos de María Dolores Cabrera: “Siempre de azul”
Ecuadorian writer María Dolores Cabrera presents her new book, Siempre de azul (Libros Duendes, 2021)
Ecuadorian writer María Dolores Cabrera presents her new book, Siempre de azul (Libros Duendes, 2021)
SF Cinema is generating academic interest
Las voladoras (Foam Pages), by Ecuadorian author Mónica Ojeda addresses themes of feminism, misogyny and unequal power.
El ecuatoriano Richard Cedeño Menéndez explora la ciencia ficción con una nueva obra Voces del firmamento, que además tiene un subtítulo: El resurgimiento de las ánimas probablemente anunciando que su novela podría ser el inicio de una saga. Y eso quizá sería congruente toda vez que con Voces del firmamento el joven autor portovejense –conocido […]
La ciencia ficción, un nuevo horizonte para Tarkovski Un 13 de mayo de 1972 fue estrenada en el Festival de Cannes el filme de ciencia ficción de Andrei Tarkovski, Solaris. En dicho evento la película obtuvo el Gran Premio del Jurado, además del Premio FIPRESCI –galardón de la Federación Internacional de la Prensa Cinematográfica–, distinciones […]
The Ecuadorian writer Jorge Vivanco has published a novel in Milan-Italy that borders on science fiction and fantasy. This is titled: Albanuma: the lost city (Ageebooks, 2015), which is in its second edition.
The poet Charles Baudelaire and Vampires
Ecuadorian writer Efraín Villacís’ new novel is dystopian science fiction
A review of Argentine author Betina González’s novel América alucinada
On the night of February 12, 1949, the city of Quito-Ecuador was moved by the alleged news of a Martian invasion
Nine stories related to cultures of Australia, the Arab world, Africa, the Iroquois of North America, the Tobas of the South American Chaco, Japan, Italy and Nepal.
Ivan extols the virtues of emerging Ecuadorian author Richard Cedeño Menéndez. and his El arca de los Sueños (Ministry of Culture and Heritage of Ecuador, 2017) collection.
An examination of AI as presented in 2001: A Space Odyssey
Reflections on Blade Runner’s Roy batty, on the occasion of his birthday.
An interesting take on the unnamed author and the unnamed character in Frankenstein.
Water was recently added to the commodities exchanges. Still the water (Seix Barral, Bogotá, 2019) by Juan Álvarez addresses this scary fact.
A review of Ecuadorian author Rafael Lugo Naranjo’s, Tripa Mistic
A review of Bolivian author Hugo Revollo’s collection Cosmonaut: Retrofuturist and Fantastic Tales
Introducing a new anthology of Ecuadorian SF
Santiago Páez, Ecuadorian SF author who is revitalizing the genre
Defiler of Memories (Casa de la Cultura Ecuatoriana, Quito, 2016) by Oliver Vera Barberán is a YA, debut science fiction novel
Contra los hispanófilos que aún en este mes de octubre –en el siglo XXI– siguen reclamando y celebrando el “día de la raza” –que por otro lado encierra una connotación racista por donde se le mire–, habría que recordar, por lo menos, a título de revisión fantástica de la historia que los aztecas se dieron […]
Review of an illustrated novel with three authors
Ecuadorian author María de los Ángeles Boada has written a children’s fable with the title: The Dragons of Lumbre.
Venus. Following the recent report of life-chemicals found in its atmosphere, is it any wonder that we’re all thinking swampy things again?
Celebrating Bradbury’s Centennial with a look back at the premiere of Truffaut’s titular movie
Mexican author Gerardo Horacio Porcayo’s novel, Back to the Skin, evokes Well’s Island of Doctor Moreau.
Coverage of a 1967 lecture by Jorge Luis Borges on – “Fantastic Literature”
Celebrating Ray Bradbury’s Centennial
The reissue of the Ecuadorian science fiction novel for adolescents, Infinito 9 (Loqueleo, 2017) by Verónica Coello Game leads to discussion of YA lit.