Espora
The Newszine of Spanish Science Fiction, Fantasy and Horror
Espora
#11
April 2006 - March 2007
A publication from the Spanish Association for Science Fiction, Fantasy and Horror (AEFCFT).
Publisher: AEFCFT
Editor: Ángel Carralero
Staff: Pablo Herranz, José Luis Mora, Ángel Carralero.
INDEX
Conventions, Awards and Exhibitions
CONVENTIONS, AWARDS AND EXHIBITIONS
The 24th Spanish Convention of Fantasy and Science Fiction, HispaCon, organized by the Spanish Association for Science Fiction, Fantasy and Horror (AEFCFT) was held at Dos Hermanas (Seville) from the 3rd November to the 5th November 2006 with Ian Watson, Kiril Yeskov, Richard Morgan and BEF as Main Guests and important assistants as Rafael Marín, Rodolfo Martínez, Sue Burke, Santiago Eximeno, Eduardo Vaquerizo and the President of the AEFCFT Víctor M. Gallardo. The 8th AznarCon was held there too. The Ignotus Awards list is here:
http://www.aefcft.com/ignotus/nom2006.htm
“Pasión gitana por sangre española”, by Victor Manuel Ánchel Estebas won the Domingo Santos Award 2006.
Review of the Hispacon 2006 (in English):
http://www.concatenation.org/conrev/hispacon2006.html
The 25th Spanish Convention of Fantasy and Science Fiction, HispaCon 2007, will be in Sevilla between the 2th and 4 th November.
http://www.tresculturas.org/ficha_actividades.cfm?id=704
The Forum Fantastico 2006 organized by the Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian and Épica – Associação Portuguesa do Fantástico nas Artes, was held at Lisbon with the Instituto Cervantes and the AEFCFT support from the 16th November to the 19th November 2006. Juan Miguel Aguilera, León Arsenal and Rodolfo Martínez were some of the Guests of Honor. The Spanish writers presented their new novels: Rihla, O Espelho de Salomão and A Sabedoria dos Mortos.
http://forumfantastico.wordpress.com
The 9th Espatrek (Spanish Star Trek Convention) was held at La Manga del Mar Menor (Murcia) between the 27th and the 28th October 2006 with Dwight Schultz as Main Guest. The 10th Espatrek will be in La Manga del Mar Menor (Murcia), too, in September with Robert Picardo as Guest of Honor.
The II Jornadas de Literatura Fantástica de Dos Hermanas will be between the 28th and 29th September in Dos Hermanas (Sevilla), with José Carlos Somoza, David Mateo (Tobias Grumm), Alfonso Merelo, José María Carrasco, Joaquín Revuelta and Juan Miguel Aguilera as guest.
http://www.elautor.com/jornadasDDHH2.htm
The 2006 EstelCon (convention of the Spanish Tolkien Society, STE) was held at Cartagena (Murcia) between the 28th September and the 1st October. Activities consisted on readings, lectures and singing.
http://www.sociedadtolkien.org
The AEFCFT collaborates with the Premio de Literatura de Terror Villa de Maracena, organized by Excmo. Ayuntamiento de Maracena and Diputación de Granada, an award to promote horror novels.
http://www.ayuntamientomaracena.org/cultura/basesterror.htm
“Los mil dioses de Hatti”, by Juan Carlos Pereletegui won Pablo Rido Award 2006, in its 15th edition.
Asturcon 2007 will be held in July 2007. In the last Asturcon, the Xatafi-Cyberdark Awards, conceded by Spanish critics, had its first edition. Danza de tinieblas, by Eduardo Vaquerizo, won best novel, meanwhile Lorenzo Luengo won best tale with "La cotorra de Humboldt" (Artifex 1). Kazuo Ishiguro, Mike Resnick and Frederic Brown's anthologies won the best foreign novel, best foreign tale and best edition of the year (by Gigamesh editorial).
http://asturcon.estaciondenieblas.net/2007/01/
The 25th International Barcelona Comic Convention, Salón del Cómic de Barcelona was held from the 19th to the 22nd April 2007. Expocómic 2006 (Madrid International Comic Convention) had awards to Víctor Santos (Los Reyes Elfos), Pasqual Ferry, (Superman), Robert Kirkman (Invincible), zonanegativa.com, Frank Cho (Shanna) and Allan Heinberg (Young Avengers).
The 2nd Science Fiction Cinema and Literature Encounters of Valdeavellano de Tera (Soria) were held be the 5th of May with Julián Díez, Santiago Eximeno, Víctor M. Gallardo and José Antonio Cotrina as Main Guests.
http://www.valdeavellanodetera.org
Mallorca Fantàstica 07 will be between the 10 th and 14 th November in Inca (Majorca).
http://mallorcafantastica10.blogspot.com
Clara Tahoces won the 18.000 euros Minotauro Award with Gótica, a city vampires story. Minotauro has published the novels by two important authors of the genre, too: Juan Miguel Aguilera has visited Europe in the XVI Century in El sueño de la razón, which deals with witchcraft, and Rafael Marín’s Juglar suposes a new and quite revolutionary point of view of the myth of El Cid.
"Trinidad", by Jorge Baradit, and "El informe Cronocorp", by Miguel Ángel López Muñoz won the UPC Science Fiction Award 2006.
http://www.upc.edu/english/sciencefiction/sciencefiction.htm
The exhibition Ciència-ficció: una mirada al futur (Science Fiction: a look to the future) will be available in many Barcelona venues in 2007. Miquel Barceló is the commissioner of this interesting event.
http://notcf.blogspot.com/2007/03/exposicin-en-matar-ciencia-ficcin-una.html
PUBLICATIONS
The AEFCFT published its annual anthologies, Visiones 2006, where Mariano Villarreal selected 13 tales by new authors, and Fabricantes de sueños 2006, compiled by La Tertulia de Bilbao, a best of the year selection.
Equipo Sirius is going to reprint some old Spanish Science Fiction novels (from the 60's, 70's and 80's). Domingo Santos and Francisco González Ledesma will be some of the main names and Manuel Calderón will be the covers artist. The first book will reprint the novels Sombras del Caos and La Muerte es de Metal, both of them written by Lem Ryan (Francisco Javier Miguel Gómez), who published some pulp novels during the Eighties in collections as Héroes del Espacio or Selección Terror, by Bruguera Editorial. At the same time, the editorial has published his brand new sci-fi novel, Nueva Era and the first novels by some young writers, too: David Jasso’s La silla is a psychological terror work. Gabriel Guerrero Gómez has started a science fiction saga with Sillmarem. Libro I: Gambito de Dama. And Ismael Martínez Biurrun has showed in Infierno nevado a combination of History and legend in a plot about Roman legions in Basque lands. On the other hand, El Último Dragón. Vol II / La Tierra del Dragón, by Tobías Grumm, pseudonym of David Mateo, is the second part of this Heroic Fantasy saga.
Trafiquants de cauchemars is the title of the anthology edited in French by Jacques Fuentealba. This book compiles tales from the AEFCFT anthologies Fabricantes de sueños, a best of the year selection, from the 2004 and 2005 editions. Alfredo Álamo, Luis Astolfi, Víctor M. Ánchel, Pablo Dobrinin, Santiago Eximeno, Fabio Ferreras, Joaquín Revuelta and Vicente Muñoz Puelles are the authors of the French version. Obviously, the AEFCFT congratulates and desires a great success to this anthology and hopes this initiative would be followed by similar efforts in other languages.
http://www.quarante-deux.org/exliibris/00/16/58/70.html
SFWA European Hall of Fame: Sixteen Contemporary Science Fiction Classics from the Continent is an anthology selected by James Morrow y Kathryn Morrow, who includes tales traslated to English from European writers as Italian Valerio Evangelisti, Russian Sergei Lukyanenko, Portuguese João Barreiros or German Andreas Eschbach, and which publish “Between the lines”, by José Antonio Cotrina, and “The day we went through The Transition”, by Ricard de la Casa and Pedro Jorge Romero, as the Spanish representation.
Tierras de Leyendas V (Ábaco) collects short stories by the winners of the SeDice contest, which encourages new authors.
José María Latorre compiles some horror tales in his anthology La noche de Cagliostro y otros relatos de terror (Valdemar).
Andrés Díaz Sánchez consolidates its position as one of the main writers of Heroic Fantasy in Spain with La maza sagrada (Planeta), second adventure of the mercenary Skarrion Gunthar, and El camino del acero (Ábaco).
http://www.literareafantastica.com.ar/bioandres.html
Ediciones Parnaso has published the new novel by José Antonio Suárez, Cristales de fuego.
Laura Gallego García has concluded the trilogy Memorias de Idhún with her novel Panteón, a bestseller in Spain.
Libro Andrómeda will publish some anthologies of Spanish writers paying tribute to Isaac Asimov and Mensajes perdidos, about comunication and language.
Espiral edited an anthology, Memorias del futuro, compiled by Domingo Santos, where authors as J. E. Álamo, José Carlos Canalda, Juan Carlos Planells, Vladimir Hernández, Ariel Cruz, Pablo Dobrinin, Roberto Bayeto, Eduardo Gallego and Guillem Sánchez presented some sci-fi tales. The same editorial has published Tanatomanía, by Sergio Parra, a steampunk novel circa 1830.
http://aroz.izar.net/index.htm
Silente, with his collection La nueva generación, pays homage to George H. White and his universe with novels by new authors, like Factor Psí, by Agustín López, or Regulares en la selva, by Carlos Saiz Cidoncha. The same editorial, in his collection Fantasía, has published Las cosas como son, an anthology by José Vicente Rojo and José Francisco Burriel.
Santiago Eximeno and David Jasso have revisited an old Catalan legend in the horror novel Cazador de mentiras (Ediciones Jaguar)
http://www.edicionesjaguar.com
Memòries d’un futur bàrbar, sci-fi novel written in Catalan by Montserrat Roig was reprinted in Editorial Pagès.
Noche cerrada, an horror novel by Fermín Bueso, was published by Editorial Verbigracia.
El enviado is an anthology of nine tales by J. E. Álamo published by Grupo AJEC Editorial.
Joana Pol has published the epic fantasy novel Bellver by Mallorca Fantàstica Editors.
As some paper magazines are closing, the newest ones are everyday more important, as Sable, with special attention to French fiction, Tierras de Acero MGZN, with articles, stories and interviews, or Miasma, dedicated to stories and published in Catalan and Spanish. Meanwhile veteran magazine Gigamesh has published the 44th issue.
http://www.gigamesh.com/revista.html
http://fanzinemiasma.livejournal.com
On the other hand some e-zines stay, even for quite a few years:
Alfa Eridiani http://dreamers.com/alfaeridiani/
Aurora Bitzine http://www.aurorabitzine.com/
Rescepto http://www.rescepto.tk/
Argentinian magazine Axxon (http://axxon.com.ar/axxon.htm), with some Spanish authors in his pages, was 10 years old meanwhile the new essay e-zine Hélice, http://www.revistahelice.com had his number 3 out.
Ediciones efímeras is an initiative in favour of short stories, specially Fantasy and Horror.
http://www.edicionesefimeras.com
OTHER NEWS
The annual Assembly of the AEFCFT (Spanish Association for Science Fiction, Fantasy and Horror) was held on the Hispacon of Dos Hermanas. Among others, decisions were taken to give the next Hispacon to the city of Seville. The website of this event is here:
http://www.tresculturas.org/ficha_actividades.cfm?id=704
Spanish tenor Plácido Domingo and French theatre director Jean Luc Choplin will adapt George Langelaan's The Fly to the opera with music by Howard Shore and stage design by David Cronemberg. The premiere of this play will be the 1st of July 2008 in the Chatelet Theatre.
El Sitio de Ciencia Ficción, winner of two Ignotus Awards for the best website, has turned 10 years old and celebrated his birthday in some Spanish cities.
The annual Assembly of The Societat Catalana de Ciència-ficció i Fantasia was held in Barcelona, on march 2007, and were programated conferences by Pilar Porredón and Ramón Carraras.
http://es.geocities.com/sc2f2/
Oscar nominated Nacho Vigalongo has concluded a film about time travels, Los cronocrímenes.
http://www.cronocrimenes.com/index_eng.htm
Some sci-fi and fantasy comics by Spanish authors have been recently published, like La balada de Dry Martini (Norma), by Daniel Torres, who continues the space adventures of Roco Vargas; Los heresiarcas 2: los caminos invisibles (Norma), by Carlos Portela y Das Pastoras, heroic fantasy previously published in France by Les Humanoides Associés; Los Reyes Elfos: hasta los dioses mueren (Dolmen), by Víctor Santos; Avatar 2: garras en el viento (Dolmen), written by Juan Miguel Aguilera and drawed by Rafael Fonteriz, about a near future crime detective; the fantasy of La doncella de fuego (Aleta), by Jordi Bayarri; the historical and fantastical view of Paco Roca in Los viajes de Alexandre Ícaro: hijos de la Alhambra (Planeta) and the horror by Sergio Bleda in La conjura de cada miércoles: sectas y paranoias (Planeta).
SOURCES AND LINKS
http://www.ciencia-ficcion.com
http://www.estaciondenieblas.net
http://www.tercerafundacion.net
http://www.dreamers.com/menhir
http://patchword.com/sueburke/eng/index.asp
More links in http://www.aefcft.com/enlaces.htm
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