Spanish Association for Science Fiction, Fantasy and Horror

Espora

The Newszine of Spanish Science Fiction, Fantasy and Horror

Espora #12

April 2007 - March 2008

A publication from the Spanish Association for Science Fiction, Fantasy and Horror (AEFCFT).

Publisher: AEFCFT

Editor: Pablo Herranz

INDEX

Conventions, Awards and Exhibitions

Publications

Other News

Sources

CONVENTIONS, AWARDS AND EXHIBITIONS

Hispacon XXV was held in Seville in November 2007. Guy Hasson, Rhys Hughes, Rafael Marín, Juan Miguel Aguilera and Javier Negrete were the Guests of Honour.

The 2007 Ignotus awards in their different categories went to:

Best Spanish novel: “Juglar”, by Rafael Marín (Minotauro)
Best Spanish novella: “Gel azul”, by Bernardo Fernández, Bef (“Gel Azul”, Parnaso)
Best Spanish short story: “Son de piedra”, by Rafael Marín (Artifex Tercera Época #4, Bibliópolis)
Best anthology: “Axiomático” (Axiomatic), by Greg Egan (Grupo AJEC)
Best essay (book): “El universo de la ciencia-ficción”, by Sergio Gaut vel Hartman (Círculo Latino)
Best article: “Ciencia ficción, ¿Qué es?”, by Alfonso Merelo ( http://www.librodenotas.com)
Best illustration: Cover from "Factor psi", by Alfonso Seijas (Silente)
Best audio-visual work: “El laberinto del fauno” (Pan’s Labyrinth), (Film) written and directed by Guillermo del Toro
Best comic: “La legión del espacio” - Alfredo Álamo-Fedde - El Sitio de Ciencia Ficción
Best Poetic work: “Poe”, by Alfredo Álamo (Vórtice en línea 9, Ediciones Parnaso)
Best magazine: Vórtice en línea - Ed. Parnaso
Best foreign novel: “Leyes de Mercado” (Market Forces), by Richard K. Morgan (Gigamesh)
Best foreign short story: “Aprendiendo a ser yo” (Learning to be me), by Greg Egan (“Axiomático”, Grupo AJEC)
Best Website: Sitio de Ciencia Ficción (http://www.ciencia-ficcion.com) Francisco José Suñer Iglesias

ELIA BARCELÓ.

During the celebration of the XXVth Hispacon, Elia Barceló received the Gabriel Award for her life's work. The AEFCFT, who presents this award, wanted to honour an Spanish authoress whose preferred genre is the fantasy. Born in Alicante in 1957, Elia Barceló has published several novels and more than forty tales. Her novel “El secreto del orfebre” (2003) has been translated into ten languages. She has won awards such as Ignotus in 1991 (best tale for “La estrella”), UPC award in 1993 (“El mundo de Yarek”), Premio Edebé in 1998 (“El caso del artista cruel”) and again in 2007 (“Cordeluna”). She began as one of the best SF writers in the late 80’s and the early 90’s with works as “Sagrada” (Ediciones B, 1989) or “Consecuencias naturales” (Miraguano, 1994). After SF, She wrote for the teenager market (“El almacén de las palabras terribles”, Edelvives, 2003), and also prestigious fantasy novels like “Disfraces terribles” (2004) and “El vuelo del Hipogrifo” (2002, Lengua de Trapo), and horror like “El contrincante” (Minotauro, 2004).

“Sem Ezra” by Felipe Mayoral García won the Domingo Santos 2007 Award.

Sue Burke has written an interesting chronicle in English about 25^th Hispacon:

http://www.concatenation.org/conrev/hispacon2007.html

XXVI Hispacon – Indalcon 2008 will be in Almeria in Autumn 2008. José Carlos Somoza is the Guest of Honour. You can reach the organization at hispacon2008@gmail.com.

The 3rd Science Fiction Encounters of Valdeavellano de Tera (Soria) will be held on 5th April with David Jasso, Fernando Ángel Moreno, Alfredo Álamo, Santiago Eximeno and David Mateo as Main Guests .

http://www.valdeavellanodetera.org

I Congreso Internacional de Literatura Fantástica y de Ciencia Ficción will celebrate in May, organized by Carlos III University and Asociación Xatafi.

http://www.congresoliteraturafantastica.com

Ibercaja and some SF specialist as José Carlos Canalda, Agustín Jaureguizar, Ramón Charlo, Carlos Quintana, Pedro García Bilbao and writer Ángel Torres Quesada (A. Thorkent) will pay homage to Luis García Lecha (aka Clark Carrados or Louis G. Milk), a prolific writer with hundreds of pulp novels, most of them SF works, edited by Bruguera or Toray. The homage will take place between the 21th and 23th of April in Logroño and Haro. Lecha died in 2005 in Barcelona.

http://www.ibercaja.es/obrasocial

XIV Estelcon, the Sociedad Tolkien Española Convention, will be held in Salamanca between 16^th and 19^th October.

http://www.estelcon2008.org/

XI Espatrek will be held in Terrassa, with Armin Shimerman and David Martí as Main Guests.

http://www.espatrek.org

From 9^th to 13^th April will be held Mallorca Fantástica 2008.

http://www.mallorcafantastica.org/

Vilanova i la Geltrú hosted The II Encontre de ciència-ficció en Llengua Catalana in October 2007.

http://es.geocities.com/besc2f2/06/index

Asturcon 2008 will be held in July 2008. Asturcon 2007 was held with the assistance, among others, of Samuel R. Delany, Peter Straub, Lucius Shepard, Andrzej Sapkowski, Ellen Kushner, Delia Sherman, Javier Negrete, Clara Tahoces, Manuel García Rubio, Víctor Conde, Ángel Torres Quesada, etc.

http://www.asturcon.org/

“¿Pueden llorar ojos no humanos?” by Germán Pablo Amatto won Premio Avalon 2007 organized by Asturcon.

“Parientes pobres del Diablo” (Tusquets), by Cristina Fernández Cubas, and “Huerto de cruces” (published in Paura #3), by Santiago Eximeno, won the II Premio Xatafi-Cyberdark as the best novel and best tale of 2007. Haruki Murakami (“Kafka en la orilla”) and Greg Egan (“Aprendiendo a ser yo”) won in the foreign categories.

http://www.xatafi.com

“El libro de Nobac”, by Federico Fernández Giordano won the V Minotauro Award.

http://www.edicionesminotauro.com

“Belcebú en llamas”, by Carlos Gardini (Argentina) and “Defending Elysium”, by Brandon Sanderson (USA) won the UPC 2007 Award.

http://bibliotecnica.upc.edu/cienciaficcio/premi_upc/angles/presentacio.asp

José Antonio Cotrina and Santiago García Albas won the first and the second award of the XIX Certamen Literario Alberto Magno de Ciencia Ficción.

Carme Torras won Premi Manuel de Pedrolo de narrativa de Ciència-Ficció 2007 (in Catalan) for his short novel “La mutació sentimental”, that will be published by Pagès Editors.

http://www.pageseditors.com/

"Más allá de los puertos" by Manuel López del Cerro won Pablo Rido Award 2007, in its 16th edition.

http://www.laterma.com

“Los niños de las estrellas” by José Sorribas Orth La Réxol, as best tale, and “El Proyecto Amanecer” by Juan Moro Lumbreras, as best novel, won the 2007 Premio Andrómeda.

http://www.libroandromeda.com/

Enric Herce Escarrà with the tale “Sang d’Ornalah” won the I Premi Miasma de Relats de Terror i de Ciència Ficció.

http://fanzinemiasma.livejournal.com/

José Carlos Somoza won the Ciudad de Torrevieja 2007 Award with “La llave del abismo”, edited by Plaza & Janés.

http://www.plaza.es

PUBLICATIONS

Bibliopolis has published the third novel by Rodolfo Martínez about Sherlock Holmes, “Sherlock Holmes y la boca del infierno”. The first one, “Sherlock Holmes y la sabiduría de los muertos” has been successfully published in Portugal and Turkey.

http://www.bibliopolis.org/agency.htm

Grupo AJEC has published “Urnas de Jade: Leyendas”, by David Prieto Ruiz, the first novel of an horror and dark fantasy trilogy; “Magnífica Víbora de las Formas”, an anthology which compiles some tales by Juan Antonio Fernández Madrigal; “El cuarto Reich”, by Rafael F. Rosa, an ucrony about Genetics and a possible IV Reich; “Dionisia POP”, an anthology by Francisco Javier Pérez; “Jitanjáfora”, a fantasy novel by Sergio Parra; “Los Navegantes”, by José Miguel Vilar, who combines fantasy and exotic adventure; and the fantasy thriller “La moderna Atenea”, by Mª Concepción Regueiro.

http://www.grupoajec.com/

"Timexplorers I: Plebs" by J. Vedovelli is the first novel of a trilogy, published by AJEC. Timexplorers is a multimedia project which includes novels, rol games and other products.

http://www.timexplorers.com/

“Alejandro Magno y las águilas de Roma” (Minotauro), by Javier Negrete, is an ucrony about Alexander the Great, where he´d attack Rome after the conquer of the Persian Empire.

http://www.edicionesminotauro.com

Equipo Sirius has edited the cyberpunk novel “Flores de metal”, by Lola Robles; the SF thriller “El primer clón” by Marcos Manuel Sánchez; “Metaversos”, by Luis Besa, about virtual reality; the space opera “El imperio contra Dios”, the first SF novel by Andrés Díaz, one of the main writers of Heroic Fantasy in Spain; and “Encrucijada. La Tierra del Dragón Vol III”, by Tobias Grumm, pseudonym of David Mateo, third part of this Heroic Fantasy saga.

http://www.equiposirius.com

“La locura de Dios”, by Juan Miguel Aguilera, has been translated into Portuguese as "A loucura de Deus" in Ediciones Saída de Emergência. Other successful novel by Aguilera, "Rihla", had been previously translated into Portuguese.

http://webs.ono.com/juanmiguel/

Espiral has published “Todo lo que desaparece”, the new SF novel by Carlos F. Castrosín.

http://aroz.izar.net

Ediciones Parnaso has edited “Su cara frente a mí”, by Luis Ángel Cofiño, a SF novel about Genetics and “Madrid”, a novel by Daniel Mares, a brand new vision of the future Spain.

http://www.elparnaso.com

Silente, with his collection La nueva generación, pays homage to George H. White and his universe with novels by new authors, like “Patria Thorbod” and “Dioses de Nahum”, first and second part of Ciclo Exilio by Santyago Moro Artalejo; “Los últimos días de Bartpur” by Ramón San Miguel Coca and two novels by Joaquín Vidal, “El sol del pasado” and “El reino de silicio”.

http://www.silente.net

“Sombras de todo tiempo” and “Transformándose” are the titles of two anthologies by Armando Boix and Ramón Muñoz which compiles the tales from this authors, very important during the nineties, and also represents the beginning of Editorial Mandrágora.

http://www.mandragora.es/

Gustavo Adolfo Bécquer (1836-1870) was one of the first writers who introduced the horror tale in Spain. Some actual writers (Elia Barceló, Lorenzo Silva, Juan Bonilla, Carlos Castán, Fernando Marías, Marta Sanz, Juan Bas, Mercedes Abad) pays homage to this Spanish master in the anthology “Leyendas de Bécquer” (451 Editores).

http://www.cervantesvirtual.com/FichaAutor.html?Ref=13

http://www.451editores.es/

Timun Mas, an editorial which publish series as Warhammer or Dragonlance, edits from time to time Spanish autors. Recently this editorial has published “El dragón estelar” by Víctor Conde, “Esencias. La canción de la Princesa Oscura” by Javier Bolado or “El país inerme” by Miguel de Castro.

http://www.timunmas.com/

“Almas mortales”, by José Antonio Suárez is a new visit to Mars by this SF author.

http://www.editorialabaco.com/

“Kot” by Rafael Ábalos is a fantasy thriller edited by Montena.

http://www.editorialmontena.com

Jean-Pierre Planque, French SF writer, known in Spain by the Sable magazine, has translated some Spanish autors in his web project INFINI.

http://perso.orange.fr/jplanque/nouvelles.htm

http://revistasable.zoomblog.com/

E-Libris, the electronic library of the AEFCFT, has published its eight volume, a CD-ROM tribute to Ignacio Romeo Pérez, a deceased writer who edited a SF novel, “Estigia”, in the late seventies, and who collaborated in magazines as Nueva Dimensión. The CD-Rom recovers the main works of Romeo Pérez and edits for the very first time some unpublished novels like “La sangre ligera” and “Camino a Bagush”.

Alfaguara edited “La profecia del abad negro”, by José María Latorre, “La leyenda del bosque sin nombre” by Pedro Riera, and the bestseller “La emperatriz de los etéreos” by Laura Gallego.

http://www.alfaguarainfantilyjuvenil.com/

Jordi Ferrés has published his first novel, “El viatgers de la negra nit”, in the SF collection of Editorial Pagès.

http://www.pageseditors.com/

Por la tangente is a new editorial project which has published the anthology “Con el alma dentro y otros cuentos”, by Luis Astolfi, and the novel “Nada nuevo bajo el Sol”, by José Antonio Suárez.

http://porlatangente.e.telefonica.net

Julián Morillo has written “Claire Afterlom”, a novel published by El Tragaluz about vampirism transported to cities like Amsterdam or Vitoria.

http://www.claireafterlom.es

“Ladrones de la Atlántida” (C&M), by José Ángel Muriel González, is a novel about an Egyptian in the lost continent.

http://www.elautor.com/

Hegemon Ediciones is a new editorial which starts publishing “La marea del despertar”, a fantasy novel by Roberto Malo.

http://www.hegemon.biz/

Historias asombrosas is a new fiction magazine directed by David Mateo which includes a selection of sf and horror tales.

http://www.historiasasombrosas.es/

OTHER NEWS

Taller Fantástikas, organized by Lola Robles, is celebrating in Madrid from october 2007 to may 2008, and will study the literature of Pilar Pedraza, Elia Barceló, Daina Chaviano, Angélica Gorodischer and Henry James.

The Spanish Horror Film Star Paul Naschy has written the script of “Waldemar Daninsky”, a comic book drawn by Javier Trujillo about Daninsky, the character of a werewolf portrayed for the screen by Naschy in several movies.

http://www.waldemardaninsky.com/

“Sueños sin noche” is a comic book illustrated by Felideus and Jezabel with scripts by some horror and SF Spanish writers as José Antonio Cotrina, Juan Antonio Fernández Madrigal, Mª Isabel Rodríguez, Felideus, David Jasso and Santiago Eximeno.