Espora
The Newszine of Spanish Science Fiction and Fantasy
Espora #9
October 2004 - June 2005
A publication from the Spanish Association for Science Fiction, Fantasy and Horror (AEFCFT).
Publisher: AEFCFT
Editor: Ángel Carralero
Staff: Ángel Carralero, Pablo Herranz, Javier Romero, Mariano Villarreal, BEM, José Luis Mora
INDEX
Conventions, Awards and Exhibitions
CONVENTIONS, AWARDS AND EXHIBITIONS
The 23rd Spanish Convention of Fantasy and Science Fiction, HispaCon will take place in Vigo from the 28th October to the 1st November 2005 with João Barreiros and Laura Gallego as Guest of Honour. The 7th Encounters of Science Fiction and Fantasy (main convention of Portugal) will be in Vigo too, making the 1st Ibercon a dream come true.
The 22nd Spanish Convention of Fantasy and Science Fiction, HispaCon and the 5th AznarCon were held at Cádiz from the 5th November to the 7th November 2004 with Guillermo del Toro, Juan Miguel Aguilera, Javier Negrete and Andrzej Sapkowski as Guests of Honour.
The Ignotus awards in their different categories went to the following works:
Best Spanish novel:
La espada de fuego - Javier Negrete (Minotauro)
Best Spanish novella:
Imperio - Ramón Muñoz (Artifex Segunda Época 10)
Best Spanish story:
Negras águilas - Eduardo Vaquerizo (Artifex Segunda Época 9)
Best anthology:
La espada del destino - Andrzej Sapkowski (Bibliópolis Fantástica)
Best essay (book):
Guía de la ciencia ficción y la fantasía en España - Óscar Cuevas y José Miguel Pallarés (Equipo Sirius)
Best article:
Cuando soplan los vientos del cambio - Cristóbal Pérez-Castejón (Bibliópolis. Crítica en la red.)
Best foreign novel:
Choque de reyes (A Clash of Kings) - George R. R. Martin (Gigamesh)
Best foreign story:
El dragón de hielo - George R.R. Martin (Gigamesh 34)
Best Comic:
Avatar - Juan Miguel Aguilera y Rafael Fonteriz (Dolmen Editorial)
Best Poetic work:
Apocalipsis relativo - Alfredo Álamo (Alfa Eridani 6)
Best Spanish magazine:
Artifex Segunda Época - Bibliópolis
Best Spanish illustration:
Cover from En alas de la canción - Manuel de los Galanes y Roberto Uriel (Bibliópolis Fantástica)
Best website:
Cyberdark.net - David Fernández Rafael
Special Gabriel award: Ángel Torres Quesada (“A. Thorkent”, “Alex Towers”). Torres Quesada, with 124 novels, began in the sixties writing pulp space-opera like El Orden Estelar. This work was translated to the Portugese language in Brasil and republished nowadays by Robel. In the eighties Torres wrote other kind of novels, as the famous Trilogía de las Islas (Timun Mas), a masterpiece of Spanish SF.
5th Melocotón de Plata for the Best novel:
Libertad condicionada - Francisco Gordón Luna
Domingo Santos award:
El octavo jinete - José Miguel Cuesta Puertes and José Rubio Sánchez
http://www.skranks.net/gadir2k4
Asturcon 2005 had Christopher Priest, Juan Miguel Aguilera, Anselm Audley, Rodolfo Martínez, Rafael Marín, Elia Barceló, Javier Negrete, John Kessel and Andrej Sapkowski as special guests. It took place at the XVIII Semana Negra (Gijón) between the 9th July and the 13th July. The Semana Negra was between the 8th July and the 17th July.
http://www.drimar.com/asturcon
The 9th Encounters of Science Fiction were held at Mataró from the 2nd to the 6th March with Pedro Jorge Romero and Rafael Marín as main assistants.
The Manuel de Pedrolo award went to Aixó és el Paradis? by Joan Antoni Fernàndez.
http://www.geocities.com/trobadescienciaficcio
The 8th Espatrek (Spanish Star Trek Convention) will take place in Benalmádena (Málaga) from the 21st October to the 23rd October and Robert O’Reilly (Gowron in Star Trek TNG and Star Trek Deep Space Nine) will be the Guest of Honour.
The 11th EstelCon (convention of the Spanish Tolkien Society, STE) will take place at Lekaroz (Navarra) between the 22nd and the25th September.
http://www.sociedadtolkien.org
Carlos Giménez won the Gran premio of the 23rd International Barcelona Comic Convention, Salón del Cómic de Barcelona. Other awards went to Chris Ware (Jimmy Corrigan, el chico más listo del mundo), Raquel Alzate, Miguelanxo Prado (La mansión de los Pampín), Craig Thompson (Blankets) and Kenny Ruiz.
On the other hand Expocómic 2004 (Madrid International Comic Convention) had awards to Enrique Fernández (Libertadores), Naoki Urasawa (Monster), Chris Ware (Jimmy Corrigan) and Pepo Pérez.
Identity Theft by Robert J. Sawyer won the UPC Science Fiction Award 2004. The special mention was ex aequo for Siccus by Miguel Luis Hoyuelos and Las lunas invisibles by Manuel Santos Varela.
http://www.upc.edu/english/sciencefiction/sciencefiction.htm
Rodolfo Martínez won the 2nd Minotauro Award for Fantastic Literature with Los sicarios del cielo. The winner of the first edition, Máscaras de matar by León Arsenal, has been translated to the Portugese language by Editorial Presença. Minotauro also published last year’s finalists Mystes, by Víctor Conde, and Crónica de Tierra 2, by Jordi Sierra i Fabra, and many other novels like El contrincante by Elia Barceló, Demonios familiares (Pedro Pablo G. May), Rihla (Juan Miguel Aguilera) or El espíritu del mago (Javier Negrete), the continuation of La espada de fuego.
http://www.edicionesminotauro.com
http://webs.ono.com/usr099/JUANMIGUEL
http://www.laespadadefuego.com
The winner of the XIVth edition of the Fantastic Literature Awards Pablo Rido was Ramón Muñoz with his work En la casa del veneno.
Marco Herreras Díaz won the last Espiral CF Award with La sed del dragón. Espiral published Gabriel revisitado, too, by Domingo Santos, a new look of the writer to one of his main novels, Gabriel, masterpiece of the Spanish SF.
http://www.aroz.izar.net
José María Sánchez was awarded with the 1st Premio Avalón of Fantastic Stories by No es tela asfáltica.
PUBLICATIONS
La tercera pirámide by Ángel Torres Quesada was the fist novel from the new publisher Forminge. Alfredo Lara López and Mario Moreno Cortina are the main editors.
http://forminge.ciencia-ficcion.com
Silente has concluded the new edition of the classical space-opera novels La saga de los Aznar by George H. White (Pascual Enguídanos). This publisher continues the good work with Buscando a los antiguos dioses by Eduardo Gallego and Guillem Sánchez and La Galaxia de los Hombres Muertos by Carlos Sáiz Cidoncha .http://www.silente.net
Asimov Ciencia Ficción had a special magazine (number 14), dedicated to some science fiction writers from Cádiz as Ángel Torres Quesada, Joaquín Revuelta or Rafael Marín.
http://www.asimovcienciaficcion.com
José María Merino’s new anthology Cuentos de los días raros, has been published by Alfaguara.
Libro Andrómeda published the anthology Amores Extraños by Claudio Landete, José Vilches Palma, Juan Antonio Fernández Madrigal, Juan Antonio Fernández and Antoni Segarra among other writers.
http://www.galeon.com/libroandromeda
Sherlock Holmes was the star of Elemental, Querido Chaplin by Rafael Marín (Minotauro), Sherlock Holmes y la sabiduría de los muertos and Sherlock Holmes y las huellas del poeta (both of them by Rodolfo Martínez, Bibliópolis). Martínez has made a new cyberpunk novel too, El sueño del Rey Rojo (Gigamesh).
http://www.bibliopolis.org/agency.htm
http://www.gigamesh.com
Santiago Eximeno has been one of the writers published in the new anthology Imágenes (Párnaso). Eximeno’s first novel, Asura (AJEC) was published some months ago.
http://www.eximeno.com
Valdemar has published the essay Espectra by Pilar Pedraza and continues with the classical horror works of Emilio Carrere. Pilar Pedraza was one of the writers of the gothic anthology Paura (Bibliópolis).
http://www.valdemar.com
http://www.paura.org
Daniel Mares first anthology, En mares extraños, has been published some months ago by AJEC.
Our books: http://www.aefcft.com/publi.htm
Spanish editors: http://www.aefcft.com/enlaces/edit.htm
OTHER NEWS
The annual Assembly of the AEFCFT (Spanish Association for Science Fiction, Fantasy and Horror) was held on the Hispacon of Cádiz the 7th November 2004. Among others, decisions were taken to try to upgrade the Association members and to give the next Hispacon to the city of Vigo.
Carme Torras, Joan Manel Ortiz, Ricard de la Casa, Jordi de Manuel, Isidor Bernabé, Jordi Solé and Amadeu LeBlanc, are some of the founders of the Sociedad Catalana de Ciencia Ficción y Fantasía (Catalan Association for Science Fiction and Fantasy). Rosa Fabregat will be the President.
La pell freda by Albert Sánchez Piñol has been translated to 15 languages.
Laura Gallego García has sold more than 70.000 issues of her last novel, Memorias de Idhún. La resistencia. Some works of this witer have been translated to German and French languages.
SOURCES AND LINKS
http://www.ciencia-ficcion.com
http://www.literaturafantastica.tk
http://hiperespacio.dreamers.com
http://www.dreamers.com/menhir
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