What is Spain’s science fiction like: its themes, its scope, its authors? That’s a big question, and for a fast answer, we can look at the novels that have won the Ignotus Award over the last decade. The Ignotus Awards are presented by AEFCFT at the annual national convention, Hispacon. In many ways, they resemble …
The Association publishes two anthologies of short stories more or less annually: Visiones: Since 1992, AEFCFT has published an anthology of original, unpublished short stories. The first two anthologies were called Visiones Propias [Personal Visions], but starting with the third, they were simply called Visiones followed by the year of publication. The anthologist chosen each …
What happens at a Spanish national convention? Read a review of XXX Hispacon at SF2 Concatenation, a seasonal review of science fact and science fiction: http://www.concatenation.org/conrev/hispacon2012.html
The Ignotus Award is a literary prize established in 1991 and presented annually by the Spanish Association of Fantasy, Science Fiction and Horror to Spanish and foreign authors for works published in Spain during the previous year. The 2012 Ignotus Awards were presented at XXX Hispacon /II Imagicon in Urbieta, Spain, on October 13, 2012. …
