After the issues dedicated to the science fiction from Italy, Spain, Greece, Brazil and India, Fantastica, the Romanian Science Fiction&Fantasy Society’s Magazine, is analysing the French Science Fiction (Fantastica No.2/Summer 2014), one of the most important in Europe and in the world, the continental one who influenced the most the European SF.
France SF
Cristian Tamaș (Romania) – Où est la science-fiction d’antan ? (Where is the Science Fiction of Yesteryear ?)
Cristian Mihail Teodorescu (Romania) – Nemo 2014, the French National Science Fiction Convention (C.M.Teodorescu was a GoH at Nemo 2014)
Jean-Claude Dunyach (France) – Hitchhiker’s Guide to the French Science Fiction
Pierre Gévart (France) – From Verne to Houellebecq
Prof.George Slusser (US) – French Science Fiction: The Occluded Genre
Prof.Natacha Vas-Deyres (France) – From the Incertain Time to the Slowed Time
Gérard Klein (France) – Science Fiction’s Dissolution Process
Prof.Arthur B. Evans (US) & Prof.Roger Bozetto – Serge Brussolo’s Surrealist Science Fiction
Ugo Bellagamba (France) – Why SF is Not Fashionable Anymore ?
Gérard Klein (France) – Science Fiction, A Subculture?
Aliette of Bodard (France) – Science Fiction and Non-Western/Non-Anglophone Countries
Interviews by Cristian Tamas with:
Gérard Klein (France)
Ugo Bellagamba (France)
Jean-Pierre Moumon (Laigle) (France)
Interviews with Jean-Claude Dunyach (France) and Natacha Vas-Deyres (France)
French Science Fiction Short Stories :
Serge Brussolo (France) – Like A Dead Mirror (fragment) (Comme un mirroir mort)
Jean-Claude Dunyach (France) – Deciphering the Warp (Déchifrer la trame)
Gérard Klein (France) – Alive Memory, Dead Memory (fragment) (Mémoire vive, mémoire morte)
Aliette of Bodard (France) – Immersion
Special :
Prof.Maria-Ana Tupan – Mihai Grămescu and Peter Akroyd: Parallel Readings
Mihai Iovănel (Romania) – review of the SF novel “Vegetal” by Dănuţ Ungureanu and Marian Truţă
Mihai Iovănel (Romania) – review of the SF novel “We’ll be back in Muribecca” (Ne vom întoarce în Muribecca) by Sebastian A. Corn
Cristian M. Teodorescu (Romania) – Reading Impressions: “We’ll be back in Muribecca” (Ne vom întoarce în Muribecca) by Sebastian A. Corn
Eugen Stancu (Romania) – Future
Reviews :
Nina Allan (UK) – review of “Ancillary Justice” by Ann Leckie
Neth (US) – review of “Ancillary Justice” by Ann Leckie
Film Reviews :
Alexander Maniu (Romania) – Let me “Leste” you
Chris Jones (UK) – Commemoration of D-Day with “Edge of Tomorrow”
Essays :
György Györfi-Deák (Romania) – The Woman and the SF Reality
Franciscus Georgius (Romania) – King Bear
Prof. Mary Elizabeth Ginway (US) – A Working Model for Analyzing Third World Science Fiction: The Case of Brazil (Part V)
Comics :
Dodo Niță (Romania) – Comics and Science Fiction in the Hexagon
Viorel Pîrligras (Romania) – Rahan, A Robot Portrait
Romanian Short Stories :
George Lazăr (Romania) – Miracles’Court (Curtea miracolelor)
Diana Alzner (Romania) – The Tunnel At the End of the World (Tunelul de la capătul lumii)
Alexandru Lamba (Romania) – Trojan (Troian)
Octavian Gheorghe Roșca (Romania) – Prayer (Rugăciune)
Lucian Merişca (Romania) – To Fly in A Better World (Să zbori într-o lume mai bună)
International Short Stories :
Sylvia Spruck Wrigley (UK) – Alive, Alive, Oh !
Christopher Kastensmidt (US) – A Parlous Battle against the Capelobo
Milo James Fowler (US) – Captain Quasar and the Pestiferous Pirates of Narvana 6
Fandom :
Dănuţ Ungureanu (Romania) – How I Became Solarisian (Cum m-am făcut solarisian), Episode 10
Science :
Cornel Mărginean (Romania) – The Origins of the Energy : Three Questions About Energy (Originile energiei : trei întrebări despre energie), Episode 6
Romanian Science Fiction&Fantasy Society
Fantastica’s Editorial Team
Cristian Tamaș : Editor
Dănuț Ungureanu : Sub-Editor
Antuza Genescu, Silviu Genescu : Collaborators
