Tag: romanian science fiction
‘Extraction 2’ Has Wrapped Filming After 5 Months of Snowy Sets
Actor and comedian Jim Carrey says that the fastest he ever said yes to a role was 1998’s The Truman Show, in which he played mild-mannered insurance salesman Truman Burbank. The dramatic comedy tells the story of a man whose day-to-day life is secretly fabricated for a TV audience. Everything from Truman’s wife to his friends to the neighborhood he lives in is part...
GLAAD Media Awards Honors Hacks, Eternals, and More in 2022 Ceremony
Actor and comedian Jim Carrey says that the fastest he ever said yes to a role was 1998’s The Truman Show, in which he played mild-mannered insurance salesman Truman Burbank. The dramatic comedy tells the story of a man whose day-to-day life is secretly fabricated for a TV audience. Everything from Truman’s wife to his friends to the neighborhood he lives in is part...
TIMIȘOARA, ROMANIA : A BID FOR THE 2021 EUROCON
DistopiCon 2021, Timișoara!
MAY 13th-16th 2021A bid for EuroCon 2021DistopiCon : Future Pasts: The Art of DystopiaThe main themes of the 2021 Eurocon will be:Dystopia
Post-apocalyptic...
THE 2018 „ION HOBANA” COLLOQUIUM (Bucharest, Romania)
THE 2018 "ION HOBANA" COLLOQUIUM (9th EDITION) & THE 2018 "ION HOBANA" SF&F AWARDSRomanian Science Fiction&Fantasy SocietySaturday, November 10th, 2018, 10.00 AM, Great Hall...
Delia Ungureanu’s “From Paris to Tlön. Surrealism as World Literature”
“In this pathbreaking study, Delia Ungureanu uncovers the circuitous routes by which a local Parisian movement became a global literary and artistic phenomenon. She...
Professor Florin Manolescu (January 11th, 1943 – December 13th, 2015) : RIP !
Professor Florin Manolescu receiving the Romanian Science Fiction&Fantasy Society Award for his collection of short-stories, "The Mentalists" in 2009.Professor Florin Manolescu (January 11th, 1943,...
“Worlds and Beings” (the Romanian SF Anthology in English Translation) Book Launch
“Romanian SF is almost a century and a half old. And today, Romanian SF is still alive and vivid, with its sense of humour and lyricism...
The 2015 Ion Hobana Awards and the Ion Hobana Colloquium (Bucharest, Romania) : Saturday, the 14th of November
The 2015 Ion Hobana Awards’ (for the Best Romanian SF volumes of the year) ceremony was held in the Great Hall of the Romanian...
“Worlds and Beings”, Romanian Contemporary Science Fiction Stories
„ A comprehensive and panoramic survey of the contemporary Romanian SF. The balance sheet of the genre on the Romanian soil shows that science...
IN MEMORIAM LIVIU RADU (20th of November 1948 – 17th of October 2015)
"If Liviu Radu - center of the picture - would be born in the United States, his talent and his prolificity as writer and...
“The Life and Legacy of C.S. Lewis” – International Symposium in Bucharest, Romania (13th of October 2015)
This Interdisciplinary Symposium devoted to the life and work of C. S Lewis is meant to explore the reflections of Lewis’s personal growth in...
“Utopia, Science Fiction, and Their Significant Others in the 21st Century” International Conference (Timișoara, Romania) : 8th-9th of May 2015
"Utopia, Science Fiction, and Their Significant Others in the 21st Century" International Conference (Timișoara, Romania) : 8th-9th of May 2015, the first international conference...
The European Archipelago – Marian Truță
"Europe remains a central figure in the global system. The European Union's economy is the largest in the world, taken collectively, and the European...
SF Literary Evenings with the British Writers Paul McAuley and Richard K. Morgan in Bucharest
Science Fiction lovers from Bucharest (Romania) have an extra reason to be happy this December !Paul McAuley and Richard K. Morgan are...